Archive for the 'Effects' Category

Reflection Tutorial

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

With this tutorial I am going to show you how you can add reflections to your text, shapes or isolated objects. This is a very common (and easy) technique and is used a lot, especially in web design.
As an example for this tutorial I will add a reflection to text, however as I said before [...]

Glowing planet

Friday, November 25th, 2005

With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to create a nice glowing planet (sphere) effect. Here is an example

Aged Photo

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

With this tutorial I am going to show you one of the ways I use to give a photo a vintage, aged look.
I am starting with this 2MP stock photo of a mannequin.

Dreamy Duotone effect

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to turn a photo into a dreamy duotone image using Adobe Photoshop.
1. Open the image you want to apply this effect. I am going to start with this stock photo.

Image inside text

Friday, November 18th, 2005

I am going to show you an easy way to put your images inside text with a slightly different and in my opinion a more versatile way than the most common ways people use to achieve this effect.

1) Start by opening the photo that you want to place inside your text. For this tutorial, [...]