It has been a crazy semester last fall taking  Flash animation, principles of animation and storyboarding classes all at the same time. Every Tuesdays and Thursdays I sit on the same chair, in the same room listening to the same teacher from 9 am to 1 pm. Amazingly though, hours just fly by fast as we hop from one project to another.

Step 1

Open up the image you wish to use for this tutorial. Make a new document that is double the height of your image. Drag your image to the new document and position it at the upper half of the document.


Step 2

Duplicate the layer by selecting Ctrl + J. And drag the duplicated image so that it’s directly underneath the original image. Now flip the duplicated image by selecting Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical. You image should now look like below:




Step 3

Select Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All.
Now select the gradient tool with the foreground to transparent gradient selected.
Hold down shift and drag the gradient from the top of the flipped image to the bottom, like below:




You can adjust the opacity to make your reflection look more natural.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to the change the color of any car. This could also work with any moving vehicle such as a truck, boat or even a plane. This tutorial requires the quick mask tool.

Step 1

Open an image in Photoshop.

I downloaded a car pic from Mazda

Step 2

Using the quick mask tool carefully paint over the areas you don’t wish to change the colour to. If you don’t know how to use the quick mask tool and follow the steps below:

With your photo open in Photoshop, click on the Quick Mask button at the bottom of your tool bar or press Q

Last weekend I was playing with Mika's picture and made a background using Photoshop.

Step 1

Open an image in Photoshop.

Step 2

Using the rectangular marquee tool drag a rectangle shape similar to below.

Choose select > modify > smooth and set the sample radius to 15px. (You can experiment with the radius if you want)

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a jelly effect on texts. Feel free to change the settings and do some experiments on the blending options and layer styles. You can also choose a different color. I chose green for this tutorial.


Step 1

Create a new Photoshop document. Select the text tool and type your text.  You can use any font style and color that you want.

Step 2

Select Layer > Layer style > Blending Options. Add the following settings for drop shadow below:

For the inner shadow you may use the settings below:



You can also experiment by using inner glow instead of inner shadow using these settings.



This is how it looks like using inner glow:

Bevel and emboss settings:

Adding Satin settings:

Adding Color Overlay settings:

I have used the colors and settings above, but feel free to experiment with the various settings.

I made these in Photoshop using wind and ripple filters.

Mika likes to play with Photoshop. Today, after experimenting  the filter tools she came up with this design. I thought it was cool. So here it is.