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Wouldn’t it be cool to create abstract art? Want to create a mysterious lady that is fire, follow these step by stepy instructions: Start by opening an image of a model in an interesting pose. Create path surrounding her body using pen tool in path mode. Ctrl+Enter the path to get the selection. Hide the image layer. Create a new layer and fill with a solid yellow color. Select gradient tool. Create a gradient. Duplicate the layer. Enable lock transparency pixels form the layer palette. Select multiply as gradient mode from the options bar at top. Apply the gradient several times. Change the layer mode to “Linear Light”. Duplicate layer. From “Filter” menu select “Liquify”. Select forward warp tool and apply on this layer from down to upwards to create an effect of flames. Change the layer mode to “Pin Light”. Select the background layer. Apply the same gradient that we used in the lady silhouette on the background layer. From “Filter” menu select “Render>>Difference Clouds”. Reapply this filter a number of times. Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Duplicate the layer. Change the layer mode to “Linear Light”.

Okay, start out with a picture of a speaker. Now, select the base speaker on the bottom. Now, while you have that selected press Ctrl-c and make a new layer above that then press Ctrl-f and you will have your selection on a new layer, now you need to duplicate that layer two times by pressing Ctrl-j two times, once you have done that select your first duplicated layer (the one right above your original) and name that one Side, do the same for the one above it except name that one Up.Now select the Side layer and apply Filter> Blur> Motion blur and these settings Angle: 0 Distance: 15px Do the same for the Up layer except apply these settings Angle: 90 Distance 15px Now, to switch to imageready you will need push this button at the bottom of this panel in photoshop. Now, in imageready we will open up the animation panel, to do that you need to go into Window> Animation, the animation panel will now be shown. Okay, in the animation panel select the first frame, and at the bottom of the thumbnail you will see a thing like this 0 sec. then a little black arrow pointing down, click once one the 0 sec. dropdown menu, then you will see some stuff like: No delay, o.1, o.2 etc. Select the 0.1 seconds button. Now, in the animation panel push the new frame button, it looks just like the button in your layer panel. You will see it has copied the first frame, now select the second frame and change the speed to: 0.2After you have done that (make sure your on the second frame in the animation panel) hide layer: base speaker and show layers: up and side. Now, hit play on the animation panel to watch your animation.

The basics of photoshop, well one major thing is learning how to save your picture history. Start by opening a file you’ve been working on or create a new file. Then go to Edit > Preferences > General. Check off “History Log”. You then have three options to choose from. I will describe what each of them do. To begin, let’s choose “Metadata”. You then have three options with the “Edit Log Items”. Start working on your file by creating layers, adding fills or gradients, using filters, etc. Then go to File > File Info > History. Notice how it keeps track of each step you take. Save this file and close it. Then open it back up again. Notice that the history is still there! Let’s look at the second option for the history log. Go to Edit > Preferences > General. Choose “Text File” this time and save the file to a folder of your choice. I chose to save mine to the desktop. Again, work on your file by creating layers, adding fills or gradients, using filters, etc. Now go to wherever you saved your text file and open it. Notice that it keeps track of each step you take! The final option for the history log is “Both”. This option saves your steps in both the History section as well as the text file. So there you have it. Three different ways to save every step you take during a design process without losing the information when closing the file. Enjoy!

When you are creating a brush you can save and delete it, heres how: To Save Modified Brush Preset: After you make a modification to you brush shape or brush dynamic, you can save brush by do one of following using Brush Palette. Using Brush Palette Menu and select New Brush Preset. Click New button at bottom Brush Palette. If you use Small Thumbnail or Large Thumbnail you can click at empty area (your cursor will turn to indicate you can click to save the brush). To Delete Brush Preset. You can delete unwant brush by do one of following option: Select brush you want to delete and select Brush Palette Menu and select Delete Brush. Select brush you want to delete and click Trash Button Select brush you want to delete Right Click or Control + Click (for MacOS) and select Delete Brush.

Sometimes you wanted that cool yellow moon effect, well its easy enough to turn a full moon into a harvest moon. Open an image of a normal looking moon in Photoshop.Select the Eliptical Marquee tool. Create a perfect circle around the moon. Goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This will turn the moon to black and white. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the Yellow slider to the left to give the moon a yellowish color. Click OK. Create a new layer. Make sure the circle selection is still there. Use the Paint Bucket tool and fill the circle selection with a bright yellow. Change the layer mode for the yellow circle layer to “Multiply”. Right click the Yellow Circle layer from the layers palette. Choose “Blending Options” from the pop-up list. Set the properties for “Outer Glow”. Click OK and you should now have your Harvest Moon.

When using photoshop it can be quite amusing to mess around with all the settings. One fun idea is to create a honeycomb that is quite realistic. Start by taking a new file of 400 pixels 400 pixels of resolution 72 dpi in the RBG mode Go to the Filter>Render>Clouds. Then go to the Filter>Stained Glass use these settings. And now go to Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap use the following settings. Now add some color press Cntl+U use these settings. Your image should be look like this. And now double click on your background layer then cilick ok as shown image below. Make the copy of layer1. And now finally you can change the Blending Mode Linear Burn.

Ever wondered how to create an oil painting effect to a picture, well heres how: Click on Filter > Distort > Glass and apply the following settings to your photograph. Distortion — 2 Smoothness — 5 Texture — Canvas Scaling: — 75% Next, click on Filter > Artistic > Paint Daubs and apply the following settings to your photograph. Brush Size — 2 Sharpness — 4 Brush Type — Simple Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes and apply the following settings to your photograph. Direction Balance — 18 Stroke Length — 4 Sharpness — 2 In this last step, you want to click on Filter > Texture > Texturizer and apply the following settings to your photograph. This creates the appearance that your painting was done on canvas. To do this, we’re going to go: Texture — Canvas Scaling — 65% Relief — 6 Light Direction — Top Right. Since every photograph is different, you can slightly tweak the Photoshop filter settings above to suit your photograph or taste.

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