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The Night Vision Thing — A Photoshop Recipe

Learn to create the greenish glow associated with photos from night vision devices.

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The northern lights

This tutorial will cover how to make the Northern lights or some other light thing in Photoshop CS2.

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The Orton photo effect

Interactive video - Learn how to do the Orton Effect.

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The Plastic Effect

The infamous plastic effect with a twist. Learn how to recreate it using only layer effects, and understand the theory behind the effect. Very handy for interfaces & text!

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The Power of Blending Options

Now, Blending Options are one of the first things Photoshop Novices stumble upon. The infancy of adding layer styles often leads to a short period of horrible drop shadows and cringeworthy bevels. Ironicly, this easily available styling is one of the harder things to master. Blending options is all about manipulating individual layers to obtain a certain effect. It's a key aspect of creating icons, and will help you create textures, shading and highlighting.

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The Ring Horror Movie Effect

Easy tutorial to create the shaking image of Samara from The Ring horror movie. In this movie she frequently appears with a flickering videotape texture. Her movements are fast and bestial, and she seems to be associated more with electricity. Enjoy it!

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The Ultimate Demon Effect

This detailed tutorial will teach you how to give a photo a scary look with red eyes and all!

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The VISTA Girl

Create an impressive background with some photos in Adobe Photoshop.

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The writing's on the wall text effect

Making text appear to be painted on the wall behind it is easy thanks to Photoshop's advanced blending options and the Blend If sliders.

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Three Point Lighting model and shadow emulation

This is a three point lighting model emulation from Adobe Photoshop. You'll learn how to draw key, fill and rim sources of light, cast shadows over an illuminated foggy scene, using only native Photoshop filters.

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