Ar Arrow Camera Digital Photo & Imaging Center


Tips are from www.wacom.com
Layer mask and Pressure sensitivity Erase to saved.
Layer mask and Rubber Stamp tool Improve your digital photos.
Combining Painter and Photoshop. Photoshop's adjustment layers.
Pressure-sensitive smudge tool. Paint realistic snow.
Zig-zag filter and smudge. Create the look of painting with light.
Paint with the Art History brush. Painting with the History brush.
Remove red eye from a photo. Clean up an image
Improve old photos. Turn a photo into coloring book art
Halloween Magic Layer mask magic
Photoshop Santa Water Motion
Liquify with Photoshop 6 Big Fish Magic
Turn a photo into a painting. Create cool edges.
Make a chalk drawing come to life. Colorize black and white photos.
Cut, paste, and cast shadows. Create a cast shadow
The Gaussian blur and the history brush Turn Beer into Broccoli
Put a logo on a shirt Take someone from one photo and add them to another
Tips are from www.photouser.com We are a NAPP Member and have permission to copy the tutorials
Type Effect
Multicolored Type Glow
Create multicolored glows on type that radiates from the middle.
Glitter sans Glue
Create glitter filled text without cracking open the Elmer's Glue.
Type on Fire
A new twist on setting your type ablaze.
Gold Frame Text
An easy way to create hollow frame gold text using Photoshop 5's layer effects.
Chrome Text
An easy way to create a chrome effect to fancy-up your type.
Cloudy Frosted Text
Easy method of creating colorful, texture filled text.
Circular Text
Cool way to make your text curve around like in Illustrator.
Type on a Circle
Creating the effect of type on a path, using type layers that can still be edited.
Electro-static text
Add some shocking blue static around your text.
Speed Type
Give your type a nice feeling of speed.
Wobbly Text
Looks great at higher resolutions, works with tiny designs too.
Reflections with displace filter
Chrome, glass, water; all truly shiny things will show some reflection.
Transparent Embossed Type
Create transparent embossed type with an outside gradient pattern or stoke
color.
Chrome Text Effect
An easy way to make a cool chrome-like text effect using the glass filter.
3-D Text
How to make 3D text in a couple of simple steps
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Beauty Retouching
PHOTOSHOP BASICS
Adding a stroke
How to add a stroke to any object.
Perfect Slice of Pie
Create and fill a perfectly sized pie-shaped selection from a circle.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
TV Scan Lines Effect
Ceate those scan lines that show up everywhere.
Multi-Layered Rings
Cool 3-D ring effect.
Plastic Wrap Lens Flare
Make a lens flare effect without using the Lens flare filter.
Surrounding Halo
Create a misty image of a halo around a globe or over an angel's head.
3D Ring
A quick way to make a 3D- looking ring.
Moving Spotlight
Use lighting effects in PhotoShop to create an animated GIF with a spotlight.
Pixelate Frame
This is Special Effect on photos, it's really nice and easy.
Solar Eclipse
Create an eclipse image - not as amazing as the real thing, but as close.
Paint Smear
Creates a curved paint smear from a brush with too little paint in the bristles.
Built-in Scan Lines
An easy way to create TV Scan Lines you see all over the graphics world.
Blind Emboss Text
This method allows you to edit the typeface as well as the emboss effects.
Snow
Create a quick and easy snow effect.
Water Splashes
Ever wondered how they get those drops of water to look so realistic?
Glossy Surface
Good effect for anything you want to give a glossy shine to.
Dual Colored Bevel
Create a "Dual Light" Bevel. Great for just plain colored logos.
Gold - Do It In Style
Use this style effect on any text or object and turn it into gold.
Electrify Images
Electrify your images with lightning in Photoshop.
Explosions
A movie type explosion, complete with flying sparks!
Smoke Thrills
We know that Photoshop rocks but does it smoke too?
Liquify Animation
Create an animated GIF using the liquify command
VW Logo
Created from looking at the Volkswagon Logo.
Explosion in Space
Very easy way to make an "explosion in space".
Santa Tree Ornament
Create Christmas tree ornaments quickly and easily.
Scanfade
Create faded scanline effects.
WEB GRAPHICS
Instant Web Button
How to use Radial gradient to create instant Web buttons.
Clear Plastic Buttons
Create a clear plastic look for buttons.
Basic Web Border
A basic way to do a basic border, basically.
Background Transparency using Save for Web
Create background transparency using PS 5.5 Save for Web.
Pill Shaped Button
An easy way to do a little better than basic button.
Background Transparency using Channels
Creating background transparency using channels.
Rubber 3-D Button
Create a 3-D button with soft rubbery edges.
Easy Folder Tabs
Easy way to create folder tabs to use as webpage navigation.
Animated Flag
Create an animated flag waving in the breeze.
INTERFACE TUTORIALS
Steel Bars
How to create steel bars or weathered steel pipe for your interface.
Inset Lines
How to create those lines that look inset into an interface.
Interface Tubes
Build tubes that can be resampled and transformed.
EZ Interface Panels
Create a 3-d interface "switchplate" using only layer styles.
TEXTURES
Brushed Metal
A quick tutorial on how to create that brushed metal look.
Gold Texture
How to create a gold texture.
Tie-Dye
An easy way to create the Tie-dye look for use as a background texture.
Tortoise
Create a tortoise shell plastic that's used on sunglasses and picture frames.
Watercolor Paper Edges
Creating artist watercolor paper as a backing/border for paintings.
Liquid Plutonium Whirlpool
Create a pool of liquid metal.
Kaliedoscopic Web
Make a kaliedoscope pattern that can also be used as a tile.
Kaliedoscope
Create a kaleidoscope image from any image file.
Animal Fur
Create a realistic fur effect on your design.
Frost Texture
Create a frosty texture perfect for holiday cards
MISC. EFFECTS
Carved in effect
Make any image appeared sunken/carved into the background.
Colorize LineArt Images
Quick Techniques to Colorize Black and White LineArt Images.
Lightning Storm
A real easy way to create a god-like lightning storm.
Easy Round Corners
Easily make round corners on a rectangular selection or make a pill button.
Moon
Do you like to look at the sky? Did you ever wanted to draw the moon?
Flash Animation
Manipulate Photoshop Curves and Levels to create animation frames for Macromedia Flash.
Easy Rounded Corners
Create rounded corners—a first step in building web interfaces.
Eliminating Red Eye in Photos
How to use channels to eliminate red eye from digital photographs.
Dodging and Burning
Use Overlay Mode to create layers too dodge and burn images.
Build a Mask Using Exisiting Channels
An easy process that produces very good results.
Carved Picture Frame
Lighting Effects Applied to a Channel to create a Carved picture frame.
Adjustable Over-Exposure
Quick, easily adjustable way to increase exposure in images.
Add Image Depth and Color Enhancement
Add Image Depth and Color Enhancement by Swapping Color Tables
Selective Duotone in DCS2
Creating a four color effect using two spot colors in DCS2 format.
Image Color Swatch
Creating a color swatch from an image
Realistic Pencil Sketches
Create realistic pencil sketches from color photographs quick and easy.
Clipart
Add pizazz to black and white clipart images
Organizing Your Desktop
Create an original desktop picture with text to help neaten up your desktop.
Gradient Mapping An Image
Use a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer to add color.
Add Dimension
Add dimension to your family photos.
Beauty Colorization