Sometimes you'll want to make your text look like it was written with a marker on real paper (or some other surface), and the fonts that look like handwriting are not accurate enough for you. Fortunately, Photoshop has a few tools that will help give your text a nice, somewhat distressed inky effect for a realistic 'marker' effect.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to make a Yahoo!™ type smiley figure. Each step is accompanied by a screenshot, so jump in and start creating your own Photoshop style smiley characters. Feel free to manipulate the smileys here as needed to complete the lesson.

In this Photoshop tutorial , we learn how to create an icon that looks like a small tv set. Try using various colors, gradients and shapes to come up with your own design. Feel free to copy our images to use an example for your needs.

We last left off by adding some color and a guassian blur to our photoshop 'fire man'. (looks a little like the Human Torch©) In the next few steps we'll be adding some layers to offer some depth and life to our fire.