Highlights Photoshop Tutorials
Correcting Exposure with the Shadows & Highlights Tool
Today we’re going to take a look at an incredibly useful, amazing tool: the Shadow/Highlight adjustment. Often when taking pictures, it’s difficult, sometimes impossible, to get perfect exposure on everything within the frame. Especially shooting outdoors with a bright sun and shadows on the landscape you’re bound to over—or under-expose parts of your sho ... Read More
Eraser Packing Texture ICON Tutorial (Includes PSD file)
There is no shortcut for complicated shapes but to read the effect picture more. From the PSD files, we can see that the layer style is basically not used, but just some irregular projection or highlights.
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Lighting a Giant Elephant
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
Make smashing glass effects
Photoshop’s Glass filter is often overlooked, but when it’s used creatively, it’s capable of creating some powerful and impressive visual effects. The Glass filter works by distorting an image using greyscale information, in a similar way to how bump maps in 3D applications work. In this tutorial, Mark Mayers reveals how to create a realistic shattering g ... Read More
Beauty Portrait Retouching
In this retouching tutorial I will cover the entire process I went through to create the final effect. The tutorial shows how to clean and smoothen skin, how to dodge and burn to enhance highlights, add makeup, enhance eyes and much more.
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Create a Glossy Neon Text Effect with Stars in Photoshop
Layer Styles and Patterns are very powerful tools in Photoshop, you can have create cool effects using those tools. Follow this step by step Photoshop Tutorial to create a Glossy Neon Text Effect with a star field background creating a custom Pattern, using a lot of layer styles and adding a few highlights.
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Masking Glass & Transparent Objects
Learn how to mask glass in Photoshop with a simple selection technique. Achieving a realistic glass effect mask is done by keeping the reflections and highlights that are on the glass object you are trying to mask. In this tutorial I will show you how to do it.
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