This tutorial experiments with a current design trend of creating techno backgrounds.
Author: Dave Cross
For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop,Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (20 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL. Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
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nice tute. in this tute they tech how to illustrator blend option and the other things.i also want to create like these tutes. best maxxa.
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I learned a great deal from this, however, I could not get my brush stroke to color black. Mine showed up white and I still have no idea how to change it… Can anyone help, because I would love to finish this great tutorial.
Hi Ellen,
All you have to do is select the arrow and assign the color from the color bar.
You need to make sure that your foreground color is set to black not white. Simple…..hope this helps.
Would be nice if ads hide the downloading of tuts, in the background which are QT, so can be saved. And if available in itunes with a link.
just a comment
BERY GOOD
Is there are reason my PS doesn’t have the lense flare option? It’s greyed out. I have CS3.
hmm – does anyone know why my lens flare option would be greyed out and unavailable?
Way too fast. I see you do it, but how do you do it?
Hi Marina,
your document is probably not RGB mode….choose
>image>mode>RGB.
OK?
I can’t use the brush to remove part of the arrows, it says I need to rasterize my vector smart image and then i cant edit it. Can anyone help? P.S My foreground is in black and background white, if that helps.
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wow, that was explained so well. Thanks a lot
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I am slow, and it took me a few hours to get through this as I am new to CS4 and a newbie with Photoshop, but I am happy to say, I did it and learned leaps!
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to slow in loading! but good tute
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Terrible tutorial lost me when i tried to load the brushes