The 'tips' thread

[Hansel]

Ok, post your tips and tricks here, just to make PSing easier.
Just post whatever you feel is cool to do.
But please no questions here unless it's about someone "tip".
This is NOT a help thread.

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To make your picture blend nicely with the BG or you just want it to be a certain colour, do it like this.

Let's say your BG is orange, do this:

Select the pic you want to blend, right click.
Now go to Colour overlay.
Choose the orange colour that's the same as the rest of the PS creation.
Set the blend mode to 'Colour'.
If it doesn't look good mess around with the Opacity level..

[Hansel]

To get a nice effect on your render(preferably a person) copy the pic, make a new layer and paste it. Now put it exactly where the previous same pic is.
Now go to filter>blur>gaussian blur>Radius:9.0, now right click the pic and change the opacity to 40 or maybe 50.

[Teekay]

To get a nice effect on your render(preferably a person) copy the pic, make a new layer and paste it.

Or then just duplicate the render, ctrl+J. I use kind of the same technique, just put the duplicate on soft light, and then lower the opacity a little.

[Hansel]

If you want a picture, like a badge or something INSIDE a text, put the picture layer above the text layer, select the picture layer and press Ctrl + G.

Example: http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/2527/pulp22qo.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Cali]

great thread Poff.I feel it will help many people including me ;).