Engraving in PhotoShop

Here you will be tought how to engrave on any material.

1) First you will need 2 things before we start. I material and a font called Cretino.

I used the metal texture from my metal tutorial as the material. You can use this or any texture that you have.

2) Select the Horizontal Type Mask Tool and select the Cretino font that you just downloaded. Make the font size very large I made mine 290.

3) Make a new layer. Now click on the new layer and type in any capital letter.
I chose the letter T. Heres what I have so far.

4) Now click on the texture layer (Background layer) and copy and paste.
EDIT > COPY. EDIT > PASTE

5) Click on the new layer that was just created (layer 2) and go to LAYER > STYLE > INNER SHADOW. Click OK. It should now look like this.

6) Now go to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST.
I like to set it to -35 Brightness and -5 Contrast.

7) Now you have an engraved letter T. But that doesn't look to nice. So Im going to delete everything on layer 2 except the bottom line. Heres what Im left with.

Now this doesn't look like much, but if you repeat steps 3-6, choose differnt letters and
positions you can create an very nice effect. Heres something I made a while back using this technique.

How to make crystals in Photoshop

1) Open a new file, around 800 x 600 pixels. with a black background.

2) Use the elliptical marquee too make circle in the middle of medium size. Heres mine

3) Make sure the circle and the black background are on the same layer. Now go to
FILTER > STYLIZE > EXTRUDE
Use these setting

4) Now use EXTRUDE again but this time change the size to 20. Do this 2 times.

Heres my final result

PhotoShop - Image Blending

Well here you will be taught how to blend 2 images smoothly together.

1) Get 2 pictures that you want to blend together. These are the 2 i used:

2) Next put each picure on its own layer puting the picture u want blending on the top. Then using the rectangle marguee tool on the top layer, make a rectangle selection of what u want blended. Here is whati choose.

3) Now go to SELECTION>FEATHER. A box will pop up. this will determine come much the pictures will blend together. I choose 30 for mine.

4) Now make sure the rectangle that u made in the beginning is still there. And hit Clrl + C (copy). This will copy the top image. now click Clrl + V (paste) this will paste the top picture into the feathered rectangle.

EXTRA

You can also get similar results using the Eraser Tool and using a very large brush size. just make sure the pic you want to blend into the background is on top.

Realistic Blood Tutorial In Photshop

Well here you will be taught how add realistic
blood to a pic.

1) Open the picture that you want to blood
to. This is the one i used

2)	Next pick the lasso tool and make a outline of where you want it to be. MAKE SURE it is on a seperate layer then your picture. Now fill in with a red color. Make it fairly dark, but not too dark. Now set this new layer as color burn.

3) Now go to ur tool bar and pick the color burn
tool (left pic) and the smudge tool (right pic).

Well we be using these alot.

4) Ok now with the smudge too, pick a brush size
that is about 1/4 the width of your blood spot.

Now start smudging. Try to make the blood like
as though its dripping. Keep doing this until
your satisfied with what you have. This is what i have so far.

5) Ok now use the burn tool to darken the blood
where the cut runs deeper. Heres what Idid.

6) Now to get a look as though the blood is on
her face we well texturize the blood. Go to

FILTER > TEXTURE > TEXTURIZE and this box
will pop up. Use the setting i have here.

7) And now your done. here is what my final result
looks like

Create your own lightsaber in Photoshop

1) Open a file 800x600 with a transparent
background.

2) Add any color except white and
black as your background, i used gray. Make a
new

layer and using the square marque tool select
a thin rectangle.

3) Pick two colors. I used blue
and white. You must use white and it must be in
the

forground.

4) Now select the gradiant tool. Make sure you
select the Reflective Gradiant.

Fill in the rectange that we made in step 2. It
should look like mine.

When filling in the rectangle start at the center
of the rectangel and go to

the right, then let go when u get to the edge
of the rectangle.

The 4th Icon is the Reflective Gradiant

5)	Make a copy of this layer. On the original layer go to FILTER > BLUR > GUASSIAN BLUR and set it between 6-7. Then pick the new layer and do the same thing except set it to 3. With the new layer still picked, set it to color dodge. You should have something like this now.

6)	Now on to the handle. Make a new layer and using the square marque tool make a selection that is about the size of a handle.

7)	Again using the gradiant tool, except this time we are going to use the 1st icon(pic in step 4). The 2 colors we are going to use are dark gray and white. Make something similar to this, making one site dark and the other very lite gray.

8) With go to FILTER > RENDER > LIGHTING
EFFECTS. Heres what i did.

9) Now go to LAYER > LAYER STYLE > BEVEL AND EMBOSS. Use these settings.

Add DROP SHADOW to the handle.

10)	Now make a copy of the 2nd layer that you used to make the saber. The layer that you set to color dodge in step 5. Move the layer so thats its on top of the handle. your handle should now look like the handle on the right.

NOTE : I rotated my lightsaber
to give it a more perspective look. If you
do the same some of the above and below
settings will have to be changed.

11) Make a new layer and make a thin white line across your saber handle. No
go to

LAYER > LAYER STYLE > INNER SHADOW

Use these settings.

I made a copy of this layer so my saber has 2 lines going a cross.

12) You now have a basic lightsaber. I did a
little more work, basically using the techniques

from the above steps to add some more stuff to
my handle. Here is my final saber.

Burn And Dodge Tools Tutorial In Photoshop

I find these tools very useful in alot of ways. Here is just one way you can use these to to add some detail into a design. I started off with a simple orb,
not really that shaded or anything.

1. Make your way over and select the burn tool and set the brush size to one or two pixels. Now start to draw fine wavey lines or I like to just call them veins.
Do it with both of the tools, burn and dodge. Now set your tools to a bigger brush size and start shading the sides and center of the orb.

2. It is looking kind of rough right now, but to soften it up you can add some gradient shines and reflections inside. Then just use your creative juices from
here and create some rad art with this technique. This is what I ended up with:

Photoshop Path Tool tutorial

Starting this tutorial you should know how to use Path Tool because this tutorial is for advanced users or maybe I'm wrong ;) There are a lot of tutorials about maxking and extracting things from images. Extracting using, wand tool, extract tool, magnetic lasso... In this tutorial you will learn how to mask and extract cell phone using Path tool but the way PRO do it. The difference between my method and others is that i don't add thousands of anchor points around the object on every corner and in the end i close my path. The point is to make closed path around my cell phone and then add only neceserry points:)
Here we go!

Step 1

As you can see i will mask cell phone. Of course you can extract anything using this method. But i have to warn you it will work only for objects with regular edges. OK. Select Rectangle tool [R]