Okay, the title is slightly misleading ..

You can not move layers without touching them, but you can move them from the layers palette without clicking on them using the following keyboard shortcuts:

To move a layer down to the layers palette, press: Command-left bracket (PC: Ctrl-left bracket)
To move a layer to the palette of layers, press: Command-right bracket (PC: Ctrl-right bracket)

Now, if you want to move a layer within the image without using your mouse, select the Move tool and use the arrow keys on your keyboard.

For example, suppose you have a picture of a ball in its own layer and you apply a Drop Shadow to this layer. When this is done, everything in this layer will have exactly the same drop shadow to the ball.

Draw a line with the brush? This is drop shadow. Drag a rectangular selection and fill with glare to add another drop shadow. Remember, the styles are known as layer styles affect the entire layer.

You are probably already familiar with the History of Photoshop, which allows you to undo up to 20 steps. Unfortunately, when you quit Photoshop nothing is saved in memory and this no longer works. However, there is a way to undo changes to color and tone after days, weeks or even months.

Here is how: next time you apply a change in tone of any kind (e.g. through options Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance or other), do not select them from the menu. Instead, scroll to the bottom of the Layers palette and click on New Fill or Adjustment Layer. This is the half black and half white circle. You will see a pop-up menu from which you can choose what tonal change (or filling) you want to apply. You’ll see a new special layer in Layers palette with the name change of tone (e.g. Color Balance). When you save the document and open it again, the Color Balance layer will still exist. To edit the settings of the Color balance, double-click on it. To undo the action, drag the Color Balance layer to waste.

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 Horizontal Type Mask tool as shown in the picture below:

Using the Horizontal Type Mask tool pick an area where you want your title to appear and type away.

Step 3
Using the Fill tool, fill the inside of your letters with white colour.

Step 4
Next pick the Smudge tool and smudge the edges of your text. For this pick a big brush area around 35cm diameter.

Step 5
Next step is to colourize your text. Bring up the Color Balance dialogue menu from the bottom right bar of your PS, and play around with the Shadows, the Midtones and Highlights as shown and hit OK. This will give you the burning effect.

Step 6
Moving on we will add some Gaussian Blur effect. Simply go to the Filter menu from the top toolbar, hit Blur and then Gaussian Blur and OK.

Step 7
To create the Neon effect you will need to duplicate your image and choose Linear Dodge on the copied layer. This will give the outline of your layer a neon like fluorescent look.

Step 8
Using the Horizontal Type Tool this time we will create another text layer to fill in the Neon fonts we created in the previous step. Choose the same font size and type the same word/words with your original text and overlay the new layer on top of your original one.

Step 9
Finally we will add the glow to our text. Double click on the layer of your Neon object and scroll down to “Outer Glow”. Change the glow color to a red glow. Your Burning Neon Effect is complete!

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 thing we want to do is create a new layer.

2. Next we will open our path’s panel and choose the ellipse tool. Once you pick the ellipse tool go to the tool’s options bar on the top toolbar and click on the middle icon named Path, you can easily identify it by hovering over with your cursor on the icons of the toolbar. This will turn your cursor into a little pen tool. With this tool chosen draw a very thin wide oval near the base of your object.

3. Next we need to choose our direct selection tool. This is placed usually just over the ellipse tool, on the lower portion of the tools toolbar and is marked with a black arrow. Click on it and select the path of the oval object you just designed, this will bring up 4 anchors. We want to add 2 more anchors to these, so we will go to the Pen tool and from the available tools choose the add anchor tool. Click on it and create 2 extra anchors just on the edges of your object on the areas highlighted.

4. Once we have all 6 anchors set, we will go back to the direct selection tool and we will choose the anchors that would stand lie behind our object and delete them. This will give us a flat C running around in the front side of our object.

5. Next we will grab this path and move it down to the new path button. This is placed on the bottom toolbar of the paths panel. Once done right click on it and duplicate that path. We will now edit the duplicate path we just created. We will select the path that runs on the left side of our object and delete it.

6. Next we will grab our brush tool, which is placed on the top side of the tools toolbar.
Click on it and go to brush options, we will set the brush diameter to 7pxls and set hardness to 100%. Next click on the brush options dialogue box, which is placed just on top of the paths panel you have running and turn shape dynamics ON.

7. Next right click on the duplicate path and select stroke path. Choose brush and simulate pressure. This will create a beam that whirls around the object.

8. Now we will switch to the original path and again on the path selection tool. Select the paths of the swirl we created before, hold down the shift key and hit the upper arrow key a few times so the path will move upwards. Once done we will replicate the stroke path steps as described on step 7. This will create another swirl. Repeat this until you get the desired number of swirls.

9. Finally we want to give our swirls an angle. For this go back to the Layers mode, remember we were working on the paths mode until now, and select the swirls layer. Right click on it after you select it and select skew and give your swirls an angle by pulling the top right corner a bit up and the bottom left down, which will give them a cool moving effect.

Once you have Ellipse tool selected choose a neutral grey colour from your colour palette, like 50% grey, and simply draw your droplet. You can make the shape of your drop more elliptical using the Direct Selection Tool and the Pen tool or just leave it round to keep things simple.

We need next to start applying some layer styles. For this we will change the blend mode to Overlay.

Bring up your Layers Styles dialogue box by double clicking on the blank area of your layer.

We will start from the top and add some layer styles:
1. Drop Shadow, set the opacity to 15% and the angle to 90 degrees and choose the second from top left contour option.
2. Inner Shadow, and again opacity 15% angle 90 degrees.
3. Inner Glow, blend mode multiply and colour to black the opacity to 20%.
4. Bevel and emboss, style inner bevel, depth 100%, angle 90 degrees and altitude to 70. The highlight mode normal with white colour increase the opacity to 100% and shadow mode to overlay with white colour and 90% and click OK.

The result of these adjustments should look like this:

The last thing we need to take care of is to distort the background image behind the droplet. To do this go select your background layer and hold down ctrl and then Filter->Distort->Ripple and adjust the settings to your liking and hit OK. Once you have your first water drop you can easily adjust the size and feel of your drops.

With laso tool selected start drawing the outline of the teeth. Use the shift key to correct the parts of the teeth you have missed and expand the selection. When your selection is ready zoom out and hit ctrl+alt+D, this will open the Feather Selection dialogue box, and choose to feather this by 1 pixel. This way you will avoid the rough edges on your selection.

In order to whiten the teeth select the Curves Adjustment Layer, on the diagram that will open put your pointer in the middle and the input about 135 and the output to 132. So using the laso, then feathering the selection and using the curves adjustment layer is a quick way to whiten the teeth on the models of your images.

Also, check out how to make digital cosmetic surgery. Remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

What you need to begin with is a picture, once you open your picture onto Photoshop you will need to take its outline like in the example below.

Next you need to start working on the colouring. Its best to choose the colour of the skin as it is a solid colour to begin with.

The way you work with the colours is one layer and one colour at a time, you can see at the picture below how the colours are applied into layers, with the skin colour being the basis for the rest that will follow.

Once you finish off with the colours the most important part of the process begins that gives your picture the cutting edge, which is shading.

Again the skin is the part you want to start first as it is rather easy to shadow and highlight and works as a basis for the shadows and highlights that will follow.

After you are done with the skin effects the clothing is what you want to focus on as it is more painstaking as you want to give it a natural flow and foldings. Once done its time for the accessories and other details of your image and lastly for the hair.

The hair is in reality the most time consuming part of using the vexel process as it takes several strands and highlights to represent correctly reflected light. Finally give your image a matching background that will compliment it and you are done!