There are times when all you want to do is dive into Photoshop, create a quick effect and move on. So if that’s you and what you need right now is a quick grunge border read on, because I’ve got the perfect tutorial. Step 1 Open your image in Photoshop and press CTRL+J to...
As a Portrait Photographer, nothing beats the luxury of working with a Professional Makeup Artist....but what if that's not possible? Well, here's a simple technique for applying makeup using Photoshop that can certainly help out:
Elements really has come of age recently and the release of Elements 9 with all its improvements and new features makes it a consideration of both amateur and professional photographers. In this video Gavin Hoey shows us one feature of Elements that makes editing images that much easier, the Smart Brush.
There’s few occasions when I’m in Photoshop that I don’t have my thumb resting on the Alt key. What makes this humble little key so special? Well, let me show you just a few of the occasions where I really couldn’t do without it.
A common problem with old black-and-white or sepia-toned photos is that they fade over time. You can use a Levels or Curves adjustment to improve contrast, but both commands often introduce color artefacts into the image. A few extra steps are needed to get the best results when you want to restore proper balance...
A couple of weeks ago, fellow Photoshop Nut A.J. Wood presented an “old school” technique for tightening layer masks, a great solution for when you can’t use the newer Refine Mask feature in Photoshop CS5, or are prevented from using it by the demands of your image (or just plain don’t have CS5). This...
In this video for TipSquirrel.com, digital artist Tim Shelbourne uses adjustment layers, masks and brushes to add some tones to his painting.
I would like to thank Dan Margulis for the technical expertise behind today’s article. He gives a convincing argument of LAB colour space’s hidden power. If you would like to find out more about LAB I can recommend Dan’s book ‘Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace’...
Here we take a look at a simple way to limit our Photoshop Image Adjustment Layers to affect only certain regions of the photograph. We’ll do this using the built-in layer mask and the Gradient tool. The adjustment layer featured in this video is the Curves adjustment, but you can use this effect on...
Following on from last month’s tutorial on Recreating Lith Grain, I’m going to show you how to recreate another darkroom effect in Photoshop. The effect were’re recreating, diffusing the image, was created by placing something between the enlarger lens and the photographic paper, normally this was a black stocking. Quite how someone came up...
Do you have any photos that have spots and splotches of color on them that was never part of the original photo? Fellow NAPP member Bob Byington had such a photo and asked me if I could help him to get rid of the spots, yellow stains which, as he said, “looked like mustard.”...
The Restorationist Janine Smith continues her foray into the world of video tutorials with this brilliantly effective, yet simple to achieve, restoration using the color channels. This easy to follow tutorial shows Janine removing a large patch of damage to an older photograph as she starts her restoration. Bookmark It Hide Sites
The Restorationist Janine Smith continues her foray into the world of video tutorials with this brilliantly effective, yet simple to achieve, restoration using the color channels. This easy to follow tutorial shows Janine removing a large patch of damage to an older photograph as she starts her restoration. Bookmark It Hide Sites
AJ Wood looks at a few handy little tweaks in Photoshop CS5
Vintage is the new thing..wait…vintage and new…oxymoron. Lets say Vintage is all the rage right now. I am seeing it from fashion to photography. It is really easy to achive a cool vintage tine to you images. Open an image, copy layer…and then burn the outside part of the image so the eye focuses...
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