Every now and then I find tutorials from http://www.photoshopuser.com/ that have really neat things in them. 2 of the tutorials that we did in class were Painting with Words and Halftone Designs. The Painting with Words tutorial shows how to take a word, create a brush from it and then using that you can mask out parts of a picture.


The Halftone Design is what you see sometimes that looks like newspaper print surrounding a picture. The image you want surrounded by it is masked out from the background and then the halftone 'dots' are applied in patterns around it through a simple filter in Photoshop.