1. You should start with opening a new document, and you need to make a new layer. Next you should select the Elliptical Marquee Tool (  ) and then create an oval shape on the new layer. Now you should fill this selection with a color of your choice.

2. After that you should select the Elliptical Marquee Tool again and after click and hold on the oval selection. Now you should move the selection to where you want, as long as the selection is still touching the oval.

3. Now you should just hit the delete key.

1. At first you should open the image that you want to add color dodge to. Then you need to click and hold the layer and move it on to the ADD NEW LAYER button. Its the middle button one the bottom in the picture. That will make a copy of your layer.

2. Next on the new layer that you just created. You should go to FILTER > BLUR > MOTION BLUR. You want to blur the image a lot, but not too much. Around 75-150 is a good amount.

3. Now you should have motion blured the image, and go back the the layer window. You need to click the tab that says NORMAL and go down until you see Color Dodge, then click on it. Thats it.

You can see it in the example.

Original

Color Dodge
More with color dodge
Once you have set your layer to Color Dodge, you need to go to IMAGE > ADJUST > HUE/SATURATION and there you can change its color.

Here you can see how to turn your sunny day pictures, into a night time picture, complete with a moon.
1. At the beginning you should open your picture.

2. After that you need to click Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation - and then you should give the following settings. (tick colourize box, hue 196, saturation 18, lightness -69)

3. Now you should click Layer > new > Layer - and name it moon
4. Its necessary to make a rather large selection, using the eliptical marquee tool, holding SHIFT after you started the selection to make it perfect
5. Then you should press D to reset your colors
6. Now, you need to click Filter > Render > Clouds
7. Selection > deselect (CTRL + D) to deselect the selection
8. Now, Edit > Transform > free transform (CTRL +T) and you should make the moon smaller to your size you want.

9. Now you should click Layer > Layer style > Blending options - and just below, right at the bottom… you can play with the bottom settings (underlaying layer) and you can seperate the triangle, hold ALT and drag them apart.

10. Next, you should click Layer > New > Layer - and call it glow
11. Grab a brush…. around size 18, and with a light grey as your foreground colour, run your brush left to right a few times
12. Now click Filter > Blur > guassian blur - to around… 14px
13. Then, you should click lower the opacity on the layer to around 25-40%

Here you can see how to create content bars, and make them look very spify instead of plain and boring.

At first you should open a new document any size as long as it large enough for a content header , and it is easier when working room so it’s always nice to make it a little big bigger.. So get your laso tool and make a little cut out like above.

After that you should get a stock photo. While you have 2 documents open you need to go to the document with the stock photo and press CTRL+A to select everything , then hit CTRL+X to cut or CTRL+C to copy it. Now you should go to your other document with the selection , And press CTRL+SHIFT+V which will paste your image into the document.

This will create a mask so you need to move it in whatever postion you like and then merge it down.

Now you need to create a new layer. While holding CTRL you should go to the layer palet and click the layer with the image. This will select the layer . After you have finished with this you need to go to Select>>MODIFY>> Expand.

Your picture should now look like this.

Then you should get your eraser tool and you need to dab a little off the image, this will make your text stand out which is always a plus.

Now you need to double click the layer without the picture and you will see a box similar , You should go to your stroke settings and copy these settings..

Then you should create yet another layer and get your circular marquee tool and you should make a shape like this.

After that youshold go to edit>>fill and fill it in with the color white.

Lower the opacity to about 50% shown in the picture above and then make a selection with your marquee tool. The point of geting your marquee tool is that you should delete all the extra junk white. You need to make as many selections as you need to delete this, because it will look tacky

You use Program: Photoshop 5.0+
1. At first you should press D to reset your colors. Create a new 300×300 RBG image.
2. Then you need to go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds.
3. Now you should go to Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Ink Outlines. Settings:
Stroke Length: 5
Dark Intensity: 20
Light Intensity: 10
4. After that you should go to Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur. Settings:
Angle: 0
Distance: 725
5. Now you should use the Rectangular Marquee Tool and ctrl+U to color it.
You should get something like this:

You should start off by creating a new layer 300×300, then press D to reset the colors. Then you need to create a new layer and follow these pointers:
1. Filter > Render > Clouds
2. Filter > Stylize > Find Edges
3. Press Control+I to invert colors
4. Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges
You need to play around with the settings to get your desired effect, in the example has used these settings:

Then you can finish up with something like this:

You can just play around with the settings and create different effects. You should try coloring them by pressing Control+U then adjust the levels.

In this article you will be taught how to blend 2 images smoothly together.
1. At first you should get 2 pictures that you want to blend together. These are the 2 which have used:

2. Then you should put each image on its own layer putting the image you need blending on the top. Then using the rectangle marquee tool on the top layer, make a rectangle selection if what you need blended. Here is what was chosen.

3. After you should go to SELECTION>FEATHER. A box will pop up. This will determine come much the images will blend together. In the example was choosing 30.

4. Now you can make sure the rectangle that you made in the beginning is still there. And hit Clrl + C (copy). This will copy the top image. After that you can click Clrl + V (paste). This will paste the top picture into the feathered rectangle.

EXTRA
You can also get similar results using the Eraser Tool and you can use a very large brush size. You should just make sure the picture you want to blend into the background is on top.

1. You should start by opening the picture you want to add color to and duplicate the picture so you are working on a separate canvas.
2. On the new canvas you should double click on the background layer (layer 0). Now duplicate layer 0 and set the blending mode to Overlay. Now it’s important to select layer 0 and go to Images > Adjustments > Hue/ Saturation (Ctrl+U) and check for colorize. Then you should move the handles until you get the color you want. In example was used 34, 34, 0. You can also add some blure, Filter > Blur > Gussian blur and set the radius to 5 pixels, to layer 1 to make it a bit smoother.

Not blured                                                                    Blured
3. It’s time to add some colors to the lip.
you should add a new layer (layer 2) and select a deep red color, for example #660000. You must to enlarge the image to about 300%. On the new layer paint the lips with a small brush. Don’t mind if you paint a bit outside the lips because we can correct this later. Change the blending mode to Overlay.

Normal                                                                     Overlay
4. Then you should do the same with the eyes and the dress. To smoothen the color over the eyes you must bluer the color with the same settings as above (2) and also you can use the Eraser Tool on the dress to get rid of the green color outside the dress.

Normal                                                                 Overlay
This is an example of the same picture painted for an email contest

1. At first you should make a new document, 600×600 pixels
2. Then you need to set your colors to black and white
3. After that you should go to Filter>Render>Clouds Now you should have something like this *

4. Now you must go to Filter>Sketch>Chrome Set the details and smoothness on 10
5. Since its gray, its ugly!! You should go to Image>Adjustments>Color Balance Then click and hold the third arrow to where it says blue, or just all the way to the right
Now you complete!! You should have something like this

1. At the beginning you should open up an image you want to apply a color masking to.

2. Now you should create an adjustment layer by clicking on this icon:

And then you should select Hue/Saturation.

these following settings:
Hue: 0
Saturation: -100
Lightness: 0
Now you should have a layer like this one:

3. Then you need to select the brush, and set the foreground color to black or any dark color, and then colorize the Hue/Saturation layer you just made.
If you want to erase what you just colorized, you should change the foreground color to white, and with the brush paint where you want to erase.