Author: James Qu

James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience based in Australia. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Dissolved Ancient Ink Text Effect in Photoshop. The aim of this tutorial is show you how you can apply layer blending options, eraser tool as well as filter effect to text, in order to produce simple but effective typography in just a few steps.

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Photoshop’s Smart Portrait Neural Filter provides a powerful yet accessible way to relight portraits using AI. This tool intelligently adjusts lighting direction, intensity, and angle on detected faces, enabling quick creation of dramatic effects such as low-key side lighting or cinematic rim lights – all non-destructively. In this tutorial, we’ll transform a standard portrait into a moody, dramatic one in minutes using this neural filter. What You’ll Need Step-by-Step Guide Step 1: Open Your Image and Duplicate the Layer Open your portrait in Photoshop (File > Open). Duplicate the Background layer (Ctrl+J / Cmd+J) for non-destructive editing. Name it “Relight…

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