In this adobe photoshop tutorial we will be making a stylish glowing web 2.0 text effect. I know there is different opinions on what a web 2.0 graphic is, and I have read thousand of different definitions, here is one that I think would fit in that category.

Here is some of the elements a web 2.0 graphic can contain (note I dont say must contain) some glossiness, sleek curved lines or just a unique design.

First type in the text you want to apply this effect to.

Then in the layers panel double click the text layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it settings as shown below.

And we are done.. that was quite easy.

Hey there, in this tutorial we will be applying a pixelate effect in a face in an image, so we are censoring out a person from an image.

So here is the image I want to apply this effect to, I want to censor out the person on the right.

Lets just say he dont want his face shown on the internet, (ps this image was found on a royalty free image archive website).

First load the image into photoshop.

Then with the elliptical selection tool drag and select this persons face.

Now go to filter -> blur -> gaussian blur and give it a blur.

Still having the face selected go to filter -> pixelate -> mosaic and give it the following settings.

And we are done, that we quite simple!

Now we will make a funny looking splatter text effect with adobe photoshop, just take a look below to see what I mean.

First type in the text you want to apply this effect to with the text tool, make sure to use a big font.

In the layers panel, right click the text layer and choose rasterize layer.

Select the smudge tool with a quite big brush size (about the same as the text font size), and smudge the edges as I did below.

Hold down ctrl key and click the text layer to load the text selection, then give it a gradient like below.

Go to filter -> filter gallery and locate the filter called texturizer and set it as shown below.

In the layers panel double click the top text layer and give it styles settings as shown below.

And we are done!