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How To Make Plastic Style With Photoshop
 

This tutorial is simple and wont take you much time to learn

Start up your Photoshop then open new file I will use again the same dimension 460 px by 260 px then add new layer name it (background) Using the color blue to fill in, the blue color is :#0a236b

Then we add new Layer to write our text, here I made two layers for the texts, so the first layer will be the word Plastic choosing light blue (# 696ce8) and then using the effects of ( Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow,Bevel and Emboss, Gradient and Stork).

The next layer for our text will be…

What is Layer Mask?
 

To understand Layer Mask it’s simple. The Layer Mask controls a layer level of transparency. We know Photoshop has a special Opacity option on top of the Layer Panel, but the difference here is if we used the opacity option (the icon on top of the layer panel) it will affect the whole layer not like if we used the layer mask, it will allow us to change the opacity of a layer to a certain part.

For example I will be using two images here to show how we can use the Layer Mask.

So I start by…

What is Layer Panel
 

When we launch Photoshop the Layer Panel automatically open because it is the most commonly used panel in Photoshop.

Layer Panel is like working shop, there you can adjust layers, add Mask Layers or delete, Hide or change Layers blend mood, even you can group layers or shift or move up or down according on how your image you want to be displayed.

So as soon as we open an image we can see in the layer panel a one row layer under the name of Background Layer and here we can see few things.

First on your left side…

While searching for a Photoshop Tutorials.. I landed on site which made everything so easy.. Here I would like to do some tutorials according to that. I hope to all of my subscribers to find some great tips or help..

To Understand Photoshop it’s easy. First you need to understand the basic and here will talk about Layers. Layers are almost the heart of Photoshop as we know, you can name layers or rename them, move layers, adjust layers or even mask layers and so on. Without layers we only end up in having a flat image with no control or…

Gradient Neutral Density Filter
How many times we grab our camera and run to take a picture or sometimes going for a trip and forget some important things such as camera filters. Well here comes Photoshop.

For Outdoor Photography we need special filter called Neutral Density Filter and without it our picture will have high exposure, this filter will stops or control the light that reach camera sensor.

So if you’ve been in this situation you can fix it with Photoshop.

When you open your image in Photoshop, Add new Layer and then Select the gradient tool making sure the color set to black,…