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Multi Box Design

 

Using basic shapes combined with layers styles and blend modes to create an interesting effect.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

13 Comments

  1. Nino said on — March 31, 2008 @ 3:22 am

    I love all the videos, but I had fun with this one. Please keep it up! I love this site!

  2. Carl said on — May 22, 2008 @ 11:13 am

    I liked what you did with this one…..

    I even went ahead and followed it step for step with an image i got from deviantart.com

    The original image/photo was done by “Manu-80″ so i thank him for sharing, cos with that image this effect does look pretty good…

    check it out:

    [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/carldt/TEST.gif[/IMG]

  3. Carl said on — May 22, 2008 @ 11:14 am

    oops…img tags dont work…sorry…

    heres the direct link to it…i hope you guys like it…

    http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/carldt/TEST.gif

  4. Phoenix said on — May 31, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

    It is so good and smooth! but you need to slow because you were doing a too fast. I miss it what you were doing. Well!

  5. Kay said on — September 17, 2008 @ 6:56 am

    This one is great!!!

  6. rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

    awesome =)

  7. Wilson said on — November 4, 2008 @ 1:11 pm

    Thank you very much from Las Vegas. I realy enjoy your webbsite (PlanetPS).
    I go in it almost every day and learn something new. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

    Muchisimas Gracias desde Las Vegas. Disfruto muchisimo tu Website (PlanetPS).
    Casi entro todo los dias y aprendo algo nuevo. Muchisimas gracias otra vez por compartir tu conocimiento.

  8. Roland said on — November 8, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

    Tank you very much from Hungary.

  9. Victoria said on — June 22, 2009 @ 4:30 am

    thank you so much lol. i dint know how to do so many of the cool effects you show. and i have a problem with reading tutorials with photoshop. with your vids i can easily understand and do them right away. im more of a hands on kinda girl lol so thank you again ^.^ ive learned a bunch from ur vids

  10. Yannick said on — December 12, 2009 @ 7:16 am

    Thank you so much ! I really enjoyed this one, but I have one little problem…
    Everything works untill I have to use the ‘ctrl cmd G’, It just won’t work, I can’t activate it.
    Did I do something wrong? Because I’ve been trying it for 5 times and it just won’t work.
    What am I doing wrong?

    Yannick.

  11. katherine said on — April 1, 2010 @ 11:19 am

    this tutorial is so cool!! i had a blast trying to figure it all out. go alittle slower tho bc i kept getting behind. lol thanks again!

  12. draganche said on — May 8, 2010 @ 10:16 am

    @Yannick

    Not “G”
    It’s “J”

  13. Toshiba TV Without Glasses said on — May 22, 2011 @ 4:44 am

    Cool post, keep at it… bookmarked!

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