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  • How to create a Gold Plaque in Photoshop using vector shapes

    How to create a Gold Plaque in Photoshop using vector shapes

    This tutorial will show the process for creating a gold plaque in photoshop. This tutorial can be followed when making any metallic plaque be it gold, silver, brass etc, just change the colours used. This tutorial shows how to make a gold plaque using a combination of vector shapes and layer styles.

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  • How to create an animated gif in Photoshop

    How to create an animated gif in Photoshop

    In this tutorial you will learn how to create a basic animation for the web with photoshop. Follow these simple steps to create a circular animation. This tutorial can be used with any graphics you like, I've used simple circular graphics to create a circle which changes into a half circle and back just for the purposes of this animation.

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  • How to create buttons for a webite in photoshop

    How to create buttons for a webite in photoshop

    This tutorial shows a quick and easy way of creating a button for a web site. This button style contains a gradient background, a inner white border with a darker outer border and drop shadow. These buttons are very easy to recreate using layer styles and shapes and will suit any website as they can be coloured to match the design.

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  • Transforming a solid shape into a transparent gradient in Photoshop

    Transforming a solid shape into a transparent gradient in Photoshop

    This tutorial will cover the basics of making a solid shape into a transparent gradient, using the layer style options in Photoshop. For this example, I'm going to create a black to transparent gradient over an image, to create the effect of the image fading out to black. This effect is often used with a dark photograph fading to black on the background of a website, the reverse of this a lighter image fading to white is often used on the top of invitations and flyers.

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  • How to create a marker pen effect in Photoshop

    How to create a marker pen effect in Photoshop

    TweetThis tutorial will show you an effective way of colouring in a black and white line drawing in photoshop in the style of marker pen. To start this tutorial you will need a  black and white line drawing with the black lines on a separate...

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  • How to create a diagonal patterned background in photoshop.

    How to create a diagonal patterned background in photoshop.

    In this example I will create a diagonal line pattern, but this method can be used for any tessellating background pattern in Photoshop.

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  • How to create a half moon vector shape in photoshop

    How to create a half moon vector shape in photoshop

    In this turtorial you will learn how to use vector shapes in photoshop. Use both custom vector shapes that come with photoshop but also find out how to create a half moon vector shape from 2 circles by subtracting one from another.

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  • How to use Step and Repeat in Photoshop

    How to use Step and Repeat in Photoshop

    You would use the process of step and repeat in photoshop to duplicate items and evenly space them. Designers may be familiar with the process as it is included as a method to space items in other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and Indesign.

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