Lab mode B&W in Elements (and Photoshop) Tutorials. Creating a Light Leak Effect in Adobe Photoshop CS. By Guest Contributor Anna Gay Leavitt Adding a light leak to your digital photos is an easy way of giving your photos a quirky, retro film vibe. This tutorial looks at two different techniques of applying a light leak in Photoshop through painting a light leak into your photo using a Quick Mask, and applying a light leak texture overlay. Anna Gay is a portrait photographer based in Athens, GA and the author of the dPS ebook The Art of Self-Portraiture. She also designs actions and textures for Photoshop. Welcome to the PhotoshopElements.net. Common Editing Mistakes and How to Fix Them.
Photography Mistakes and How to Fix Them | Part Four – Editing This week wraps up our four part series on Common Photography Mistakes and How to Fix Them. If you missed Jean Smith’s first three parts of this series, you will definitely want to check out these links as soon as possible to learn more from all her great tips: “The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.” This quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson reminds us that as photographers, we are artists. Our true art happens at the time we push our shutter button. Whether a photographer chooses to enhance an image in a photo editing program, that is his/her personal choice. In approaching an article about photo editing, I know it may be a touchy subject. Mistake #1 – Overuse of actions The Fix – Everywhere we turn, we see actions, actions, actions.
Mistake #2 – Why learn my program if I have actions? The Fix – Alert! Mistake #3 – Removing natural facial or body marks Mistake #4 – Plastic skin. Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Top 10 Eye Fixes. When using Photoshop Elements to edit portraits or family photos, just about everyone wants to know how to make the eyes pop. Here are my favorite tricks for PSE (but they work in full Photoshop as well).
Lots of them even have Lightroom equivalents. The most important tip for editing eyes is to be gentle. Use low brush and layer opacities. Your final photo should look natural – we don’t want to make it obvious that we’re editing. Ready? Remove red veins in the eyes using the Spot Healing Brush tool. Remember, most photos won’t need all 10 steps here. For my edit, I started with the spot healing brush tool on my skin, and then ran MCP’s Skin Cast Blast and Magic skin from the Magic Skin collection.
I used a super close up of my eyes for the examples in this image.