Creating a wood texture from scratch is pretty easy, and the results can be pretty impressive, if you get things right. If you don’t, well… there’s always a second chance, isn’t it?

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The “Matrix” trilogy needs no introduction, and I am sure that all all those that have seen the movies remember that green text flowing all over… but how many have tried to redo this effect on their computers? Well, since this is pretty easy to do, let’s get things rollin’, shall we?

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In the last 50 years, graphics design moved up a lot, and if we look back, there are a lot of things to use as inspiration for turning our pictures into works of art, using Photoshop. Of course that in some cases, results may not be ready for an art gallery, but they should be enough to make you want to learn more, like the one below…

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Sometimes, an image is worth a thousand words, so here you have it - if you were impressed by that good looking text used by Apple for QuickTime and some of their Mac commercials, now it’s the time to be amazed how easy can we create something like it in Photoshop!

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A sad truth is that everything gets old, including the family photos (at least as long as they are not held on a CD or DVD, but when that happens, the optical disc itself would get old too…), but this is a process that takes time.

If you want to add an aging effect to the picture you are acquiring from your digital camera right now, using Photoshop to do it is a pretty good idea, so let’s see how to do this, shall we?

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