So I found a neat trick to help with the replacing issue.

Take your Layers you might be switching out.
In this case a Texture and make it a Smart Object.
To do this you can right click the layer and select Convert to Smart Object. 

This is what my image looks like.

Here are my layers. I’m going to replace Layer 2.

Simply Right Click on the layer and select Replace Contents.

Your Browse Window will open and you can select an Image
to replace the current one. 

And now we have a new texture in place of the other one.

Take the Rounded Rectangle Tool.

Create your shape.

You can also set the roundness of the corner by changing the radius at the top.

Now Select your Delete Anchor Point Tool.

Delete the Point on the left/top side and the right/bottom side.

Now to straighten up the points/anchor arms. Select your Direct Selection Tool.

And Line up your control arm point and anchor point.

It will look like this.

Now Use your Direct Selection Tool (while holding Shift Key) and
Line Up the Top Anchor and Bottom Anchor so your side path is straight like the image below.

Now do the other side and your done.

I did some shots the other day with fireworks and had a 2nd light source, which was a outdoor
light for a factory. I noticed it interfered in a few shots and was thinking the quickest and best way to
remove this Red Spot. After experimenting I found the Red Eye Tool worked some Magic for this little problem.
Maybe this will work for you down the line or not.

There is a slight Diffrents in the way CS2 and CS3 work I’m going to show this in CS2. CS3 you can just click and it should work.

So just grab your Red Eye Removal Tool.

Select the area around the Red Spot with your Eye Tool (Click and Drag). This should work.
It may take one or 2 takes to make it all go away.

Now thats alot better.

Final Photo.

The tools that will be used in this tutorial are: Stamp Tool, Healing Brush, and Dodge Tool.

Select your photo. For this tutorial I used a regular eye stock photo.

To Lighten up the skin/eye Go to Image>Adjustments>Replace color.

Do this a few times, selecting different areas each time to pale the skin down to give it a albino look.
* After each selection choose OK and then repeat with another selection

Next using the Stamp Tool, select a plain part of the eye and using Alt+Click and painting over the area with. Make a few selections till the iris is covered. Don’t worry to much with how neat it looks.

Then select the Healing Brush to blend in the area from the Stamp Tool. Again using Alt+click.

After that choose your Dodge Tool, with an exposure of around 25%, and for Range select Shadow. And go over the whole eyeball area a few times.

The final result:

*Note – for diffrent light exposures of some photos you may have to play around a bit more.
* Replace Color may not work well with over exposed photos.

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I do suggest using a fairly large size image of skin or creating your own on a bigger scale.
It is also better to do one letter at a time so you do not get seams in the texture.

At the end of the tutorial I will show you how to define the texture as a pattern to use in this tutorial.

First thing you want to do is select your “Type Tool” and create your letter.

Now select the “Add a Layer Style” at the bottom of your layer palette, and select “Pattern Overlay”.

Then select the pattern you would like to use on your text.
In this example I chose a Cheetah skin I had already defined.

Next adjust your scale to the size that suits you. You may sometimes see that the pattern creates a seam. Simple readjust your scale a bit to remove it.

After that you can add other options to the text if you prefer.
Here I added a quick “Inner Shadow”.

Final Result.

How to Define an Image for a Pattern :

Open up or create a new pattern.

Go to Select>All

Then go to Edit>Define Pattern. Give the pattern a name and click OK.

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The first thing that we have to do for this tutorial is create a Paint bucket pattern fill for later on.

Make a new canvas 2 pixels x 5 pixels.

Results:

Go to Select>All, then Edit>Define Pattern.. Give your pattern a name and click OK.

Main Tutorial:

Next create a new canvas. (Size depends on you, different sizes will have different settings though the tutorial).

I created a quick background layer using a light grey then Filter>Texture>Texturizer with canvas option, and my Text layer.

Then right clicking on the text layer select Rasterize type. This option will allow us to edit and use filters on the text.

With the Text layer still selected go to Filter>Texture>Texturizer

Give it a Sandstone texture with slight scaling and relief.

Next Duplicate your Text layer and CTL+Click on the text layer copy to make a selection (you should see marching-ants around your text now) and go to Select>Modify>Contract.

The Size of the Contract will depend on your Font/Document size. Add just a slight Contract.

It should look similar to this.

Now go to Select>Inverse to inverse your selection and click Delete.

After that select your layer options (small f on the bottom of your layer palette) and choose Bevel and Emboss.

Make your Depth and Size a low percent and a higher Soften effect.

Result:

Now back to your original text layer, CTL+Click on it so that its selected, then create a new layer.

On the new layer go to Edit>Stroke

Give your selection a Slight outside stroke
The stroke size will also depend on your Font/Document Size.

After you have your stroke, go to Windows>Channels.

This is where the Pattern fill in the beginning of the tutorial comes in.

Create a new channel layer (alpha 1). and choose your Fill Paint Bucket, with a Pattern fill option, Select your Pattern selection that we created earlier. Fill the new Channel layer with this pattern.

Then CTL+Click on the Alpha Channel to select it, and Switch back to your Layers Palette and click on the layer we added the stroke to, and Press Delete

Your results should look similar like this.

*Notes:

For thinner or thicker lines create a different size Fill Pattern.

For Vertical Lines Rotate your Fill Pattern then Define Pattern. And Create a 2nd layer Stroke with a new Alpha Channel.

For Logos/Borders Make sure each part of the logo is a different layer

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Duotones can be found in Photoshop under Image>Modes.A Duotone is a great way to achieve monochrome image.

A Duotone takes grayscale images and allows you to change the tonal range of that image from the light tones to dark tones, and create a different color range.

In Duotone you are able to overprint colors, black as your shadow and add a secondary color to your highlights/midtones. Tritone and Quadtone give you a greater control of color in your highlights and midtones. To apply a duotone effect to certain parts of an image you can change the duotone image to Multichannel mode, which will change the duotone curves to spot channels.

Starting Image:

There are a few ways in Photoshop to change your colored image to a greyscale/Black & White.

For this tutorial im just going to do the quickest way. But You can also try Channel Mixer found in Image/Adjustments and change it to monochromatic and adjust the color scales.

A quick way, go to Image>Mode>Greyscale. It will ask you discard color information, Click OK.

Then go to Image>Mode>Duotone

Now you will see your Duotone Palette.

Duotone Options:

Type: This allows you to select Monotone, Duotone, Tritone, and Quadtone.

Ink: The 1st box beside ink is your Curve options box, the 2nd box is your color selection box..

Overprint color: This will show you the range of color being overlay-ed on your image from highlight to shadows.

After Selecting what Type of tone range you want to work with, Double click on the ink 2, 3 , or 4 option and select your tones.

The tone selected can also be modified using the curve option box, by double clicking. Curves allows you to adjust the tonal range of an image to give you a greater range of adjustments. If you are not familiar with curves there are a few tutorials on the net that may help. In the mean time just play around to get an idea.

Duotone Example:

Tritone Example:

Quadtone Example:

The Overprint Colors button at the bottom is used mainly with Tritone and Quadtone images. It will give you a little more control on how the inks interact with each other.

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I went ahead and created 2 new layers. Layer 2 is just a fill color so that layer 3 will show up. On Layer 3 use your select marquee tool and create a square and fill it with White.

Next lets set up the Eraser tool setting:

Select your Eraser tool.

Make sure that the Eraser tool is set to Mode “Brush”.

Then with the Eraser tool selected go to Windows>Brushes . Here we are able to Change the options of our eraser tool

Brush Size will depend on the size of your document.

So select a medium size brush with a hardness of 100% and a spacing
of about 90-120%. Spacing will also depend on your dacument size.

Next on Layer 3 (Ctl+Click the layer) to select the layer (martching-ants).
Then open up your Path Palette.Windows>Paths And “makes work path from selection” option.

Your selection should turn from the “Marching ants” to a solid path line. Now click the Path Properties (right arrow at the top) and go to “Stroke Path”

An Option Box will appear. Set the Tool as Eraser and Simulate Pressure unchecked.

Then click OK , then in your Path Pallete delete the Work path and now you should have something that looks like a stamp edge.

A Few more Options you can add.

Drop Shadow:

Texture:

Then your ready for your image and text.
Place your image, crop as needed, add a stroke and/or texture as above.

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First I created a new document slightly bigger than the image I will be using, then
I placed my image in a new layer.

Next go to Edit/Transform and select Warp.

This will add a grid to your image.

Next take your selection tool and drag the points to your desired fold.

After that going to our layer modes select Drop Shadow.

and select the angel and setting that you prefer. Now we should have a nice
folded paper with a slight shadow.

Lets go on to the masking tape.Create a new layer. Select your Marquee tool and make a rectangle.

Then add a fill color to your selection. Try a brownish yellow.

Next select your lasso marquee tool and make some jagged/ripped edges.
Make a selection and press delete.

After that add a few Layer options. Lets add a Drop Shadow, Stain and Pattern Overlay.

Add Just a slight Drop Shadow to your tape.

Then a low opacity stain.

Next select a rocky Patter Overlay with a small scale and low opacity.

Click OK when your satisfied. Then select your tape layer and give it about 70-80 Opacity.

And finally rotate or move your tape tot he desired location.

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