I know a lot of people that create their own wallpaper graphics, and even more people that would really enjoy doing this, but don’t have the required knowledge. Today, we’re going to take care of this, and create a nice single-color “explosion” wallpaper, something like the image you can see below…

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If you want to know the theory behind today’s tutorial, I think it’s enough to say that Duotone images are basically monochrome grayscale ones, but the use of different colours for specific tone ranges makes them really attractive, sometimes much better than their full-color version. Now, let’s learn how to turn a color picture into a Duotone one…

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While colorizing black and white photos is a very interesting (and pretty hard to acomplish the right way) task, converting images from color to black and white is not something hard, and this feature has been around for ages in Photoshop. The only interesting thing is that Photoshop CS3 comes with a new tool that will help us with this task, and today we’ll give it a spin…
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While Photoshop’s power comes from a multitude of tools and features, I can’t forget about the styles and the fact that many people don’t use them to their full potential.

I won’t get into complicated things about styles, because there’s only one issue I want to solve today - styles are much more than just grabbing one style from the Internet and loading it, or using one of those already present in your palette. Today, we’re going to learn how to save your own styles for later use…
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There are lots of tutorials about creating fire. Here is a simple and efective one, that even a beginner in Photoshop can use to achieve the desired effect.
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