Harry Potter has become a huge phenomenon with an ever larger fanbase. This will teach you how to easily create your own Harry Potter signature.
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Im sure you have seen the movie The Matrix sometime in your life. Ever wonder how to create your own Matrix code effect? This tutorial will teach you how to.
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Imagine your Grandmother’s delight in receiving a personalized postcard from you that has you and your brother’s picture on it, or your wife’s smile when she sees the postcard you made from your honeymoon vacation photos. If it’s done right, sometimes a home made card means a whole lot more besides “I’m broke” or “I’m corny”, if it’s done right it can be a great to show that you really care.
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In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the techniques I’ve used to create this e-book cover.  Of course, there are several different ways to approach this, a lot of which is basic or intermediate Photoshop skills.  I’ll share a couple interesting tricks that you can do to give your e-book that special shine.
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Need a screenshot of a website/web browser, but you don’t want to use Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefix, or Safari? No problem, just make your own directly in Photoshop.  You see it all the time on TV and in movies: fake operating systems running fake browsers.  It’s actually extraordinarily simple to do.  Here, let me illustrate those techniques for you, and ou’ll be well on your way to your own fictionalized browser for use in your TVs and movies… well, more like your websites and ads.
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Obviously it is every photographers dream to shoot the perfect shot, and often times that’s why a photograph will use 4 rolls of film on the same subject.  The more attempts that are made, the better the chance that the end result will be amazing.  Still, sometimes people just don’t have the time, money, or patience to get that killer shot.  Often that means some minor adjustments in Photoshop to correct the issues with shot.  However, there are times when an entire photograph needs a transplant.  In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to put a different sky into a photograph in order to give the image a more vibrant look appropriate for our theoretical project.
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The iPod is one of the best selling portable music players of all time, and those sales numbers are only going to increase with the new iPod Nano, which brings video down to the Nano product lineup. In this brief tutorial, I will show you how you can easily make your own iPod Nano in Photoshop for use on your website, blog, etc.
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Ha ha. Before I start, just a quick disclaimer. This will help you achieve a comic book/graphic novel effect using photos and filters, but a true graphic novel takes a lot more work than that. With that disclaimer aside, if you’ve got the right set of photographs, or even if you take your own photographs specifically for this purpose, you could make a comic that’s truly unique, original, and eye pleasing.
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