1. As always, start with a transparent layer. Draw a circle using the circular marquee tool. Tip: Hold the alt/option key to draw from the center and hold the shift…

Texturing Type Al Ward, Action Fx Photoshop Actions Resource Hello Colin and denizens of the PS Café! Sorry for the horrible delay in sending this column/article/tutorial. I could spout a…

Much of my interest and therefore my work in Photoshop deals with beveled effects in one form or another. I love to watch an image jump off the page as…

(By Al Ward) Though I'm generally known as an actions guy, I'm interested in all types of addons you can create in Photoshop in presets that can be created, saved…

Generating Actions of your Own: A Quick and Nearly Painless Process! (Note, this tutorial has been updated by Colin to cover Photoshop CC,  Actions work basically the same in every version of Photoshop)…

An Intro to Actions and Photoshop Automation (By Al Ward) A couple of years ago, some Action enthusiast friends of mine expressed their concern that I was pursuing a vapor,…

Here is a Layers crash course for you. Layers were introduced in Photoshop 3.0. This totally revolutionized Photoshop. For the first time you could do complex compositions easily without having…

Let's talk some more about texturing, this time working with an interface style image over several layers. Photoshop 6 layer styles allow us to do some fantastic effects with patterns,…

There is a little nostalgia in this tutorial for me. This is one of the first tutorials I ever wrote and it was the effect  that inspired me to start…

Step 1 Start with your shape on a new layer. Try experimenting with a shape of your own. I drew this with the polygon lasso tool an filled it with…

The story behind it. By Einar Erlendsson All Photos © Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson; Einar Erlendsson, a native Icelander married at the age of 20 and went to Oslo in Norway to study…