Step 11 Change the Blending Mode of the layer to Multiply and the Opacity to around 20%. Ctrl-click on the previously made Layer Mask on the Color Layers. Then click back onto your new texture layer. Click Add New Layer Mask at the bottom o...

We all love Photoshop and its effects, but sometimes its great to get your hands dirty when creating elements for your graphics. Ink drops can add a creative and energetic element to your designs. This tutorial demonstrates techniques to cr...

Step 10 Now hit the Free Transform again keyboard shortcut from Step 7 (Command + Shift + Alt + T), doing this youll duplicate the 120 degrees rotate transformation exactly. Finally, put the three layers into a new folder named Fractal 2, N...

Have you ever seen those outstanding fractal images with a lot of swirls and colors? Some of those were build simulating fractals or repeating shapes, where each shape is a reduced part of the whole, others were build mathematically. In thi...

Step 16: Intensifying the Light Duplicate the ies_light layer twice by selecting it in the Layers palette and pressing Command +J twice. Change the opacity of the topmost copy (ies_light copy 2) to 50%. The three layers, ies_light, ies_ligh...

Step 8: Adding a Lip on the Corkboard With the cork_shadow layer selected, press Command +J to duplicate it. In the Layers palette, drag the copied layer (automatically named cork_shadow copy) to the top of all other layers. Rename this lay...

Final Product What Youll Be Creating In this tutorial, Ill show you how to create a realistic IES (photometric) lighting effect. Well be using Photoshop CS4 as well as some free plugins and software. Lets get started! Tutorial Preparation I...

Step 29 Now, this is my favorite part of the tutorial. You probably will enjoy this too. Create a new group above the Background layer, name it Effects and work in this group now. Grab the Custom Shape Tool (U), set its options to Shape Lay...

Step 20 Now well create some more great effects. People used to make these kind of shapes with Illustrator, and export them to Photoshop. Well, not everyone knows how to properly use Illustrator, so Ill show you how to create these shapes i...

Step 9 Now lets play around with this lines Blending Options. The standard blending options settings make everything very flat with an absolute lack of depth. Even though Ive seen people applying custom settings, they still had problems wit...