Posts Tagged ‘layer mode

I give away a LOT of stuff here on BittBox, mainly textures and brushes. The truth is, many of the textures are manufactured using recycled images I already have hanging around on my hard drive. I want to share one of my favorite ways to quickly add a little extra to a rather uninteresting texture, [...]

Today we’re exploring a quick way to get a satisfying wood structure in Photoshop. The kind of structure you would use as a background in a web site. So not the detailed kind that you would use for a poster for example. Why spent a ton of steps if you are going to hide 70% [...]

After writing the articles about the creation of an inset effect on text in Photoshop, followed by how to create this same effect in Illustrator , I received the request from Josephine if I wouldn’t mind explaining how I created the textured background of the graphic used in that article. Here is how I did [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a retro-inspired typography poster design in Photoshop playing with stock photos, blend modes and filters. We will also use a metal grid texture for a grungy background and paper texture to give a nice retro feel to our design. For this tutorial I have downloaded [...]

Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: If you want access to the downloadable .PSD file for this, and every other tutorial at PSDFAN, then join our members area for just $4.95 per month. Step 1 Create a new document (600X700px). Create a new layer called ’stars’ and fill [...]


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