This
onecreates a blue-green-yellow rainbow gradient across a clouds/fibers grunge background, generating an image that is suitable as a background for a web header, as a scrap page background or as an image enhancement.

All by itself, it doesn’t really add much, but with a bit of imagination and inventiveness, it can be used in a huge variety of ways - especially for web use or photo page embellishments.

I’ve started what will eventually be the next main graficalicus.com splash menu just by cropping it to 750 x 300 pixels and added a bit of text. Experiment!

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Heh!I saw another record album tutorial the other day - two of them, in fact. I remember seeing a tutorial for this way back on some website or another a few years ago. It’s definitely a Photoshop Classic (it’s in Kelby’s book by that name, too!)

I figured I wouldn’t be doing my part in keeping the classics alive without an action for it, with customizable background, label & text. As always, Elements-friendly and ready to be fed to your Add-O-Matic.

And here’s to the classics! 40,000+ ways to make this in Photoshop!

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Here’s a fast video that will show how to get the effect names to show up in the Added Effects section of your Effects palette when using the Add-O-Matic.

This is for users of Add-O-Matic for Elements 6, mainly, but it works for every effects section, too.

Show Names
in the Effects palette

Click for the .swf

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Yeahso it took three months, but I finally got a new splash up at the front of the graficalicus main page.

I kinda like it, too - sort of like the inside of a heart!

This one started out in Elements 6 for the basic image, then got pulled into RealDraw for the HTML and rollover effects. A few tweaks to the javascript, and there it is.

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Wow.I never, ever would have thought of this, and it’s flippin’ brilliant.

I think I’ll try it out later on this sunny Saturday.

$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera - Lose The Tripod - More amazing videos are a click away

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I’mstill adding some reruns (i.e., videos I’ve made and haven’t done much with in a long time!).

This one actually turned up in a forum somewhere, and I got a few questions about the technique. I’m posting it here again - and over on YouTube, as well - just to bring it back out into the light.

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I found this video over on MSN Video - yet another way to show how Photoshop is used daily in the ad business:

Video: Photoshop Beauty

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