In this Photoshop tutorial, we look at the Background Eraser Tool and how we can use it to easily remove background areas of an image. The Background Eraser is especially useful with photos that contain lots of fine detail along the edges between the foreground and background, like, for example, if you want to erase the sky in an image without first having to select all of the trees below it.


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In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily add realistic looking water ripples to an image! Photoshop ships with a filter designed specifically for creating a water ripple effect, but you'd never know it from the filter's name (no, it's not Ripple or Ocean Ripple, that would be too easy). The filter we'll be using does a decent job on its own, but as we'll see in this tutorial, by running the filter twice, using different settings each time, then combining the results, we can create a more realistic water ripple effect.


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Flip, rotate and mirror designs and patterns in Photoshop.


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In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to create a mirror image effect with a photo, turning the right half of the image into a mirror reflection of the left half. You've probably seen this effect used everywhere, especially in movie posters or album covers, and as with many of Photoshop's classic and most popular photo effects, it's very easy to create.


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In this tutorial, we'll learn how easy it is to make our own custom Photoshop brushes! Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes for us to use, but it's way more fun and interesting to create our own, especially after Adobe completely revamped the brush engine in Photoshop 7, adding unprecedented painting ability to what was already the world's most powerful image editor.


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In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily add a rainbow, and even a double rainbow, to a photo! As we'll see, Photoshop ships with a ready-made rainbow gradient for us to use. We'll learn where to find it and how to load it in. We'll also learn how to flip the order of the colors in a gradient, which we'll need to do to create a more realistic double rainbow effect. Of course, as with most photo effects, it helps if you start with the right type of image. In this case, a photo taken outdoors is a good place to start. If it happens to be a landscape photo taken after a rain storm, even better! We'll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout this tutorial but any recent version will work.


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In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to recreate the same color and motion blur effect used in the movie poster for the biggest action movie of the 2007 summer, the Bourne Ultimatum. We'll be using Photoshop's Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to colorize the image using a color I've sampled directly from the poster itself. To create the motion blur, we'll be using Photoshop's classic Motion Blur filter, and we'll be finishing off the effect with a couple of layer masks to bring back just a hint of the flesh tones from the original image, as well as to remove the blur effect from the main subject. To complete this Photoshop tutorial, you'll need a photo of Matt Damon walking towards you looking a little upset about something and carrying a gun. If you don't happen to have a photo like that (and hopefully you don't), any photo of someone walking towards you on the street will do.


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Dancing In The Stars Photo Effect - To create this effect, you'll need a photo of two people dancing close together, preferably a bride and groom but it doesn't necessarily have to be. I'll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout the tutorial but any recent version will do.


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In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to use the Displace filter and a displacement map to add an interesting texture to a person's face in a photo. The displacement map will allow us to wrap the texture around the shape and contours of the face, rather than having it look like we simply pasted a flat texture on to the photo. Displacement maps were first introduced way back in Photoshop 2.0, so unless you're still using the same version of Photoshop you bought 20 years ago, you should be fine. We'll be using Photoshop CS4 throughout this tutorial, but any recent version will work.


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In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to create a simple three-image photo frame, and when we're done, we'll see how to easily convert the final result into a reusable template using Photoshop's Smart Objects!


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