16 tips to improve as Graphic Designer

List of tips which would help to improve creativity as graphic designer.sure practices which strength our skills.

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Photoshop fabric effect

Step 1. Open new document, any size as you wish, with background content transparent, fill with dark yellow color.

Step 2. go to menu Filters - Noise - Add noise

Step 3. in menu layer - layer style - Bevel and Emboss in the dialogue box tick the texture and give the value as given below

step 4. in Menu Filter - Blur - Motion blur give the value as given below.

Finally the you will get the Gold foil effect .

Red hot planet photoshop filter effects

Step 1. New file 800 x 800 pixels, fill black for black back ground.

step2. Filter - noise - Add noise.


step 3. Select elipitical selection from toolbar, mark a selection in centre.
filter -Distort - spherize





step 3. change color to red image - adjustment - Hue/Saturation

step 4. apply lighting effect. Filter - Render - Lighting effects


Step 5. Select the sphere using the elliptical tool. Right click on it - choose layer vise cut option.
give outer glow. layer - layer style - outer glow




Step 5. Delete the the rest of cut part and ensure background is black.

Photoshop filters effects

Using Photoshop filters

you can use Photoshop filters to clean or retouch the images, you convert a image into artistic painting or sketch, or create unique transformations using distortions and lighting effects. you can use Third party filters apart from photoshop filters given in the filter menu.
Smart Filters, applied to Smart Objects, let you use filters nondestructively. Smart Filters are stored as layer effects in the Layers palette and can be readjusted at any time, working from the original image data contained in the Smart Object.


Filters are applied to the active, visible layer or a selection.

Most filters can be applied cumulatively through the Filter Gallery. All filters can be applied individually.

Photoshop Filters can be applied only RGB mode,Filters cannot be applied to Bitmap-mode or indexed-color images.All filters can be applied to 8‑bit images.

Photoshop Filter that can be applied to 16 bit images: Liquify, Vanishing Point, Average Blur, Blur, Blur More, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Surface Blur, Shape Blur, Lens Correction, Add Noise, Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Median, Reduce Noise, Fibers, Cloud 1, Cloud 2, Lens Flare, Sharpen, Sharpen Edges, Sharpen More, Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Emboss, Find Edges, Solarize, De-Interlace, NTSC Colors, Custom, High Pass, Maximum, Minimum, and Offset.

Photoshop filters that can be applied 32 bit images: Average Blur, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Surface Blur, Add Noise, Cloud 1, Cloud 2, Lens Flare, Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, De-Interlace, NTSC Colors, Emboss, High Pass, Maximum, Minimum, and Offset.

Cool Globe filters effects

Photoshop filter effects Tutorial

Step1.

Create a new file any dimension and fill with black foreground colour. apply could effects

Filter - Render - Different Colouds

Step 2.

Filter - Sketch - Plaster

Step3.

Image - Adjustment - Hue / Saturation

adjust hue and saturation slider still you will get the colour as blue.

Step4.

Take eliptical selection and make eclipital selection in centre.

Edit - Copy merged

and paste it in new file.

Rain Effect in Photoshop

Rain Effect through Photoshop Filter effects

The above image is collage done some time ago, now subject how to add add rain effect to it.

Step 1. open the above image or any image you like, in photoshop,

add a layer in the layer palette and fill black color.

Step 3. in Menu Filter - Noise - Add noise

Distance 73 and angle slant as given above

Step 4. Change the layer mode in layer as screen.

you will get the below effects

Photoshop Red Chilly Effect

Photoshop Filter Effects

Lets Create Red Chilly effect, which can be used as texture and also a background for website.













Step 1. open a new file , size does n't matter, select rectangle marquee tool, make a rectangular selection. fill black colour.

Step2. Add noise noise - Add noise

step 3. sketch - Plaster

step 4. apply hue and saturation to change the colour image - adjustment - hue / saturation

you wil l get the effect