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Photoshop How-To: Aging Metal Textures
How-Tos: Written by Colin Wood on November 24, 2004
There's something mysterious and beautiful about metals that have been allowed to rust. We see the passage of years in its patina. Here's how you can transform a plain gray background into a textured, rusty surface.
Photoshop How-To: Seeing the Big Pixel
How-Tos: Written by Colin Wood on October 22, 2004
Most of the time we want to minimize the appearance of pixels in an image. But sometimes it's more fun to turn those pixels into a feature. In this tutorial. learn how to add pixelated masks to an image for an oh-so-modern effect,