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Photoshop Backgrounds, Patterns, Textures & Tutorials

Background Specific Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Background Tutorial Book-Matched Backgrounds
How to create "Book-Matched" backgrounds. Turn any background into a great pattern.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Photo Restoration
Something happens to old photos of a certain age: The sky disappears. Just completely up and disappears, like all that was ever there was a solid yellow sky.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Green Screen with CS5
Green screen photography, or chroma key as it's called in the broadcast industry, has been around for a long time.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Hard Light - Blending Mode
In this tutorial, we create another "painterly effect" using a watercolor background.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Retouching Photos with Background Textures
In this tutorial, we will take a photograph, and overlay textures to create a "watercolor" in Photoshop.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial More Blending Modes - Video
"If you want a graphic and surreal look, this Photoshop technique will work for you."
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Cloud Replacement Therapy
We've all taken photographs with dull and uninspired skies. This tip describes a subtle technique that goes beyond cutting and replacing. I've chosen a typical vacation picture that is in need of my cloud replacement therapy.
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Colorizing Black & White Photographs
Instead of painting flat color in Photoshop, use a Watercolor Background.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Dappled Light
If you have tried the Lighting Effects filter in Photoshop, and are looking for something more natural, this tutorial might be for you.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Depth of Field
One of the challenges of background replacement is simulating a believable depth of field. This Photoshop tutorial will help solve the problem.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Using the Dodge and Burn Tools
We'll add dimension to the texture without resorting to airbrushing a tone on top of the texture. By using the Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop, you can retain the underlying color.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Edges & Borders with Masks
If you want to create a border with a simple white background, all you need to do is create a new screened layer (over your photo ) using one of my edges. But if you want to use a colored background or a textured image, you will have to use a different technique.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Marbled Papers and Gaussian Blur - Video
In this tutorial, you'll learn some nifty illustrative techniques that will get you thinking "outside of the box".
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Getting More Texture from One Image
You've got a texture that almost works for your latest design, but its not quite right. This is the age old problem with clip art and stock photography.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial It's All About Layer Adjustments
Whenever I add a background texture to a photograph, I always play with the Photoshop's layer adjustment drop down menu and the opacity levels.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial That Studio Look - Lighting Effects
There are occasions when you might want to change a background of an existing shot. Sometimes it's the client, sometimes it's your own quest for perfection. Whatever the case, here's a technique that can help.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Background Adjustments with Match Color
What I love about this new color correction technique is that you can marry two images and make the marriage look great - even if these images, at first glance, seem to clash.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Painting with a Single Texture Map
You can create a real watercolor painting from a line drawing using Photoshop and a Watercolor Background.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Painting with an Eraser
With Photoshop and a texture or two, you can paint your way closer to that elusive masterpiece.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Combining Patterns and Backgrounds
Try combining a background with a black and white pattern for a great effect.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Beyond Posterization
Here is an unconventional technique using an adjustment layer, and a photographic background.
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Sensational Sepia Tones
Most sepia tone techniques just alter the color tones of an image. In this tutorial, I'll use some hand made paper to give my photograph that aged appearance we associate with sepia toned pictures.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Shadows in Perspective
In this tutorial, we will consider the light source and place a shadow in perspective.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial More Blending Modes, Soft Light - Video
Each mode has it's own character. In this tutorial, we explore Soft Light. It's worth experimenting - you might discover a useful technique.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Textures within Type
Quite often we all get stuck in design ruts and need a new idea to stimulate our creative juices. I've taken the word "type" and have pasted into each letter one of my watercolor backgrounds.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Creating Torn / Deckle Edges in Photoshop
This technique can be used with numerous built in Photoshop filters. Try it, it's worth the experiment.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Transform and Skew your Background Art
In this tutorial we will Transform/Skew a scanned texture to create background depth and a great effect.
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Photoshop Background Tutorial Deep Space Techniques with the Twirl Tool
I wanted to create the illusion of outer space with depth. With Photoshop, it was a snap.
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