In This tutorial we will learn the basics of “color focus editing” or selective color, the post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color to draw the viewer’s eye. ... Read More
In this tutorial we are going to edit two raw photos of night Photography. I will show you how to edit two long exposure photos in Lightroom/Camera RAW and Photoshop and get a nice image. The final image is created from two images: one of them exposed for the stars and the milky way and the second one exposing for the road and the car headlights.< ... Read More
A technique for matching the lighting between a subject and its background. Matching the Light If you're like me, every now and then you find yourself needing to insert a subject image into a background where the lighting between the two doesn't quite match. Your subject image may be flatly lit, while your background contains crisp shadows and ... Read More
Another photomanipulation tutorial from PSD Essential, this time called You will stand alone. In the tutorial you’ll learn to create a dark and creepy effect by blending various images together and adjusting several settings. ... Read More
In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s. Let’s get started! ... Read More
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects. So let's start! ... Read More
In this step by step Photoshop tutorial we will learn how to change original face into an old one. ... Read More
Earth Day. Green Planet, Learn to create a complex eco photo composition for the Earth Day. ... Read More
This tutorial is an example of how a few simple techniques can be used to create basics photo illustration using multiple layers, masking, the Pen tool, some basic lighting and one simple texture. ... Read More
In this tutorial, Toronto-based Murilo Maciel will reveal how he used Photoshop to create a fashion illustration with lighting effects, based around themes of beauty and light. He describes this artwork and the techniques behind it as a more contemporary version of the first piece he ever created for us, back in 2007 (read it at here). Murilo will d ... Read More
A large number of my followers have requested this kind of effect so in this tutorial I will show you how I would create a fantasy looking effect in Photoshop. What you should to learn from this tutorial is how can adjustment layers can be used to create subtle contrast and color changes to get that soft looking effect. Having a basic understanding ... Read More
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make color changes using Selective Color, how to edit layer masks non destructively and how to use the Apply Image and mask shadows to control the amount of light that goes through a layer mask.
... Read MoreIn this tutorial I will show you how I took the 3 exposures needed to create an HDR image, how I edited it in Photomatix and then Photoshop and Lightroom.
... Read MoreWe’ll begin with a RAW image (which you can download and follow along with right here in the tutorial article) and walk through a process that will work for both your RAW images and any JPEG image that you may have as well. I tackle color and tone in the Camera RAW editor as well as exposure adjustments, my thought process behind adjusting ... Read More
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and Tragic Extractors don’t even get us clos ... Read More
This tutorial is suggested by a reader, FlashFreak, with the reference to a wallpaper of Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft. It mainly covers editing in Quick Mask Mode along with some other basic tools. ... Read More
Have you wanted to learn more about color correction? The focus of this tutorial is to help you delve deeper into color correcting to up the production value of your images. Learn a few simple techniques while creating. I will be using Photoshop CS4 for this tutorial, but all of the features I will use are available in previous versions of Photoshop. Or i ... Read More
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a beautiful abstract artwork using light effects, a few fractal images, a custom brush and some cool post editing techniques. ... Read More
The more you can learn about blending images and different elements together in Photoshop, the more freedom you will have in creating whatever pops up in your imagination. In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to go over different digital-image-editing techniques in order to create a beautiful grungy and grainy composition that has 3D text (that we will m ... Read More
In this easy, step-by-step tutorial I'm going to show you how to create fashion contrast photo effect in a few minutes. This tutorial will be useful for designers who are doing professional fashion photo editing. ... Read More