Creating a huge celestial body seems like a daunting task, but it’s actually very easy if you use the right texture. A few layer styles and the Spherize distortion filter are the main ingredients which make for a realistic planet.


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This workshop will show you what power smart filters possess. Here you’ll conjure up a stone texture from nothing – or rather from a transparent layer – with a combination of filters. Combined with a few adjustment layers you’ll give the structure a fitting color and more contrast.


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Since CS4 it’s possible to extend Photoshop with so called panels. Panels are palettes that you can easily create yourself. Based on Flash, they give you numerous options that go far beyond actions and even scripts, such as sending email directly from Photoshop, blog infos, watermark, lorem ipsum, or grid generators.


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If you’re somebody who doesn’t look up to the night sky very often, then you can also create stars, gas clouds and the bright band of the Milky Way in Photoshop, using nothing but a few filter combinations.


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The internet holds numerous articles and workshops about optimizing and restoring old photographic material. But it is far more exciting and creative to turn fresh photos from your digital camera into old and aged pictures. A little noise and coloration are not enough, though. You will also need some vignetting, scratches and a realistic base.


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