You will need to use only these tools:

- adjustments – Hue/Saturation

- brush tool – work with masks

- adjustments – Levels

Before:

After:

Tutorial:

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All you need for this text effect is some background picture and a good text font.

You will use only these tools:

Text tool

Gradient tool

Layer Mask

Check Result:

View tutorial:

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Shortly about actions:

An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies an effect to the image, and then saves the file in the desired format.

Actions can include steps that let you perform tasks that cannot be recorded (for example, using a painting tool). Actions can also include modal controls that let you enter values in a dialog box while playing an action.

In Photoshop, actions are the basis for droplets, which are small applications that automatically process all files that are dragged onto their icon.

Photoshop come with predefined actions installed that help you perform common tasks. You can use these actions as is, customize them to meet your needs, or create new actions. Actions are stored in sets to help you organize them.

You can record, edit, customize, and batch-process actions, and you can manage groups of actions by working with action sets.

How to import downloaded Actions:

Actions are saved on the hard drive as .ATN files. If you are donwloading actions you can save them as the ATN file to the default Actions folder -  default path is on C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS”\Presets\Actions on PCs. Then open Photoshop and click on the arrow in the upper-right corner of the Actions bar. Select the “Load” option from the menu that appears, and find your ATN file. This causes the action set to appear in your Action list.

You can browse, find, download and use different Photoshop actions HERE

How to record and use Actions

For better imagination check this tutorial:

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You may often see the images of people with changed background which have selected hair like this:

Please do not do that :)!

There are several ways how to select hair more precisely. One of them is Refine edge option. Using the refine edge tool will greatly help and speed up editing tasks especially when you need to select out the hair or fur on subjects.

You can find this option here:

Note that I have selected Quick selection tool.

Or go to top menu – Select -> Refine Edge

But before you will choose Refine Edge you need to select your object with some selection tool. You do not need to be very precise around the hair. After that you may use Refine Edge option.

Here you can see final result of my tutorial:

For more info please view this video tutorial:

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First at all visit section RESOURCES on our page. There are links to pages as deviantart, dafont, etc. . Or to support our pages functionality you can download pack of brushes from here:

and pack of fonts from here: 

Then watch these two videotutorials where I am illustrating how you can download and import brushes and fonts.

First video is dedicated to Photoshop brushes in second video you will find tutorial how to install fonts in to Windows and use them in Photoshop.

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About layer and vector masks

You can use masks to hide portions of a layer and reveal portions of the layers below. You can create two types of masks:

• Layer masks are resolution-dependent bitmap images that are edited with the painting or selection tools.
• Vector masks are resolution independent and are created with a pen or shape tool.

Layer and vector masks are nondestructive, which means you can go back and re‑edit the masks later without losing the pixels they hide.

In the Layers panel, both the layer and vector masks appear as an additional thumbnail to the right of the layer thumbnail. For the layer mask, this thumbnail represents the grayscale channel that is created when you add the layer mask. The vector mask thumbnail represents a path that clips out the contents of the layer.

Note:

To create a layer or vector mask on the Background layer, first convert it to a regular layer (Layer > New > Layer from Background).

Masking layer
A. Layer mask thumbnail  B. Vector mask thumbnail C. Vector Mask Link icon D. Add Mask

You can edit a layer mask to add or subtract from the masked region. A layer mask is a grayscale image, so areas you paint in black are hidden, areas you paint in white are visible, and areas you paint in shades of gray appear in various levels of transparency.

Background painted with black; description card painted with gray; basket painted with white

A vector mask creates a sharp-edged shape on a layer and is useful anytime you want to add a design element with clean, defined edges. After you create a layer with a vector mask, you can apply one or more layer styles to it, edit them if needed, and instantly have a usable button, panel, or other web-design element.

The Properties panel (CS6) or the Masks panel (CS5) provide additional controls to adjust a mask. You can change the opacity of mask to let more or less of the masked content show through, invert the mask, or refine the mask borders, as with a selection area.

Masks panel (CS5) and Properties panel (CS6)
A. Select the filter mask.

B. Add a pixel mask.

C. Add a vector mask.

D. Panel menu.

E. Apply Mask

F. Layer mask

G. Vector mask

Source: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html

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