This is a collection of links to Photoshop tutorials and tips to create and work with textures to product backgrounds, buttons, etc. To return to the main Photoshop page, click here.
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Summary
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| Texture | Abstract Background | A simple way to create beautiful backgrounds without using any brushes or the pen tools |
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| Texture | Multicolor Fill | An easy way to generate unique, multicolor fill for text outlines, buttons and other shapes |
B
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| Texture | Tilings | Make your own wallpaper or background for your webpage. Two approaches to this. |
B
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| Texture | Sparkles | Add a little shine to your images and objects |
B
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| Texture | Rounded Corners | Make your interface frames nice and rounded |
B
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| Texture | Wood Texture | Make a wood texture |
B
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| Texture | Old Gold Texture | Another texture that has a gold metal finish to it |
B
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| Texture | Screws | Start screwing your graphics |
B
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| Texture | Chunky Rust | Make a rustic metal texture |
B
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| Texture | Pushed In Buttons | Making the up state and down state of 2 different types of web buttons |
B
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| Texture | Beyond TV Lines | Working with Patterns |
B
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| Texture | Rainbow | Learn how to make this cool effect |
B
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| Texture | TV Lines | Learn how to use patterns to create TV lines |
B
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| Texture | Easy Curved Shapes | Making lozenge objects without the pen tool |
B
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| Texture | Simple Button | A quick method for making a depthy button |
B
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| Texture | Popdots | An interesting effect that can be used for logos, backgrounds, etc. |
B
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| Texture | Creating a Colored Ball | A ball with a lighting highlight and drop shadow |
B
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| Texture | Realistic Lightning | Creating a stroke of lightning |
B
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| Texture | Embossed Button | Creating an embossed button with a graphic inside it |
B
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| Texture | Binocular View | You've seen it in films and games: learn how to make that binocular view in Photoshop |
B
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| Texture | Metallic Texture | Create a brushed metal surface using this classic method |
B
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| Texture | TV Scanlines | Another method for creating a "horizontal screen" effect |
B
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| Texture | Techno Dots | Create those trendy dots seen in many designs |
B
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| Texture | Dirty Screen | An interesting texture that looks like a dirty screen |
B
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| Texture | Seamless Backgrounds | Making web page background patterns |
B
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| Texture | More Adjustments | Turning failed abstract photos into interesting textures |
B
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| Texture | Object Reflections | Making mirror images |
B
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| Texture | Making Multiple Shadows | Create shadows on multiple elements in PS 5.0 and above without unrealistic dark patches where the shadows overlap. |
B
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| Texture | "Nearest Neighbor" effects | Pixelated on purpose |
B
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| Texture | Build Yourself a Brand | Created a "branded" effect |
B
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| Texture | Scan Lines | Creating TV-like scan lines on your imagery |
B
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| Texture | Making Spirals | Give your work a swirly |
B
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| Texture | Starbursts | Create eye-catching starburst with Polar Coordinates |
B
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| Texture | Abstracts | A collection of B&W photographs to help when creating bizarre, surreal, violent, or menacing atmosphere in your artwork |
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| Texture | Wood Textures | Create wood panels and change their finish |
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| Texture | A Simple Bevelled Button | Make buttons without plugs |
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| Texture | Ball Ornaments | Creating ball ornaments |
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| Texture | Christmas Tree | Creating Christmas tree with texture |
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| Texture | Snowflakes | Remember those folded paper snowflakes? Make them on your computer |
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| Texture | Raindrops | Raindrops falling from my eyes. Make your own |
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| Texture | Basic Square Button | Make a basic square bevel button |
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| Texture | Air Brush Beveling | Make that 3D look on a control panel |
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| Texture | Easy Chrome | Creating a shiny effect around a shape |
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| Texture | Plastic Menu Buttons | Creating the 'iMac' plastic button effect, with variations for solid colored, transparent colored and transparent colorless |
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| Texture | Post-It® Stickups | Using Paths to create realistic looking Post-It® stick-up paper |
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| Texture | Heavy Metal (PDF) | Creating metallic images in Photoshop |
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| Texture | BackGround fx | Create an interesting and unique style of background for any image, text headers and larger projects |
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| Texture | The Mound | A button that pops out of a texture or background |
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| Texture | Dripping Slime | Create rust, slime or blood dripping from holes, pipes or text |
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| Texture | Spherizing Your Images | Put your designs into a crystal ball. File included. |
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| Texture | Wrapping a Graphic | Creating the illusion that a graphic is wrapped around another object |
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| Texture | Adding Shading & Depth to Clip Art | Making a flat clip into an object with a little depth |
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| Texture | Rounded End Buttons | Make a popular shaped web button |
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| Texture | Coloring Line Illustrations | Taking a B&W line drawing and applying color, without going mad |
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| Texture | Rollover Menu Bar | Create a menu that changes as the user rolls the mouse over parts of it |
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| Texture | Wood | Scan a piece of wood? Why bother? Make your own! |
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| Texture | TV Scan Lines | Applying the trendy screen lines over a photo |
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| Texture | Scotch® Tape | Create a realistic Scotch® tape effect |
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| Texture | Interlaced Scanline Effects | Creating "scanlines" from scratch allows you more control over the thickness of the lines, which in turn can produce more variations when applied to images |
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| Texture | Personalize That Pill | Creating recessed graphics |
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| Texture | Basic Interface | Make a control pad you can use on your web site |
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| Texture | Christmas Lights | Create Christmas lights |
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| Texture | Candy Canes | Creating candy canes with v6.0 |
I X
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| Texture | Lightning | Step-by-step to create bolts of lightning |
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| Texture | Holly Leaf | Creating holly leaves to decorate a holiday website |
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| Texture | Christmas Lights | Creating Christmas lights with v6.0 |
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| Texture | Celtic Knots | How to draw one of these beautiful creations from scratch |
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| Texture | 3 Dimensional Pictures | Creating simple 3D pictures, not just singular images or objects |
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| Texture | Drop Shadows | Using shadows to make images pop out, sink in or float above a background or Web page |
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| Texture | Transparent Textures? “The Dome” | A variety of exercises combined using the creation of a glass dome as a point of reference |
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| Texture | Transparent Capsule | This tutorial is not for the faint-hearted, though it is interesting and fun, if you use some patience |
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| Texture | ePlastic | Create a plastic texture on text, buttons or icons |
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| Texture | Disgruntled Dots | The next generation of polka dots |
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| Texture | Metallic Tubes and Wires | Creating metallic tubes and wires |
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| Texture | "Plastic Package" Effects | Your own shrinkwrap machine in Photoshop and Illustrator |
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| Texture | Transparent Reflecting Sphere | Create shiny spheres for interfaces, logos and whatnot |
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| Texture | Metal Shapes | Making metallic shapes |
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| Texture | The Chrome Files | Creating a chrome-plated effect that can be applied to all reflective surface effects: stainless steel, glass, plastic, mercury, polished marble, glazed wood ... whatever |
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| Texture | Clipping Groups and Texture Painting | Working with texture patterns |
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All links checked and working on September 10, 2001