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Everyone loves Mac and everyone loves background designs so today, I thought that I would combine the two and show you how to create a slick, Mac-like background design in Photoshop. This is an intermediate Photoshop tutorial in which you will be using the Gradient Tool, the Pen Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Enjoy!

Here is the final design that we will be creating:

Today, I want to teach you how to add a cool neon effect to text. This is an intermediate Photoshop tutorial where you will be playing with Gaussian blur, layer styles and rendering. As per ususal, I have included a short video tutorial at the end of this post. Experiment with the tools that you learn about here and have fun creating your very own stunning neon design.

Knowing how to create custom brushes in Photoshop is a vital tool for every designer. It is a pretty easy technique that really only takes a few minutes to learn. Today, I am going to teach you just that. First,  you will learn how to create a standard custom brush in Photoshop and then, I am going to show you how to apply this technique to create your very own custom smoke brush in Photoshop. Follow the steps below and watch the helpful video tutorials as well. Good luck!

I love typography and I love making designs with type. Today, I want to teach you how you can use type to create a cool background design in Photoshop. This is an intermediate tutorial in which you will be using the type tool as well as different blending modes. This beautiful typography background design can be used as poster art, in your website designs and even for your business cards.

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Today, I want to teach you how to create a unique type design in Photoshop. You can use  this design as your desktop wallpaper, as a background design or even as poster art. This is an intermediate Photoshop tutorial where you will be playing with different fonts of varying sizes and weights until you come up with a final design that you are happy with. This tutorial isn't too difficult however, it is slightly time consuming when it comes to placing all the text.