Canvas Texture
Photoshop has a number of texture filters that can be applied directly to an image. If you want to make an image look like it’s painted on a textured surface, don’t apply the texture on the same layer. I have found that a more realistic looking texture can be created by applying the texture to a layer above your image. I’ll show you a trick to accomplish this. I’ll also give you a quick rundown of what each of the texture filters looks like.
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Soft Posterize
Photoshop actions allow you to record a series of steps that you might do numerous times on other images, and then play back that series automatically on a new image. Photoshop CS4 comes with dozens of actions already created for you. In this article, I’ll give a pictorial and descriptive run-down of Photoshop’s built-in Image Effects actions.
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Tiki God Preview
The rest of America is in love with Hawaii, and has been since World War II. At that time, soldiers and sailors returned to the mainland with all manner of trinkets, including replicas of the Tiki gods which can be found throughout Polynesia. In this tutorial, you can make one of your own using just a couple of wood textures.
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Clipping Mask
Clipping masks are a great method for masking part of an image without deleting pixels. In this tutorial, we will be using a shape to hide part of a photo.
We will also be working with Photoshop’s filters, patterns, custom shapes, text, and blend modes.
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