Bevel and emboss is where the REAL magic starts to happen when working with text. Out of all the effects in the fx dialogs this is without a doubt the most exciting. There are allot of aspects to this effect and I am going to only cover one. Countless tutorials could be discussed with this effect. So while experimenting with this effect you run across something you want help, with please bring it More...

Inner and outer glow effects are very similar to the shadow effects. That is to say the sliders react the same. The only difference is instead of a shadow effects you are working with a glow. More...

Here is part 2 of the text tool tutorials.Now for an assignment.... lets put these 2 styles to the test. Use only the 2 fx styles we have gone over and create something from them. Take a favorite text word(s) and use anything else you wish to in your arsenal of photoshop, ie. textures, photos ... what ever. Just tell us how you did it. Here is an example:All I did here was to use the liquify filte More...

In this lesson we will be looking at the effects ( fx) tools in photoshop in regards to type. This first lesson will begin with DROP SHADOW. There will be several lessons in this series as the fx tools are a very powerful and exciting tool. More...

I decided to share this with you although it is not exactly a texture tutorial. We all need to mark our work before we put it out on the web. I usually find this time consuming ,but with a brush stamp it it easy and fast. You make it one time and then just stamp it on the next time. Also I want people to learn how the brushes work as you do use them in texture making.Later I hope to be able t More...

Now that you have your banner completed it is a easy task to load it. Simply go to your profile page and in the Navigation bar hover and click on "Customize".This will open up a dialog box. Scroll down till you see this.Click on the upload box and a dialog box will appear below it.. Click the Browse Button and select where the banner photo was stored from the window...Once that is done don't forge More...

As Cyrus said this is an assignment to construct a banner. banners for Megashot are 1003 pixels wide to 100-500 pixels high. In my Banner I used 1003 by 500 pixel. So lets begin.Open a photo of your choice. Hint... for ease of this lesson choose one that will lend itself to a panoramic format.Once opened select your crop tool and crop the photo with the settings of 1003px by 100 to 500 More...

For Photoshop Lesson 1, please go HERE Hello everyone,In this lesson, we are going to cover Text Tools and make an introduction to Layers.We will be making a simple banner for our MegShot profile. In the next sections, we will be making slideshow banners, using layers.Please let us know that you are following up and ready to move on. To let us know that you are ready, please leave yo More...

For Part II of the introduction, please goHEREIn this lesson, we will open an image in Photoshop, crop and resize it for different purposes.There are plenty of good video tutorials on the net, so, I am not going to do yet another one, Instead, I will save time and efforts to be able to provide video responses to your questions, if need may be.So, please go over these assignments and prepare yourse More...

For Part I of the introduction, please goHEREIn the previous introduction section, we ended up with the following simplified look of Photoshop.In this section, we are going to further simplify Photoshop.As you can see, we have 11 tabs on the top:File Edit Image Layer Select Filter Analysis 3D View Windows HelpWe are not going to be using some of those tabs, not in this course anyway. So, More...

(You don't need to be registered to MegaShot to follow this course. But you need to be register and join this Photoshop Community, if you like to interact, do the assignments, ask questions and get answers. To register to MegaShot, Please go HEREand create a free accountAfter registration, to join this community, please go HERE.On the top center, right below the word "Photoshop", you see the link More...

My first attempt at publishing. Be patient and I hope I don't break anything.#1 #2I have been following the discussion in Photoshop group about sharpening. An endless source of confusion for me. Stephen,( Claypaws )and Cyrus are discussing the many ways to do it.What I do find out that in PS there are often many ways to do the same thing and we must find the things that work for us. So I decided I More...

If you are new to this community, for further info, please go HERE, Hello folks,I have been sharpening my images with a rather different approach. I have realized long ago that questions such as "what USM settings is best", is totally meaningless. I also use the concept of sharpening slightly differently. I dont believe you necessarily need to sharpen an image, or whole image, but rather give t More...

(for basic info about this course, or, if you are not registered to Megashot, please go HERE Hello everyone,Welcome to our classes and hopefully we will learn together.Our first lesson is going to be about :1_opening a file in Photoshop2_resizing file2_cropping to dimensions we wantthis is how the classes will be conducted ::1_We will post a video and maybe the text version too.2_You will follo More...

To participate in this course, you must be registered to megashot.net. If you are not Registered please use this linkHERE, to register. After registration, please join this Community,HERE. You will see the link "Join this Community" in the top center of the page.Critique Forum has been a real success. In less than 4 months, we have had over 10,000 critiques and critique requests. Thanks to many More...