In this tutorial we are showing you the top 5 Photoshop tips to help you work faster and smoother, this top 5 Photoshop tips tutorial is for anyone, beginner and advanced persons, we will talk about clipping mask, Filters, Shapes Operations and keyboard shortcuts. After learning these Photoshop tips, you will be able to create the below photo or another design.

Top 5 Photoshop Tips Every Designer Must Know

Tip 1: In this tip I will show the trick to create fire in Photoshop, Open a new document (Ctrl+N) name it fire. and click OK, color of your document must be black.

now create long shape  horizontally name it fire set the color to white and  then go to Filter> Stylize> Wind, a small window will popup to confirm the filter to apply on vector layer, the reason of this popup window is this that our shape layer is vector not restor layer, filter con not apply directly on vector layers that’s why it ask you to restorize your layer, click OK. Apply the the following setting for the wind options.

press (Ctrl+F) to apply the filter two more times, your shape should look like image bellow.

Now rotate your layer 90^o, go to Adjustment Panel and add Hue Saturation to your layer set the Hue 24, Saturation 100 % and use Colorize.

Tip 2: Clipping Mask is one of most wanted option for Photoshop lovers, it is the best option to clip or fit your photo to any shapes, so create a new document 1000 x 700. use gradient tool to fill the background, use the code for color (a7a7a7) (303030).

OK now use Ellipse  tool to create a shape and make two copy frome that shape  than align it, now place three photos in your document and re size and place each photo on top of each shapes, right click on it select clipping mask, it will clip your photo to the size of the shape layer remember that photo layer should be on top of shape layers.

Tip 3: Color Halftone do you now how easily you can create color halftone in Photoshop, if you don’t its for you, Open new document 1000 x 700 white color. and draw an Ellipse use gradient to fill the shape layer.

Now go to Filter> Pixelate> Color halftone. set the value of color halftone window like image below.

Click OK your shape will look like below.

Tip 4: Shortcut while you are using brush tool it is a little difficult to re size brush tool, or make the brush hard of soft here I will show the best shortcut for re-sizing and softness or hardness of brush tool. To large or small your brush press (Alt+Ctrl+holding down right mouse button) move your mouse right or left to re-size brush and up and down to soft or hard.

What about color changing? if you want to change the color very easy press and hold down (Shift+Alt+Right mouse button) it will show box of color and Hue, remember that this tool does not work with some of the tools.

Tip 5: Magic Shapes in this tip I will show you a great tricks to create awesome shape.

Open new document 1000 x 700 white color. Now pick the Custom shape tool and use the arrow shape from the list on options bar  draw it at the middle of your document as below.

now make a copy of that shape by pressing (Ctrl+j) and (Ctrl+T) to transform and set the following setting for the layer. click OK to accept it.

Press(Ctrl+J) to copy and (Shift+Ctrl+T) to repeat the privies action, basically it rotate your layer 10^o . Do the same process till your shape rotated 360⁰ .

Now select all of the layers and go to Layer> Combine Shapes> Subtract Shapes at Overlap. your shape shout look like below. you can use any shapes to apply this effects on it.

Congratulation! we have passed the top 5 best Photoshop tips if you have any questions please leave comment below I will reply you as soon as possible.

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You may saw a flyer design in your school or other places, if you want to create one, you may think how to create it what size it should be which colors should I use and many more stuffs. This step by step  flyer design tutorial is for you to know all information about create Flyer design Using Photoshop

 What is Flyer?

Flyer is a form or piece  of paper with some texts and images information on it, about a product or an event for advertising in a public places or on internet.

What is the exact size of flyer for print or web?

It is depend to you for what you want to create flyer, the most popular size for flyer is (A5, A4 )  for long text and images, but you can create in any sizes as well. I personally use A5 and A4, these two sizes are good for business flyer.

Create Flyer design Using Photoshop

Before staring the step by step tutorial lets have a look to final result of what we will be creating.

Step 1: Create a new document, go to File> New, name it Flyer, from the preset menu select International Paper, from Size menu use A4, Click OK, the new blank document will open.

Step 2: Now place an the image, go to File> Place select the image from project folder you downloaded and click Place, it will placed in your document.

Step 3: Scale down the image and use Clone Stamp Tool to fill all the top empty area of the image like below, remember to  Rasterize your image layer before using Clone tool, to Clone the image hold down Alt Key to select a source color from the image than paint at top empty areas.

Step 4: Pick up the the Polygon Shape Tool, create a shape give it this color code #(efbf5e) and place it at the top of the document than make a duplicate by pressing (Ctrl+J) change the color bottom shape to white and move it sown by pressing the down Arrow key Five times, apply Drop shadow effects on it, Mode Normal, Angel 90^o, Distance 20 px, Size 120 px your design should look like below.

Step 5: Now use Pen tool try to create a nice and smooth shape like bellow give it this color code #(8abc43) than duplicate it and change colorof the bottom copy of the shape layer to white and move it to the left to create a nice stroke, as below.

Step 6:  Time to import or add some text to finish up our work, the most important detail is the text Title, Services and contacts, I  already had the text info and import it, just play with text font, size and color to make the design perfect.

Final Step: Create a polygon shape and put it at the lower right corner of the document make tow mor copy and scale it down than move it to the left, to fill the empty area and as well add some more images and than place the images put each image on each shapes than us the clipping Mask option to clip the image to the layers as below.

Congratulation! We have don, now you are able to create your own flyer for your client and costumers, feel free to ask regarded question about tutorial.

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In this series of Photoshop Tips tutorial we will show you how to create or make creative Facebook cover in Photoshop. We will use the Pen Tool, Layer Style and many more, so by the end of this tutorial you will understand all the great and use full tips and techniques to design your own Facebook cover photo in Photoshop.

Make Creative Facebook Cover In Photoshop

Take a look the final result of what we will design in this tutorial.

Step 1: Create new document, go to File>New, name it (cover photo) dimension on Facebook cover is 851 by  315 resolution 72 px, click OK a new blank document will open.

Step 2: Place a template of Facebook cover for guide to help you make Guide Lines.

Step 3: Now make some guide lines from the template, to make guides in Adobe Photoshop move your Move Tool over the ruler and hold down left Click and move your mouse to right or bottom of the document, as I did! If your document does not have ruler press (Ctrl+ R) to reveal the rulers, now hide the template after bringing the guides, than place some  logos or whatever you have with a different sizes and different area of your document as below.

Step 4: Bring one more guide to specified the center of your document, than pick up the pen tool and create a shape from two bottom  corners of your Ai logo to the center of the document.

Step 5: Now move your layer to the bottom of all other layers and create one more shape for the right side of the Ai logo and give it a dark color.

Step 6: Now apply Gradient Overlay  FX  for shape layer 1 and shape layer 2, give the same gradient color as below.

Set the setting as below.

Step 7: Now copy the same layer style and past it on shape layer 2, to copy the layer style of any layer just right click on a layer, a long menu will open, find the command and copy the layer style and past it on another layer, to  past the layer style do the same process the past command is right under the copy command.

set the setting for shape layer 2

the result should looks like this.

Step 8: Now again pick the pen tool, create two shapes to join Ps logo to the center of the document, use the same thing like step 4.

Step 9: Use the following color code for shape layer 1 and 2, #(7cbaf8) #(050034) than set the angle of Gradient to (0^o) for shape layer 1 and (-81) for shape layer 2.

the result looks like this.

Step 10: Do the same steps for two other logo, use this color code #(422f36) #(db007b)  for Id logo set the angle to (0^o) and (54^o) for each shape layers, and use this code #(cd9cff) #(0a0740) for top Logo which is Ae logo and set the angle to (90^o).

Step 11: Now make a shape for the profile picture give it a nice color and than make two shapes to join the profile pic to the center of the document, use gradient for the layers to give it better look, and add a nice background.

Step 12: Its time to cutout the document in a different parts, so to cut an specefic area of any documents in Adobe Photoshop is  use the Slice Tool. Slice only  profile picture area and photo cover size as We highlight it with yellow color.

Final Step: Now  go to File > Save for Web set the format to Jpeg  click Save to save your document, remember to save your document two time one for profile pic and second one for cover photo, Now your file is ready to set on wall of Facebook.

We hope you enjoy make Creative Facebook Cover photo tutorial, and try to create your own creative Facebook cover for your Fan page or personal Facebook profile. if you have any question regard to designing creative Facebook cover, feel free to ask us through comment section.

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