This image shows a finished decal texture.

Steps for Decal

1. You can look for an image that you want to be your decal or you can create decal by yourself by open new Photoshop file in power of 2 for example 512x512 with transparent background and you can unlock the layer.

This image shows the Photoshop settings for the canvas.

This image shows a finished decal texture.

This image shows Channel panel in Photoshop.

This image shows Where you can create new channel.

This image shows Alpha channel added.

Black and white photograph for restoring.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to restore a damaged Black and white photograph by using tools you would find in Photoshop.

Step 1

The photograph that was picked

Step 2

Touching up using the Clone stamp tool

Step 3

Fixing the big tear.

Step 4

Using the spot healing tool.

Step 5

The lace shawl

 Step 6

The roof of the car.

Step 7

The bouquet of flowers

Step 8

The finished product.

Black and white photograph with rips and tears.

Black and white photo after its restoration.

Which Angry Bird will you create?

Following the release of the Angry Birds Movie we thought it might be fun to practice our graphic design skills and make our very own Angry Bird. This tutorial is completed in Illustrator but all the tools and techniques used are also available in Photoshop. The reason I am using Illustrator is that Illustrator is the best program for creating vector graphics using the pen tool. Logos and cartoons are normally made with the pen tool so they are created as vector graphics, allowing them to be resized up or down without loss of quality, therefore this image will be created using the pen tool. If you are not familiar with the pen tool then you can read this guide to using the pen tool before you start.

Now that that is cleared up, let's begin making an Angry Bird!


1. Go to File-> New and create a canvas 700px wide and 500px tall.


2. Go to the layers window and rename the base layer 'Body'. Select the ellipse shape tool and create a circle, set the colour of the circle to red, as we'll be creating the red Angry Bird, and put a 7px black stroke on the circle.




3. Use the direct selection tool to move the top and left anchor points slightly, as seen in the image below.

The Angry Bird's Body

4. Now use the add anchor point tool (within the pen tool) to add 6 anchor points across the top of the body, don’t be too particular about the placement as we will be moving them soon anyway. See the image below.



5. Next select the direct selection tool and drag the 2nd and 4th anchor points upwards and the use the handles on each anchor point until the shape resembles the image below. (If there are no handles on the anchor points it is possible they are straight line anchor points, use the convert anchor point tool and click and drag slightly on each point to convert them to curved line anchor points.)

The infamous 'quiff' of the red angry bird

6. Now open the layers window and click the button circled in the image below and create a new layer, call it 'belly'.



7. Next, while on the belly layer, use the ellipse shape tool to create the rough shape of the belly, colour the shape in white and set the stroke to 0pt. Then zoom in and use the direct selection tool to move the anchor points and their handles into a shape similar to the image below.

Open file in Photoshop

Select image

Create clipping mask

Step 4.

Add a background colour (if you want) and that's it, simple as that.

Completed text effect with image inside it

Before and after the clone stamp tool has been used

The clone stamp tool is a very useful tool in Photoshop. It allows you to clone one area of an image and copy (stamp) it onto another area.

Step 1.

So first, in Photoshop, open any image from your computer by clicking File > Open.