Glowing Neon Lines in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will going to learn how to create a Glowing Neon Effects form a scratch.

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Start working by creating a new file (File>New) of 1920×1200px/72dpi. Select after that the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill the new layer with black color.

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Is Photoshop Evil? Video Interview With Mark Heaps

Is Photoshop a dirty word? An evil tool? Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Mark Heaps, a Professional Photographer, an Adobe Certified Professional, and Graphic Designer at Duarte Design where he has worked with some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Mark works as a presentation designer, helping to build presentations you might see at a major conferences like SXSW or CES, but Mark has experience doing just about everything. So it was great to hear his thoughts on several interesting topics.

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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

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This tutorial is made up of three parts—the background, the text itself, and some final extra effects. So first of all we’re going to make a background. To do this we create a new document in Photoshop. I made mine 1920 x 1200 because I want this image to sit on my laptop background.

We start by drawing a Radial Gradient with the Gradient Tool (G) going from a light yellow-green (#adbf41) to a mid-range green (#328a26). I wonder if I’ve ever written a tutorial that doesn’t start with a radial gradient. 

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Making a Message Strip in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’re going to make a little message strip in Photoshop that you can place in the top-right corner of a design. These little strips look very trendy and Web2.0-y, particularly in Web designs! It’s quite an easy effect to do, and in this tutorial we’ll add some shadow and light to make it pop!

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To begin this tutorial as always, we will start with a nice radial gradient. I am addicted to radial gradients, so you should be too! I’m using a combination of nice blues. Here are the exact color codes:

Color 1 – #0e324f

Color 2 – #062033

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Combine Images to Create a Surreal Portrait in Photoshop

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

The liquify tool is great for making adjustments to photographs. In this tutorial we will use the liquify tool and several image blending techniques to create a surreal and slightly creepy photo manipulation. Let’s get started!

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How to Create a Post-Apocalyptic Matte Painting

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In the movies, we often see images of ruined landscapes or apocalyptic cities. What many of us
don’t know however is that much of this imagery was produced not with complicated CG
software but instead, using Photoshop. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to
create a post-apocalyptic matte painting of an old cathedral. Let’s get started!

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Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to blend photos together like a Hollywood movie poster. Blending photos is easy to do in Photoshop thanks to layer masks, yet finding two photos with similar colors isn't always so easy, and you end up with a photo effect that doesn't really seem to look right because the colors don't match.

With this technique, you don't need to worry about the colors in the images at all because we'll be removing them completely and adding our own colors to blend the two photos seamlessly.

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The amazing spiderman

Decorate your desktop with this amazing spiderman wallpaper concept. 

Start working by finding a kind of carpet texture having 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi, the one from below (I used this texture from cgtextures.com): 

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Surreal Sci-Fi Movie Poster with Photoshop CS5

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