Photoshop Zone

One of the things I’ve seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me think about magic. Today I’ll show you how you can create a magical rainbow color flame. OK, maybe I’m using too many words in a row here, but it’s the best I can do to describe this. I should tell you upfront that for this tutorial basic knowledge of Photoshop is needed. Draw smoky lines First we start with the creation of the smoky lines by using the Pen tool . Use a white fill for each shape layer and an Opacity of 40% . Set the Layer mode of the layer to Overlay and the Fill to 0% . Double click on the right on one of the layers to open the Layer Styles . Add a white Drop Shadow of 100% Opacity and set the Blend Mode to Overlay . Distance and Spread is set to 0 and Size to 11 . Next, make sure to uncheck Layer Knocks Out Shadow . Now ch...

Photoshop brushes provide a quick and easy way to add a handmade look to your designs.Some of the most popular brushes are watercolors, acrylics, and other types of paint. Transforming traditional art media into a digital form allows us to give our work a welcoming personal touch. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use different Photoshop brushes to create a watercolor text effect . Let's get started. What We Will Be Making Step 1 Create a new document with dimensions of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Unlock the background layer and fill it with white, then apply the following Layer Style settings. We used this seamless natural paper pattern for the Pattern Overlay. This gives us a nice paper surface to paint on. Step 2 Optionally, you can copy and paste a more patterned texture into your document. We used our Striped Paper Texture 11 with the Blend Mode set to Overlay, and the Opacity set to 50%. You should end up with something similar to the i...