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This tutorial demonstrates how to create movement and texture, and the (transparent) image I am working with can be downloaded Here. Unzip the file and open the image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your start image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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Then open a New document and set the following attributes.
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Activate the Move Tool. 
Then double-left-click, and drag the skateboarder image onto the white canvas.
Then (to save PC resources) discard the original transparent skateboard image.
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Activate the Background layer. 
Then set the Foreground and Background colour swatches to a colour you would like your gradient to be  . Lesson.
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Then activate the Gradient Tool - Gradient lesson.
And click Reset Gradients as demonstrated in my screen capture here.
Now, double-left-click to activate the Foreground to Background (white and blue) gradient, and ensure the gradient’s direction is set to Radial.
And beginning in the centre of the image, stretch a gradient line diagonally, in an upwards direction, to create the following gradient effect - or experiment!
 
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From the top menu, choose Filter then choose Noise then choose Add Noise, I set the following attributes.
Then click OK.
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From the top menu, choose Filter then choose Blur then choose Gaussian Blur. I chose a Gaussian Blur Radius of 0.3, click OK.
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From the top menu, choose Filter then choose Distort then choose Spherise. In the subsequent Spherise dialogue box, ensure Amount is set to 100%, and the Mode is Normal, then click OK.
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Now, activate the skateboarder image’s layer, then duplicate (the layer) by
left-clicking and dragging it over the following Create a new layer icon.
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Then activate the original skateboarder layer.
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Then from the top menu, choose Filter then choose Blur then choose Radial Blur, with the following settings.
Then click OK.
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Now, press Ctrl, then click to highlight both skater layers. Right-click the highlighted layers, and from the drop-down menu, choose Merge Layers. Layers Explained.
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Now, drag the merged layers (Layer 1 copy) over the Create a new layer icon, as you did in Chapter 7.
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Then activate either skateboard layer, and from the top menu, choose Edit then choose Free Transform - Tutorial, then rotate the skateboard.
 
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Whilst the layers remain separate, you can reposition the images with the Move Tool.
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For more skateboarders, duplicate the layer. To finish, from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image, and link Here to save your image.
Note: I applied an Alien Skin Exposure (Black and White) filter to my second example. To convert your image to greyscale, from the top menu, choose Image then choose Adjustments then click Desaturate. Remove Colour Lesson.
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