In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Levels to create a mystical and reflective illusion of water in 4 steps.

Have you ever seen the movie Predator? There is a part when you look through his eyes and everything is infra-red looking. While I am on the science type effects, I decided to show you how to take an image and produce an infra-red type effect.

With this tutorial you will learn to create some animated lights and your design will really look alive. We this tutorial you will also learn how to animate something in ImageReady.

Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter can create many unique and custimizable effects. It is extremely powerful, and offers many different styles and effects. This tutorial will demonstrate a smooth beveling effect far superior to the cheesy predictable look of Alien Skin’s Eye Candy Inner Bevel.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to extract a clean mask from a photo of a tree set against a blue sky, using channels and levels, and then export the final result as a transparent .png. The general concepts may be intuitively applied to other applications.