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• Open an image on your canvas by clicking on File>Open, select the image you want to open and click on 'Open'.
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  Click on Filter>Render>Lighting Effects . The Lighting Effects window opens, change only the Light type to 'Omni' let the other settings be the default. If you wish to, try changing the default values and check out the result effect.             

• Open an image which you want to disfigure.
• Select Filter>Liquify. The Liquify window opens, a circular cursor with a plus sign appears. Drag this tool on your image and play around till you are satisfied with what you've done to the image. Then click OK. 

• Open an image on your canvas by clicking on File>Open and select the image you want to open, then click 'Open'. The effect looks good only on bitmap images, but you can try it out on photos too. The effect varies for different images.
• Click on Filter>Texture>Stained Glass the Stained Glass window appears, give the following properties : Cell size - 5, Border Thickness - 1, Light Intensity - 0. Then click on OK. 

Give a ripple effect to an image using filters

• Open an image on your canvas.
• Click on Filter>Distort>Zigzag. The ZigZag window will open.
• Give the settings as follows : Amount - 6, Ridges - 14, Style - Pond Ripples and click OK. Here's your final image.

Introduction

Over the years as a graphic designer I’ve accumulated a wealth of custom brushes, shapes and actions that I keep carefully organized and labeled for future use. The brush set I’ll be sharing with you today has been in my collection for probably five of six years and every once in a while I’ll find a good reason to load it into my brushes palette. If you’ve never done that before, don’t worry, I’ll walk you through it as we go.
If you’re playing along at home you should download the brush set before we get started.

Step 1

Lets go ahead and begin by opening a new document in Photoshop. Mine is 540×300 pixels at 72ppi.
Since stitching on a plain white canvas is a little silly, lets go ahead and spice up the Background layer with a little texture. By default the Background layer in any new Photoshop document is locked, so lets go ahead and double-click on the Background layer in the Layers palette to bring up the Layer Properties dialog box. Simply rename the layer or name it Background once again and hit OK to unlock the layer.

Step 2

Now that our Background layer is unlocked we’re going to add a Pattern Overlay Layer Style to it which will give us a quick and easy denim background to work with.
Control-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the Background layer in the Layers palette and choose Blending Options from the menu. This will bring up the Layer Styles dialog box. Click on the Pattern Overlay text in the left column. (You must click on the text and not on the checkbox. Clicking the checkbox will turn the style ON but it won’t give you the options for the style, so it is important to click on the text so we can modify the Pattern Overlay style options.)
Next we need to load a new set of Patterns into the Pattern Picker. Click on the Pattern swatch to reveal the Pattern Picker, then click the little circle with the arrow in it at the top right corner of the picker. Choose "Patterns 2" from the list and click OK to load the new pattern set into the Pattern Picker. Now simply click on the Denim swatch which is the 4th pattern in the set and click OK to close the Layer Styles dialog box and commit the style to the layer.
Yes, I know, this graphic is a mess… but hopefully it gets the point across.

Step 3

You should now have a background full of denim and a layer style icon in the Background layer of the Layers palette.

Step 4

It’s now time to add some text to our document. Press the D key to reset the foreground color to black, then press the T key to invoke the Type tool. Click on the stage to place the cursor and type some text onto it. Notice that when you added the text that Photoshop automatically added a new layer for it.
(*note: To commit the text you can either press the Enter key on the 10-key corner of your standard keyboard or click the Check-Mark in the Text Tool options bar at the top of Photoshop.)

Step 5

Now that our text is created and while we still have the Type tool chosen we need to create an outline path of the letters. Control-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the text on the stage and choose Create Work Path from the menu. This will create a white outline around each letter indicating that you’ve created a work path (obviously) which we will

Step 6

Add a new layer above your text by clicking the Add New Layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette or by using the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-Shift-N (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N). Rename the layer by Double-Clicking on the layers name in the Layers palette. I called this new layer Stitches.

Step 7

Now it’s time to setup everything in preparation for the stitching, and the first thing we need to do is load the stitching brush set into our Brushes palette. If you haven’t downloaded them yet you’ll want to do it now by clicking HERE. Save the brush set to your desktop or someplace you’ll remember when we go looking for them.
Press the B key to invoke the Brush tool, then bring up the Brushes palette by choosing Window>Brushes from Photoshop’s main menu. In the upper right hand corner of the Brushes palette, click on the options icon and choose Load Brushes from the menu. Navigate to the brush stitches brush set that you just downloaded to your hard drive and click Load. You will then be asked if you want to Append the brushes to the end of your current brushes or if you want to replace the existing brushes by clicking OK. For my example I’m going to replace my existing brushes, but either option works fine.

Step 8

Now that the brush set has been loaded into the Brush Picker lets go ahead and select the V-shaped brush. We’ll need to make a few adjustments to the settings in the Brushes palette for this brush to make it work the way we want.
First off lets reduce the size of the brush to around 8 pixels in the Diameter setting then make sure the Spacing checkbox is checked and that the spacing is set to around 80%. The spacing change makes the V’s overlap enough to look like interlocking stitches.

Step 9

While still in the Brushes palette click down to the Shape Dynamics link on in the menu on the left and make sure that the Angle Jitter control is set to Direction. This will make the brush rotate as it goes around the corners to the different sides of our letters.

Step 10

At last it’s time to make the magic happen. Put on your wizard hat and swap the foreground and background colors by pressing the X key (white should now be showing as the foreground color at the bottom of the Tools palette). Press the P key to switch to the Pen tool and then Command-Click (PC: Right-Click) anywhere on that little white outline that is the Path around the text. Choose "Stroke Path" from the menu, make sure that "Brush" is selected from the drop-down menu and that the Simulate Pressure checkbox is un-checked then click OK.
You’ll now see that the brush we chose has been used to stroke the entire path of the text. Since we’re done with the path now you can either click over to the Paths tab in the Layers palette and delete it, or simply press Command-H (PC: Ctrl-H) to hid it.

Step 11

To make the stitches a little more realistic lets go ahead and add a few layer styles to the Stitches layer. Just like we did in Step #1 lets Command-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the Stitches layer and choose Blending Options. Now add a Drop Shadow and a Bevel and Emboss as shown below, be sure to check each setting to make sure you haven’t missed anything then click OK.
The slight Bevel and Emboss will add a little more dimension to the thread while the Drop Shadow will add a touch of shading around the edges.

Step 12

Before we move on let me show you a cool little trick to change the background color. Since the background is a preset color pattern and not an overlay we can’t just change an underlying layer color so we have to resort to other methods. Click on the Background layer in the Layers palette to make it the active working layer. Now lets add an adjustment layer by clicking on the Create A New Fill or Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette (it’s the circle with half black and half white), choose Hue/Saturation and use these settings (or any that look pretty to you).

Step 13

The last little bit of adjustment I did was to click over to the Text layer in the Layers palette and change it’s Blend Mode to Multiply and it’s Fill opacity to 70%. By doing this we allow a little of the denim texture to come through onto our black letters adding a little depth and realism.
(*note: You could also paste some real fabric into a layer above the Text layer and use a clipping mask to add even more coolness.)

Step 14

Anytime you’re using a text to create this effect you will always have an outline of the lettering, but what if you just want to stitch letters? Well, if you’ve got a little experience with the Pen tool you can apply this same technique to any number of paths you’ve drawn yourself.
Below I’ve used the pen tool to draw some text.

Step 15

Then I switched to the Brush tool, lowered the diameter of the brush to 6 pixels, switched back to the Pen tool and Stroked the path just like we did back in Step 10.
I then added the same Bevel & Emboss and Drop shadow to this new layer of stitches as we did to the original text.

Step 16

In my final image I simply embellished on the techniques we’ve learned. Check out the .PSD download to view all my final adjustments!

Let's try something new today (if you haven't tried this before). I'm going to call this photo effect, dotted pixelated pattern on your image. This might not be the right term (coz I don't really go to Photoshop school), but I hope you'll figure out right away what I'm talking about after looking at the preview picture below. This neat effect is fairly easy to achieve.

 

9. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Pattern. Select the Pattern we just created earlier.


10. Below is our Layer Palette. Lower the opacity of the Pattern Fill to 50%.


And here's the final result.

Using the basic from this tutorial, you can try to create different pixelated patterns. You can explore with t-shaped pattern or a circle or diagonal pattern. Below is an image created using the diagonal pattern.

On this tutorial we will learn how to create a James Bond movie Introduction Gun Barrel
1.Create a new document with 600px width and 400px height, and fill the background with white
2.On our next step we will create a circle at the center of the document, before we create the circle we will use a tools call guide.To do this, go to the “View” menu and click on “New guide” vertical guide at 300 pixels and a horizontal guide at 200 pixels.



3.Create a new layer rename it center, now using the Elliptical Marquee Tool draw a circle and fill the selection with any color

 4.Now create a new document with 700px width and 600px height and using the Elliptical Marquee Tool draw a circle and fill the selection with black.



Now lets delete half part of the black cirlce to do so select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select entire upper half of the black circle and press delete


Copy this layer and paste it on jamesbond.psd make sure you paste this layer just below the layer “center” rename this layer as blackwall.


5.Create a duplicate copy of this blackwall layer, press “Ctrl+T”. Now move the “pivot point” to the intersection point as show in the image below




6. and then set the transformation options and set the rotation value to 47




7. Ctrl + click” on the thumbnail of the “blackwall copy” layer in the layers palette and click on the original “blackwall” layer and hit the delete key.Now delete the blackwall copy layer.After you delete the blackwall copy layer you image will look like the one shown below




8. Repeat step 5 and 6 untill you get the image as show below



9. Now select all the blackwall layer and the blackwall layer copy and merge into a single layer, to do this just hit the CTRL+E
10. Now Ctrl + click” on the thumbnail of the blackwall layer and press “Shift + Ctrl + I” to invert the selection, copy and paste it.
11.Rename this new layer as background and fill this layer with grey color, deselect the selection.


12. Double click on the blackwall layer and set the layer style check the Gradient Overlay and set the gradient style to Radial, now click on the gradient editor and set the color to
dfdfdf to 0% location
4e4e4e to 35% location
000000 to 100% location when done click ok.
Right click on the “blackwall” layer and click on “Copy layer style”
Then right click on the “background” layer and click on “Paste layer style”


13. Double click on the “center” layer and in the “Layer Style” window click on “Color Overlay” and choose a color #ffffff. Click ok



this is what we have done