Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine

Advertisement Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. Here is a short overview of the techniques we’ll be covering in this follow-up: Defining Colors If you want to redefine the foreground and background colors, use the Eyedropper tool to select the foreground color, and then switch the position with the background color, maybe by using the shortcut X, and pick up the next color. Define foreground and background colors. Controlling Folders Folders give structure to layers, which is especially important if you’re working on demanding compositions. Hold the Control/Command key to expand the folder. Split-Toning Effect Create two new gradient maps via Layer → New Adjustment Layer → Gradient Map. Blending Options: This Layer Confirm with “OK,” double-click the layer with the second gradient map and, under “This Layer,” move the right slider to the left. Split-Toning Effect Flexible Vignette

100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results |... Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane. In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. If you liked this post, check out our other design tutorial roundups: Design a Traditional Liquefied Car Create Dynamic Distortion Effects Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

30 Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop Photoshop allows designers to create amazing posters that can be used for a variety or purposes like movie promos, product promos, event promos, as well as just for fun and practice. There are a lot of quality tutorials out there that teach the process of designing a poster in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 30 poster tutorials from a variety of different designers. In this collection you should find at least a few tutorials that teach something that could be helpful in your own work. Looking for hosting?