Create a Stripy Background

Step 1
Create a new document with the following settings.

Step 2

Set # 32d7be as your foreground color and #ffffff as your background color.  You can choose any color of your own choice.

Step 3

Go through Filter > Render > Clouds.

Your screen will look like this.

Step 4

Go through Image > Adjustments > Brightness/contrast.

Step 5

Set the following settings.

Step 6

Go through Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple.

Step 7

Set the following setting.

Your screen will look like this.

Step 8

Now, go through Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Step 9

Set the following settings.

Your screen will look like this.

Step 10

Go through Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.

Step 11

Click ctrl+f for two times and your background is ready.

You can create anything you want on it.

World Records

Some interesting World Records

• Wal-Mart at various locations across the United States sets the guinness world Record for selling the most Guinness World RecordsTM books on 27 November 2009. The no. of books is 44,647 in 24 hours.

• Steve Schmidt set the guinness record for most lifts of a 100Kg weight in one minute only by teeth at Clark's Gym, Columbia, Missouri, US, on 30 Jan 2010. He lift the weight for 50 times in a minute.

• Record of largest coloured vinyl records is set up by Alessandro Benedetti (Italy) on 9 March 2010. He has a collection of 1,507 different coloured vinyl records.

• Record for longest distance driving on glass bottles is achieved by Li Guiwen (China) on 11 July 2010. The distance is 60.19m.

• The record of largest cream filled biscuit is named to Paul Thacker and Simon Morgan on 18 November 2010. The biscuit is 59cm long, 39cm wide 6.5cm high and 15.73kg in weight.

• Peter Glazebrook (UK) has set up the record of heaviest potato under giant vegetable category. The potato weights 3.76kg.

• A special version of Tetris (Nintendo World Championships Gold Edition) became the most expensive puzzle game. Its one copy was for $15000 in April 2008.

• The Guinness Record for earning the maximum score on the NES version of Tetris has been gotten by Harry Hong (USA) on 19 April 2009. He scored 999,999.

• Record for most games of chess played simultaneously is named to India's Sports Authority of Gujarat (India) on 24 December 2010 at the University of Gujarat Sports Grounds, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. The no. of games was 20,480.
• Ted Robbins(UK) and Ben Day(UK) achieved the record for most jokes told in a minute by telling 17 jokes in a minute on 18 November 2010.

• American is the most common nationality among FarmVille players.

• Flight Control HD (Firemint,2010) is the first iPad game offering stereoscopic 3D functionality.

• Australia is the country with the highest rate of pet ownership per household as of 2010. Here, over 60% of households has had at least one animal as a companion and 83% has owned a pet at some point in their life.

• MGIMO University, as of 2010, records its name for teaching 53 full time languages during every academic term.

• Kevin Fast (Canada) record his name by pulling the heaviest house. The house weighed 35.9 tones. He pulled the house a distance of 11.95 meters.

• Collect-a-Can (South Africa) achieved the record for collecting the most steel cans by the collection of 2,656,284 cans between 1-31 October 2010.

• DM Williams (USA) records his name by growing the tallest cotton plant on 15 July 2010. The plant was 9.66m tall.

Give Some Effects to the Text!!!

Final Image

Step 1
Open a new document with the following setting.

Step 2
Press ctrl+n to create a new layer and then take the gradient tool.

Step 3
Set the color setting as follow.

Step 4
To fill the layer with gradient, drag your mouse from down to top as shown below.

Step 5
Go through Filter>Render>Clouds.

Step 6
Your screen will look like this.  This is your background, you can set it according to you also.

Step 7
Now, grab the text tool and type your text with the font you like.  I used the following setting.

Step 8
Double click the text layer and choose the Inner Glow option and set the following setting.

Step 9
Your text will look like this.

Step 10
Select the Bevel and Emboss and set the values as follow.

Step 11
Press ctrl+j to duplicate the layer.  Select the original layer.

Step 12
Add a stroke from the blending options with the following values.

Step 13
Now, add some Bevel and Emboss effect to the stroke.

Step 14
Here is the final text effect.

Tongue Twisters

Try to Read These Interesting Twisters

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

* * * * * * * * *

If Roland Reynolds rolled a round roll around a round room,

Where is the round roll which Roland Reynolds rolled around the room?

* * * * * * * * *

Betty Botter bought some butter.

"But," she said, "the butter's bitter.

If I put it in my batter,

It will make my batter bitter.

But a bit of better butter -

That would make my batter better."

So she bought a bit of butter,

Better than her bitter butter.

And she put it in her batter,

And the batter was not bitter.

So it was better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.

* * * * * * * * *

Our Joe wants to know if your Joe will lend

our Joe your Joe's banjo.

If your Joe won't lend our Joe your Joe's banjo,

our Joe won't lend your Joe our Joe's banjo

When our Joe has a banjo!

* * * * * * * * *

Granny gray goose greedily gobbled golden grain

in Graham's gabled granary.

* * * * * * * * *

All I want is a proper cup of coffee

Made in a proper copper coffee pot.

You can believe it or not,

But I just want a cup of coffee

In a proper coffee Pot.

Tin coffee pots

Or iron coffee pots

Are of no use to me. If I can't have

A proper cup of coffee

In a proper copper coffee pot,

I'll have a cup of tea!

* * * * * * * * *

If neither he sells seashells,

Nor she sells seashells,

Who shall sell seashells?

Shall seashells be sold?

* * * * * * * * *

Denise Sees the fleece,

Denise sees the fleas.

At least Denise could sneeze

And feed and freeze the fleas.

* * * * * * * * *

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

If a wood chuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,

And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would

If a wood chuck could chuck wood.

* * * * * * * * *

Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke's duck likes lakes.

Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.

Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

* * * * * * * * *

Create an Attractive Background in 5 minutes

Step 1
Create a new document with the following settings. Create a new layer by pressing ctrl+n.

Step 2
Take the Gradient Tool.

Step 3
Set the gradient color according to the following setting.

Step 4
Drag your mouse from below to the top like this.

Step 5
Reduce the opacity for this layer to 89%.

Step 6
Your screen will look like this.

Step 7
Now, create a new layer by ctrl+n and take the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Step 8
Create a selection something like this.

Step 9
Take the gradient tool with the following color setting.

Step 10
Drag your mouse as follow-

Step 11
Deselect the selection by ctrl+d. Your background is ready.

Step 12
You can design your screen with your photograph or something like this.

If you like to learn these other effects, just leave a comment. I will definitely provide you a tutorial for this.

Learn to Create Water Droplets

Final image

Step 1
Open the document on which you want to create water droplets or open a new blank document.

Step 2

Create a new layer by clicking the Create New Layer icon below the layer palette or go through Layer > New.

Step 3

Select the Brush tool and pick a Hard Round Brush.  Set its size to 35px and Hardness to 100%.

Step 4

Create some black drops wherever you want by clicking the mouse one time at one place.  Choose different size of drops.  You can increase your brush size directly by clicking the ] and decrease the size by clicking [.

Step 5

Go through Filter > Distort > Wave.

Step 6

Set the following setting and click OK.

Step 7

Your picture will look like this.

Step 8

Now, click on the Add a Layer Style icon below the layer palette and select the Blending Options or just double click on the drop layer.

Step 9

Give some effects by the following setting.

Your final image will look like this.

Step 10

With the Brush Tool selected, drag the water drops to give them different shapes which will give it a natural look.

Step 11

Here is your final image.