How to Add a Motion Effect to a Photo Using Photoshop

What is Motion Effect

Motion effect is often used when we want to show movement in pictures. What you have to understand here is that, motion effect does not make the picture or image move but it simply make the viewer feel or see that it is a still of a moving image. For example if you see the car below before and after the motion effect, you'd understand. Motion effect is handy when using it for a greater effect when speaking often about speed, vehicles, fastness, slow motion, super sonic etc. 

Bevel and Emboss | Layer Styles

Bevel and emboss comes in handy when you want to show some depth in your lettering or shapes. The image or the letters get a raised appearance as well as a soild look. May be someone can tell it is a 3D look. anyway today I'm going to show you how to use Bevel and Emboss layer style correctly.

If you see the picture below you can get a small idea about this layer style. Basically this tutorial is for newbies.

How to make an animated gif using photoshop

Today I'm going to tell you about how to make a basic animation using Adobe Photoshop. Here I will teach you step by step. So if you are a beginner there is no problem with that. As this is our first step about animations today I will tell you how to create a slideshow without effects. We can save this as animated gif file to add it to the web or anything you want. Unfortunately we cannot export animated files to SWF format using Photoshop. With this tutorial I'm starting animation lessons.

What is an animation

An animation is the production of images virtually enabled to perform as if they are moving. One of the main objectives of making an animation is to catch the eye of the viewer as they are better at doing it than still images. Not to mention, animated images can also add up liveliness too.

How to Add a Bloom Effect to an Image

Today's subject will be about the bloom effect. It's simple but very effective in enhancing the colours of your images. Bloom effect also increases the liveliness of an image by giving it a colourful brightness. This effect can reduce the dullness of the image to a great extent.Simply put, this effect can add a bit of a bloom to your pictures.

How to Add a Glow - Part 2 | Layer Styles

This is the second part of  "How to Add a Glow" tutorial. Previously I've written some posts about Layer Styles Including Inner Glow. If you haven't read them yet,

• How to add a Drop Shadow
• How to add a Inner Glow

Outer Glow is another Layer Style which allows to add a color or gradient around an object.

How to Add a Glow - Part 1 | Layer Styles

Glow effect is another option that we can see among Layer Styles. There are two Glow options called Inner Glow and Outer Glow. We'll see the both glow effects one by one. I will tell you about the Inner Glow from this post. Before that if you did not read the first tutorial of  Layer Styles (How to Add a Drop Shadow) click here to read it. It will help you to understand basic things about Layer Styles. Now we'll move on to the Inner Glow.

Inner Glow
Open a new document using your appropriate settings.
Go to the type tool and type anything you like.

How to add a drop shadow | Layer Styles

    This is the beginning of the Layer Styles section. First I've selected the "Drop Shadow" tool. "Drop shadow" is a Layer Style that you can see under the "Layer Styles". You can have a little idea about the drop shadow tool by looking at the image above. 

First of all we should know what Layer Styles are.

To open Layer Styles,

- Open Layers tab.

- At the bottom of the layers tab there are 7 icons.

- Second icon (Layer Styles icon) contains Layer Styles.