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.