Ever wanted to do abstract art? Well with computers it can be quite simple. Start by creating a new file with black as background color. Select gradient tool. Select radial mode as gradient style. Create a new layer and apply the gradient. Apply another gradient several times as shown below. Change the layer mode to "Color Dodge". Repeat the above steps again to create more disco loops. Create duplicate of both disco layers and merge the duplicate layers. From "Filter" menu select "Distort>>Wave". Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Change the layer mode to "Screen". There you have it creating disco balls with photoshop.

Okay, start out with a picture of a speaker. Now, select the base speaker on the bottom. Now, while you have that selected press Ctrl-c and make a new layer above that then press Ctrl-f and you will have your selection on a new layer, now you need to duplicate that layer two times by pressing Ctrl-j two times, once you have done that select your first duplicated layer (the one right above your original) and name that one Side, do the same for the one above it except name that one Up.Now select the Side layer and apply Filter> Blur> Motion blur and these settings Angle: 0 Distance: 15px Do the same for the Up layer except apply these settings Angle: 90 Distance 15px Now, to switch to imageready you will need push this button at the bottom of this panel in photoshop. Now, in imageready we will open up the animation panel, to do that you need to go into Window> Animation, the animation panel will now be shown. Okay, in the animation panel select the first frame, and at the bottom of the thumbnail you will see a thing like this 0 sec. then a little black arrow pointing down, click once one the 0 sec. dropdown menu, then you will see some stuff like: No delay, o.1, o.2 etc. Select the 0.1 seconds button. Now, in the animation panel push the new frame button, it looks just like the button in your layer panel. You will see it has copied the first frame, now select the second frame and change the speed to: 0.2After you have done that (make sure your on the second frame in the animation panel) hide layer: base speaker and show layers: up and side. Now, hit play on the animation panel to watch your animation.

With photoshop we can reduce the weight of the PDS up to 75%. This is something to think about, if we can reduce so much the information in a PSD it would be because this format is not very optimized, right?. Most people think that's why there are files with compression, TIFF or JPG but they agree that keeping the original files in PSD format is much more comfortable than working with TIFF (i don't think we need to compare it with JPG). Well, how can we do this? Something as simple as hiding the layers before saving the file, if after that you compress it with Winrar or Winzip you will save a lot more. Here you have the information of the experiment: Normal PSD: 49,2 MB PSD saved with the hidden layers: 38,9 MB PSD saved with the hidden layers and zipped: 11,5 MB The new version of Photoshop CS3 is out and we still have the same problem we will have to wait a little more. Now, if you have to send a PSD via ftp or email you have no choice than doing this.

When using your brushes it is essential to organize your them: The Preset Manager: Go the brushes palette on the left and click on the tab that says brushes. Click the small black arrow that appear when you click the brushes tab. A menu will appear with the option "preset manager". Or go to "edit" > preset manager. When you click that option the preset manager will appear. Here you can organize your brushes. You can load several sets into the pallet, rename the brushes to something you will easily remember and create your own sets of various brushes. You can also delete brushes. Not only can you organize your brushes in the preset manager but also your swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours, custom shapes and tools.

Sometimes you wanted that cool yellow moon effect, well its easy enough to turn a full moon into a harvest moon. Open an image of a normal looking moon in Photoshop.Select the Eliptical Marquee tool. Create a perfect circle around the moon. Goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This will turn the moon to black and white. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the Yellow slider to the left to give the moon a yellowish color. Click OK. Create a new layer. Make sure the circle selection is still there. Use the Paint Bucket tool and fill the circle selection with a bright yellow. Change the layer mode for the yellow circle layer to "Multiply". Right click the Yellow Circle layer from the layers palette. Choose "Blending Options" from the pop-up list. Set the properties for "Outer Glow". Click OK and you should now have your Harvest Moon.

Something fun to do is create a 3D comment.Let's start by creating a new 300200 document in Photoshop.Take out your Paint Bucket Tool (G) and paint the background a dark deviant green color. I used #37433A for my background. Switch over to the Custom Shape Tool (U). Select this quote shape from the huge custom shape dropdown. Once you have it selected, plug in these custom shape settings into your document. Now change your foreground color to a gray, and click anywhere on your document to add the shape. Go to Edit -> Transform -> Perspective and give the shape an angle. This is achieved by clicking the top-left point and dragging it directly down a little bit. We don't want to overdo the perspective, so drag it only a short distance. Duplicate the custom shape's layer. Once you've duplicated it, we want to select the bottom shape layer. Hold down shift on your keyboard, and hit the right arrow once. Next we want to let go of shift, and just punch the up arrow 2-3 times. This will position the bottom shape to the right and above the top shape. Change the bottom layer's blending mode from Normal to Hard Light. Right click on the top shape layer and select Blending Options. Now give the shape a gradient overlay to add depth to the shape and make it come out more. Now we need to add some text to the document. Take out the Horizontal Type Tool (T). With a round 36px font selected, type out comment in your document. Be sure to set anti-aliasing so the text doesn't look all jaggy and ugly! Firstly, we need to rasterize the text layer. Once you've done that, you'll need to repeat the Perspective transformation that we used on the shape itself. We're aiming to match the angle the shape has already, so try to get it as close as possible! Duplicate the text layer. Select the bottom of the two text layers. Now hit right and down on your keyboard 2 times each. This will position them 2px down and to the right from the upper text layer. Change the font color of the bottom text layer from black to the background's color. Again, I used #37433A in my example. There you have it, a sweet 3D Comment Icon.

Ever wondered how to create an oil painting effect to a picture, well heres how: Click on Filter > Distort > Glass and apply the following settings to your photograph. Distortion -- 2 Smoothness -- 5 Texture -- Canvas Scaling: -- 75% Next, click on Filter > Artistic > Paint Daubs and apply the following settings to your photograph. Brush Size -- 2 Sharpness -- 4 Brush Type -- Simple Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes and apply the following settings to your photograph. Direction Balance -- 18 Stroke Length -- 4 Sharpness -- 2 In this last step, you want to click on Filter > Texture > Texturizer and apply the following settings to your photograph. This creates the appearance that your painting was done on canvas. To do this, we're going to go: Texture -- Canvas Scaling -- 65% Relief -- 6 Light Direction -- Top Right. Since every photograph is different, you can slightly tweak the Photoshop filter settings above to suit your photograph or taste.

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