1. Make a new doccument, 500×500 pixels with a transparent background.

2. Fill it with a white background and make some black text. I chose glossy, 100pt with Impact font.

3. Apply these settings:

1. Here is my image. I want use it for a wallpaper I’m creating but you can see the harsh jagged edges of the cactus. This wont look good at all in the final outcome. Lets fix it up a bit.

2. I just pasted this image on a new layer and named it cactus like so.

3. To select every black pixel, go to select>color range and click any area within the cactus.

4. Click OK and here is what your selection should look like.

This tutorial uses a nifty looking wood texture as the background area to represent a desk. Click here to create the same wood texture.

1. To start this tutorial, create a new layer (ALT+SHIFT+N) begin with a square-like shape and fill it with color #e0cd73. You can use the rectangular marquee tool (M) to create the square-like shape.

2. Go to filter>noise>add noise and use these values.

3. Here is what you should have.

4. On this layer go to blending options and add a default black/white gradient with these settings.

5. This is close to what you should have.

6. Now go back into the blending options and add a bevel & emboss with these settings.

7. Here is what you should have.

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1. Begin with a document with any size, I chose 800×600. Fill the background color with #9b6808.

2. Go to filter>noise>add noise. Choose a value of around 5% with these options sent.

3. This is what you should have. If you are trying to get a cherry wood texture or another kind you may go to image>adjustments>hue/saturation.

4. Go into blending options for this layer and add a gradient overlay.

5. This is what you should have.

1. Begin by selecting a single photograph or creating a collage using the layer mask blending method. If you are unfamiliar with this you can read how to easily blend 2 images together. Here is a quick arrangement of photos I found. Notice how the different picture edges aren’t aligned or clean, this is perfectly fine.

2. Minimize that document, and create a new document 60×60 pixels. Select transparent background. This will be your mosaic pattern. Next, zoom in and take out your pencil brush tool (B) and select a size of 1 or 2 pixels. Draw in a vertical line 2 pixels wide along the left side of the box and a horizontal 2 pixel tall line along the top of the box. You can hold down shift while doing this to make the drawing line constrain to a linear path. You can use any color (I chose white).

3. Go to edit>define pattern and give it a descriptive name. You can now close this without saving. If you think you may want to change the color or other aspects later down the road you can save it.

4. Now go back to your original document and create a new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N) on top of every other layer like shown. You can call it ‘pattern’. Take out your paint bucket tool (G) and select ‘pattern’ from the fill mode drop box on the top settings bar. Now click (paint in) anywhere in your document.

1. For our example I’m going to create a rounded edge box with text inside. This tutorial is design for a white background (but don’t worry – I will explain later how to do it without a white background). On a new layer begin by using the rounded rectangle tool with the ‘fill’ option selected with any color you like. If you use the ‘paths’ option right click it like shown and go to make selection.

2. Once your shape is filled with a color, make sure it is still selected (so it has the marquee selection like shown) and go to select>modify>contract. And use a value of around 6 pixels.

3. Once the selection is contracted, hit the ‘delete’ key on your keyboard to delete the contracted selection.

1. Begin by setting your foreground color to #0e43b1 and background color to #0a7310. Go to filter>render>clouds.

2. Next go to filter>sketch>note paper. Use these settings. Keep in mind to get the effect which you can see in the next step, the the image balance settings will have a very fine line in which it needs to be set at. In other words, a value of 13 may be too little and a value of 15 may be too much. I found 14 to be perfect.

3. This is what you need to get.

4. Next go to select>color range, use these settings, and select anywhere in the middle of any green part of your document. For the color range preview, white will represent the ‘water’ and black will represent the ‘land’. When you select OK, all your ‘land’ will be selected with a marquee selection.

5. With the selection still active, go to filter>artistic>sponge and use these settings.

6. This is what you should have.

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1. Begin with a unique font that will look good with the ‘liquid metal’ effect. I chose Channel Tuning, get it at the Nifty Tutorials Resource page.

2. I chose to increase the spacing between letters in order to give the final product a better look. You can access this text settings box by highlighting your text and hitting CTRL+T.

3. Next go into the blending options for the text and apply the following styles.
Bevel & emboss:

4. Stroke:

5. Stroke gradient color settings:

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1. Begin with a document around 800×600 pixels. Fill the background with a medium gray and then create a new layer. Using the rectangular marquee tool (M) draw a selection about 500×325 pixels. You can use the fixed size style which is located on the top nav settings bar. Fill in your selection with black. Don’t deselect yet.

2. With the selection still active, create a new layer and fill the same selection with white.

3. Next go to select>modify>contract and use a value of 5 pixels. Hit OK then hit delete on your keyboard. Don’t not deselect yet.

4. This is what you should have.

5. With the contracted selection still active, choose the rectangular marquee tool (M) and use the ‘intersect with selection’ option as shown.

6. Draw over your selection where you want the white bar to appear. Try to get it to be close to the height it needs to be.

7. This is what you should have when you let go of your mouse button. Fill it with white. Make sure this is on the layer with the white border.

1. Begin by creating a new document at 40×40 pixels. Make it transparent.

2. Go to edit>preferences>guides, grids & slices. Use these settings:

3. Here is what you should see when zoomed in.

4. Next set your colors to #bababa and #767676 and use the pencil brush tool (B) with any small size, we are just sketching in a rough outline of the diagonal pattern.