Stucco is a type of mixture that, when applied to a wall, gives it a nice, rough texture. If you want to recreate the effect of this texture in your digital project, in this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a stucco brush in Photoshop—both from a photo and from a stucco texture made from scratch.

And if you want to save time, you can also download a brush set from Envato Elements! One subscription gives you access to millions of creative assets, including this set of stone stamp brushes:

What You’ll Learn in This Stucco Brush Photoshop Tutorial

• How to create a Photoshop stucco texture brush
• How to create a stucco texture in Photoshop
• How to make a stucco texture brush seamless

What You’ll Need

Your stucco Photoshop brush will be most realistic if you make it out of a photo. Here’s the one I’ve used, but you can use your own photo, or a different photo from Envato Elements.

• Stucco Texture Photo

1. How to Create a Stucco Brush in Photoshop

Step 1

Download the stucco texture and open it in Photoshop. Take the Crop Tool (C) and crop the edges slightly—their level of brightness breaks the uniformity of the whole texture.

Step 2

Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset and give the brush a name.

Step 3

The stucco brush Photoshop is done, so you can now apply the same texture to any background. However, if you just apply it straight away, you may get a „dirty” result like this:

To fix this, change the Blend Mode to Overlay…

… then duplicate the layer (Control-J) and change its Blend Mode to Multiply. Adjust the Opacity to create the level of brightness that looks best on this background.

2. How to Create a Stucco Texture in Photoshop

Step  1

You can also create a stucco Photoshop brush from scratch, without using a photo. Create a New File with these dimensions: 3000 x 3000 px.

Step 2

Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise, and add as much noise as possible.

Step 3

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, and make the noise slightly blurry, so that the individual points are no longer visible.

Step 4

Go to the Channels tab and take the selection from the RGB channel by Control-clicking its thumbnail.

Step 5

Invert the selection with Control-Shift-I, create a New Layer, and fill it with black.

Step 6

Create a New Layer below and fill it with white.

Step 7

Double-click Layer 1 and add the following Bevel & Emboss settings:

• Style: Inner Bevel
• Technique: Chisel Soft
• Depth: 1000%
• Direction: Up
• Size: 13 px
• Soften: 5 px
• Angle: 90
• Altitude: 30
• Highlights: Screen, white, 100%
• Shadows: Multiply, black, 100%

You can use a different Gloss Contour for a different type of stucco texture!

Step 8

Add a Stroke as well:

• Size: 1 px
• Position: Center
• Blend Mode: Normal
• Opacity: 67%
• Fill Type: Color
• Color: white

Step 9

The stucco texture is done! Now you can just create a brush out of it, like before.

3. How to Create a Seamless Stucco Texture Brush

Step 1

What if you want to paint more freely with your stucco Photoshop brush, without having to worry about the edges? Then you need to create a seamless brush. First, open your stucco texture (the photo or the one we’ve just created). Then make the texture seamless, for example using the method described in this tutorial:

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Step 2

This time, instead of creating a brush right away, go to Edit > Define Pattern.

Step 3

Create a New File—make it quite big.

Step 4

Open the Brushes panel and go to Dry Media Brushes > Kyle’s Ultimate Pastel Palooza.

Step 5

Go to the Brush Settings. Go to the Texture tab and select the stucco texture we’ve just created. Then adjust the settings until the brush works as you expect it to.

Here are the settings I’ve used:

• Scale: 190% (it can be smaller, if you have a bigger area to cover)
• Brightness: 0
• Contrast: -25
• Texture Each Tip: checked
• Mode: Height
• Depth: 7%
• Minimum Depth & Depth Jitter: 0%

Step 6

When you’re done, create a new brush by clicking the plus icon on the bottom. Your seamless Photoshop stucco texture brush is all done now! However, keep in mind that this texture has fewer shades of gray than a normal stamp brush, so the effect may look less convincing.

Good Job!

Now you know how to create a stucco texture in Photoshop, as well as how to create a stamp or a seamless brush from it.

Textured Photoshop Brushes Available to Download

Photoshop brushes are really powerful, and they can save you a lot of time—but having to create them first often defeats the purpose. Fortunately, on Envato Elements, you’ll find plenty of professional brushes, ready to download and use! Here are a few great options:

Grunge Photoshop Brushes [ABR, PNG]

If you want to add some chaos to your image, it’s very easy to do with grunge brushes. This set contains ten of them, all in high resolution.

20 Grunge Artistic Brushes [ABR, PDF]

Do you need more control over the chaos? These 20 brushes will work great with a graphics tablet—with them, you can turn every stroke into a detailed texture.

Photoshop Scatter & Stipple Brushes [ABR, PNG]

These brushes may look simple, but you’d be surprised what effects you can achieve with them! You can use them to add noise, make a surface look more detailed, or turn smooth surfaces into rough ones.

24 Distressed Texture Brushes [ABR, PSD]

Realistic photo textures are the best way to quickly add some grunge style to a photo. This set contains as many as 24 brushes based on hand-drafted texture—you just can’t go wrong with them!

12 Texture Spray Photoshop Brushes [ABR]

If you want to quickly make your image less „clean”, a simple spray brush may be exactly what you need. This set contains 12 of them, each with a slightly different look, but they all come in a high resolution and are easy to control.

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In this Adobe Illustrator baseline shift tutorial, you’ll learn what a baseline is, where the baseline shift is, and how to change it in Illustrator.

We’ll use the Alma Mono font from Envato Elements to better exemplify baseline shift in Illustrator and learn how to change the baseline shift in Illustrator.

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What You’ll Learn in This Adobe Illustrator Baseline Shift Tutorial

• What is a baseline?
• What is Baseline Shift?
• Where is Baseline Shift in Illustrator?
• How to change the Baseline Shift in Illustrator

What Is a Baseline?

A baseline is the invisible line on which letters sit. Using baseline shift in Illustrator, you can move the entire text or selected characters up or down relative to the baseline.

Where Is Baseline Shift in Illustrator?

To adjust the baseline shift in Adobe Illustrator, you need to go to the Character panel.

You can either go to Window > Type > Character or use the Control-T keyboard shortcut to open this panel. As long as you have some text selected, the Character panel can also be accessed from the control panel. All you have to do is click that underlined Character text which will open the Character fly-out panel.

How to Change the Baseline Shift in Illustrator

Select a piece of text or use the Type Tool (T) to select a part of that text, focus on the Baseline Shift box, and edit the existing value to move the selection relative to the baseline. Additionally, you can deselect your text and set a baseline shift value for the text that you’re about to add.

Alternatively, you can use a keyboard shortcut to adjust the baseline shift in Illustrator. Select your text and press Alt-Shift-Up Arrow to increase the baseline shift or Alt-Shift-Down Arrow to decrease the baseline shift value.

Baseline shift can be particularly useful when you’re working with text on a path as it provides a quick way for you to align and move text along that path.

Congratulations! You’re Done!

Now that you know how to change the baseline shift in Illustrator, feel free to use the technique in your future projects.

You can find some great sources of inspiration at Envato Elements, with interesting solutions to improve your design portfolio.

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A halftone effect is a technique that makes an image from dots of different sizes and opacities. You might recognize this distinctive look from comic books and newspaper photos.

In the digital era, you can apply the halftone effect to your existing photos, illustrations, or designs, and you don’t have to be a designer to create your own halftone effect. Instead, apply Photoshop actions or premade textures that will help you skip ahead in the process.

One of my favorite places to grab this type of effect is from the library at Envato Elements. This all-you-can-download subscription service has the shortcuts you need to apply halftone effects.

In this roundup, we’ll look at five Photoshop actions and five general-purpose images that can help you apply a halftone effect to your files. Each of these brings a slightly different effect to the table.

5 Best Photoshop Halftone Effects

Photoshop halftone effect actions are the one-click „easy buttons” for applying a style to an existing image. The selections below are a combination of actions and textures that each apply halftones easily.

1. Photoshop Halftone Effect Actions (ATN)

This is the classic pop-art style effect that can bring the halftone effect in Photoshop to an image with a single click. Download these actions and apply them to create halftone photography.

2. Dot Grid Photoshop Actions (ATN, PAT)

Here’s another flexible option for applying a pseudo-halftone effect. You can even use a variety of Photoshop halftone effects in this package to vary the size of the dots for complete creative control!

3. 10 Special Effects (ATN)

This is a package of ten different effects, but it shines for the halftone effect for Photoshop included in the package. This takes more of a square halftone approach to the effect on your image.

4. Letterpress & Screenprint Texture Effects Vol.3

Do you want to create halftone prints? This download includes a number of different texture effects, including a really slick halftone texture you can apply to any typeface.

5. 40 Halftone Illustration Brushes (ABR)

Brushes are another way of applying the halftone effect, and these illustration brushes can help you apply a halftone effect to any part of an image. Load these halftone brushes into Photoshop and brush over an image to selectively add halftone details. It’s perfect for halftone prints.

5 Halftone Image Effects

Whether you use Photoshop or another app, the images in this section of the roundup are flexible enough to apply to many projects. These textures and premade images feature alpha channels so that you can use them with your existing projects.

1. Subtle Halftone Textures (EPS, PNG)

This package is a great example of how helpful textures can be. This is a set of ten different halftone effects that you can overlay on any image in either EPS or PNG format.

2. Halftone Dots Texture Pack 10 (AI, EPS, PSD, PNG)

Here’s another vector texture that you can apply in practically any situation. Thanks to the vector format, you can scale the overlay up to any size and layer it onto any file to add the halftone effect in Photoshop. You can also work with this as a halftone effect in Illustrator.

3. Clean Vector Halftones (EPS, PNG)

This halftone print package is flexible and can be used for a variety of images, including the thumbnail for this tutorial! Because it’s packaged as a vector-based halftone effect Illustrator file, you can scale it up to any size and apply the halftone fade to any of your projects. 

4. Crumpled Paper Halftone Textures (AI, EPS, PNG)

This paper-style effect still integrates the halftone effect but in a more organic way thanks to the layered paper textures. Try this out for a true paper effect with halftone printing styles for your content.

5. Halftone Stains #1 Texture Pack (PNG, PDF, AI)

Halftone effects don’t have to be clean and homogeneous. This package of halftone effects for Illustrator has a „crime scene meets comic book” effect. Drop these in for a touch of halftone without covering your image.

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Editorial Note: This post has been updated with contributions from Janila Castañeda. Janila is a staff writer with Envato Tuts+.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a tiny planet in Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create the tiny planet Photoshop effect, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.

Do you want to save time with a ready-made effects? Check out Photoshop actions on Envato Elements, where you can find over 1,000 awesome photo effects!

What You’ll Learn in This Little Planet Tutorial

• How to set up a photo to transform it into a little planet Photoshop effect
• How to transform a photo to a panorama of a tiny planet
• How to remove the seam from our little planet effect
• How to make final adjustments to the planet Photoshop effect
• How to create your own tiny world photo effect

What You’ll Need

To recreate the design above, you will need the following resources:

• Maldives Photo

1. How to Start Creating the Little Planet Effect

Step 1

First, open the photo that you want to work with. To open your photo, go to File > Open, choose your photo, and click Open.

Step 2

Now we need to make sure that once we transform the photo into a planet Photoshop effect, the edges will be aligned as much as possible where they meet. To do so, choose the Crop Tool (C), click on the Straighten icon, and click and hold on the bottom-left edge of the sand and drag to draw a line to the end at the bottom-right edge of the sand.

Step 3

We need to contract the canvas on the top and bottom so that we have more balanced circular panorama. Go to Image > Canvas Size and use the settings below:

2. How to Create a Little Planet Photoshop Effect

Step 1

In this section, we are going to transform a photo into a panorama of a tiny planet. Double-click on the Background layer to create a new layer from the background.

Step 2

Now go to Image > Image Size, click on the link icon to unlink the image aspect ratio, and copy and paste the Height value to the Width value to make the image square.

Step 3

Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical to flip the image vertically.

Step 4

Now go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and select the Rectangular to Polar option.

Step 5

Press Control-J on your keyboard to duplicate this layer, and then Control-E to merge the original and copy layers into one layer. You can repeat this step a few times until the meeting edge transparency fills in.

Step 6

Now we need to make the edges of the circle panorama Photoshop effect meet seamlessly. To do so, I have used the Spot Healing Brush Tool (J), Healing Brush Tool (J), and Clone Stamp Tool (S). You can use any tool that you prefer, and you can skip over the ocean part in this step.

Step 7

Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M), and Shift-click and drag to draw a selection as shown below.

Step 8

Now choose the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), and Alt-click and drag to delete the left part of the circle selection.

Step 9

Press Control-J on your keyboard to create a new layer using the selection. Then, go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal to flip the layer horizontally, and position it as shown below. After that, you can add a layer mask to this layer to soften the edges.

Step 10

Now press Control-E on your keyboard to merge the two layers into one. Name this new layer Tiny Planet.

Step 11

You can check once more if any seams need to be adjusted, using the same methods that we have used previously, or make any other changes. Here is my result:

Step 12

Now Right-click on the Tiny Planet layer and choose Convert to Smart Object. Then, press Control-T on your keyboard to transform this layer, and set the Width and Height to 125% and the Angle to 75°.

3. How to Make Final Adjustments to the Tiny World Photo

Step 1

In this section, we are going to make some final adjustments to the little planet effect. Press D on your keyboard to reset the swatches, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map to create a new gradient map adjustment layer, and name it Contrast. Then, change the Blending Mode of this layer to Luminosity and set the Opacity to 30%.

Step 2

Now go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels to create a new levels adjustment layer, and name it Brightness. Then, Double-click on this layer thumbnail and, in the Properties panel, set the Highlight Input Level to 245.

Step 3

Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Vibrance to create a new vibrance adjustment layer and name it Vibrance/Saturation. Then, Double-click on this layer thumbnail and, in the Properties panel, set the Vibrance to +35 and Saturation to +20.

You Made It!

Congratulations, you’ve succeeded! You’ve now learned how to make a tiny planet in Photoshop. Here is the final result of our tiny world photo effect:

5 Creative Photoshop Actions From Envato Elements

If you liked this circle panorama Photoshop effect, you may want to see some cool Photoshop actions. Check out this list of Photoshop actions from Envato Elements.

Watercolor Photoshop Action (ABR, ATN, PAT)

Create watercolor artworks with just a couple of clicks! This action will do all the work for you, leaving you fully layered and customizable results, along with even 30 color looks to choose from.

Polygon Photo Effect for Photoshop (ATN)

With this Photoshop action you can create polygon effect from your photos quick and easy! There are 7 levels of polygon detail to choose from, and there is a lot of options for customizing the results.

Anaglyph / Glitch Photo FX (PSD)

Give your photos a glitch effect with this template! It’s easy to use, and there is a video tutorial included demonstrating how to use the product.

Double Exposure Action (ATN)

Blend two photos of your choice into a double exposure photo effect with this action! The action works with any Photoshop version and language.

Geometrical Collage Generator Photoshop Plugin (ABR, ATN, PAT, ZXP)

Using this plugin, you can create this abstract effect from your photos in an easy way. The script creates a random look, so every time you run it, you will get a unique look!

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