foreground and background - Rob Cubbon

How to put one image inside another image

There is an ad campaign in London at the moment for Portuguese tourism. You can see 48-,24- and 16-sheet adverts in the tube with giant portraits of famous Portuguese celebrities (Cristiano Ronaldo, José Mourinho) with a landscape showing through the image. Something similar to this effect that can be achieved with only a few clicks [...]

May 18, 2008 22 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Photoshop
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How to design water reflections in Photoshop

“Reflections are the new drop shadows!” If that’s the case, here’s how! Copy the text layer – or layer – that you want to reflect (Cmd/Ctrl-J). If the layer that you want to reflect is a text layer then you should Rasterize it. To do this, right-click on the text layer in the Layers palette [...]