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Create A Scrapbook Alphabet

HERO — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:28:03 +0000

Introduction In this Photoshop Text Effect you’ll learn to create cool Scrapbook style text that can be used as a stand alone word treatment or converted to individual reusable .png files with a transparent background. READ THIS: If you haven’t already done the Text In Stitches tutorial and you want to add the stitches to […]

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Create A 3D Push Pin

HERO — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:45:09 +0000

Introduction Back when I wrote the popular A Scrap Of Notebook Paper tutorial quite a few of you wanted to know how I created the push pin shown in my final image. Well the wait’s over my friends! In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create your own 3D push pin using Photoshop […]

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Modern 3D Text Effect

HERO — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:28:55 +0000

Introduction In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to step outside my usual Photoshop Only philosophy and use the 3D rendering power of Adobe Illustrator to create a cool little 3D text effect. Don’t worry noobs, you don’t need to know anything about Illustrator, as usual I’ll coach you through the whole process, but you do […]

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Film Inspired Photo Borders

HERO — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:50:22 +0000

Introduction In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to convert a flat black on white photo border into a much more usable one in just a few simple steps. The image we’ll be working from comes to us courtesy of Andrea Rascaglia who put together a nice collection of these a few years […]

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photos – Part 2

HERO — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:32:17 +0000

Part 2 – Introduction Welcome to Part 2 of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photoshop Tutorial. Read Part 1 here. As a reminder, please remember that this is simply MY process, HDR processing is an art form subject to the artists opinion. There is no right or wrong way to produce an image, only to […]

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photos – Part 1

HERO — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:24:14 +0000

An Introduction to HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography For those of you not familiar with HDR Photography, it is quite simply the process of combining multiple bracketed exposures into a single photograph, underexposing for highlight detail and then overexposing for shadows we can capture every last bit of detail from both… Details that just aren’t […]

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Hero’s Free Photoshop Holiday Cards

HERO — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:38:27 +0000

Introduction Each downloadable file below contains a simplified .psd with an empty layer for you to paste your photo into along with fully editable text layers (fonts included in the download). Simply paste your photo into the designated area, adjust the text as desired and save the file as a .jpg or .tiff. These are […]

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A Simple Wedding Invitation

HERO — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:29:22 +0000

Introduction By way of preparation, you should already be comfortable using Layers and know how to Install Photoshop Brushes and how to Rotate them since a good deal of the heavy lifting in this lesson will be done with layers and multiple brushes. **Special Thanks to Jillian Clark at 100LayerCake.com for permission to base this […]

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The Wheels Text Effect

HERO — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:06:15 +0000

Step 1 Lets start by taking a look at the original ad below. From the start we can see that they’ve used a few basic Layer Styles like Gradient Overlay and Bevel and Emboss to do most of the work. After a little trial and error I even found the exact font used here called […]

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2 Step Grunge Photo Effect

HERO — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:51:36 +0000

Step 1 Obviously a photo effect requires a photo. I find this effect works awesome on photos of people, so here’s a photo of this funny looking surfer I know. Step 2 With the photo open, lets first make sure our foreground and background colors are set to Black & White by pressing the D […]

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