This article is a compilation of the most fantastic effects in Photoshop. But instead of showing some ugly examples, I tried to find some of the best and coolest works using these effects. These examples prove that when correctly applied the results are far from cheesy.

#8 – Dreamy and Mystical Effects

Dreamy and mystical is the new cheesy. You can see these effects almost anywhere. Most of them are nice and beautiful, but sooner or later you will get tired of seeing angelical girls surrounded by halos and magical trails of light. Sites like PSDTuts, Photoshop Garden or Abduzeedo have some nice examples of this kind of effects.

Create a Ghostly Effect in Photoshop

The little mermaid

The Making of Mystic

AutoFx Mystical Lighting Photoshop Plugin | Compare prices

#7 – Reflective and Glossy Effects

Apple has made, and is still doing, some awesome artwork with this effect. Not to mention that most of their line of products are actually glossy and reflective, of course. Sadly, this effect has been highly overused in the so called Web 2.0 design and that´s why it made it to the top 8 cheesy list. Check some resources below to achieve some cool reflective and glossy effects.

Create a Colorful Print-and-Play Puzzle in Photoshop

Loading Interface

Create a Mobile Phone Styled Like the HTC Touch Diamond

AutoFx DreamSuite Gel Photoshop Plugin | Compare prices

#6 – Explosion and fire effects

Years ago very primitive techniques were used to achieve these effects. It was something like “Yeah, right” amateurish and awful techniques. But now you can find some fine and really awesome tutorials with these effects.

Hell of tutorial in Photoshop

Create a space explosion from scratch in Photoshop

Create a spectacular flaming meteor on text

#5 – Chrome effects

Chrome has no color. It´s all about reflections. But that was very difficult to achieve. For years, chrome effects were created by using some ugly curves and filter combinations to make things look like real chrome. But if you don´t reflect the surroundings, there effect is totally fake. The following resources add a twist to the chrome effect, making it more realistic.

How to chrome plate your cherries

Realistic chrome and glossy plastic text effect

#4 – Photo frames effect.

When used correctly, photo borders are not bad at all. But some of them are as ugly as a dead toad. You know, those blocky chiseled borders or those blurry rippled rectangles, to mention a few. Those are so hideous that placed this effect on the fourth position. But, as usual, some creative people came up with very cool alternatives.

Create a vintage Polaroid effect

Creating Photo Borders With Displacement Maps

OnOne PhotoBorder Photoshop Plugin | Compare prices

#3 – Photo to illustration effects.

Why do we always have the urgent need to turn any photo into a cartoon or illustration? 99% of all attempts will fail miserably. There is absolutely no way to do that in a single step. In this case, as with most effects applied to photos, the first step is to choose the right photo. Closeups are the right candidates for this. The following tutorials are some of the best Photo to illustration/cartoon effects.

Photoshop your portrait through painting history

Give your photos a retro comic book effect

Photo to illustration effect

Create a complete vexel image using Photoshop

#2 – Embossed effects

I can´t think of anything uglier than the standard Emboss plugin applied to a photo. But with some clever technique that are based mainly in not using the Emboss plugin at all, you can achieve very realistic results.

Rendering a map using relief shading technique in Photoshop

Create paper folds and creases

Creating a wet a muddy rocks texture using FilterForge Photoshop Plugin

#1 – Page Curl

Hands down, the king of cheesy effects. For years this effect has been sneaking into everything on its way. Believe or not, there are some great examples available of good looking page curls. AVBros is producing an amazing plugin capable not only to create good looking page curls, but also some stunning surfaces folds

Sticker tutorial

Make a page curl

AVBros Page Curl Pro 2.2

• Add a Little Contrast to Your Photos put some pop back into your low contrast images with this tutorial.
• Add Text to Clipart from Laurie McCanna
• Add Texture to Type from Laurie McCanna
• Adding a Color Tint in Photoshop CS3 Thanks to the new Black & White command in the Photoshop CS3, it’s simple to create a great black and white image and add a color tint.
• Adjusting Exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3 This tutorial deals with exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3.
• Adjustment Layers 101 If you’ve not yet discovered the benefits of using adjustment layers, you owe it to yourself to read this article.
• Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet The pen tool works pretty much the same across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Learn the differences between the various pen symbols with this handy helper.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 Tips Here are ten great tips to get you started in Lightroom 1.0.
• Anti-aliasing guide an important technique in making graphics and text easy to read on-screen is anti-aliasing.
• Beginners Guide to Creating a Glossy Effect This tutorial guides you through the simple steps to creating a glossy object.
• Charcoal Drawing with Photoshop is a tutorial on how you can apply charcoal drawing effect to your photos using Photoshop.
• Controlled Image Sharpening with Photoshop use Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter to sharpen up your pics.
• Create 3D Abstract Crystals Learn to create 3D crystals in Photoshop without using 3D software.
• Create Golden Text Create text in precious metal (gold) using this beginner’s based tutorial.
• Create a Hollywood style Text Effect from Laurie McCanna
• Create a Stone Texture In this Photoshop Tutorial .. you’ll learn to create a realistic stone texture.
• Create a Paper Texture from Laurie McCanna
• Create A Photo Within A Photo In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to bring more focus to your main subject by creating the illusion of a smaller, cropped version of the image within itself.
• Create a Seamless Cloud Background from Laurie McCanna
• Creating a Layered Threshold Effect in Photoshop Using the Threshold command in Adobe Photoshop can create a neat one color effect. A full color photo can be turned into a black outline. This technique involves creating a different shade of color to four different layers, all increasing levels of threshold. The result is a “layered threshold” look.
• Creating a Smoke Effect in Photoshop Create a smoke effect with Photoshop.
• Create a Transparent GIF from Laurie McCanna
• Create Denim Cube Textures This tutorial will teach you how to quickly create very believable denim-like cube textures using Photoshop’s built in features.
• Create Glowing Text from Laurie McCanna
• Creating a Rope in Photoshop This tutorial illustrates how to create a rope using blending and filters.
• Creating an Online Portfolio with Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to create an online portfolio from the File Browser in Photoshop CS or Bridge in CS2.
• Creating Batch File Processes in Photoshop Have a load of tasks to complete? Create a batch file to do the heavy lifting for you.
• Creating Custom Brushes in Photoshop is another great tip from Laurie McCanna.
• Create Realistic Hair in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to create realistic looking hair when little or none exists.
• Customizing the Way You Work in Photoshop CS3 is a sample chapter from the book *Adobe Photoshop CS3 On Demand*. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to customize Photoshop CS3 to suit your needs bettter.
• Deke McClelland’s Tour of Photoshop CS3 Interface The all time Photoshop guru goes over the new interface and features.
• Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop Like those fancy tabs you see all over the place? Check here for a nice tutorial on how it’s done.
• Design a Website In Photoshop takes a more graphical approach to the design and layout od a website.
• Digital Drawing In this tutorial geared towards the beginner .. you’ll learn to use the vector drawing tools of Photoshop using your mouse.
• Drawing Lightning is a tutorial explaining how to make lightning by using filters in Photoshop.
• Eraser Tool Video Tutorial is a 2 minute video on the eraser tool from CreativeTechs.
• Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks show you two ways to use Layer Masks to fade images.
• Filter Gallery: Quick Reference Check out this handy guide to see exactly how the collection of 47 Gallery Effect filters work when applied to images.
• Fine Art Effects – Cubism This article shows the effects of Cubism. The steps are easy to understand, and have lots of good images and screen shots.
• Fixing a Washed Out Sky Sometimes the sky isn’t as perfect as you’d like .. this tip has a fix for that problem.
• Focus With Light In Photoshop In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to add focus to an image with light, using Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.
• Get better .eps preview images from Photoshop You can get beautiful full color/full resolution preview images in your .eps file by following this simple tip.
• Getting good grayscale out of Photoshop converting color images to black and white.
• Gradient Mapping in Adobe Photoshop Learn to create a half sunset photo.
• Gold & Silver Metallic text This tutorial walks you through the creation of precious metals text creation.
• Groovy Two Toned Text Effects in Adobe Photoshop Laurie McCanna shows how to create 60’s style effects.
• Guy’s Digital Imaging Tips Most are tips for Photoshop, but some are probably applicable to other applications as well.
• Hands on Training for Photoshop from DocOzone and Apocalypse Studios
• Healing lines under the eyes use the Healing Brush to remove dark circles or wrinkles.
• How to Adjust Your Printer Settings to Get Great Photos This article covers how to select the correct options in your printer driver. If you’ve ever been frustrated trying to figure out your printer driver options or you just couldn’t get a print that looked right, this article is for you.
• How To Apply A Smart Filter In Photoshop CS3 This Photoshop CS3 tutorial, will look at the basics of how to apply smart filters to an image, a new feature of Adobe Photoshop CS3.
• How to Deploy Smart Stacks in Photoshop CS3 Extended This step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to erase moving objects from crowded street scenes with a new feature in Photoshop CS3 Extended. Plus, a workaround for those not ready to shell out big bucks for the new software.
• How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop The techniques in this tutorial are geared towards the advanced Photoshop user, and certainly worth a read.
• Laurie McCanna’s Photoshop Tips and Techniques Great techniques for anti-aliasing, balls, beveling, speeding up your work, and more. If you’re getting started with Photoshop or been around the block, you’ll find something here.
• Learn to draw circles, 3d concentric circles and 3D round graphics in Photoshop In this tutorial you’ll learn how to draw circles, 3d concentric circles, and more.
• Magic lighting effect in Photoshop This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a cool magical lighting effect. It also uses text morphing and various other methods to create the finished image.
• Lunacore Detailed Photoshop tutorials, tips, FAQ, news, training, advice and resources.
• Macworld Photoshop CS3 Extended review is a nice and informative review, but puts it’s focus primarily on the special features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.
• Metallic Paint in Photoshop is one method of drawing metallic effects in Adobe Photoshop.
• Misunderstood Photoshop: The Match Color Tool explains how you can put Photoshop’s Match Color tool to work in your photo editing workflow. Also included is a video tutorial.
• Old Movie Effect Using this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll be able to create an Old Movie Effect with the image of your choice.
• Optimizing Photoshop for the Web Before you let it out on to the Internet on its own, it is a good idea to net-train it a little.
• Optimize performance in Photoshop CS3 on Mac OS is from the Adobe Knowledgebase.
• Optimize performance of Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP and Vista From the Adobe Knowledgebase as well.
• Organize Your Photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom organize your photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
• Photoshop CS2 Easter Egg – Space Monkey (OS X): Click the Photoshop menu .. then hold down the Command and Option keys, and click *About Photoshop*.
  (Windows): Simultaneously press both CTRL+ALT and hold them down. Still pressing CTRL+ALT, click on the *Help* menu and select *About Photoshop*.
• Photoshop Professional Tips & Tricks Part of these tricks are of interest to Web designers, others for real world designers. Most of the things described here are undocumented features.
• Photoshop Sharpening Tips for Designers Here are a few helpful tips, no matter which method you choose to use, for sharpening your image.
• Photoshop Tips Basic, simple, well-illustrated instruction for beginning Photoshop users.
• Photoshop Your Stamps With PhotoStamps Learn to create your own customized postage stamps with Photoshop.
• Printing from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – Add Edge Effects onOne Software’s Mike Wong has a tutorial explaining how to apply borders and edge effects from within Photoshop Lightroom.
• Puzzle effect This tutorial will show you how to apply puzzle effect to a picture.
• Recolor Clipart from Laurie McCanna
• Refining Selections is a look at selecting an area to work on in Photoshop.
• Removing Dust Spots from Multiple Photos By using Lightroom’s Remove Spots tool along with the Synchronize feature you can zap those spots in a heartbeat.
• Resize Clipart from Laurie McCanna
• Retouching the Mouth in Photoshop Elements Tips on how to whiten smiles, enhance lips, fixing spaces between teeth .. and more.
• Review of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended by Lori Grunin of CNET.
• Rumpled Picture Effect in Photoshop this tutorial shows how to create a crumpled effect in Photoshop.
• Selecting & Extracting Hair One of the toughest jobs in Photoshop, or any image editing app .. is editing hair. This tutorial shows you how to stack the deck in your favor … BEFORE you even snap the picture.
• Sharpening The Right Way In Photoshop Using Smart Sharpen instead of Unsharp Mask.
• Shortcuts At A Glance covers the plethora of keyboard shortcuts available in Photoshop.
• Simulate An Infrared Photo Effect In Photoshop In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to simulate the look of infrared photography.
• Stained metal effect texture in Photoshop In this tutorial you will see how to make a texture with stained metal effect.
• Top 10 new things you can do with Photoshop CS3 are 10 new reasons that are certainly worth mentioning if you’re thinking up upgrading.
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 1 explains the fundamental concepts you need to understand to work with type in Photoshop.
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 2: Type Layers and Tools explains how you can work with Photoshop’s type layers and tools to add text to your artwork.
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 3: Type-Related Palettes Pete Bauer provides an in depth look at the many type related options Photoshop offers through the Character and Paragraph palettes.
• Using Photoshop’s Free Transform Command Learn to apply transformations (move, rotate, scale, skew, distort, perspective and wrap) in one continuous operation with this tutorial.
• Water bubbles in Photoshop is a tutorial showing you how to make water bubbles in Adobe Photoshop.
• Web Domination Using Photoshop This Photoshop tutorial teaches you resizing, rotating documents and layers, using masks, curves, custom shapes, transparent images, gradients, and style dialogs.
• What’s New in Photoshop CS3 Is a 4.05 MB, 24 page PDF file from Martin Evening’s book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers. This PDF is chapter 1 from the book .. and outlines all the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Bridge 2, written from a user’s perspective.
• Working With High Dynamic Range in Photoshop CS3 Tutorial Photoshop’s Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) is still not able to merge exposures where subjects have moved between the separate exposures. The technique in this tutorial shows you how to resolve this problem.
• Working With Shadows In Photoshop Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds in the advanced tutorial.

1. Text In Stitches

   How to convert text to a path and how to stitch that path using a custom brush set.

   

2. Colorful Glowing Text Effect

   

3. Spray Paint Text

   

4. Bling Bling Simple Gold Text Effect

   How to make a simple gold

   text effect by using some layer styles, namely the Gradient Overlay layer style!

   

5. Cheese text effect

   How to make a stylish cheese

   text effect.

   

6. Reflective Glass Tutorial (Video tutorial)

   Incorporates several different techniques to achieve an effect similar to a reflective glass material that is mirroring the scenery around it

   

7. Entrails Photoshop Tutorial (Video tutorial)

   How to use filters, blending modes, and hue changes in order to stylize some text.

   

8. Taco Bell Text (Video tutorial)

   How to use layer

   styles in order to duplicate a unique effect that you may have seen during a late-night run for the border.

   

9. Aqua Text Photoshop Tutorial

   

10. Chained Text

    This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create text wrapped in chains.

    

11. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

    Create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects.

    

12. Trendy Typographic Poster Design

    Creating an interesting and eye-catching poster with a single typographic word.

    

13. Spiderman III

    

14. Furry Text

    This

    Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create text with a furry texture.

    

15. Awesome Grunge Text Effect

    How to create an awesome grungy

    text effect. The effect can be used to liven up your website layouts, but can also provide a good way to display logos and other graphical elements alone.

    

16. Hell of Tutorial

    Create a 3D text with fire coming from the inside of the document like a hole.

    

17. Highlighted Chrome

    Create some cool smooth chrome with soft blue highlights, great as a

    text effect..

    

18. Honeycomb Text Effect

    This

    Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a honeycomb style text.

    

19. Icey Styles in Photoshop

    Create an icey-cold effect using layer

    styles and that you can apply to different objects.

    

20. Linked Letters

    

21. Gold Plated Text

    Learn how to turn text into gold using Photoshop’s Layer

    Styles.

    

22. WarCraft Font

    

23. Dirty Grunge Text

    

24. Design a Lego Typography in Photoshop

    How to make Lego blocks and use it for typography designs.

    

25. Metal Wires Text

    How to create metal wires

    text effect.

    

26. Paint Effect

    

27. Paint Splodge Text

    How to simply create a paint splodge looking text using blending options and the pen tool it will take only around 5 minutes to complete

    

28. Colored chrome text effect

    Create a colored chrome

    text effect.

    

29. Killer Metallic Text

    

30. Simple dark but vivid text effect

    Create a very simple

    text effect. A dark, colorful
    text effect.

    

31. Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

    How to create this cool effect in just 30 minutes.

    

32. Decorating Text

    Pick and mix which techniques you use or just try all of them and end up with an image like this.

    

33. 3D Text effect

    This tutorial shows you how to create a nice 3D text using only photoshop 7.

    

34. Glossy Candy Text Effect For Kids

    This is a very tutorial for making colourful text, ideal for any kids decoration or web sites.

    

35. 3D Cliff Text

    How to a text that look like it was formed by cliffs of mountains.

    

36. Text on rust

    

37. Scrabble Text

    How to make a cool scrabble

    text effect using various tools, layer
    styles and a wood pattern.

    

38. Retro Text

    

39. Scanline Text

    Here we will create a style named ‘Scanline Text’ which is basically text which glows like bright scanlines, with a smart reflection as well.

    

40. Shining Neon Text Effect in Photoshop

    

41. Creating the Sky Logo

    Very simple and straightforward way of creating Sky’s latest logo.

    

42. Create a Spectacular Graffiti Effect

    

43. Gold Text effect

    A very easy and basic tutorial that doesn’t require much knowledge and experience with photoshop.

    

44. Star Wars text effect

    

45. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

    How to mix some vectors with letters to create a really nice design.

    

46. Delicious Chocolate Text

    Learn how to quickly design some delectable, rich dark chocolate flavored text!

    

47. Moon Shine Text Effect

    This

    Text Effect Quickie will show you how to easily create a soft glowing moon-like text.

    

48. Pop Text Effect

    This

    Text Effect Quickie will show you a real simple way to create a vibrant, poppy type in just a few minutes.

    

49. Making a Rusty Text

    

50. Wanted Sign Into A Piece of Wood

    Make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke ‘em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.

    

51. Wood Inlay Text

    How to create a wood inlay effect using wood textures, layer masks and a few creative selection techniques.

    

1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

   This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

   

2. Fairy Night Eye

   How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

   

3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

   

4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

   Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

   

5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

   How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

   

6. Adding Light Streaks To A Photo

   How to add colorful streaks of light to a photo.

   

7. Make Perfume Commercial

   How to make your very own fragrance advertisements.

   

8. Colorful Picture Style

   Make a strong impression to a picture by using color blend techniques

   

9. Electrifying Energy Beams

   Great effect that will bring some energy to your subject.

   

10. The little mermaid Photo Effects

    Learn to improve the quality of the picture, create the effect of scales on the human skin, create the model’s make-up, change the color of her hair.

    

11. Coldplay / Apple Style Portrait

    How to create a portrait based on the style of the latest Coldplay / Apple Ad featuring “Viva la Vida” from Coldplay

    

12. The Making of Mystic

    Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image.

    

13. How to make your own vector portraits

    

14. Photo Editing / Retouching

    Basic editing tutorial using adobe Photoshop.

    

15. Blue glow dreamy portrait

    Make a dreamy portrait by playing with glow and colours.

    

16. Fire Lines Tutorial

    How to create creative and stylish fire lines in 10 easy steps.

    

17. Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks

    A technique often used in advertising these days, is these glowing lines. They look like light motion trails. If you ever wondered how to create these kind of lines, here is how I do it…

    

18. Lighting effects in Photoshop

    Creative lighting can make all the difference to your photos – here’s how to jazz it up a little.

    

19. Sin City Photo Effect

    How to get that Sin City look in your image.

    

20. Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo
    

    How to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes.

    

21. Photo to Pencil Sketch

    Convert photo to pencil sketch effect in Photoshop.

    

22. Creating your own Fairytale Scene

    

23. Giving a Mafia-Look to a Business Photo

    

24. Dirty Grunge Poster

    This tutorial will show you how to change your images into a cool dirty grunge design, which could be used for posters, prints, CD covers, etc.

    

25. A Rather Different Photo Collage

    

26. Urban-Style Piece of Artwork

    How to create a dirty, urban style image using both well known techniques as well as a few new ones.

    

27. The Ocean Girl Photo Effect

    Learn how to create an ocean girl artwork by combining some stocks and blending techniques.

    

28. The Guitar Photo Effect

    

29. Make photos sparkle

    From fashion shots to portraits, here’s how to add a touch of magic with Photoshop lighting effects.

    

30. Good and Evil Photo Effect

    How to take an image and split it into two personalities.

    

31. Desaturated ‘Gothic’ Look

    Style Kruella (or anyone) in a vaguely ‘Underworld’ desaturated blue style for that traditional ‘goth’ look.

    

32. How to make your Twins (Clones)

    

Neon and Glow Effects Tutorials

Create cool neon effects- Tony Ariawan shows you how to use warping, layer masks and simple colour tweaking for a high-tech look that’s out of this world.

More Neon and Glow Effects

All things Beautiful

Smoke Effects Tutorials

Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect- How to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and you can do it pretty quickly.

More Smoke Effects

Pakarabanu

Creating Swirls Tutorials

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop- This tutorial will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.

Lighting Effects Tutorials

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect- Fabio is showing us in this tutorial how in an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.

More Lighting Effects

Rainy Day Rainbows

Text Effects Tutorials

Apple Leopard text effects- A nice tutorial by Veerle on how to create Apple’s new system GUI in Leopard with the “inset effect” on the text.

More Text Effect

Smoke + Type

Vintage Effects Tutorials

Vintage collages in Photoshop- If you want to provide an instant flashback to a bygone era while letting your creativity shine through, few techniques are as versatile as a collage made up of vintage elements.

More Vintage Effects

Crooked Mushroom

Various Image Effects Tutorials

Create amazing photomontages- Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man.

More Image Effects

Lamborghini

Water Color Effects Tutorials

Design Watercolor Effect Menu- How to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop.

Miscellaneous Tutorials and Effects

illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect and more- How to use the Pucker & Bloat Effect

Portfolios for inspiration

Looking for some inspiration, search for talented and creative designers who mastered these techniques and learn from them. Below you will find amazing portfolios for artists who know how to just be creative.

NoPattern

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Digital Coloring:

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