*Special Note* Make sure to check out my bonus blog published this morning

We’ve been working around with this series on non-destructive editing. Well, I think that we’ve been through about everything that I wanted to. I thought it would be a good idea to maybe give you a little pay-off for these techniques. So I downloaded one of the stencils on our website and just started to play around with it. I set out to make a custom coloring style, and I’ll show how I did that in my next blog entry, but then I started playing with the Photoshop layer styles, and the results were pretty interesting.

If you click the image above, and then click it again if you need to, you can enlarge it. My favorite is the translucent glass with my custom paint job although the slick chrome is pretty nifty too. Most of these were created simply by clicking the layer style that is listed under the picture with no changes. Some may have a slightly edited drop shadow or other incredibly minor tweaks, but most are entirely stock. By far, the most complicated image is the two gels + layer mask image. That is simply a red gel and a black gel layer on top of each other where I added a layer mask to the top layer such that you can see through it to the under layer in the spots where we wanted the second color. Imagine using these easy easy designs for your logo or even for flash whatever you want.