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  • christmas-sale-background

    Free Christmas Sale repeating background

    Use the tile below to create a free Christmas Sale background for your website. To use the Christmas Sale tile as a paint bucket background for design work in Photoshop open the tile in Photoshop and choose Edit > Define Pattern.

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  • free-snowflake-background

    Free snowflake repeating background

    TweetUse the tile below to create a free snowflake pattern background for your website. To use the snowflake tile as a paint bucket background for design work in Photoshop open the tile in Photoshop and choose Edit > Define Pattern. For a full tutorial see...

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  • Free pebble repeating background

    Free pebble repeating background

    Use the tile below to create a free pebble / stones background for your website. To use the pebble tile as a paint bucket background for design work in Photoshop open the tile in Photoshop and choose Edit > Define Pattern.

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  • Free grass background pattern – repeating background

    Free grass background pattern – repeating background

    Use the tile below to create a free grass background for your website. To use the grass tile as a paint bucket background for design work in Photoshop open the tile in Photoshop and choose Edit > Define Pattern. For a full tutorial see How to create a repeating background in Photoshop. To use this tile as a repeating background on the web, use the css background image option.

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  • Green Flower Free Background Pattern

    Green Flower Free Background Pattern

    This green flower background pattern is available to download in a number of formats.

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  • Blue Flower Free Background Pattern

    Blue Flower Free Background Pattern

    This blue flower background pattern is available to download in a number of formats.

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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 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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  • Removing a white background to create a transparent PNG in Photoshop

    Removing a white background to create a transparent PNG in Photoshop

    In this tutorial you will learn how to remove the white area or background from a black and white line drawing of a Scarecrow

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  • pattern

    How to replace image elements with a pattern

    Quick & clear video showing how to replace a colour range with a patterned background in photoshop. A great effect that’s easy to achieve.

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