It is very important to understand that there are many ways of doing things PhotoShop and not only that I explained here. The aim of this tutorial is to give an idea of what can and can not dictate how it should be. I encourage all who read this tutorial also experimenting on their own in addition to simply follow the tutorial. Aim to meet the program’s tools and try to reach the same result with their own techniques. Also I will try to explain “why” of the individual steps. So please do not just blindly follow all the steps, if not try to think about each step carefully and try to really understand what is happening and what is supposed to achieve.

With this in mind, let’s get down to business …

Step 1: Basic form and outline

Open PhotoShop and click on File -> New. Create a new canvas with a width and height of 400 pixels. Alternatively you can use a higher resolution. Set Foreground color to white and the background a little gray. The code I used was “5a5a5a.” Press Ctrl + Shift + N to create a new layer. Name it “base.”

In principle, we must see the general shape of our crater. The craters are usually round it makes things easier.

Click the Marquee tool (M). Put it in elliptical right clicking once on the icon and select the Elliptical Marquee Tool. ”

Now create a selection in the center of your canvas. Make sure you have enough space on the sides.

Fill the selection with white by pressing Shift + Backspace and press Enter, but do not deselect yet. The white circle marks the area inside the crater, which has a light opposite to the area around the crater.

Now let’s get the selection by 1 pixel. To do this Click Select – Modify> – Collapse>. Type “1″ in the dialog box and accept. You’ll hardly notice a change in the canvas, but the selected area is exactly one pixel smaller on each side. Next, erase all that is in this new selection, with the tool “Draft” or press Delete. You will stay with a thin white ring.

Deselect.

Note:
This ring is the basis for the outline of the crater. Is the most enlightened and higher, that is why it is white. However, a crater is not perfectly circular so that will add a touch more irregular in the next step to deform the ring slightly. In view of profiled, then the red dots mark the area you just created.

Step 2: Doing irregular

Well, now we have the boundary that marks the core area of our crater. Press “Ctrl + N Shift + +” to create a new layer and name it “scheme.”

Now take the Brush Tool (B). and configure the width of the Brush to 1 pixel on the menu “Options” Panel. In the layer “Outline” draw a circle in hand with the brush and it is not perfect. Use the layer “base” as a guide. Make sure the circle is completely closed (this is important for the next step.) The goal is draw very imperfect circle look round yet. You do not want it to look oval.

Step 3: Inner Shadow

Now let’s see first a little enlightenment. To clarify the way the light falls on a spherical object of a profile view can be very useful.

First hide the layer “base” so it will not now. Now take the “magic wand” (W) and select the layer “outline.” Click inside the circle. Space is selected within the scheme. Create a new layer and name it “Inner Shadow.” Place under his cloak “Scheme”

Now take the Gradient Tool (G) and Panel Options select “Radial Gradient”. Also configure your foreground color to black and let the background color of the gray 5a5a5a. ” Now make a gradient in your selection that extends from one end of the schema to another. Your canvas should now look like the image # 6.

Step 4: Shadow Foreign.

Once done, let’s move to the area outside the crater. Select the “Profile” layer once again take the “Magic Wand Tool (W). This time, click outside the circle. Your selection now covers only the area on the canvas outside the body of the crater. Press Ctrl + Shift + N and name your new layer “shadow outside.” This layer must also be included under the layer “Outline.” Then we will pull a gradient in the same way as before, only this time we will not use a background color. So take the “Gradient Tool (G) again, but this time click the drop-down menu panel Options and select “front-transparent color.”

Now click and drag along the black line that appears in the picture no 7.

Do this twice. Clear. Now it should be something like the image nr.8.

You may want to erase a bit of black on the sides with the eraser tool (E). Be sure to use a soft brush with a hardness of 0% for this. I used one with a diameter of 150 pixels.

Note:
What we have now looks a bit like a crater. It’s time to explain how this is going to be adapted to the shape of a planet. What made this tutorial lighting is to create a crater. So if you put it on a planet is mixed with the texture. Gray represents, in general, the lighting of the texture. The black shows where the crater casts shadows. Then we add some white to mark the parts that are more enlightened than the rest of the texture.

Take a look at the profile view of enlightenment. We care to shade parts of the crater (with some fine tuning.) What remains are the highlight.

Step 5: more lighted areas

Create a new layer and name it “highlights areas”. Select the layer “Outline” (which should still be in the top). Take the tool “magic wand” (W) and select the area outside the crater. Now set your foreground color white and take the “Gradient Tool (G) again. Keep the settings from step 4 and pull a gradient along the white Nr.9 image. Do this twice.

Now select the inner area of the crater. Create a new layer with the name “Star Inside” and fill in white (Shift + Del). Do not deselect yet, take the “Tool Frame” (M). Click inside the selection and drag a bit in the direction given by white Nr.9 the image. Your canvas should look like the image Nr.10.

Now you need to soften the selection. To do this click on Select -> Modify -> Soften and type “30.” Click OK. You will notice that your selection has become perfectly round. Make sure you are still working on his cloak “Star Inside” and press backspace 4 times. Clear.

You will have deleted the white on the inside of your choice. Having softened selection 30 pixels and in advance has the effect of having no hard edges. The target is removed gently without hard edges to simulate the dispersal of light. Nr.11 image shows what happened to me after completing step 5.

If you have not saved your work, better do it now.

Step 6: Too Clean

Well, now we have the base of the crater made. The next thing to do is make the thing seem more real. This step will give you a little more randomness. It still looks too much like a plastic button. Create a new layer above the layer “Outline” and name it “Outline Detail.”

Now take the brush “(B) and attach a diameter of 1 pixel in the”Panel options. Your foreground color should still be white. Now just try to make the “Scheme” look a bit more random. Work with the brush to create denser parts and undulations. You have to make a zoom on image to do this. You can work with a 5-pixel brush with 0% hardness and set the opacity of the brush about 10%. You can do all this in the panel of options.

After finishing with the 5-pixel brush resize to 45 pixels and OPIC brush to 2% (all done in the options panel).

With this brush you want to work only inside the crater, so take the “Magic Wand” (W) and select the inside of the crater by clicking inside the crater in the layer diagram. ” Do not forget to re-layer “Details of the Scheme” before starting to work again. If you want to play some more, try different brush sizes, but beware of exaggerating node, otherwise it will be too small shadows in its crater. In the picture no. 12 can see how the crater could occur after the retouching.

For the grand final try to paint a little relief, as set out in the crater. There are no rules right here, making it difficult to give specific instructions. But in general I recommend a brush with an opacity of 10% or less and a variation in the size of the brush about 65 to 1 pixel. Be sure to use Brushes with 0% hardness. Also check the space inside the crater with the “magic wand (W) to avoid affecting the edges. (Once again: do not forget to return to the appropriate layer). If you feel confident enough you can take” Smudge tool (R) and use that resource as well.

No Image. 13 shows how our crater is complete. Save a JPEG copy.

Step 7: Putting it on a planet

Welcome to the last stage where will the crater on the surface of a planet. I recommend a planet with a very subtle texture that does not stand out much. Here you can see the planet I’ve used. Is my image “Moonlands.”

Now open the JPEG image of the crater, copy it over the layer of the planet. Normally do not mix very well.

While the crater layer is selected, press CTRL + T to transform it. Hold the mouse off the layer. Now click and drag to rotate the crater so you can see in the image on the right. Do not press Enter yet …

… and give a rectangular shape as seen in the image. Once this is done press Enter to confirm the transformation.

Note:
Depending on where you want the crater has to leave the square. This crater is to be placed in the top left of the planet. If you want to put it exactly in the middle it obviously has to stay square. The closer to the edge of the planet, more will have to deform.

Make sure the layer of the crater is selected and change the blending mode of it to “Overlay.” To do this, click the dropdown menu in the Layers window, where it says “normal.” It will provide a list of blending modes. Hover your mouse over the “overlap” and click. Its crater should now look like the photo on the right. You can then movel a bit to better match the spherical surface of the planet. (Move a little towards the top left)

You will notice that the crater is now combined with the texture and color of your planet. Anyway should still be able to distinguish the square edges around its crater. To get rid of this press CTRL + L to enter the dialog levels. ” Now move the slider middle right or left until you see the border disappear. If you can not make the border disappear completely, zoom and just delete the edge with a soft eraser.

If you are unhappy with the location or size of the crater can move a bit and maybe change its size by pressing CTRL + T again. To maintain the proportions of the crater hold down Shift while resizing. The image at right shows my final result.

More of a crater, just repeat this step a few times. I recommend that you make a variacipòn size and do not put in all the planet’s surface since the end result would be very monotonous.

Congratulations. Crater has created its own in Photoshop!

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One thing I tend to do very often people who work with software as PhotoShop is trying to innovate in its designs so noted on the other, a good way to do this is to go changing the Brushes design something, with this every design have a special touch. to the point, what we find in brushlovers.com are Brushes available for download and install free  for PhotoShop, the great variety of designs and textures make this a good resource to complement the design program.
If you enter the site Brush Lovers find a great Library of brushes for PhotoShop. All these brushes are download free, most are also very good quality and if you look closely at them will help you improve many phone designs In Brush Lovers find all the brushes arranged in categories, in order to download or that you will not even register except for brushes that are for sale.
No prior registration needed to download one or more free Photoshop brushes brushlovers.com, anyone can just Brush gratisingresar the first place and see a variety of brushes available for download for free, before choosing the one we like we see some data such as name, author and date of creation. An interesting option is that besides having at disposal these free Photoshop brushes can also send our own designs either to collaborate with this free graphics resource website and is also an interesting way in which we can raise awareness of our work.
If this site does not show on its cover brushes we like we can always use the finder to locate the design that we like, as well as brushes for Photoshop download free option also have access to other free resources as well as sources, programs among others. After downloading free brushes page allows us to see a section with helpful information to install the application in Photoshop. We can try and download Photoshop brushes like fractal brushes or grunge brushes for free through the link below.

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Here is a template for PhotoShop that usually would be used to the contact section, which includes space for the form as well as relevant information. The aesthetic is as well shown, a simulation of a pair of traditional mailing envelopes.

Download Mail Feedback Form | Free PSD Files

The advantage of that is done in PhotoShop is fully editable and add other elements such as social networking information on the other hand for those who begin to layout, can be a bit complex at first, but can be a kick to dare this mysterious world.

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I want to share a small but effective remedy if they are in need of organic textures, these six can be very useful.

Download Free Grass textures PSD | FreePSDFiles

This is a small PhotoShop file extension. Pat it possible to apply the 6 textures on layers directly, with all the options offered by the software. Raised tile so there is no limit for expansion.

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Here are three views, front, rear and landscape, well designed retail and ideal to include in any design, either web or print graphics.

Also see that each of the options can be separated and edited, which allows you to include any screen wishing to test or submit applications or custom designs.

Download Apple iPad Mania | Download PSD

The total picture is about 2500 × 1440 pixels, each view has a transparent background to apply to any surface. A good resource to have saved a useful marker.

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2 – Create another layer and select the text tool now creates a text with all
strange characters can be letters normal but instead of putting orientation
cambial horizontal to vertical I suggest using Courier New font size 10 and choose a green color for text

3 – Copy the text layer a couple of times by changing the opacity and size and move it a bit so that you are not so many empty spaces

4 – Now press the D key or select the black and white and come standard

5 – go to Filter> Render> Clouds and then to Image> Adjustments> Brightness / Contrast … slide the contrast and adds +100% to 20 pixels Gaussian blur

6 – To give a little more than a doubling effect on the text layer you have not done step 5 and add a motion blur now you can put all the layers and pass the following

7 – Now make large text … Create a new layer that is above and select a typeface similar to the matrix can even download it

Enter your text in white and duplicate it 3 times then rasterized the text in all layers

fill the layer 3 of the text with the color you used to fund letters

in layer 2 of the Gaussian blur filter used with 5 0 7 pixels as maximum

and finally in 4 of the text layer select motion blur filter and lower the opacity of the layer … repeat if necessary or duplicate the layer. It’s all

clouds play if you put too can get a good effect

with a little experience and choosing a good color do you leave something like

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In this case I want to share a style that seemed incredible that only requires a good typeface apply over raster and emulates a transparent gel effect excellent.

But also to share them invite you to visit the little tutorial for step by step as the ideal outcome. In this case I decided to apply on a metal texture that can be downloaded free from the link, you will see that it is very simple and fast.

Open a new document in PhotoShop. Of any size, texture can be used directly to write about it, in my case I used the Texture Speaker Grille. My canvas is 570 x 300 pixels on a white background (irrelevant), hit the texture on the Background layer and automatically get a new layer.

As the texture I selected already contains some shine, what I do is climb to reduce its visual weight, do not want to compete with the text.

Then select a font that allows us a certain thickness to display clearly despite transparency. In this example I selected one called Snickles also be downloaded from the article by professional typography .

We write what we want, keep in mind that it is a decoration, these effects are to stand, but not to read long texts.

Then download the file Text Effects Gel , and export the file. ASL. zip. Once we know where we’ve saved, go to Edit ?Presets Manager, this window, select Styles and click on Load …, select the file. Asl and see how you add two squares of transparencies.

To view the Styles window that we need simply go to Window ‘Styles. They see the styles to apply, and we can only select the text layer that we raster and click any of the two effects we found. There is a lighter and one darker.

Depending on the texture you have selected may be relevant to duplicate the text layer before applying the style, and play with one that is flat, provided that locate below.

The result is very striking, and despite the extension of this paper are three easy steps to implement to achieve a final image like this:

Resource | Efecto gel para capas de Photoshop

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This is one of those collections that once downloaded will always do a little time to go about treating each action.

While the pack is focused on the effects of text, you can find among the more than 840 actions for PhotoShop effects to create cables from lines, textures and photo effects.

Among the many actions certainly may seem odd or old tawdry, but giving a quick look at the library tell you the percentage is biased in favor of the good effects.

Download | Share text effects (24.6 Mb)

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Here is the last part of this collection with complete variety which this resource, so if you were to build a dark and sinister composition, this file can compose a full cemetery.

In this pack are added crosses and tombs from other perspectives and inscriptions of all kinds. The file is compressed into a RAR and hidden layers to reduce weight (and therefore before commenting that it does not open the file I hope they read this and make visible the layers  :) .

Download | Tombs 2 / 2 (18.67 Mb)

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I have not published a set of styles for PhotoShop and I think this pack is good to return to the topic. The peculiarity of it is that they do not come as styles itself but in PSD format.

A total of 12 styles where we can find such plastic, wood, elegant, gold and various styles.

Download | 12 styles for Photoshop (11.46 Mb)

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