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Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

In this tutorial I will show you some very easy techniques, using gradients and layer styles, that we can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

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Creating a Random Lighting Layer

In Adobe Photoshop, a layer of realistic lighting is all that separates realism from flat colour. This tutorial uses Adobe Photoshop's Noise Gradient feature to create a layer of "canopy lighting".
Image and tutorial by PEGAWEB

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Foliage texture

Create fine foliage that can be used as a bush or tree texture.

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Using Hip Brushes to to Multi-Photo Layouts

Use hip digital brushes to create custom backgrounds for use in digital and hybrid scrapbooking.

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Spiral Effect

Create this background from scratch by manipulating shapes and layers.

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Photoshop background for the web

How do they make those great backgrounds? We'll show you how using Adobe Photoshop. This easy, step-by-step tutorial will help you create a background for your own web page or just for fun.

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Creating brick texture

This tutorial exercise provides step by step instructions on how to create texture like brick wall using photoshop.

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Turn a texture into a seamlessly tiled background

Tiled backgrounds are great for both website backgrounds and in all kinds of Photoshop work. They are particularly useful when working with textures where you need a larger overall background than the small image you have to work with. In this quick tutorial I'll take you through taking a texture and turning it into a background image ready for seamless tiling. It's a useful little technique that's been around forever.

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Realistic wood texture

Create a realistic wood texture that requires little to no time to create in Adobe Photoshop.

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Working With Shadows In Photoshop

Advanced shadow techniques from Photoshop pro Mark Galer.

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