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Most Popular Special effects Photoshop Tutorials

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Slime effect

Make creepy dripping slime from scratch easily using some clever distortion techniques and layers styles in Adobe Photoshop.

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Crystals

Create trendy crystals.
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Luminescent Lines

Here we will create some thin flowing lines that look as if they emit light. This technique is fairly simple and is a great way to create an abstract wallpaper or looks good integrated into another image. This tutorial will mainly explore the brush engine and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some interesting layer styles.

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Composite Unique Landscapes in Photoshop

Learn how to create a surreal landscape scene by blending or merging multiple stock photos in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

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How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation.

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Turn A Photo Into Interweaving Strips

Learn how to use layers, layer masks and clipping masks in Photoshop to create the illusion that your photo is made up of vertical and horizontal strips that weave under and over each other.

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Magic ball with shine

This is a dark magic ball with a shine effect in the ball

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Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect

Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some emails asking about how to create a break apart, explosion effect, I knew it'd be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, nopattern style, to finish the image off.

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Practice interesting design

In this tutorial we are going to practice some design. For this one I'm using Photoshop version 9 or CS 2. The basic thing about the design is shape and color, so we will do some shaping and color them in the end.

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Cartoonish Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create cartoonish effect in a few easy steps using Adobe Photoshop.

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