Painting Away Color Tutorial

Step 1-> Open the image you would like to work on.
Step 2-> Click on the brush too . In the options bar. Switch the Blen mode to color change your foreground color to black..
Step 3-> From the brushes palette, Choose a medium sized. Soft edged (o% Hardness) brush.
Step 4-> Start painting as you paint, the color will disappear leaving your 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 pallete click on alpha 1 Go under filter menu,under blur, Choose Gaussian Blur enter 1 Pixel
Step 4: Return to the layers pallete 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 Choose curves Create a Curve . ' . (Input 186 Output 64) Click Ok,
Step 6: Go under the select menu and choose Load selection. Choose Apha 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 style. Change the blend mode to overlay then click the color swatch and enter the following. R:208 G:165, B:16 Click Ok.

Photoshop Shortcuts

Apple+U=The used saturation
Apple+T=Free transformation
Apple+Delete= Change the color of imae to your foreground color
Apple+J= Duplicate layer
Apple+E= Merge
Apple+F= Run the last filter
Apple+Z= Undo
Apple+X= Cut
Apple+C= Copy
Apple+V= Paste
Apple+N= New Doccument
Apple+A= Select All
Apple+S= Save
Apple+D= Deselect

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 by using the Apple+S shortcut. Rasterize your layer.
Step 3: Be under the filter menu under pixelate, Choose fragment run this filter two 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 rasterze it. Click on the top layer and press Apple+E to merge the 2 layers.
Step 6 : To colorize your type, Press Apple+U to bring up the sue/saturation. Click the colorize checkbox and make the hue slider to the color you like,