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In this short and quick tutorial I will show beginners how to make a simple icon with a corner peeled down and a reflection.

Start a 300X300px document

Make a rounded square in the middle of the canvas with the radius of 10px. Don’t fill up the entire canvas.

Add these layer styles to the box:

stroke

Color Overlay

Inner Glow

Now duplicate your layer so you have a backup

Just hide our original layer.

Create a new layer above that and drag that layer below or layer 1 copy.

Select your top layer and merge it down with the blank layer by using the keyboard shortcut ctrl+e

When you do this it will get rid of your blending options so its an editable image.

Next get your polygon lasso tool

Pick a corner you want to make look like it is peeling off and cut it out. I will pick the top left corner

Cut that out with ctrl+x and paste it back in your document with ctrl+v

Once you paste it back in, rotate it 180 degrees. With that layer chosen hit ctrl+t on your keyboard to transform it, right click on it and hit rotate 180 degrees.

Now you should have something like this

This isn’t right though, because if it was a sticker the back of it would not be the same as the front, so I will change this.

Hold down ctrl and click on the icon beside the layer and a selection should be made around the shape. Create a new layer and fill it with black.

Then add this gradient overlay to it

It will need a shadow since its folded over the shape. So do the same method we just did (hold down ctrl+click on the layer) then create a new layer and fill it with black again.

Add a gaussian blur to that by going to filter>>blur>>gaussian blur with these settings

After you do that use your keyboard arrows to move the shadow out from behind the corner and make the opacity 45%.

Now mine looks like this

Next I will add a rain drop to the icon by using the shape tool in photoshop.

So choose the raindrop

I added some little touches to the drop that you can see in this image

To make a reflection underneath select all your layers and duplicate all of them. Then merge them together as one image.

After that rotate it 180 degrees and drag it below the layer.

Next add a layer mask to the layer by going to Layer>>Layer Mask>>Reveal All or by clicking the little icon on the bottom of your layer’s palette.

Once you do that grab your gradient tool and drag from top to bottom and you should get something like this

In this easy tutorial I will show you how to take a color photo, change it to black and white, then use a layer mask to bring out some colors.



First open this picture



Duplicate the layer so you have 2 copies of the image.

Then on your menu bar go to image>>adjustments>>desaturate or hit the shortcut key combination shift+ctrl+u on the top image.



Now your picture should be black and white



Now we want to add a layer mask by either clicking on the layer mask icon at the bottom of your layers palette or go to Layer>>layer mask>>reveal all.

Once you do that you will see the layer mask beside your picture



Now grab a soft paint brush, I chose 9px as my size. Make your background and foreground colors are set to black and white default. You black color will erase parts of the image to reveal the color and if you change the color to white you can paint the image back in case you mess up.

So zoom in and uncover the colored parts you want



Here is my result after coloring the flower



You can do any part you want, her eyes, hair, nails, shirt, etc.. Here is a variation of some of those:

This easy tutorial will show you how to take a few stock images and turn them into a high quality sports advertisement.



Here are the pictures I will use.




Next open up the basketball picture in photoshop.

Duplicate the layer and hide the previous one so you have a backup in case you mess up.



Hide the previous layer and on your new layer remove the clouds and sky any means you know how… I will use the pen tool.

It doesn’t have to be perfect here is what I have



Duplicate that layer and add noise by going to filter>>noise>>add noise with these settings:



Then go to filter>>render>>difference clouds

Add overlay to that layer to get a nice effect.



Choose these colors as your foreground and background



Create a new layer above that and fill with the orange color

Then go to filter>>sketch>>halftone pattern



Use these settings:



Flip that layer horizontally then duplicate it so it fits across the entire canvas



Now go to filter>>distort>>polar coordinates



Drag that layer below your others and cut the bottom half off and drag it above your
other layers.



Unhide the layer of our original image and drag it above all the other layers. Add a difference cloud to it and noise then set it to overlay. Set its opacity at about 80%.

Set the bottom half of your halftone pattern to darken and its opacity to about 30%.



Cut out your soccer player, I used the pen tool yet again and place him on your canvas and size him down.



Duplicate your soccer player layer. Change your foreground and background colors
back to the original black and white. Hold down ctrl+click on the little icon
beside your new layer and it should make a selection around him. Then add clouds
and noise.



Set that layer to color burn and you should have something like this



Now I will add some grunge effect just by using default photoshop brushes. Grab this brush:



Choose black as your color and make some random streaks on your canvas



Now grab a darker red color and make some more streaks around the same places you put the black ones.

Now add some text to the bottom left for a web address.. I made up soccernet.com and made it glow white.



Now I am going to add some text on the left of the soccer player that says, “the battle, who will win?”… or something to that effect. Make up whatever you want.



The text I used was Berlin Sans FB.

Make a layer behind the text and use the same brush we did before to make some streaks that look kind of like underlines.



Then choose some colors of your liking for both text parts. I chose some colors that matched what I have and then I used a brush to erase parts of the text to make them look grungy.

Here is my final advertisement:

In this tutorial I will show you an easy way to add some reflective fantasy water to an image and for a final touch I will add some fish jumping out of the water.

So first save this image

Next size the image down to where its about 560px wide and create a new canvas that has that same width and a height of double what it is. My canvas size is 565X848px.

Next duplicate your image

Move your newly duplicated image to the bottom of the canvas and rotate it 180 degrees.

Then flip it horizontally

Create a new layer below that one

Hold down control on your keyboard and click on the little icon beside your duplicated layer so it creates a selection around it.

Fill the new layer with light to mid blue color

Click on your screen to get rid of the selection and choose your copied layer. Then grab your gradient tool from your tools palette. Make sure its linear and pick black to transparent

Add a layer mask to that layer by either clicking the little picture icon at the bottom of your layers palette or go to layer>>layer mask>>reveal all

Take your gradient tool and drag from the bottom up to reveal the bluish background we made.

Next we will make the water so create another new layer above the one we just used the gradient tool on

Use the control and clicking technique on the blue background to highlight around
the area.

Now in the new layer add clouds by going to filter>>render>>clouds

Now go to filter>>artistic>>plastic wrap

Use these settings

Now go to filter>>sketch>>chrome

Use these settings:

After that set the layer to overlay

Next select all the 3 layers of our water

Use control+t to transform the layers then right click on the canvas and click perspective

Grab the bottom right of that and drag to your right so change its perspective until you get your desired result.

Now to add a couple fish in the water. Grab this picture of a fish I got from
http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml

Cut your fish out and place your fish in the water and size it down how you want

Create a new layer, grab your brush tool and set it to scatter. Use some white and blue colors to make the fish look like its coming out of the water.

Add some more fish and you should be done