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Solar Star
in Drawing Techniques
Solar Star

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, June 2007
This Photoshop tutorial helps you create a Solar Star. What a sci-fi effect! The author helps you make a real graphics statement here. The steps are well explained and the screenshots keep it easy to do.

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Mirror image
in Drawing Techniques
Mirror image

This effect makes the object look like it's on a mirrored shelf.
Let's begin with a new image, I used 300 x 400 to start with, but yours will be large enough for the object you are putting on the shelf.

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Romantic Blur
in Photo Editing
Romantic Blur

If you want to give one of your photos a softened, romantic look but don't have the photography filters to use, here is a very simple way to get a very similar effect in PhotoShop.

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Seashells Effect
in Special Effects
Seashells Effect

1. Open a new canvas, 500 x 500 or any size you like.
2. Go to Filter -> Render -> Lens Flare and make it look something like this:
3. Filter -> Distort -> Ripple. Make it 300%.

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Make A Custom Shape
in Photoshop Basics
Make A Custom Shape

This tutorial will show you step by step how to make a basic teardrop custom shape for your Custom Shapes library. You can use the skills you learn here to go on to make your own custom shapes.

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Seamless Textures
in Textures & Patterns
Seamless Textures

This tutorial will teach you how to take a texture and make it seamless so you can tile them side to side and top to bottom without one single seam showing. Let's get started, shall we?

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Photo accent
in Photo Editing
Photo accent

1. Find a one of your photos or digital artwork pieces you'd like to use. Do any resizing that may be necessary. This is the photo I'm going to use, set at 800x600:

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Abstract Grid
in Special Effects
Abstract Grid

1. Open a New Image (File>New) and pick a size. I used 500 x 500 in the original image.
2. Set your foreground colour to black and your background colour to white:
Now just follow the picture instructions:

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Drawing Starfield
in Drawing Techniques
Drawing Starfield

1. Make a new image. I'm using 300 x 300 pixels, transparent background.
2. Use the Paint Bucket and fill the image with black.
3. Go to Filter>>Noise>>Add Noise. Set the options for a blur between 14 and 18% distribution, select Gaussian and Monochromatic.

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Layered Background
in Drawing Techniques
Layered Background

1. Create a new image canvas for the size of background you want to make. Set your DPI to 72, 8 bit.
2. Choose a dark foreground colour and lighter gray-toned background colour. Select the Gradient Tool, click on the gradient to edit it and select Foreground to Background as the setting.

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