Ok, this will be the format.

TITLE OF YOUR TIP
comment: detailed instructions.

NOTE: no need for comments in this thread, just tips that way it'll be easier to use for everyone. BUT please do comment when people post walls though.

OLD PHOTO STYLE

take the image, then go to:

1.image, mode, grayscale
2.image, mode, duotone
3.click on ink 2, then find a dark goldish color, then click ok
4.filter, artistic, film grain, adjust the levels

to finish off just edit the contrast and then saturation.

there's other ways of doing it like desaturating ur image then set a color overlay of dark gold, over it, then film grain.

but with fine tunning you can get some awesome details with the first method.

MATRIX EFFECT/TEXTURE

1. make a new image any size you want white bg
2. Filter > Texture > Grain, intensity 100% contrast 100% grain type=vertical
3. Have a black as your foreground and white as ur background colors
4. Filter > Artistic > Neon Glow, glow size 5 brightness 15 glow color= light blue
5. Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edge, edge 1 brightness 8 smoothness 1, and you're done.

After that u can make it brighter by goind to brightness/contrast and increasing the contrast, and to change the color u just go to hue/saturation and get the color u want.

Wallpaper example:
CLICK HERE

RUSH SERIES EFFECT

Example: CLICK HERE

Procedures:

1) I got that same tmac cropped pic and I pasted it on a VERY large document (Ex. 1500 by 1500).
2) filter>distort>polar coordinates>polar to rectangular
3) image>rotate canvas>90 degrees CW
4) filter>stylize>wind:
method: wind
direction: from the right
5) do the last step again
6) filter>stylize>wind:
method: wind
direction: from the left
7) do the last step again
8 ) do step four again
9) image>rotate canvas>90 degrees CCW
10) filter>distort>polar coordinates>rectangular to polar
11) filter>blur>radial blur:
amount: 100
blur method: zoom
quality: good
12) do the last step again

THATS IT, then i just streched it out so it covers most of the wallpaper.

COLORIZING YOUR IMAGE

On the top of photoshop, go to:

1) Image - adjustments - hue/saturation -

2) Check colorize box:

Then just play with the levels and get the color you want.

PREPARING A PIC FOR A WALLPAPER (Beginner)

1. Copy the image and paste it into a new window with a transparent background.

2. Zoom in to about 400% to 500%.

3. Use the eraser tool and erase away everything you dont want in the picture, be sure to cut a little bit out of the players skin to make sure it look crisp.

RETOUCHING AND ENHANCING YOUR IMAGE

- Adobe Photoshop is primarily an image editing program, therefore it is crucial to develop ones skills in the image enhancement options of Photoshop.

- The Main image adjusting items are:
1. Brightness/Contrast
2. Levels
3. Curves
4. Color Balance
All of these options can be found in the image > adjustments category of photoshop.

- When adjusting an image, the major concern is of color and of trying to avoid dull images. Brightness/Contrast is your best friend when trying to avoid dull pictures. Although adjusting brightness will help in working with lighting, the best method is definately using Curves. Overall, here are only a few commonly used image adjusting tools in photoshop, putting them to use will definately enhance your work.

BLENDING USING THE FEATHER TOOL

1: Select your 2 pictures and overlap them slightly.

2: Select the Square Marquee Tool (You can also use the Polygonal lasoo). At the top of the screen, you will see an option called feather. Its deafult is 0px. Change it to 15px.

3: Using the Square Marquee, select the end of one picture. (The whole side of it. Dont Worry, the square's corners will turn circle!

4: Now press the delete button. Do this for both pictures.

5: Move both pictures closer together and there you have it.

6: Here is a nice example were blendege has been used:
CLICK

ZOOM IT INTO MOTION EFFECT (Beginner)

step 1: Open up any picture you like, "whole-body" pics work best with this effect.

Step 2: grab the LASSO TOOL or ( press L on your keyboard )

Step 3: On top where it says FEATHER enter 20

Step 4: Now make a quick rough outline of the player with the lasso tool, but leave a small space in between the edge of the player and your selection, check the example:


Continue and finish the selection (dont worry, the feather will smooth out your selection), should have something like this:


Step 5: Now go to select > inverse, which will inverse your selection.

Step 6: Finally go to Filter > blur > radial blur, enter amount: 100, blur method: Zoom and press ok. Now add some brightness/contrast or anything you want to make it better, then just go to select > deselect. Final result:


You can also apply different blurs or filters instead of the radial blur. But there it is, a quick phothoshop trick.

THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR BRUSHES
By: C~Ca$h aka Chris Johnson

Necessary Programs:
1. Internet Explorer / Netscape Navigator etc.
2. Adobe Photoshop
3. WinZip

Downloading Grunge Brushes:

To download grunge brushes, you will need to find a site with brushes that you like. A good website for grunge brushes is http://www.pixelchick.dk/. You could also go to Google and run a search engine for brushes.

If you decide to use Pixel Chick, then once you enter the site click on the button that says RESOURCES up at the top. It will redirect you to another page with helpful tools for photoshop. All that we care about right now are the brushes. Scroll down a bit and click when you see the section labeled "Brushes". Scroll down until you see a set labeled scratches. This one works well, but any of these fine brushes should do the trick. Click Download under the brush you want. A Pop-Up will come and it should say "File Download" at the top of the Pop-Up. Towards the bottom, click Save. Then save it to a directory that you can remember that its in or save it to your desktop in a new folder.

After the download has completed(shouldn't take long, even with 56k), a "download complete" Pop-Up will come and towards the bottom it will say "Open". Click "Open". Then WinZip should Pop-Up. If you have the evaluation version, then make sure you choose "Use Evaluation Version". You will see a document in WinZip called "scratches.abr".

Select "scratches.abr" and up at the top it will say "Extract". Click the extract button and a new Pop-Up will come up that says Extract at the top. In the large box labeled Folders/drives: scroll up to the top and find where it says "Destop"; click that and on the right side, click the Extract button.

After that you can close WinZip. Then, minimize all of your windows so that you are at your desktop. The file should look like a gray and blue square with a paintbrush that has a blue handle. Highlight the file "scratches" on your desktop by right clicking on it. After you have it highlighted, click Copy.

Then, after you have copied it, go to the Start button and then go to "My Computer". Click on the C Drive. Click Program Files. Click on Adobe. Click Photoshop 7.0. Click Presets. Click Brushes. Then Press Ctrl + V. You may now close that window

Open up Photoshop and Select the paintbrush or just hit the letter B on your keyboard. Then up at the top where it says "Brush:" Click on the Arrow pointing down and a menu should flyout from it. Then in the top right corner of the menu, click on the arrow thats pointing to the right and in that menu, click "Load Brushes" Then, in the popup(at the top of the popup it should say "Load") click on your file scratches.(or whatever brush you just downloaded).


Using Your New Brushes:

The easist way to apply a grunge effect to text is to simple use the Eraser Tool (just press E in photoshop) and erase part of your text to your heart's content. I would suggest that you don't erase to much, otherwise the text will become un-readable and totally defeat the purpose of having text all together. Try combinations of different brushes together and attempt to find something you like by changing the opacity and flow of the brushes(located at the top of photoshop when you have the eraser tool selected).

You can also add some nice textures to your artwork by making a regular square (just hit the U key on your keyboard) and then erasing part of it or adding a splash-o-color by appling the same effect by using the Paintbrush (simply hit the B key on your keyboard).

Just play around with your new brushes and you should come out with some things that you genuinly like and that help your piece out.


Creating Your Own Brushes:

Open a picture. Just choose any picture, it doesn't really matter much. Experiment with different styles to give you different looks. Once you have it open, go to

--Image>Adjustments>Desaturate -- this will just turns your wall to black and white colors only

--Image>Adjustments>Curves -- play with this until you get a nice look of contrast. click ok.

Now, just look for spots in the image that would look good as brushes. Try to find something new in your image to get something new and fresh. Then using the Rectangular Marquee tool, select an area that you like. Then,

--Edit>Define Brush -- In the popup, name it something you will remember.

Then, Select the paintbrush or just hit the letter B on your keyboard. Then up at the top where it says "Brush:" Click on the Arrow pointing down and a menu should flyout from it. Then in the top right corner of the menu, click on the arrow thats pointing to the right and in that menu, click "Load Brushes" Then, in the popup(at the top of the popup it should say "Load") click on your file that you just named (the one you were sappost to remember)

Hope that helps you guys out!

CROPPING A BASKETBALL

There are numerous ways of cropping the basketball properly, to make it seem perfectly circular. The obvious and correct way as you might have guessed is done using the elliptical marquee selection tool.

Before you go through cropping your image, before you crop anything at all, crop the ball first. By that you should hold alt + ctrl and from the center of the ball move outwards trying to make the perfect circular selection. Once you are satisfied with your circular selection, you can simply move over to the polygon lasso tool, hold the shift key and begin cropping the remainder of the image.

I hope this helps, give it a shot, it always takes me a few trys to get the perfect ball cropped, but hey thats how it is with designing, nothing comes to you at first. If you have any questions at all, im sure others as well as myself can help ya out. Good luck!

Here's another tip...when you crop the ball with the circular marquee...just make it another layer then you dont have to worry about it for a while then just merge the 2 layers once you get the rest of the player cropped.

CREATING A REFLECTION

Step 1 >>
Open up a picture that you want to use. Make sure that the person is touching the ground and the picture needs to be cropped. EX. Dont use a picture if they are dunking and they are in the air.

Step 2 >>
Make two differnt copies of the picture one normal and one flipped vertically.

Step 3 >>
Paste both pictues on a new white blank image. (Make sure it is big enough for both pictures to fit)

Step 4 >>
Take your eraser tool and erase about half the picture so you can only see half of the reflection.

Step 5 >>
Depending on the picture you may want to skip this step but generally speeking in a reflection you lose some of the color so I like to lower the contrast and spice it up by upping the brightness.

SCANLINES

1. Make a new document size 1x2 px
2. Zoom in all the way, fill the top part white (or whatever color you want ur lines to be)
3.Go to edit>define pattern. A window will pop up, name it and click ok

*after that it should appear in the list with all the other patterns. Then you just put it on pics or whatever and lower the opacity.

Vortex

1 - Open up your 1024 x 768 pixeled transperent document.

2 - Find around 5 large pictures of landscapes and make a simple collage.

3 - Go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with Intensity at 100 and Type on Zoom.

4 - Repeat Step 3 twice.

5 - Now Image > Adjust > Brightness and Contrast.

6 - Increase the Contrast as much as when the picture looks nice and flashy.

7 - Thats it. Place a picture in the middle, maybe add some scan lines, some text and wolla. Finished!

Cropping using the Eraser - By Default

1. Take photo that I want to crop and choose "copy"

2. Open a new window with "New", choose transparent

3. Change your foreground color to a very bright color, I normally use the
brightest neon green I can find.

4. In the new window choose "Fill" and choose "foreground color"

5. Go back to your picture you want to crop, "copy" and "paste" it into the new window which should be the same size so you won't be able to see any of the green.

6. Now pick your polygonal lasso tool and cut around where you're going to crop, don't worry it can be a jagged cut. You don't have to take barely any time on this part, but cut as close as you can without having to zoom.

7. If you did it correct you'll be able to see green now. Now zoom in as much as you feel comfortable, and use the eraser tool to crop around the player or person. Basically you're cutting to see the most green. Zoom out if you are unsure whether or not, a place should be cut close or not. It'll take a little practice to make it not jagged, but it's not too hard after awhile.

ANOTHER WAY TO LOWER THE FILESIZE OF YOUR WALLPAPER

When you are finished making your wallpaper, got to File->Save For Web or press ctrl-shift-alt-s. Then make sure the image type is JPG. You can lower to about 60 quality without losing much...

SHINY VORTEX

1.first open a 400x400 white bg.make sure the color are in default mode.if not press D on ur keyboard.

2.go to filter->render->Clouds.

3.Then go to filter->render->Difference Clouds.

4.Then go to filter->Artistic->Plastic Wrap,add these settings,highlight strength:15 Detail:9 | Smoothness:7.

5.Then go to filter->Sketch->Water Paper,add these settings,fiber length:15 brightness:80 | contrast:80.

6.Then go to filter->Distort->Wave,add these settings,number of generators:35 |
wavelength: Min:673 Max:673 | Amplitude : 5 and the other one 35 | Scale:horiz.:100% | Vert.:81% | Type:Sine | Undefined Areas : Reapat Edge Pixels.and apply ok.

7.Then Duplicate the layer.And on the duplicated layer,go to edit->transform->Rotate 90 degrees CW.Then set the blending mode to Overlay.

8.Duplicate the Background copy layer and then go to edit->transform->Rotate 180 degrees.

9.Now adding color to it click on the background copy 2 layer and hold ctrl+U.check the colorize box and add these settings,Hue:0 | Saturation:38.then apply ok.

10.Now click on the background copy layer and hold ctrl+U,check the colorize box and add these settings:Hue:54 | Saturation:30.apply ok.

11.Now go to Layer->Merge Visibile.

12.Now Duplicate the background layer.and go to edit->transform->Rotate 180 Degrees and set the blending mode to overlay then go to layer->merge visibile.

Thats it!Have fun With the colors though.

This is how it should look like:



THIS TUT HAS BEEN EDITED THANKS 4 REMINDING ME SHOWTIME,HOPE U LIKE IT:D

[-CHEAT VECTORS-]

ok, there are alot of ways to make a vector for images..but for those who are to lazy..
here's how u make "a fake vector", it's easy and simple as claping..

1. Open up your picture

2. Click Filter > Artistic >Poster Edges (leave the settings as they)

3. Click Filter > Artistic > cutout and add the following settings: (levels 8; edge simplicity 5; edge fidelity 2)


and that's it!!


Its as easy as that!..and it looks pretty good also!

TRY IT!

B) B) B) B)

Nice Looking Borders

Aight,Im gonna teach u how to make those nice looking borders around some sigs and walls,etc...

1.First open ur graphic or sig or wall anything that u have finished b4.

2.Then right click on the background layer and click "DUPLICATE LAYER".

3.Then on tha background copy wich is in the layers pallete.right click on it and click "BLENDING OPTIONS".

4.Now u will see a window that is going to pop out with alot of options on tha left make sure on that tha window is called "layer style".

5.Ok,Now you will see alot of options on tha left...like i said it b4 and at the end of tha list u will see an option called stroke..."CHECK THA BOX" and "HIGHLIGHT" it to to make sure...

6.Now apply these settings:

Size:5

Postion:Inside

Blend Mode:Overlay

Opacity: 100%

Fill Type:Color

Color:White

7.Press OK.now go to layer-->Merge Visible.*to make sure that uve merged ur layers.

Here is my final result:



*NOTE* U CAN CHANGE THA SIZE AND COLOR AND OPACITY OF UR BORDERZ..

CARTOON TUTORIAL

My first tutorial :D

Cartoon Tutorial

1. Open up an image any size you want.
2. Paste at least two pictures of your choice in the picture.
3. Layer > Flatten Image
4. Try to get one bacground color. (cropping and pasting is also possible , but more suitable for the exprienced ones.)
5. Add a little brightness. (Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast) +6 or something is perfect.
6. Duplicate layer.
7. Filter > Stylize > Find Edges
8. Set Blending mode to Overlay. (others are also possible , just play around until you get te effect you want)

That's it :)

Here's what i got:

http://img17.exs.cx/img17/7308/melocartoon.jpg

BEGINNER FONT TUTORIAL

*note*this tutorial work very good with bitmap fonts....

1.first of all ur gonna open a pic or a graphic u finished.

2.pick up the text tool and write ur text.

3.Now on the layers palette...right click on ur text layer.

4.In tha styles section at ur left first of all check drop shadow and leave tha drop shadow settings as they are then check the outer glow box.
Use these settings for the outer glow:

Blend Mode:Screen

Opactiy:100%

Noise:0%

now ull see a kind of a box with a color click on that and choose the outer glow that u want.*note*make the gradient go to ur color to transperant if u know what i mean.

Technique:Softer

Spread:0%

Size:5

Contour:Select tha diagonal one wich is half grey and half white.DO NOT CHECK ANTI-ALIASED

Range:50%

Jitter:0%

5.Finally now press OK.

6.Now we are going to merge tha layers wich is Layer-->Merge Visible

THATS IT HOPE U LIKE IT!!

here what i got:

Jersey Switching

1. Use a picture to start with. I'll use this one.


2. Clear out the jersey using the patch tool. It should look like this after you are done.


3. Now Get the logo for the team. I've chosen to do AI in a Cavs jersey. Here is my logo.

4. Drag the logo to the pic. Scale it to fit the jersey.

5. Clear out the star on AI's jersey trim with the Patch tool. Then place the Cavaliers C in the pic. Do a color overlay of gold. Scale it. Place it where the star was. Choose any picture of a Cav With the number 3 on his jersey. Drag it. Place it on the jersey. This is what I have now.


6. (Optional step) If you would like a watermark, choose the color white type any text over the picture. I put SHOWtime. Lower the opacity to 25%. The purpose of a Watermark is to have no one steal your work. Here is the final outcome.

+Backgound Lines and Circles

this is helpful to add detail and fill in space in your background.

Circles

1. Creat a new layer. Right click on the rectangular marquee tool
2. Select the circle option
3. Drag out a circle (holding down shift creates a perfect circle)
4. Once the area is selected dont touch anything
5. Go up to Edit>Stroke and add a stroke of your choice
6. Your done. To add some more flavor set the layer to overlay.

Lines

1. Go to the shape tool and right click on it
2. Select line
3. Up top select the pixel width of your desired line
4. Drag the line out. Holding shift will give you a perfect line
5. Your done. You can give it an outer glow or set it to overlay for some more looks.

ADDING MOTION TO UR PIC

I know im pretty kind...im giving all out my tricks...lol...jk
aight if u want to know how to add those nice motions to ur pic u better read carefully...

1.First of all paste ur cropped pic on a ready made bg or wall or anything...

2.then add some contrast,image->adjustments->brightness/contrast...
brightness:0
contrast:40...depends on tha pic...

3.now this is tha main part of tha tutorial.on ur layers pallette...right click on layer 1 and select duplicate layer.

4.now there are two new layers now theres one called layer 1 and the other layer 1 copy...click once on the layer 1 and then go to filter->blur->motion blur.
use these settings:
angle:0 or -90
distance: 35 pixels
press ok.

5.now we have to merge tha layers so go to layer->merge visible.

UR DONE!

this how it should look like...

GHOST EFFECT

wanna know how to make ur pic dark...and stylish...??this is the right tut for it...try it out...

1.Duplicate ur cropped pic...like this below

and this is how it should look when u duplicated ur layer...

2.now on the duplicated layer...set the blending mode to overlay.

3.now click on the first layer that u had...for example

4.now go to image->adjustments->desaturate

5.duplicate the overlayed layer...

6.click on ur first overlayed pic...not the one u duplicated the one u had b4....

7.Repeat step 4....

8.Now u have to merge the layers...hold shift+ctrl+E...

UR DONE!!

results:

Layer Adjustments
( helps in restoring ol' fotos )


There are two ways to adjust the colors in an image. The first is to choose a command from the Image>Adjustment submenu. This way permanently alters the image in the active layers

The second way is to use an adjustment layer. Adjustment Layers let u mess around with color and tonal adjustments w/o permantly changin' the image. The changes reside within the adjustment layer, the layer acts as a veil through which the underlying image layers appear.

U kinda have to play around with these and see which works for the image.

the options are:

Gradient

Pattern

Levels

Curves

Color Balance

Brightness/Contrast

Hue/Saturation

Selecitve Color

Channel Mixer

Invert

Threshold

Posterize

and CS has the Photo Filter*

Here's an example:
this is the ol' washed out foto someone gave me


....and here is the new restore version


...i use the Selective Color option to decrease the redish tone, and i use the the Photo Filter to restore the cool tones back....selectin what u want to be a certain tone makes the effect work well, jus as if u were altering the image using the first method. I had to do this with the sky and the sign...i kept the tone in the type on the sign and use Levels to whiten the rest.

I hope this kinda helps, its one of those things u kinda have to try for urself and get ur own handle on it.

Palani's Way to Fake a Vector

Since this vector thing seems all the &*^% I decided to share my mothods to fake one with you.

First open your image, I'm using this one:


Step 1:
Apply a Smart Blur to your image
Settings:
Radius 75
Treshold 100
Quality High
Mode Normal

Step 2:
Duplicate your layer and put your layers blending mode on Hard Light, Overlay or Soft Light, this is preference.

The following steps are done on your Duplicated layer

Step Between 2 and 3:
On some images it looks better (or people like it more) to apply a poster edge filter on the image. Use the settings:
Thickness 5
Intensity 3
Posterization 1


Step 3:
Apply a Filter==>Artistic==> Cutout to your image
Settings:
Levels 8
Simplicty 4
Fidelity 3

And you're done

The image with the Posterization effect:


And Without:


This effect may not work on some images. Some things can be corrected using the Maximum and Minimum filter on setting 1. Sometimes it takes a bit of brushing to make everything look just right. And sometimes some experimentation with the settings is required. Good luck.

My Way of making a Fake Vector.

Okay, there are only two steps to this tutorial, and this is my first tutorial. Here it is:

Step 1
Start by opening up any image in Photoshop.

Step 2
The filter needed to apply this vector. Go to Filter > Artistic > Cutout. Now, use the following numbers:
Number of Levels: 8
Edge Simplicity: 3
Edge Fidelity: 3

And, thats all to it! Hopw you like the final result. It cuts alot of steps contaning paths and the pen tool.

Grungy BG without brush

1. Make a new document 400x400 px and press "D" to reset the colors to default.
2. Fill the layer with black background.
3. Go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare with these settings:

Brightness: 160
Lens Type: 50-300mm Zoom

4. Next Go to Filter>Pixelate>Mezzotint.
5. Next go to Filter>Sketch>Charcoal and use these settings:

Charcoal Thickness: 1
Detail: 5
Light/Dark Balance: 50

6. Next go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Ink Outlines and use these settings:

Stroke Length: 4
Dark Intensity: 20
Light Intensity: 10

7. Now go to Filter>Render>Difference Clouds.
8. Next go to Filter>Blur>Radar Blur and use these settings:

Amount: 73
Blur Method: Zoom
Quality: Good

9. Now go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Accented Edges and use these settings:

Edge Width: 2
Edge Brightness: 49
Smoothness: 7

10.No go to Filter>Stylize>Find Edges.
11. Add another Radial Blur using the same settings as before.
12. Next go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and choose "Polar to Rectangular"
13. Add another Radial Blur using the same settings.
14. Now go to Filter>Render>Difference Clouds
15. Now add color, and your done!

You can play around with the settings and add text.

Hope you this tutorial was helpful.

Here's my simple BG Tut.
1. Start off with a color of your choice.
2. Then on a new layer, make a verticle black to white gradient, and change the opacity to 20 or something.
3. New Layer, and take out your rectangular marquee tool. make random horozontal boxes/rectanges, overlaping, some white some black. Lower opacity to about ten.
4. Repeat step 3 with verticle boxes.
5. Make a new adjustment layer for Hue/Sat on to pof the wall. Click on colorize, and adjust it to your liking.
Optional:
6. add a low opacity pattern, suck as scan lines, grid, dots, etc. Or a combonation
7. add some lines, etc. in there to break the monotony.

example (with text and pics):


THE END

I see this being asked a lot. "how do you make a stroke a few pixels away from the person?"

Control + Click the layer you want to do it to
Select > Modify > Expand
then enter how ever many pixels away from the image you want it to be
then press OK

to make your pic look cool:

duplicate layer
desaturate bottom layer
set top layer to soft light

presto!


also you can duplicate, desaturate the top layer and desaturate it.


with both of these moving the desaturated layer under the color balance may help

Here is a little tutorial made by me!

This tutorial is simple. It's very effective when you want a very nice pic effect.

First off,

I'm using this picture of Jessica Alba



Now to add this effect do the following

Filter>Gaussian Blur then set the Radius to 3.0

It should look like this now:



Now go to Edit>Fade Gaussian Blur set the opacity to 100 and set the mode to Overlay and it should look like this:

Cool Intermediate Background Tutorial
By: Rizz aka Rlakh23

First set up your colors, i used blue for the foreground, and black for the background.

Then open a 1024x768 with the black background

1. Fitler > Render > Clouds
2. Fitler > Blur > Radial > 100% > zoom > good quality
3. Repeat step 2
4. Layer > Duplicate Layer
5. Fitler > Distort > Wave
Number of Generators: 1
Wavelength: Min.: 267 Max.: 878
Amplitude: Min.: 5 Max.: 687
Scale: 100 % on both
Type: Sine
Undefined areas: Repeat
6. Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options > Overlay
7. Layer > Merge Visible
8. Repeat step 4
9. Repeat step 5
10. Repeat step 6
11. Repeat step 7
12. Duplicate layer again
13. Fitler > Distort > Wave
Number of Generators: 1
Wavelength: Min.: 752 Max.: 962
Amplitude: Min.: 761 Max.: 906
Scale: 100 % on both
Type: Sine
Undefined areas: Repeat
14. Goto the blending options > overlay
15. merge visible and Duplicate layer
16. Fitler > Distort > Wave
Number of Generators: 1
Wavelength: Min.: 752 Max.: 962
Amplitude: Min.: 780 Max.: 906
Scale: 100 % on both
Type: Sine
Undefined areas: Repeat
17. Edit > Transform > Horizontal
18. Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options > Lightning
19. Merge visible and duplicate
20. Fitler > Distort > Wave
Number of Generators: 1
Wavelength: Min.: 43 Max.: 509
Amplitude: Min.: 1 Max.: 990
Scale: 100 % on both
Type: Sine
Undefined areas: Repeat
21. Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options > overlay
22. merge and duplicate
23. Fitler > Distort > Wave
Number of Generators: 1
Wavelength: Min.: 43 Max.: 509
Amplitude: Min.: 1 Max.: 649
Scale: 100 % on both
Type: Sine
Undefined areas: Repeat
24. Goto blending options and change to darken
25. merge visible
26. Put the contrast to 40

Now your done and should look like this:



(smaller version)

Making the background of a picture gray and one object color. One thing stand out.

ok...i started with a pic of tiki
-Duplicated the layer


-Turned the hue/saturation all the way down on the second layer (duplicate of layer 1)
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/7473/picture3ds7.png

-Use the eraser to erase the duplicate layer


obviously do it a little neater than i did haha. But, hope that helps.


EDIT: Image stretched out the forum.

3D TEXT
- BY COLIN


I wanted to make some 3D text that had the perspective of sitting square in front of the viewer and achieved it with a simple technique. I thought I would share it and hopefully it will be helpful to some other people.

Start by typing some text onto your canvas. Thicker types work better.


Now copy the text layer and paste it into a new document. Resize the new document and make sure the checkbox next to "Constrain Proportions" is unchecked. Decrease the width by 2px and the height by 1px.


Now copy the resized image and before pasting into your original document, command+click (or control+click) on the text layer so you have selected the outline of the text and then paste it. This will center it correctly behind type.


Make sure you move the newly pasted layer behind the original. Repeat these last three steps 6-7 times or more depending on your desired thickness. When you are done you should have something like this:


Now all that is left to do is merge the pasted layers and you can see your 3D effect by lowering the opacity. Pretty simple. Hope that was clear and is helpful to some designers out there.

ENLARGE NBA.COM PHOTOS

Go to : http://www.nba.com/photostore/

-Then choose the picture you want.

-Right click on the photo, and go to PROPERTIES (bottom of menu)

-COPY the URL (address/location) of the photo

-Open new window/tab and PASTE in your browser

-Erase the "480_art" part and press enter