Photoshop Lighting Effects

Step 1 – Setting Up Background:

Create a document of size 750 by 550px.

Set your foreground color to #505050 and background color to #000000.

Drag a Radial Gradient at the position shown in the diagram.

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Digital Illustration With Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to:
- Create and colorize a textured background
- Create a custom brush-style in Adobe Photoshop
- Employ the Smudge-Tool and Displace-Filter
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Typography Effect

In this tutorial, we’re going to use Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop CS4 to create some really cool-looking effects to decorate our Typography. We will be using a combination of layer styles, color blending, lens flare and images. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before.

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Glossy Liquid Metal Text Effect

This tutorial is mostly based on Layer style settings and a combination of a lot of Curves. When combined together, they give a rich, deep and glossy / beveled look to the text.

Let’s get started, create a new canvas, we used 600*500 size and filled it with very dark blue-gray color: #2d3134. We also made a little spot in the middle, to highlight the future effect.

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Create a Planet Eclipse in PhotoShop

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a planet eclipse in Photoshop. It’s easy to make and fast even though your making it from scratch. There are endless possibilities for this technique.

Toning and Burning With Photoshop Video Tutorial : Gradient Maps and Linear Burn Layer

How to use and create custom Gradient Maps and burning to render a more dramatic image.

Burning Text Effect

So let’s start with a new document of 3300 px width and 2336 px height at 300 resolutions. I created large document because I wanted to print it on A4 size.

Press U and select rectangle tool and create a rectangle of document size and apply gradient overlay with colors 890000 & ffb400. Now select transform tool and increase rectangle size from document size to 4515 px width and 3196px height.

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Repair Photo Scratches, Tears, and Spots

We will purposely avoid using some of the quick fix tools such as the healing brush so that you can gain an understanding of the basics of photo restoration.

Double click the new layer and rename it “Restoration”. Either lock or hide the background layer so that you can reference it later. Save often.

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Create a Glowing Effect Scene in Photoshop

Open New Document. I use 530 x 438 pixels on this tutorial. Use color #000000 for the background. Move the Image to the Working document using Move Tool (V). Name the image to “Stock Image”.

Create a New Layer above the Stock Image Layer. Choose Gradient Tool (G). Set the color to #9d5c5b and #b53564. Apply gradient to the new layer then set the layer to “Color” and 75% Opacity.
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Add Reflections To Sunglasses With Photoshop

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going learn how to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses.

This is a popular Photoshop effect and opens up a world of creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing the sunglasses and who or what you have them looking at.

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Create Panorama From Multiple Photographs

When I was creating this photo manipulation I wanted to do a really wide format. In the next few steps, I will show you how to replace some elements to make your picture wide as well. But if you don´t like this format, feel free to skip these few steps.

Open the main photo. Press L ( Lasso Tool) and select the river and some trees around it. You don´t need to be too careful because we’ll retouch all parts later.

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Design Avatar Inspired Movie Poster In Photoshop

The movie focuses on Navi, which is an indigenous humanoids race who stays on a planet named Pandora. While the TV channels and news portals are all full of praises for the technology used in the production of this film and its virtues, many designers found themselves instilled with great inspiration from the Navi characters after watching the film. So, for all you designers who wish to create such Navi images, the given Photoshop tutorial is sure to be of great help.

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