Five simple Photoshop trick

Photoshop is an amazing photo editing tool but we don't have time to figure out every combinations of the function that are available. I have listed some of the basic fast and effective way to create and edit pictures or simple graphics for your blog or website without wasting too much time on tutorials. Hope you will find them useful.

1. Create a custom shadow

Duplicate your top layer, select bottom layer add high guissian blur (filter>blur>guissain blur) til you get your shadow look. Now now bring down the layer and use Edit>Transform>Wrap after resizing it to fit your need to give a more realistic look.

2. Create glossy reflection

For any object select it and create a new layer over it and add a nice little eclipse(tool) with white filled. From right corner change optical to 30 or close to it to match your image to create a nice glossy light reflection effect. For text be sure to use Layer>Smart Object>Convert to smart object before doing anything to get the same effect.

3. Use curve, level and blur

Bring life to your image using curve and level to fix lighting of the image. Click on he small black and white button below layer section to get the option. You should also use blur effect to focus on the main object and improve the smoothness. You can learn how to from here.

4. Add custom effects

Using built in effect will faster your work. Just duplicate your layer and go to Filter > Artistic and choose any. From the window, customize and choose from all the built in effect and smoothness to add it to your picture. Once your done, use erase tool to fix where you want your effect to work or not. With little bit of creativity you can do lot more using this tool and fast.

5. Add reflection 

Reflection are easy way to make a text or object look cooler. Duplicate object rotate it 180 degree and erase using soft erase tool. Afterwards change it's opticity and add additional effect to make reflection realistic.