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Building a Bridge Over Water

Filed under: Photo Effects — Fiery Darts @ 2:43 pm

Building a Bridge Over Water

Start by opening an image with lake or river on which you want to build a bridge.

Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Create duplicates of this layer and place below each other.
Merge all wood layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get a shape like this.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Similarly create other series of wooden stripes. Place horizontally.
Merge these layers. Scale it down horizontally.
Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust the nodes to get a shape like this.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Duplicate the layer and place on the other side of the bridge.

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BLUE ICE Text Effect

Filed under: Text Effects — Fiery Darts @ 7:24 pm

BLUE ICE Text Effect
Start by typing "BLUE ICE" in a new file.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
From layer menu select layer style>>create layers.
Select all the text layers and press Ctrl+E to merge. From filter menu select artistic>>plastic wrap. Apply settings as shown.
Press Ctrl+F to apply the effect again.
Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Apply settings as shown.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Duplicate the layer and change the layer mode to color dodge.

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Innovative Navigation Header

Filed under: Web Graphics — Fiery Darts @ 10:02 am

Innovative Navigation Header
Start by opening an image of hand. You can even take a digital photo of your hand too. Create a cutout using any of your fav cutout methods.
Create a new layer below hand layer. Create a circle using elliptical shape tool.
Duplicate the circle layer and scale up the layer below. Fill with a different color.
Repeat the steps and fill the circles with different shades of almost same color.
Select hand layer. From image menu select adjustment>> threshold. Enter settings as shown.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.
Select text tool and click on the second most outer circle. Type the button links on this circular path.
In character window increase baseline shift so that text moves a bit up from the circle edges.
Using custom shape tool (U), create a shape Tile 3 in a new layer.
Duplicate and rotate 45°.
Repeat the steps to complete the shape below.
Merge all layers and change layer mode of merged layer to overlay.
From filter menu apply blur>>radial blur and adjust settings as shown.
Insert company logo and place on the palm area.
From filter menu apply render>>lighting effects and adjust settings as shown.

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