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Creative Colour Twirl Video Tutorial

Photoshop is only limited by the boundaries of your own creativity. This tutorial is a great example of that. Follow along as we create a colour twirl effect using a few filters and the rectangular marquee tool. Once you know the basics you'll be playing around for hours!

Selecting, Extracting, Moving, Transforming and Blending Video Tutorial

Anyone can make selections inside Photoshop, but it takes a good knowledge of the selection tools, and a little practice, to get on the road to mastering it. As we strive to achieve our ultimate goal – selecting and moving a gorilla into another photograph – we’ll visit the lasso tools, the marquee tools, quick selection, the magic wand and the magic extractor.  We’ll also employ the move tool to move selected elements around, the transform controls to resize the gorilla, and layer blending options to make the composition as realistic as possible.

Vignette Effect Video Tutorial

In this tutorial we'll fade out the edges of a photograph to match the background colour of the page. In this example, we'll match the soft transition with page white - perfect for printing or using on a plain white web background.