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Quickly Select Skin Tones in Photoshop CS6

Apr 28th 2012, 15:00

Skin Aware technology is a relatively obscure feature in Photoshop CS6 that will allow you to quickly select skin tones in a photo. In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will show you how this new feature works. Let’s take a look!

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PSDFan: FanExtra Surpasses 2000 Design Resources (Plus Win a Free Membership)

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FanExtra Surpasses 2000 Design Resources (Plus Win a Free Membership)

Apr 27th 2012, 16:41

2000 Quality Design Resources (and Counting!)

Hey PSDFANs! Today I’m extremely excited to announce that our main network site FanExtra has surpassed 2000 exclusive design resources! It’s amazing to think back to the early days of our network when we offered just a few basic source files.

Now that our network is over 4 years old, and our members area is over 3 years old we can really see how much things have evolved.

Here are some notable milestones:

We now have an awesome members community consisting of hundreds of happy members
We’ve just hit 50 members-only advanced tutorials, with new advanced tutorials being published every single week.
We’ve surpassed 2000 quality design resources, which now range from brush sets to vector packs, icon sets, UI kits, web element packs, design discounts, Photoshop patterns, textures, source files and more!
Our refund rate is below 1%, something which we are extremely proud of.
We’ve received consistently positive feedback about our timely and helpful support.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed the resources available at FanExtra. It's clean and easy to navigate and as an enthusiastic Digital Artist I find the tutorials to be of a standard higher than anything else on the web."

- Ken Edgar (Happy Member)

None of this would have been possible without all of you. It’s been fantastic watching our community grow and improve over the past few years, and I’m really excited about where we’re heading.

Exciting Network Improvements

We’ve been listening carefully to your feedback and ideas and as a result have been making big changes to our network.

Probably our most important change is to provide more and better tutorials. You guys consistently tell us that the tutorials are your favorite aspect of our network. So we thought we’d better listen!

We’ve been bringing on board a team of talented new tutorial authors that ensure our tutorials are not only more detailed, more advanced and more professional, but more varied, regular and creative. We’re focusing strongly on photo manipulation lessons, drawing/vector lessons and web design lessons.

The outcome of one of our recent FanExtra tutorials: Create a Wooden Record Deck Using Photoshop’s Vector Capabilities.

In the past members-only tutorials could be more sporadic, whereas now we never miss a week. Every week we bring you an exclusive advanced tutorial that really takes your skills beyond the free tutorials that we publish on a regular basis.

We also have a range of other improvements planned for the network:

We’ve started offering professional UI kits and web element packs.
We are bringing back our members-only discounts, offering great discounts on relevant services and products.
We’ve started work on video content – something a lot of you have requested.
We have a secret content area lined up that we’re VERY excited about. We can’t reveal too much right now, but I will say that this will give you insight into the exact techniques being used by some of the world’s top digital artists.
Members only contests.

Sign up to our FanExtra members community today and boost your learning!

Win a 12 Month FanExtra Membership ($69 Value)

To celebrate reaching our 2000 resource milestone we want to give one lucky PSD.FanExtra reader a free 12 month membership for FanExtra. This membership will not only give you access to our library of 2000 quality resources, but also all additional resources added during your membership term (so at least 50 additional advanced tutorials).

How to Enter:

To enter simply leave a comment to this post suggesting a tutorial that you would like us to release. This can be anything from covering a basic tool to a complex work of art.

As well as winning a 12 month FanExtra membership you will also get to see your suggestion written personally for you and shared with our wide audience. If you’ve been struggling with a specific effect or are curious about creating a digital composition then this is your chance to learn it.

Contest Terms:

This contest will run for one full month, as we want to get plenty of great suggestions from you guys. That means that the last deadline for submissions will be 27th May.

If you already have a FanExtra membership you can still enter, and if chosen we will extend your membership term by one year.
You can enter more than once, with multiple tutorial suggestions.
The contest is not open to PSDFAN/FanExtra authors.

Best of luck to everyone and I look forward to hearing your tutorial suggestions!

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Quick Tip: Create a Steel Text Effect in Photoshop

Apr 27th 2012, 13:00

In this quick tip tutorial we will explain how to create a steel text effect using layer styles in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Step 1

First make a new PSD document 1000 x 700 pixels resolution 72 Dpi. Now open free texture metal 1010 and copy and paste it into your new PSD document. Press Command/Ctrl+T to transform the texture and resize it until you are happy with it.

Step 2

Then we are going to make the textures for the steel style. Open the Metal Texture in Photoshop. Go to Image > Image Size and apply the settings as shown below. Now go to Edit > Define Pattern name it Steel Texture and press ok. Exit this document and go back to your document from step 1.

Step 3

We’re going to create the following two patterns ourselves. Make a new layer in the document of step 1 by going to Layer > New > Layer. Fill this layer with white by going to Edit > Fill and choose white Now take your Brush Tool and set the brush Size to 1 px and the Hardness to 100% drawing some black lines through each other like below. The more lines, the more scratches the style gets!

If you’re ready go to Edit > Define Pattern… Name it Scratches and press ok. For the next pattern make another white layer. This time make some more scratches and use different brush sizes. If you are ready go to Edit > Define Pattern and name it Scratches 2. Now make the layers invisible. You can always use them to make another pattern if you aren’t satisfied with the result on the layer style.

Step 4

Now create your text with the font Cafe Nero M54 in white and apply the layer styles as shown below. Open layer effects: double click on the text layer or go to Layer > Layer Styles > Blending Options.

Now we are getting somewhere!

Step 5

Duplicate the text layer from step 5 Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer and then remove the Layer styles from the new text layer. Right click on the text layer and choose > Clear Layer Style.

Step 6

Now we are going to apply some new layer styles on this layer. We’re making scratches on the steel and some more shadows.

When you are in the texture section of the layer style click on your document area and move the texture around until your happy with it.

Step 7

Your steel text is ready! In this step we are going to show you how to make the steel style more realistic. Make the STEEL STYLE copy layer invisible.

Select the STEEL STYLE layer > Copy this layer > Right click the new text layer and choose > Rasterize Type Now select the Brush Tool and take a hard brush 100% and size 15.

Zoom in and draw little around the letters with your Brush Tool. You get this effect below. Do this for all the letters.

Now select your Eraser Tool and remove some of the text like below

Step 8

Copy this text layer and apply the second Layer Style from Step 6 and you are done with the text! Select the Text Layer with the style from step 6. Go to layer > Layer Style > Copy Layer Style. Now select the new Text Layer you just copied. Go to layer > Layer Style > Paste Layer Style.