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Find out how to create this elegant typography image with Photoshop! This tutorial will show you how to combine layer styles, Photoshop brushes, and stock photos to create this typography artwork.

Photoshop brushes are tools often underestimated. Download the set, load it and click over your canvas: this is the typical use of them. Today I want to show you some powerful features of brushes. We will start with a musical note shape to create a custom brush and deal with some options like shape dynamics and scattering. Preview: Click on the image for a larger preview: step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop – mine is an A4 document – and fill it with a dark blue (#0a3556) Step 2 Create a new layer, set white as foreground color, grab a large soft brush and start gently painting over the canvas. Create a few spots on different layers and reduce the opacity. Take in mind that these soft light effects, that now look flat and boring, will be made more vivid using adjustment layers. Why don’t we simply apply a gradient overlay to the background? By using a brush and clicking on different layers you have a better control on how the background wil...

10 Elegant Calligraphy Fonts for Photoshop Users. Calligraphy itself is an exquisite art that not everybody can master. Fortunately, we live in an era when calligraphic fonts are digitally available. Now this is a collection of some of the prettiest and most excellent calligraphy fonts that we have discovered on the web. In order to make use of them, you must follow the link provided and download the fonts onto your own PC. Chopin Script Font  Coneria Script font Aerolite Font Calligraphy Unicase font Brock Font Respective font Mardian Font Champignon Font Ink in the Meat Font Shit Happens Font Voila.

In this beginning-level design tutorial, I’ll show you how to apply a beautiful and super-easy text treatment in Photoshop: the inset text effect . It’s also often called the letterpress effect because it looks similar to text created by a Letterpress printer. Final Result Here’s a preview of what we’re about to create. Creating the Photoshop document 1 Let’s start with the basics: setting up the Photoshop document. Open up Photoshop and create a new document (Ctrl + N). We’ll start with a small canvas, a 550px by 550px document, but know that later on, you’ll be able to adjust the canvas size of your project. Styling the Background Layer 2 We’ll add a Gradient Overlay layer style onto the default Background layer. To do this, we need to make the layer editable. Double-click on the Background layer in the Layers Panel, which will result in opening the New Layer dialog box. Enter a Name for the layer (by default – it’s Layer 0); I’ve named min...