Photoshops Drop Shadow Layer Style is a great tool to add a quick and easy cast-shadow on something. However the tool assumes that you are adding the drop shadow to a flat surface, which is not always the case. Sometimes you will need to add a different Perspective to the drop shadow layer. In this…

The distressed, rough design look is in stark contrast to all the glossy gradient styles. This trend definitely has its roots in the streets and expressiveness and can be quite fun to create some funky graphics. This tutorial is a simple practice in Masking and creating some new Brush settings. You can use this technique…

Sometimes you want to get that text to pop off the page or screen. With this tutorial I will go over a simple technique to give your text that 3D angled effect to really make it standout. Step 1. Create your word with a large, bold typeface and fill it with black. Rasterize the font…

Using photographs inside your text can add a new dimension to your design work. It can really accentuate that feeling of whatever it is you are trying to convey. Lets face it, pictures are worth a thousand words and well… words are words. So it is a win-win situation. Sure, sometimes it won’t work. The…

This easy to do technique is based off of the previous post about ‘Halftone and Bitmap Effects’. I use basically the same steps to achieve a Halftone Glow, the only addition here is a Gaussian Blur step. This can be useful for printed work as well as giving that ‘print’ feel to on screen graphics…

Here is a simple way to use Photoshops filters and a few other steps to create Pixelated Borders or Textured Frames. You can see an example of this effect in use over at Iconfactory. They use it in a nice subtle way to frame or gutter the content. Step 1. Create a black filled shape…

Making your photos pop from the background by creating an illusion of a decrease in depth of field is covered in this tutorial. When a lens focuses on a subject at a distance, all subjects at that distance are sharply focused. Subjects that are not at the same distance are out of focus and theoretically…

With all the stock-exchange sites available today you have a plethora of images to sift through and use to add some cool multifaceted texture effects to an image. In this tutorial you’ll be taken through a variety of ways in which to use combinations of multiple Adjustment Layers to enhance and balance your composition’s well…

Sometimes it is fine to use a soft edged eraser to fade one image into another, but what if you are no longer happy with what you’ve done and want to scrap it all together? Yeah, sure you can go back a few steps in the history palette, but better than that just apply a…