Painting Away Color QZ.

Painting Away Color Tutorial

Step 1: Open the image you would like to m=work on. Apple +J.
Step 2: Click on the brush tool. In the options bar, switch the Blend Mode to Color. Change your foreground color to black.
Step 3: From the brushes palette, choose a medium sized, soft-edged(0% hardness) brush.
Step 4: Start painting. As you paint, the color will disappear leaving your image in grayscale.

Gold Chrome Tutorial

Step 1. Type your text. Put a selection around your text.

Step 2. Go under the Select menu and choose save selection. Click OK. Deselect your text. Delete your type layer.

Step 3. Go to the channels palette,click on Alpha 1. Go under the filter menu, under Blur, choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 1 pixel.

Step 4. Return to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under Render and choose Lighting Effects. Under the texture channel option choose Alpha 1. Click OK.

Step 5. Go under the Image menu, under Adjustments Curves. Create a curve( Input 186 and output 64). Click OK.

Step 6 Go under the select menu and choose Load Selection. Choose Alpha 1 from the Channel pop up menu. Click OK. Go under the Select menu, under Modify and choose Expand. Enter 3 pixels. Click OK.

Step 7 Press shift+Apple+J. Click on the background layer. Press Apple+A, then press delete. Deselect. Click on your text layer, choose drop shadow from the Layer styles. Click OK.

Step 8 Choose Color Overlay from the layer styles. Change the blend mode to Overlay then click the color swatch and use the following R=208, G=165, B=16. Click OK.

Shadow In Motion Tutorial

Step 1. Tap the letter "d" to change your foreground color to black. Hold down the options key and tap the delete key. Type your text using a medium gray color(#666666).

Step 2. Duplicate your type layer using the Apple+J shortcut. Rasterize your layer.

Step 3. Go under the filter menu, under Pixelate, choose fragment. Run this filter TWO more times by using the Apple+F shortcut.

Step 4.Press Apple+T. In the options bar change the width and height to 130%.

Step 5. Click on your original type layer and rasterize it. Click on the top layer and press Apple+E to merge the 2 layers.

Step 6. Tp colorize your type, press Apple+U to bring up Hue and Saturation. Click on the colorize checkbox and make the hue slider to the color you'd like.

Photoshop Shortcuts

Apple+U= Hue and Saturation

Apple+T=Free Transform

Option+Delete= Changes color of image to your foreground color.


Apple+J= Duplicate Layer.

Apple+E= Merge

Apple+F= Run the last filter

Apple+ Z= Undo

Apple+X=Cut

Apple+C= Copy


Apple+V= Paste

Apple+N= New Document

Apple+A= Select All

B= Brush Tool

Apple+S= Save

Apple+D= Deselect.

Apple+ Click Layer=Marching Ants

CRTL+Click Layer=Rasterize

T= Type Tool

D=Change your foreground color black and background white
X=Swatch