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  • How to Kern text in photoshop

    How to Kern text in photoshop

    Kerning is the process of changing the amount of white space in-between letters. This technique should be used when creating any graphics with a large heading or a logo. With experience you may find the white space simply glares out at you in between the letters meaning that you are able to adjust the kerning easily by eye.

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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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  • 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 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 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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  • Where can I get good fonts for Photoshop?

    Where can I get good fonts for Photoshop?

    Q. Where can you get a good selection of free fonts for Photoshop?

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  • Adobe Save for Web & Devices Error

    Adobe Save for Web & Devices Error

    When saving for web in Adobe Photoshop, when you try to save either a jpeg, gif or png if you get an error message 'Adobe Save for Web & Devices Error', 'Could not complete this operation. The file was not found'. Save the document normally as a .psd file and restart photoshop. This should stop this from happening, and you should be able to save for web as normal.

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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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