I'm going to start this essay with a provocative statement: Anyone who is, or wants to be doing image editing at a professional level needs to be as comfortable with Curves as they are with breathing. Is that bold enough? Do I have your at ...

Post Processing HDR images - Tone mapped HDR images are rarely perfect when the HDR program finishes with them. They can look flat, lack overall contrast, and can suffer from artifacts, ghosting and halos. Ferrell McCollough of www.beforethec ...

The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating.  Since photographers effectively paint with light, curves is central to their practice because it affec ...

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face. The corrections that we're going to do will make the face look different, but at the same time we avoid to make the results look unnatural like we tend to see in other Photoshop tu ...

In this tutorial, we're going to take this image : And make it look like the following one thanks to a texture, blending modes and layer masks : This process works best for images with a grayish neutral background, so I took one sho ...

In this tutorial I will show you how to remove hair in front of someone’s face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop (any version). To remove blemishes, acne, scares etc. I suggest you to be moderate when doing this as we don't ...

Here's a tutorial in order to be in control of a lens flare and be able to make adjustments at will after the implementation of it : Get an image you wish to add a lens flare to, click on 'new layer' or go to Layer --> New ---> Layer ...

Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presen ...

The presets are available in two versions, one with auto toning and the other one without. I just show you a preview of the set without the Auto toning, but of course both versions are included in the zipfile you download. The Zip fil ...

So, we already know that direct flash from your built-in flash gives unflattering results, to say the least. Using your speedlight in the same way won’t change much. I did mention that you can redirect the light by rotating the head of your f ...

Camera Raw 4.6 and the DNG Converter 4.6 has been posted to Adobe.com for Mac and Windows. This will be the last Camera Raw update for CS3 customers and it includes support for raw formats from the following 15 camera models: Canon 1000D ...

Open your photo in Photoshop and press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-B to enter the Black and White conversion window. You can also select Image from the main menu and go into Adjustments. Once the window opens, you are given 6 colors that will affect how y ...

Here's a list of the most popular photoshop-gone-wrong effects / 'techniques' ! As reference, the original image : Let's start : 10 -  Black and lots of  white with a vengeance for the Neo-Warhol look : 9 - Let's set the s ...

By now, most of you have read many times as I have walked through the process of balancing my flashes and ambient. I want to get past that. Today, I want to accomplish two things: 1. To set you up with a way of quickly understanding and ...

This tutorial will show you how to transform a standard color photo into a mix of colors, black and white and sepia in a fast and easy process. Start with your original and add an adjustment layer of channel mixer. Layer ---> New ad ...