Tiled backgrounds are great for both website backgrounds and in all kinds of Photoshop work. They are particularly useful when working with textures where you need a larger overall background than the small image you have to work with. In this quick tutorial I’ll take you through taking a texture and turning it into a background image ready for seamless tiling. It’s a useful little technique that’s been around forever.

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This tutorial will show you how to turn a lovely waterfall into a deadly one with magma effect. We will make it look real and natural, read on to find out how

Press Ctrl-J to duplicate this image then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set a small value of 0.5 pixels and change the blending mode of this layer to Overlay. Now it looks more impressive!

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Capturing the inner beauty of an object with an X-ray is not an easy task. Only a handful of photographers combine photography as an art form with radiology – which might have something to do with the fact that achieving the effect requires highly-specialized equipment, that bombards the subjects with potentially-lethal ionizing radiation.

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Basic Photoshop water is created with a reflection. Let’s create a basic reflection:

A Duplicate the background layer by right clicking on it and selecting Duplicate Layer… from the menu.

B Double the height of your photo with the Canvas size function (Image > Canvas Size…) according to picture 2.

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