Turn any photo into wallpaper (background)

Hi everyone ,first I'm sorry for not posting from along time (school and exams ...ect) but the summer is came and my tutorials will never stop
second this is an easy lessons teach how to turn any photo to nice wallpaper
from this

to this

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first choose your image and try to choose it fully color and hasn't the color white or black very much
i choose this

you can see it with the real size click here

1-duplicate layer



2- select from th menu: image>Apply image


3-put the option just like the pic then click OK


4-from the filter menu select Sketch>Water Paper...

5-put the options of the filter just like the pic the click OK:


6-select the background layer :


7-with the elliptical marquee tool (m) select the area which you to be a little brightness then the rest :



8-right click with the mouse then select feather :


then



9-press (Ctrl+C) then (Ctrl+v) to turn the selected area in new layer:



10-change the blend mode to "overlay" :


11-select the background copy then set the opacity to 85 or as you like


and this is the final result :

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Reflective Liquid Style in Photoshop

Tutorials on creating metal type abound online, as do variations on simple liquid effects. Most are fairly short, offering a good foundation for the reader on how certain effects are achieved but fail to take that extra step (or few steps) to make the piece really shine. Once you have an idea of how different techniques fit together in a piece, it is fairly easy to combine, say, the process to create metal and the process to create liquid to create something that exists in both sides of the FX
map.

1

Create a new image with the following attributes:

• Width: 11 inches
• Height: 11 inches
• Resolution: 300 ppi, 8 or 16 bit
• Background Color: White

2

Since the desired effect is to appear liquefied, a font that appears to have been made with a crayon or round brush will work perfectly. Select the Type tool and open the Character palette from the Options bar. The font I’ve chosen is called ‘WallowHmkBold’… if you do not have this installed on your system just use the font of your choice. The attributes for the characters are seen below:

3

Note that the color is gray in the #666666 range and NOT stark black.
Type a word across the face of the image.

4

Rasterize the type layer, then paint a few additional gray dots around the type.

5

Open the Channels palette and duplicate a channel… the Blue channel will work fine. Go to Image>Adjustments>Invert.

6

Open the Filter menu and select Blur>Gaussian Blur. First, blur the channel at a 25 pixel radius. Blur the channel again at a radius of 15 pixels.

7

Turn off the Blue copy channel, but don’t delete it… you’ll need it in a moment or two.

8

Go to Filter>Render>Lighting Effects. Set it up as outlined in the image below… be sure to select the Blue copy channel as the Texture Channel.

9

The result of all that is a pretty basic bevel, and yes, you could do pretty much the same thing with a layer style. Some habits die hard, however, and I like the end result better when channels come into play. What can I say? I’ve been doing it this way since at least PS 6, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

10

Duplicate the text layer and go to Filter>Sketch>Chrome. Set up the reflections as seen in the dialog box below:

11

Now you can play with Layer Styles a bit. Open the Layer Styles dialog box and select Bevel/Emboss. Enter the following settings… note that the Shadow color is again gray in the #666666 range and not black. Once done click OK.

12

Let’s shine this up a bit. Command/Control+Click the text layer to generate a selection, then make a Curves adjustment layer and Levels adjustment layer with the settings seen here:

13

Against a black background the shine really comes out.

14

Turn off the background layer or layers (if you added the black separately) and merge all the others together.

15

To give the type an enhanced liquid quality, go to Filter>Liquify. Use the Bloat tool to expand or otherwise warp areas of the text as seen here. Once you are happy with the distortions, click OK.

16

You can now throw the text into any image you so choose. In the following example, I’ve blurred a tech-style background, placed the type in that document, then placed a duplicate of the blurred layer above the text. The Blend mode of the top layer is changed to Soft Light to serve as reflections off the type, or making the type appear transparent allowing you to see the background through it. I’ll let you decide what is actually happening.

That’s it for now. Until next time, I’ll see you at ActionFx.com. Take care!

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Simple text animation

1. Start off with the basic image that you would like to add animation to.



2. A frame is each individual picture that the .GIF shows in sequence. Try to avoid adding new layers onto your image after you have made more than one frame, since this will usually add the same thing to all frames. To avoid this, add all aspects of your animation before you make any new frames.



Note that "Tutorial" "Is" and "Awesome" are all on different layers.

3. Next, add 3 more frames to your image (A).

(A)


Here is my setup:

Frame1 - Only "TutorialMan" layer & background visible
Frame2 - Only "Is" layer & background visible
Frame3 - Only "Awesome" layer & background visible
Frame4 - Only background visible

You can toggle visibility by clicking the button next to your layers.

3. In (A) this is what we have so far. You can test your animation by pressing the "Play" button at the bottom of this box. (B) is what you will have right now.


(A)




4. This animation is too fast. You can slow down each individual frame by clicking on the "0 Sec" dropdown box, and change the time that the frame will appear. Do this on all of them and you will have a great animation.

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Icey text Style in Photoshop

Step 1:

We start as always with a background gradient. I've used a Radial Gradient with two shades of a nice blue. Blues are good for this effect because they look cold...
Foreground color - #282c54
Background color - #0a0d2e

Step 2:

Now for our background effect, we're going to add a starburst. This produces a cool retro-looking effect. So go to the shapes palette and look for the shape pictured. It looks weird in the preview, but that is in fact the Starburst icon.

Step 3:

So in a new layer using white, draw out the shape. Note that you need to make it bigger than your stage because it is in fact a wheel and the edges of the wheel look dumb. So make it really large and centered and white.

Step 4:

Now change the opacity to 10% and set it to Overlay. Then grab a big soft brush and erase a bit of the center, this gives the effect that its fading in from nothing.

Step 5:

Finally I've written my text. I've used the font Kabel Bold, because it has a really fun, blocky feel. Fat fonts like this are great for doing effects on because there's lots of room to play. I've placed the text carefully so that the letters are quite close to each other and the n is bunched up in a nice little space.
Working with text is actually a hallmark of good design and is one of the key ways that designers judge how good another designer is. Although subtle, it's worth observing how other designers place text on posters, signs, and billboards around you. Look for spacing between letters, lines, sizing, and general placement. You can in fact do a lot just with typography.

Step 6:

Now the main effect in this tutorial is achieved by adding a whole bunch of layer styles. I won't bore you by detailing each one. Just download the PSDs from the link at the top right and right-click on the layer and select Copy Layer Style. Then you can just paste it around. Make sure the text is white and note that the effect works best on a dark background.
Just to describe the effect that we are trying to achieve, because you want it to look cold, we use white and shades of light blue. Blues, particularly lighter ones, look very chilly, and using a clever bevel we can make it look like the light blues are in fact shadows on these blockey ice letters.
Finally, because we're doing a kind of comic ice, I've used a block shadow. So if you look at the shadow effect you'll see it doesn't actually blur out. This makes for a non-realistic comic look, particularly when combined with this sort of font.

Step 7:

And there it is!

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