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Tutorial: How to add that glow on your button with various technique

1. Fire up your photoshop and open up a workspace of the size 150, 65 with background transparent and draw a rounded rectangle as shown below.

2. Most of the technique to create a glow is to add a layer on top of the picture and gradient it with white and reduce its opacity. i will show two technique to do this. After we created the workspace as shown above, do a selection on the existing layer by clicking 'Ctrl+Click' on the layer. (selection means to select the layer) and click Select->Modify->Contract to reduce the size by 5px as illustrate below,

The red box indicate selection.

4. Now, create a new layer and paint it white using 'Paint Bucket Tool'.

3. Now, on the new layer, look for the 'Add a layer style' icon and click on Gradient overlay and adjust the setting as shown below.

4. Next, we set the opacity to 60% on the Layer Palette and use our pen tools technique to remove the background on the lower part of the layer.

5. This way you get your top glow with some curve style.

6. With some style apply on the original layer, you can get a button such as the one shown below,

So this is the first technique use to add glow on your button the next one is shown below,

2. After you have done point 1., create a new layer and draw another white box on top of the rounded triangle. Look for the 'Add a style layer' icon and click on 'Gradient Overlay' and follow the setting below,

play with the gradient bar if you want to create different effects.

3. In blending option apply the setting as shown below,

4. You will have something like this,

5. if you style it a bit, it will produce something like this

6. And so on~

I'm really only demonstrating the various way of adding glow to your button and if you notice, only the methods used are different but the same thing apply on the image(white opacity object). Once you learn some of these tricks, you can create any kind of button you desire.

Tutorial: How to produce a new effect

1. Fire up your photoshop and open up an image!

2. duplicate a layer and go to Image > Adjustment > Desaturate.

3. Duplicate another layer on the Saturated image go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. Set the master saturation to -100.

4. Now go to your original background image and go to Filter > Artistic > Colored Pencil. Adjust the setting to your liking.

5. Next, select 'Background copy 2' in your layer palette. Then, go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Dark Strokes and adjust the setting to your liking.

6. We will now adjust the property settings of our layers.

7. Notice that in every steps there is always a chance that we can stop as the effect maybe desirable for you. The purpose of showing it all the way till here is to show that the combination of different effects will emerge another greater effect. Good luck!

Tutorial: How to change your scenery image to hand sketch

1. Fire up your photoshop and open up an image that you would like to edit.

2. duplicate a layer from the Layer Palette and press (Ctrl+Shift+U) to turn the layer into black and white.

3. Select Filter > Sharpen->Sharpen More or any option you deem fit your liking.

4. Click Filter > Other > High Pass and adjust the radius to your liking. Please take note that there should be a balance between white and gray in the radius you choose and it will affect the end result.

5. Click Filter > Sketch > Graphic Pen and adjust the stroke length and Light/Dark Balance. You can also select the stroke direction of the sketch.

6. This is what you will get.

Tutorial: How to remove background image using pen tool

I found out that using a pen tool to remove a simple drawing is the best and fastest way of achieving this goal.

1. Fire up your photoshop and open an image as shown below.

2. Use the Pen tool and highlight the area you wish to extract and on the Layer Palette click on the Paths section and click on 'Load path as a selection'.

3. press Q to verify whether there is any problem with the image you have highlighted.

4. If there is no much problem, click Select->Inverse duplicate another layer. This will select all other image other than the one you have highlighted. P.S: The work path on the Path section must be clicked and the dotted line must be shown before inverse can be click.

5. Once a duplicate has been created, press Ctrl+X or delete button on the keyboard.

Tutorial: How to chop and slice a image into multiple pieces

Using a slice tool it is really easy to slice off a image to mutiply pieces. RAWR!

1. Fire up your photoshop and draw a rounded rectangle with the Shape Tool.

2. Use the Slice Tool and start cutting the pieces you want. (i removed the background here you can don't do that if it is just chopping image that you want to learn here)

3. Click File->Save For Web & Devices.. and click 'Save' and remember to save in .gif format and not HTML format as shown below.