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Step 1 First create a new .PSD document, 600 x 400 pixels in RGB mode, 72 DPI with any background color. Now prepare your assets. Install the Xenippa font onto your computer and open both .PAT files. If you do not know how to install a PAT file onto your computer, take a look at this tutorial explaining the preset manager. Step 2 Go to Menu > Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and use the settings below. You can also access Blending Options by double clicking on the layer in your layers menu. The other way is to right click on the layer in your layers menu and choose Blending Options. When you are done with all the settings below, don’t forget to hit "OK" in the Blending Options window. Step 3 Now we can start applying our text effect. First choose the type tool and change font to Xenippa, size 250 pt and anti-aliasing, Sharp. Now type your text somewhere in the center of the image. You can write any word, but in this tutorial I’ll us...

This tutorial will show how to create pebbles covering with grasses from scratch in Photoshop. You shall display your own creativity on what things should be placed on them to form your own ecological wallpaper! Preview of Final Image The texts and images are copyrighted to 10Steps.SG and their respective owners. You  CANNOT copy the whole tutorial, either in English or translate to another language. Create a document with size 1200×800 pixels. Fill the background with a linear top-down gradient with color from #CCCCCC to #FFFFFF. Select the Pen tool, set it to Shape Layers mode at the top menu and draw a simple shape for the pebble that you want it to be. You can fill the shape with any color for now. Repeat the same process for more pebbles. The placings is all up to your creativity. There is no rules on how to do this step. Now find a Sand Texture to your personal liking, otherwise you can download the one I used here from Texturise.com...

My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, how to keep critical text layers editable for any future change and how to render a quick mockup using the Vanishing Point filter. Let’s get it started!     Step 1 – Setting up the document This time we will create a photo manipulation inspired from the classic poem of Edgar Allan Poe, " The Raven ". This should not be interpreted as a graphical representation of the poem, just a twisted adaptation depicting the loneliness of the man who lost his beloved Lenore. Imagine this as an audio book project, or a rock band album cover. Start creating the document; a standard CD cover is 4.75 x 4.75 inches. So cre...