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The Davinci Design

 

You can create this eye-catching effect using just a single layer style and applying it to all the different elements of your design. This tutorial touches on alpha channels, blur filters, and layer styles.

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.

19 Comments

  1. NckN said on — May 11, 2008 @ 11:56 pm

    I realy like this one, thank you!

  2. Scott Taylor said on — June 3, 2008 @ 5:42 am

    I like this tutorial.
    The final image is wonderful.
    Thank You for these great tutorials, all the others helped me also.

  3. Alexander said on — July 3, 2008 @ 8:15 am

    Like this one. I mean… realy))

  4. terrible said on — July 27, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

    Awesome tutorial, just a minor error, Da Vinci is composed by 2 words.

  5. terrible said on — July 27, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

    Awesome tutorial, there’s only a little error, Da Vinci is 2 words though.

  6. Kenny said on — July 28, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

    thanks for all your tutorials, they are awsome!
    and this davinci design looks like a movie poster, pretty cool.

  7. Karinus said on — September 18, 2008 @ 6:43 am

    I like this one! Thanks!

  8. Anthony said on — November 22, 2008 @ 3:29 am

    I’m defiantly going to do this myself. Absolutely amazing fx.

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  10. Susan said on — September 4, 2009 @ 8:00 am

    That was fantastic! What a terrific way to learn new stuff. And there’s always something new to learn in Photoshop!

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  17. hell said on — March 31, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    I realy like this tutorial but it sorta sucks u cant do this in cs3…. you cant get the aplha thing like u do but i managed it then i cudent mvoe it to a new document so it sucks but its good what uve done :)

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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