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In this tutorials ill show you how to make a Cut out effect in photoshop from scratch.

Step 1

Open photoshop and click File > New

Then use whatever settings you want, if you dont know what settings to use

just copy the setting from the picture below.

Step 2

Get your paint bucket tool and change the background colour, it can be any colour.

Step 3

Now we have to type some text you can use any font (some fonts work better

than others) the colour has to be white and it can be any font size.

Step 4

In your layers right click on your text layer then go to blending options.

Change your setting to match the pictures below.

Drop Shadow

Inner Shadow

Gradient

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Thats it your done. If you liked this tutorials or need more help with anything leave a comment and ill get back to you ASAP.

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Magnifying Glass Image can be found here

Text Background image can be found here

Step 1

Go to File > New (set the settings to match the picture below)

Step 2

Add your image or text you want to apply the Magnifying Glass Effect to.

Step 3

Go to Layer > New > Layer

Click ok

Step 4

Select the elliptical marquee tool and draw a circle on your image or text where you want your Magnifying Glass Effect.

Now colour the circle in black.

Step 5

On the layer your created right click on it and go to blending options

Set the setting to match the below pictures

Inner Shadow

Outer Glow

Bevel and Emboss

Stroke

Step 7

The circle you created in step should still be selected.

Now click on your image or text layer and go to Filter > Distort > Spherize

Set the Amount to 75%

Then you could add a Magnifying Glass frame around the Circle.

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Step 1

Go to File > New (set the settings to match the picture below)

Step 2

Select the Elipse Tool then draw a circle on the document.

Make sure the settings match the picture below

Step 3

Now select the text tool and click somewhere on the circle line and then type some text and it will follow the path.

Step 4

Now we have to move the path (the circle line you see on the inside of the text) so go to path and delete the work path.

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In this tutorial Jake will be showing you how to make a Smokey fire image from scratch, this is fairly simple but does take some time to get the flames correct.

Step 1

Open a new canvas/document, this can be any size you want, best to make it fairly small 700px x 700px because a big canvas can take a long time to load the changes you have made to it.

Step 2

Now we need to choose a gradient for our image background, play around with the colours to suit you, I have chosen a blue and a dark blue for this example.

Step 3

Choose the radial gradient and start from the bottom left corner and drag it up the the top right corner.

Step 4

Now make a new layer and make a circle or a semi-circle, preferably white.
And select the smudge tool, you may need to play around with the settings to get them right.

Step 5

Now that you have the smudge tool selected just drag the white/grey circle in a backwards “S” shape, once this is done do the same thing but start outside of the smudged area and bring it into the center as your smudging the “S” again. Keep repeating this step and change the layer modes to create different effects

This is my final image after working on it for a while, please go to www.flickr.com and make an account and post you final images in our flickr pool!

In this Tutorial Jake will be showing you how to create your own brushes so you don’t have to worry about all the copyright laws about using them in your work, also you may just need a specific brush, then this is tutorial for you.

step 1
To start with go to File new then for the best resolution for a brush choose 2500 x 2500 (or whatever your brush size is), then click OK.

step 2
next either copy or open your desired image you want to turn into a brush ( for example i have found a brush & ink image on sxc.hu and have used that for this demonstration) then paste it into the new canvas you made a few seconds ago.

step 3
Once that is done, go to Image > Adjustments > shadow/highlights, then set this to your desired amount, this will effect the transparency and look of the finished brush. It also helps if you make the image black and white by pressing ctrl + u to desaturate the image.

Step 4
Now your almost done, (if your not to happy with the image you have, make a few changes to it untill your happy with it, then come back to this step when your ready) all that’s left is to select the whole image ctrl+a then convert it into a brush, First go to Edit > Define Brush Preset > then name the brush and click OK.

Step 5
now if you view your brushes it should be the last one, why not try it out!

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Step 1

Go to File > New (set the settings to match the picture below)

Step 2

Add your image you would like to apply the water effect to. I got my image from here

Step 3

Now create a new layer.

Go to Layer > New > Layer.

and then click ok.

Step 4

Right click on the layer you just created and go to Blending Options

Step 5

Set the settings to match the below pictures.

Inner Glow

Bevel and Emboss

Contour

Step 6

Select the brush tool and stat drawing on the layer you created.

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Step 1

Go to file > new

Set:
Width to 800
Height to 600

Step 2

Set the foreground colour to : #43ee2c and the background colour to : #15c91a

Step 3

Now select the Gradient tool and click at the top of the document and drag to the bottom of the document.

Step 4

Go to Filter > Disort > Wave

Change the settings to match the picture below.

Step 5

Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates

Chnage the settings to match below.

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Make sure you check out our other tutorials and add your finished pics to our Flickr group!

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Looks Best full screen click the image below to see.

Step 1

Go to File > New (set the settings to match the picture below)

Step 2

Use the paint bucket tool to colour the background black.

Step 3

Go to Filter > Noise > Add noise

Set the setting to match the picture below

Step 4

Now go to your layers and right click on your background layer and click Duplicate Layer.

Then click OK

Step 5

Now on the layer you just duplicated set the layer style to overlay.

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In this Tutorial Jake will show you how to place and merge a basic texture with skin.

Step 1

open your image’s one of a person of your choice and one of a texture of your choice,(its best to have cracked mud or flaky paint textures) then simply move the texture image onto the persons skin area.

Step 2

Then quickly flick through the modes to get a desired look, i chose soft light, you may want to bring the opacity down if to much of the texture is coming through. pay around with these and see what you get. practice make perfect!

sometimes its best to desaturate the layer ( ctrl + shift + U) this can bring the color down quite a bit if to much color is getting through. next you erase by the parts you don’t want the texture over, in my case the eyes nose and lips.

Step 4

Here is the final image I set my eraser to 30% opacity and took/ lightened some of the darker lines. so the “veins” around her mouth show through more.

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