Circuit Board
Step 1.
Create a new Document. Press ‘D’ to reset your colors.
Apply Filter > Render > Clouds.
Apply Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic : 15 Pixels and apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur (Settings: 20, Zoom, Best); and Filter > Stylize > Emboss (Settings: 135,10,170).
Step 2.
Apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Accented Edges (Settings: width:2 brightness:38 smoothness:5) and Filter > Stylize > Find Edges then press CTRL+I; apply Image > Adjust > Brightness / Contrast ( Settings: Contrast +30).
And that’s it.
Polish Metal
In this article I’ll show you how to make the background as the the polish metal.
Step 1.
Create a new document with the size 200X200 pixels and with the white background.
Step 2.
Apply Filter > Noise > Add noise with the parameters: Amount: ~115, Gaussian, Monochromatic.
Step 3.
Apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with the parameters: Angle: -45; Distance: 200. ( Set the parameter Distance no less then the size of your document).
Step 4.
Apply Filter > Stylize > Emboss with the parameters: Angle: 45; Height: 2; Amount: 35%.
Step 5.
Apply Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation with the parameters: Hue: -190; Saturation: 20. And that’s it.
Abstraction
Step 1.
Create a new Document with the size 200X200. Press ‘D’ To Reset Your Colors.
Step 2.
Apply Filter > Render > Clouds.
Step 3.
Apply Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap and use the following settings:
Step 4.
Apply Filter > Distort > Wave and use the following settings:
Step 5.
Press Ctrl+U and choose colour, and then duplicate your layer. Set the Blending Mode to ‘Overlay’.
Apply Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. And that’s it.
Glass Text
The photoshop tutorial tells how to create the effect of image refraction (glass text effect) using Photoshop 7.
Step 1.
Open the initial image. Press ‘T’ to turn the Horizontal Type Tool on, set the text colour as white and type the necessary text. Note that one can get the best effect while using Extra, Heavy, and Bold patterns, i.e. bold patterns. We used Garamond Narrow font (Bold Italic) in our article.
Step 2.
Select ‘Image’ > ‘Duplicate’. Press ‘D’ and ‘Alt+Backspace’ to fill the image layer with black. Select ‘Layer’ > ‘Flatten Image’. Apply ‘Filter’ > ‘Blur’ > ‘Gaussian Blur’ with Radius equal to 5 pixels. Save the obtained image as ‘map.psd’. Press ‘Ctrl+W’ to close the file.
Step 3.
Open the image we started with. Make the text layer invisible. Create the copy of the layer with an initial image using ‘Create New Layer’ menu. Apply ‘Filter’ > ‘Distort’ > ‘Displace’ (with both values of ‘Scale’ equal to 20%) to the new layer. Leave other parameters as is - they do not effect the result. Press ‘Ok’and select the ‘map.psd’ file (the file we have just created). Then press ‘Ok’ again.
Step 4.
Press ‘Ctrl’ and holding the key click the text layer in ‘Layers’ Window. Select ‘Layer’ > ‘Add Layer Mask’ > ‘Reveal Selection’.
Step 5.
Select ‘Layer’ > ‘Layer Style’ and set the values of four layer styles according to pictures below.
Step 6.
To brighten the text select ‘Layer’ > ‘New Adjustment Layer’ > ‘Levels’. Check ‘Group With Previous Layer’ box and press ‘Ok’. In the “Levels’ Window set the value of the middle value of ‘Input Levels’ parameter equal to ‘2′ and press ‘Ok. You will have a glass text effect similar to this:
Shine Lines
Step 1.
Create a new Document with the size 300X300. Press ‘D’ to reset your colors.
Step 2.
Choose the Brush Tool and draw lines like the image below:
Step 3.
Apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and use the following settings:
Step 4.
Apply Filter > Stylize > Find Edques and then repeat step 3.
Step 5.
Press CTRL + I and draw the white X in the middle of the image by the Brush Tool.
Step 6.
And then repeat step 3 again; apply Filter > Stylize > Find Edges, and repeat step 3 once again.
Step 7.
Now press CTRL+I, and then CTRL+U and add some colour. In my case I used Hue:221, Saturaton:63, Lightness:10. And that’s it.
