Feathering affects the edges of your selection and the main reason to use it to soften the transition between the selection and the surrounding area. Without this option, there would be a clear separation between your choice and the background. This technique is widely used in photographic processing which should smooth the transitions in areas that have been copied and …

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How come celebrity models do not look exactly the same in the magazines as in the real life? Of course there is something going on behind the curtains, but what is happening?
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By now, we know that photo editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop can be used …

In previous posts we have presented various text effects like, 3D typography and Fire Text. In this one we will see how to get a super cool effect combining several elements and is fairly simple to achieve too.

Step 1
First we need to create a new canvas with black background. The following settings are recommended:

Step 2
Create your type mask text using the …

Today we’re going to have a closer look at the Patch Tool and what it can be used for in terms of editing a photo.
To start things of, let’s see where you find the patch tool. The patch tool is found in the tools palette, it is possible that at first glance you’ll only see the “spot healing brush tool”, which …

Adding Spiral Beams around your objects really gives a 3D sense to your objects. We will see on this tutorial how you can add these beams around any object you may want to give depth to using Photoshop CS4. For the purposes of this tutorial we suggest using a 3D object like this sphere but any object would do.

1. The first …