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  • How to add a drop shadow to text in Photoshop

    How to add a drop shadow to text in Photoshop

    Follow these easy steps to learn how to add a drop shadow to text in Photoshop. This can be applied to any raster or vector object in Photoshop as well as type.

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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 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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