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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Sometimes, when you’re in a hurry and all you need is some text with a catchy effect on it and a bit of shadow, there’s nothing better than to use a layer style. Unfortunately, for beginners this is not that easy, although nice results can be obtained in less than 3 minutes by using this approach, so here it goes… Read the rest of this entry »

Fractals have a lot of theory behind them, but I am not going to bother you with Math now. To be honest, I don’t like Math at all, so let’s try to create a fractal-like image without even thinking about all the numbers crunched by Photoshop to help us accomplish our goal! Are you ready? Fire up your Photoshop and prepare to get something similar to the image below…

 

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Shiny spheres and other shapes look simply great, and you don’t have to be a Photoshop Guru to create a shiny, translucent sphere in less than 10 minutes. If you didn’t learn how to do that by now, don’t worry, I’ll show you right away! Read the rest of this entry »