1 minute Photoshop effects

talk design
1

I’ll start with a neat water effect.

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[]New Doument 700 x 700 white bg
[]Press "d" to reset colours
[]Filters >> Render >> Clouds
[]Filters >> Render >> Difference Clouds
[]Filters >> Blur >> Radial Blur
Quality Best, amount 20.
[]Filters >> Stylize >> Chrome
Both settings on 10
[]Image >> Adjustments >> Curves
Imagine the curves view as a graph (origin in bottom left) then you want a point on (3,1) and another on (2.3)
[]Image >> Adjustments >> Colour Balance

Cyan -80 and Blue +80
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Et voila. :slight_smile:

2

pretty cool;)

3

Looks alright, wouldn’t really use it for much though.

4

you never know when ur gonna use certain effect, sometimes I see things that look nice but then I think I dont need to use them anyway, later I found out that effect can help me in my task, or a similar procedure :slight_smile:

5

30second star field. (1:30 if you’re incompitent) It’s of my own creation!

  1. Create a new image of any dimensions, with a black background.

  2. Go Filter:Noise-Add Noise. 7-9% Gaussian, Monochromatic.

  3. Press ctrl+l and drag the sliders close together near the end of the left side of the bar. You’ll know if you do it right.

  4. Copy the layer, and gaussian blur by 3px

  5. Copy that layer and repeat (ctrl+f)

  6. Set all the layers to screen.

  7. Create a final layer, above all the others, render some clouds on it, then some difference clouds, and set it to mulitply. Adjust the opactiy as nessessary.

  8. (optional) Create a new layer, above all the others, reder some clouds, and then ctrl+u, check off the colourize option, and set the colour to a light, soft, icy blue. Then set that layer to “soft light”

And that gets you this:

6

bull$%&!! I made it in 1:30 seconds, one minute more, u suck coppertop! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

:stuck_out_tongue:

7

edited, happy :P?

8

I have a starfield technique too.

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[]new document - 700x700pixels - black
[]Filters >> Noise >> Add Noise >> amount - 115 (thats the PS5.5 measurement)
[]Filters >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur - 0.5pixels
[]Image >> Adjustments >> Threshold >> Threshold level 145 (varies for how many stars you want)
[]New Layer >> Fill Black
[]Filters >> Render >> Lens Flare - leave settings
[]Set Lens layer to screen and position lens flare at the top left corner.
[]New Layer
[]Filters >> Render >> Clouds
[]Filters >> Render >> Difference Clouds
[*]Set Layer to screen and lower opacity to about 30%
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:slight_smile:

9

if you add a small outer glow to the stars (or some sort of gaussian blurred layer) on the stars it might give them a bit more of a realistic look.

10

lol, good one :smiley:

;P!!!