A series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials focused on photo retouching techniques, offering insights into enhancing images through adjustments, corrections, and creative edits.
In this tutorial, Lee Varis presents a unique approach to skin smoothing in Photoshop. While the technique might seem non-intuitive at first, it is straightforward and accessible for intermediate users. Even beginners can take advantage of this method, as it doesn't require advanced retouching skills. Lee Varis guides...
The introduction of digital cameras has revolutionized photography. Gone are the days when quality relied solely on film development services, which often meant dealing with color errors or issues like expired rolls or light leaks. Nowadays, these concerns are virtually eliminated, allowing photographers to focus on creativity rather than technical...
Back in the day, when one would print their own black and white prints, you had a choice of a zillion different papers. They basically boiled down to cooltone and warmtone papers. This combined with different developers gave one an array of tones to choose from for any given picture....
Solarisation has been used since the very beginning of photography but was made famous by Man Ray when he rediscovered the technique by accident in the 1930’s. The effect consists mainly of partially reversed tones in an image recorded on a negative or a photographic print. Basically the dark...
Autochrome was a color positive transparency process developed by Lumiere in 1907 and used by such photography greats as Edward steichen and alfred stieglitz, just to name a few. The process consisted in coating a glass plate with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed red, green...
In this tutorial I’m going to show you what I do when a scene has too much unwanted color and how to emphasize a part of the scene with just a bit of a color to draw attention. Try to find a picture with bright colors or a subject...
This tutorial by Aaron Nace from Phlearn provides practical guidance on removing color casts caused by colored lights in Photoshop. If you've ever faced the challenge of an image where one light source disrupts the overall color balance, this tutorial will be helpful. You will learn step-by-step techniques...
HDR (High Dinamic Range) images are created using multiple photographs, each captured at a different exposure. It may happen you didn’t have the chance of shooting more than one image.. don’t worry, even if you haven’t got what’s needed to create a real HDR image, you...
When exploring new Photoshop tutorials, it's common to encounter complex techniques aimed at professionals. However, the reality is that many users often need to tackle basic tasks, such as removing red-eye or altering colors in their images. Sometimes, they might just want to learn a single skill from...
When it comes to mind-bending portrait creativity, nothing rivals Photoshop's capabilities. This curated list elevates portraiture far beyond basic filters and effects, exploring 35 of the most innovative and original Photoshop techniques out there. From seamless double-exposures blending humans and nature, to hyperreal pencil renders, to surreal reality-bending...
The Color Replacement brush is a tool that lets you paint with one color over another color, keeping the brightness and contrast of the image. This way you can easily change the color of an object without using complex masking and color correction tools. In this tutorial we are going...
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far, and the photos are so heavily edited that they leave almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This...
