Badge Buttons in photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create your own shiny buttons that you can stick different pictures on.Step 1Create a new document (I’ve chosen 600 by 420 pixels) and fill with a dark radial gradient – I’ve used the colours #2e2e2e and #1b1b1b. Step 2Create a new layer and select the elliptical marquee tool and make a fixed size selection in the middle of the document 180 pixels wide and 180 pixels high. Step 3Select the gradient tool...

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Photo Retouching – Skin Photoshop Tutorial

This will be our first tutorial on the subject of re-touching a photograph in photoshop. We will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin. Photo re-touching is a fine art used mainly in the media for magazines etc, that doesn’t mean though, that we cant get good results fairly easily using a few photoshop techniques. The starting photo we will be using : The first technique we will be using...

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lighting text effect in Photoshop

Start by opening Photoshop and creating a new image. For this example, I chose dimensions of 200x200 pixels. Make a selection. Anything will do, you can use text (like I did) or make a square or ellipse. After you have a selection, fill it with a solid color. (If you used text, it should already be filled). Go to the Layers Palette. Rename the layer with your filled object Base by right-clicking it and selecting Layer...

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Create a Realistic Nebula Scene From Scratch

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create a realistic nebula scene from scratch in Photoshop. We will be using technques such as the Pen Tool, various filters for texture rendering, layer blending and some dynamic brushes. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy new year and all the best for 2009! Thanks very much for visiting my blog and hope to see you again next year! Here is a preview of the...

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