Photoshop > Special Effects

Photoshop has many different ways of blending layers. Different blending modes determine how the pixels on one layer effect the pixels on other layers beneath it.

Create a glowing surface for your characters to stand on.

The real trick to making making your grass look real is to understand how the brushes work.

This simple tutorial will guide you though the steps of creating Blast Effect in Photoshop.

This planet is collapsing in on itself and is on the verge of imploding!

Shiny Metallic Disks will hypnotize you!

This Fleshy Organic Fan looks like meat was mutated into it!

This effect looks like someone spilt mercury all over the place!

This awsome 3D spike ball came be made in less than 30 seconds and is one of the most awsome things you will ever see!

This is one way to make water.

This awesome wave effect is easy to do and is 1337!

Here's a simple 'Layer Mask' and Brush Preset technique to create a custom edge stamp effect.

Heres a simple technique using brush strokes for making some trendy backround (Texture)effects.

Here's simple 'Style' applied to an Ellipse Shape. Applying a knockout to the center and using a Satin Layer Stlye makes for a neat object.

A very popular tutorial on how to create an effect similar to the effect in the film "The Matrix".