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Creating an infrared effect
Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ November 24th, 2005
Creating an infrared effect
Open the image you would like to make infrared, double click the Background layer to unlock it.
Press CTRL+Shift+L or go to Image > Adjutments > Auto Levels and let Photoshop correct the levels in your photo.
Now Go to Image > Mode > Lab Color to make the photo in Lab mode
Now go to channels, select B Channel, press CTRL+A (to select the entire layer) and press CTRL+C to copy it. Now

go back to layers and paste your B channel.
Now press CTRL+L or go to Image > Adjustments > Levels to bring the levels dialogue.
Now correct manually the levels by dragging the sliders. In my example I show you the levels before and after.
You’re done:

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Creating A Diamond Texture
Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ November 24th, 2005
Creating a sparkling diamond texture
Make a new layer, 1000×1000 pixels, black background
With the type tool, write whatever you want. I used Arial Black, 120 pixels. Now go to the layers palette and right click on the type layer and rasterize it.
Now CTRL+Click on the newly rasterized layer to bring up the selection.Go to Filter>Render>Clouds Your image should look like this:
Now go to Filter>Distort>Glass and use these settings: Distortion:20, Smoothness:1, Texture: Tiny Lens, Scaling:

50-70%. Here is what it should like:

Now duplicate the layer and put it in the “Color dodge” mode. This is the output:
Now grab the brush tool and choose the “Starbust small” brush type (You’ll find it in the assorted brushes in Photoshop).
e sure to have the Foreground white and start painting with the brush the little sparkles you need on a new layer. You’re done.

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Verge Of Explosion Effect
Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ November 23rd, 2005
Creating a planet explosion
Make a new document, 1000×1000 pixels, black background.
Now add a mud texture in your document, like mine or close.
Hit CTRL+I (Command+I on Macintosh) to inverse the colors. You’ll see later that this will add more realism to the effect.
Using the eliptical marquee tool, draw a perfect circular selection, Inverse selection and delete the unwanted texture. Your image should look like the example below:
Go to Filter>Distort>Spherize and choose a value of 100 %. Go again and reapply the filter, but this time with a value of 50%. Your image should turn into this:
Go to layer>flatten image. Now you should have only one layer.
Deselect and go to Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates. Options: Polar to Rectangular. Your image should look

like this:
Image->Rotate Canvas->90CW. Apply: Filter->Stylize->Wind Method: Wind. Direction: From the right. Hit CTRL+F to

reapply.
Go to: Image->Rotate Canvas->90CCW. Finally, apply Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates. Options: Rectangular to Polar.
There you go, now all you do is just play around with colors, by either using Image>Hue and Saturation, or Image> Color Balance. I use color balance in the image below.

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