Create a quick plastic text effect.

Similar to stained glass, this effect makes photo look as if it was photocopied onto translucent plastic placed over multicolored lights. Learn how to add this beautiful effect with Photoshop.

Realistic metal is a difficult look to achieve in Photoshop, but here's a quick way to make good looking, metal bars, rods, and shiney pipes.

In this tutorial you will learn how to take a sketch and turn it into a fully colored image.

Creating these little technological marvels may seem easy enough in theory, but in practice they are rather fiddly to make, and the random distribution of the lines is particularly hard to duplicate. Learn a simpler and quicker method in this tutorial...

This tutorial details a quick technique for converting a bland mid-day photo into a dramatic sunset scene.??The results aren't perfect, but for the little time it takes you to do, the resulting images are surprisingly artistic and well defined.

Flame effect tutorials abound on the internet, but most of them are quite fiddly and take forever. You can, however, break the mould with this simple tutorial that takes under 10 minutes to complete and can be applied to anything. And hey... the results look pretty darned realistic too! ;)

This week I'll show you a quick way to turn your photos into a line art drawing.

Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds.

Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don't even know about.

Learn how to create a quick layout.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to use quick masks. Quick masks are similar to the selection tools but are more useful as it give you more control.

Learn how to create a quick layout.

This video tutorial will show you how to make a basic design for a website.

Creating these little technological marvels may seem easy enough in theory, but in practice they are rather fiddly to make, and the random distribution of the lines is particularly hard to duplicate. Learn a simpler and quicker method in this tutoria

This tutorial explains how to do vector, engraved text, watermark, barcodes, colorize, and pixel shadow quickly!

Create a stylish plastic header.

Make a plastic peel off effect, just like when you peel off the protection sticker from your dvd player display or mobile phone.

Add a clear plastic wrap around your text.

This plastic effect is made using lightning effects, the plastic wrap filter and layer styles.