How to Create a Gradient in Photoshop ?

Create new document and select Gradient Tool from the tool bar.

Select color for your gradient, the top color is your starting color and the bottom is the end color.

You can choose many Gradient style from tool bar, then click and dragging mouse to a direction you want to gradient.

How to create a PSD File Using Photoshop ?

Open any version of Adobe Photoshop

Open a picture that you want to save as a PSD or create your own in a new document.

Save your picture as a Photoshop document: Go to the Menu, choose FILE >> SAVE AS... >> Select at the top .PSD as file type.

Its done.

How to make a vintage look of a photo in photoshop ?

Select your image. Try to find a standard-quality picture, that's not either very small or very big.

Open your image in Photoshop. If you have a problem with low picture quality, then see "How to Improve the Image Quality" article . If the picture is high quality, proceed to the next step.

Duplicate your image and again go to Blending Options. Choose Overlay or Soft Light, according to your preferences. If your image is a light one, it's better to keep it in low opacity such as 40%.

Go to Layer >New Adjustment Layer>Selective Color.

Input these numbers in the following order:

·         Reds: +67, -48, -26, +31

·         Cyans: +29

·         Whites: 0, -45, +18, +8

·         Neutrals: +59, -11, -27, +15

·         Blacks: +51, +25, +23, -12

Make a new layer.(Ctrl+shift+n).Go to Edit>Fill and fill it with #1200ff or any rich blue color.This will fill your whole image with this colour .

Right click your new layer and select again Blending Options. Set it to "Exclusion" and Opacity at 20-25%.

Add another layer and fill it again in this color: 8581b6. Go to Blending Options and select Color Dodge and set the Opacity to 25-30%.

How to improve image quality in photoshop ?

Select your image. Try to find a standard-quality picture, that's not either very small or very big.

Duplicate your picture by Layer>Duplicate Layer.

Right click on the layer you have just created and select Blending Options.

Set it to screen and select low opacity. Then select Layer>Flatten Image.

Duplicate your picture (Ctrl+J), and go to Filter>Noise>Reduce Noise. Now the settings depend on your picture, so experiment to get the best results.Here are the settings which are used in the picture above:

• Strength: 10
• Preserve Details: 7%
• Reduce Color Noise: 0%
• Sharpen Details: 56%

Now that you've improved the skin detail, you might still have scan lines on the background and hair, so go to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur. Once again, these settings depend on your image so just experiment.These are some sample settings:

• Radius: 2
• Threshold: 8
• The example picture after that change looks like this.