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60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups

60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups
Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. Even subtle improvements can make a big difference in the end result. Whether you are interested in touching up your own photos or doing professional photo editing for clients, Photoshop can allow you to get the job done. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups. How to Touch Up Skin in Photoshop: Really Cool Digital Make Up in Photoshop in 10 Minutes Airbrushing – Natural Smooth Skin How to Smooth Skin in Photoshop Smooth Skin Ultimate Makeup Remove Freckles Freckle Removal Making Freckles Pop in Photoshop Beautify a Face Smooth Skin Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching Smooth Skin Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow and Beard Stubble in Photoshop Easily Smooth and Soften Skin in a Photo Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching Enhance Skin Remove a Tan Line Realistic Makeup Application in Photoshop Adding a Tan Digitally in Photoshop Minimizing Red Blotches on the Skin

Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. In this tutorial, we will look at adjusting color tones and adding vignettes. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers.

Advanced Color Correction Tutorial that will Knock Your Socks Off! This tutorial shows you an advanced method of evaluating your photograph’s color accuracy and making the proper color correction adjustments. It is a more sophisticated technique of removing unwanted color casts, but the result’s will knock your socks off. Does require some basic knowledge of Photoshop. For this tutorial I will be working in Photoshop CS3 using a stock photograph that came with Aperture 2. The original As you can see above, the original photo is much too dark… But even with some basic ‘Levels Adjustments’ to brighten up the original, even though the image is much improved, we can now see a red color cast in the people’s faces, in the lower part of the wedding dress and in the white shirt of the man in the background. Preparing Photoshop Open the original photograph in Photoshop. On the bottom of your ‘Layers’ palette you will notice a half black, half white circle, which is your ‘Create new fill or adjustments later’ button. Let’s get into it… Locating the white points

Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010 Jul 29 2010 Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill and Raw Image Processing, to name a few. Photoshop CS5 Tutorials Create a Cosmic Love Goddess With Photoshop CS5 In this tutorial author demonstrates how to create a cosmic love goddess using some of Photoshop CS5′s new tools including the Refine Edge Feature which really helps to streamline the process of masking and removing objects from the background. Quick HDR Effect Photoshop CS5 TutorialIn this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create HDR from a single image. New Techniques for Cutting Outbhair in Photoshop CS5In this tutorial author will be replacing a dull background with a very cool sunset, and use different new features in CS5

Coloring an old, black and white photo You start by organizing and thinking what colors to use. Before you start coloring you need to set your brush to a 0% Hardness. Now I will start with the background. Select the color (I used #5b4219) and create a new layer on top of the original photo layer. Name it Background Color and fill the layer with the color you selected. 10 Must-Have Photoshop Plugins That Are Free If you’re looking for new and creative ways to edit or enhance your images, plugins can make your Photoshop workflow go so much smoother. Whether you want to add some noise or create some stunning color effects, we’ve got a fantastic list for you – and all completely free! 1. virtualPhotographer by optikVerve Labs For those who haven’t grasped all the nooks and crannies of Photoshop yet, or simply don’t want to spend hours tweaking an image, virtualPhotographer is a simple plugin that has over 200 presets for you to apply to your images. There is also a very nifty split-screen preview function that allows you to see the before-and-after of your edit. 2. This incredible plugin works with Photoshop to process and save PNG files much faster, and also saves them in a smaller size. 3. If you haven’t mastered the idea behind curves yet, this plugin has eight common presets to select from, allowing you to choose which one compliments your photo the best. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 .

How to resize images for the Internet in Photoshop Elements. One of my most frequently asked questions is how to resize images for uploading to the Internet, on like a blog or Facebook. I have shown it many times in other video tutorials, but never did a tutorial just on resizing by itself. First let me explain few fundamentals about the Internet and pictures and file size. A full size (i.e. print size) picture can be up 3 megabytes in size (sometimes larger)A web size picture is usually 100 to 300 kilobytes in sizeLarge files take up more space on your server (especially if you are on a WordPress.org blog)Blogs/sites have to work much harder to pull up a large size file than a small size file, so your blog may be slower to load and frustrate your readers Each time you crop or resize an image, make sure to save that as a different file name so you are not overwriting the original. The originalThe PSD, with layers unflattenedThe edit, uncroppedThe edit, cropped and sharpenedThe edit, cropped, resized and sharpened What a Facebook sizes?

40 tutoriels photoshop pour la réalisation de la pluie et des gouttes d’eau | TuniBOX L’eau, la pluie, les chutes d’eau ou encore les gouttes… Des éléments que les designers, les graphistes et les artistes essayent toujours d’intégrer dans les maquettes et les photos. L’eau ajoute toujours un très bel effet à une scène parce que c’est un élément à la fois primaire et complémentaire. Comme vous allez voir dans la liste des tutoriels ci-dessous, les gouttes d’eau ou la pluie changent le dynamisme d’une photo ou d’un design. Tutoriels pour les Gouttes d’eau Gouttes basiques Un excellent tutoriel qui montre comment réaliser des gouttes réalistes et artistiques. Conception d’un poster de film de guerre Un tutoriel pas à pas qui montre comment réaliser un poster sombre avec des gouttes d’eau. La conception de notre futur Ce n’est pas vraiment un tutoriel mais les consignes du designer vous montrent comment cette maquette a été réalisée. Pluie artistique sur une illustration Un très bel exemple pour ajouter la pluie sur une illustration sombre. L’eau et les aliens, tutoriel photoshop

Getting GREAT Indoor Photos This Christmas! I have had a fabulous reader write in and ask for some tips on getting better shots indoors. This is a great question, and it's a challenge that faces all of us - whether a professional photog. or a mom with a camera. The holiday season is SO important..we don't want to miss a thing, or end up with terrible, blurry photos. Here are 7 tips for getting great shots this Christmas! 1. If you have a point and shoot, and you aren't sure if your camera has manual settings, try setting your camera to the portrait mode, which most digi cameras have now. Check out this post for even more info on aperture :) 2. 3. If you have a point and shoot camera, you might be able to set the ISO by changing to the "P" mode. Here is another post all about the wonderful world of ISO! 4. 5. Also, strategically placed constant light (such as tungsten lamps using soft white bulbs) work excellently for providing additional ambient light without sacrificing the atmosphere of the setting. 6.

Tutoriels de qualités pour ressourcement graphique En graphisme, les tutoriels sont de fabuleuses sources d’inspiration. Ils permettent également de s’améliorer techniquement grâce à l’apprentissage de méthode de travail pouvant parfois différer des nôtres. Dans la liste qui suit, vous trouverez 25 tutoriels de design graphique parus récemment, faciles à comprendre et d’une qualité incroyable. Si vous avez d’autres tutoriels intéressants à partager avec nous, n’hésitez pas à le faire dans la section commentaire située au bas de la page! « La collection de tutoriels a été compilée par Eric Shafer sur le site de Creativefan.com ». Créer une incroyable illustration typographique Obtenir des effets d’éclairage frappant dans Photoshop Créer une composition d’un texte 3D Concevoir une typographie rétro pliée Créer une affiche disco frappante Créer une manipulation de photo hors de l’ordinaire Bâtir un arrière-plan écologique Designer un arrière-plan abstrait avec l’aide de Photoshop et d’Illustrator Composer un rendu 3D dans une scène

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