Heavens Door

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1440px * 720px with black background. Load the Forest image into Photoshop and select a portion as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection to our document, and use the Eraser Tool with a 40% flow, 100% opacity to remove some parts of the image, to create depth:

Add the following Image Adjustment layers on top:

Black and White

Hue and Saturation

Levels

and here is the effect so far:

Step 2

Load the Boy stock image into Photoshop and select the boy’s body, copy and paste into our document, re-size and place it shown below:

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this boy’s layer:

Black and White

Levels

And here is the effect so far:

Make sure you paint some dark shadow with a soft brush on the ground where the boy is standing so it blends into the forest:

Step 3

Load the Gate image into Photoshop. Select the entire image and copy + paste it onto our document, re-size and place this new layer in front of the boy (underneath the boy’s layer):

Use a soft eraser to remove some parts of the image as shown below:

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this gate layer:

Black and White

Levels

and here is the effect so far:

Step 4

We will add a pair of wings for the boy. Load the Nebula 1 image into Photoshop and select the following piece with the Lasso Tool (40px feather):

Copy and paste the selection to our document, re-size and warp it as shown below:

Hit Ctrl + L and apply the following levels adjustment:

Repeat the above process and add another wing, and there is the effect so far:

Step 5

Load the Nebula 2 image into Photoshop and select the following area with a 40px feather Lasso Tool:

Copy and paste the selection to our document, set its blending mode to “Lighter Color”:

Resize and duplicate this layer a few times, scatter them around the canvas as shown below:

Use a particle brush, paint some particles around gate, as shown below:

Paint some cloud with a cloud brush around gate as well:

Step 6

We want to add some flame inside the gate. Let’s go back to the forest layer, and use a eraser to remove the part inside the gate:

Go to the Nebula 1 image and select the following piece:

Copy and paste the selection to our document and place this layer below the forest layer, put it behind the gate: (make sure you adjust the size of the layer to fit the gate)

Step 7

We’re almost done! For final touches, we can flatten the image, and create a new layer on top, then use a big soft black brush to paint some darkness around canvas.

This will make the centre part of the image stand out:

Add some fiery effect on top of the gate with the “Nebula 2″ image. As you can see I warp the selection slightly:

Set the layer blending mode to “Screen” for this new layer:

We will apply some colour effect with the following adjustment layers:

Selective Color

Colour Balance

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Till next time, have a great day!

Bubble Text Effect

Before getting started, you may want to find a suitable font for this effect, as not all fonts will necessarily look right when this style is applied. You want a font with rounded edges — no sharp corners.

Some fonts that should work well include:

• Bubble Club Font – Preview / Download
• Bell Bottom Laser Font – Preview / Download
• Bambina Font – Preview / Download

Once you’ve downloaded a font that appeals to you, head on to the next part of the tutorial!

Step 1 – Background

This effect really works great on top of dark backgrounds, but will also work fine on lighter backgrounds (so long as it’s not too light, as the effect itself makes things brighter). Go ahead and create a new document, and fill in the background with a color of your choice (or #2d3134 if you’d like to borrow our background color).

Step 2 – Set the Type

Using the Horizontal Type Tool, set some text in the document with your font you downloaded earlier. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, but make sure you set your Text Color to White.

Set this layers blending mode to Darken. This will make your text disappear from the canvas.

Step 3 – Setting Up the Style

Go into your text layers Blending Options (Right Click Layer > Blending Options).

Apply the layer effects shown below, making any modifications as needed.

Drop Shadow

A Drop Shadow helps create contrast between our text and the imagery behind the text. It’s not necessary for the effect, but does help over busy backgrounds.

Inner Shadow

Inner Glow

These values may need to be adjusted to compensate for the size of your text. Larger text may require a larger size in the “Elements” settings.

Bevel and Emboss

This Layer Effect may also require some adjustments to compensate for text size.

Satin

Gradient Overlay

For our Gradient Overlay, we’re using a White to Transparent gradient.

Touchups

This layer style works very well on more than just text. You may want to try using the Ellipse Shape Tool to add some bubbles surrounding the text, and applying the style to them as well.

You can also add in some smaller trailing bubbles with a small 1-3 pixel white brush rising to the surface if you intend to use this effect in an underwater scene. If you’d like to see some other touch-ups I added to our final version, feel free to download the Bubble Text Effect PSD!

Download the Layer Style

credits from: http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/special-bubble-text-creation/655

Wave Effect

Firstly create a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1900px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Take the Gradient Tool (G) and open the Gradient Editor fromOptions Bar:

Choose the Foreground to Transparent gradient.

Apply the gradient from the top to down.

Apply the next filter: Filter>Distort>Wave and choose the next settings:

It’s the result you should get:

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow.

Add Gradient Overlay:

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.

We’ve got the next effect:

Create a new layer, fill it with black color applying the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and drag it under layer with gradient in Layer panel.

Back to layer with gradient and make a copy of this layer (Ctrl+J) and apply Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical. Set after that the Opacity the same way demonstrated below:

Select the Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B), set the Opacity to 50% in Options Bar and use black color for Foreground color.

Create a new layer and use here the selected brush to dark out the background the same way demonstrated next picture.

On the next layer we’ll represent another gradient. Change Foreground color to white, take Gradient Tool (G)and open the Gradient Editor from Options Bar to select the Foreground to Transparent gradient.

Apply the gradient on top.

Go to Filter>Distort>Wave.

The new result should be moved on the central part of the canvas, using in this case the Move Tool (V).

Make a copy of the last made layer, turn it over vertically, select both layers, pressing Shift+left mouse click on the layers on the Layers panel. Then Merge Down the selected layers, pressing Ctrl+E

Press Ctrl+T (Free Transform) and scale down as shown.

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Outer Glow.

Add Inner Glow:

Apply Gradient Overlay:

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.

It’s the result you should get:

Raise the contrast of our work, using the Create new fill or adjustment layer > Curves:

Adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

The work became more contrastive.

Create a new layer, using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) create a rectangular selection as shown and fill the selection with white color.

Apply the next filter: Filter>Distort>Wave filter.

It’s the result you should get:

credits from:http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/30970062/1/Waves-text-effect