Letting photos shine by adding some subtle effects is something you learn to do by trial and error. Some photos will work perfect for certain effects and others won't, but it's something we creatives love to experiment with. One of the more popular effects is creating some kind of a vintage color effect. You create a certain atmosphere and it can give more depth when you add these kind of effects the right way. As always, finding the right balance in how much effect you add is crucial.
I'm not sure about you, but I'm still in favor of using Photoshop to create of my design for the web. However, I agree that this application, even with all its never-ending feature set, is not the ideal environment to design web sites in. The ideal application doesn't exist yet, until it does it is maybe not such a bad idea to investigate ways on how we can optimize our workflow.
Today we're exploring a quick way to get a satisfying wood structure in Photoshop. The kind of structure you would use as a background in a web site. So not the detailed kind that you would use for a poster for example. Why spent a ton of steps if you are going to hide 70% of it.
After writing the articles about the creation of an
inset effect on text in Photoshop, followed by how to create this same effect in
Illustrator , I received the request from Josephine if I wouldn't mind explaining how I created the textured background of the graphic used in that article. Here is how I did this…
Effects, such as drop shadow, inner shadow, gradient overlay etc. can be applied in Photoshop in a simple way via Layer Styles. This is a very easy, and most of all, flexible way. You can easily apply this on text and keep the text editable at all times. One of these effects is the inset effect, which can be created by a combination of a drop shadow and inner shadow. Today I want to share with you how you can apply an inset effect on text, in combination with a background that serves as a clipping mask and have all your text still editable. Let's get started!
