Before you start using Photoshop you should set it up properly. Don’t worry if you don’t understand what all the options mean, just follow the guidelines below for starters. With time and extensive use the meaning of all those fancy and (apparently) complex options will fall in place and you will now exactly what you want. You have to start somewhere, right?
General Preferences
Let’s start by going to Edit > Preferences > General (Ctrl+K).
General
Uncheck “export clipboard” and leave the rest as

Sometimes we need to place an object with a colored background on a white background and this photoshop tutorial shows you how you can do that.
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Robot Y-X

Step 1
Start this tutorial by downloading and opening photo on Photoshop.

Step 2
We need to separate robot from background area. Select Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection. Hold Shift button to add or Alt to subtract to selection.

Step 3
Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area to new layer. Select all background layer content and press Del to delete. With Paint Bucket Tool selected fill …

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to create beautiful lines of different shapes that you can add to any image.
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Guitar Silhouette 3

Step 1
Open Guitar Silhouette image on Photoshop. Go to Image > Image Size and change width to 1125px and height to 1500px.

Step 2
Select Brush Tool and press F5. Choose a hard round brush with 10 pixels and set up following presets for current brush:

Step 3
Create a new layer and make a straight line (white color) by pressing Shift.

Step 4
Apply Filter > Blur > …

On this tutorial i will share with how to create focus effect on photo with different levels of blur.
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Grant Cavalry

Step 1
Start by opening photo on Photoshop. Now we are going to create a special blur map to focus attention on the object. To do that start by selecting foreground color as black (#000000).

Step 2
Use the Pen Tool with Shape Layers selected to draw out the figure of a man. Reduce layer opacity to 50% after starting to select man to see the real shapes of the photo.

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A very detailed tutorial where i will show you how to create a greeting card for Christmas and New Year Holidays to impress your relatives and friends. This Photoshop tutorial is very simple but the result looks so amazing!
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Step 1
Create a new document with size of 800 x 600 pixels and fill it with black color.

Step 2
Now I would like to create abstract snowing on the picture. We can do it by using the Pen Tool. But before we can start, we have to change some presets …