Painting Away Color QZ

Painting Away Color Tutorial

Step 1: Open the image you would like to work on. Press Apple+J.

Step 2: Click on the brush tool. In the options bar, switch the blend mode to color. Change your foreground color to black.

Step 3: From the brushes palette, choose a medium sized, soft-edged (0% hardness) brush.

Step 4: Start painting. As you paint, the color will disappear leaving tour image in grayscale. 

Gold Chrome Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text. Put a selection around your text.

Step 2: Go under the select menu and choose save selection. click OK. Deselect your text. Delete your type layer.

Step 3: Go to the channels palette, click on alpha 1 Go under the filter menu , under blur,choose gaussian blur. Enter 1 pixel.

Step 4: Return to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under render, and choose lighting effects. under the texture channel option choose alpha 1. click OK. 

Step 5: Go under the image menu, under adjustments curves. create a curve (input 64  output 186). click OK.

Step 6: Go under the select menu and choose load selection. Choose alpha 1 from the channel pop up menu. Click OK. Go under the select menu, under modify and choose expand. Enter 3 pixels. click OK.

Step 7: Press Shift+Apple+J. click on the background layer. Press Apple+A, then press delete. Deselect. click on your text layer, choose drop shadow from the layer styles. Click OK.

Step 8: Choose color overlay from the layer styles. Change the blend mode to overlay then click the color swatch and use the following: R=208 G=165 B=16. click OK.

Shadow In Motion Tutorial

Step 1:Tap the letter "D" to change your foreground color to black. Hold down the options key and tap the delete key. Type your text using a medium gray color(#666666).

Step 2: Duplicate your type layer using the apple+J shortcut. Rasterize your layer.

Step 3:Go under the filter menu, under pixelate choose fragment. Run this filter 2 more times by using the apple+F shortcut 

Step 4:Press apple+T. In the options bar change the width + height to 130%.

Step 5: Click on your original type layer and rasterize it. Click on the top layer and press apple+e to merge the two layers.

Step 6: To colorize your type, press apple+U to bring up Hue/Saturation. Click the colorize checkbox and move the hue slider to the color you'd like.     

Photoshop shortcuts

1. Apple+U: Hue and Saturation
   
2. Apple+T: Free transform
   
3. Option+Delete: changes color of image to your background color 
   
4. Apple+J: Duplicate layer 
   
5. Apple+E: Merge 
   
6. Apple+F: run the last filter 
   
7. Apple+Z: undo 
   
8. Apple+X: cut
   
9. Apple+C: copy
   
10. Apple+V: paste  
    
11. B: brush tool
    
12. D: sets swatches to default 
    
13. Apple+A: select all
    
14. Apple+S: save 
    
15. Apple+N: new document 
    
16. Apple+click layer: put selection around text
    
17. Ctrl+click layer: rasterive layer
    
18. X:  swap swatches 
    
19. T: type tool
    
20. Apple+D: deselect 
    
21. Apple+F: run last filter