Archive for the ‘PHOTO RETOUCHING’ Category

85 + lightroom presets including Dave Hill look.

 85 + lightroom presets including Dave Hill look.

85 Lightroom Presets

Included in this free collection Lightroom presets designed by Jack Davis:
8 White Balance presets
11 Tone Curve presets
4 Vibrance presets
18 HSL presets
12 Black & White presets
5 Warm Tinting presets
5 Cool Tinting presets
8 Dark Vignette presets
8 Light Vignette presets

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Cosmetic Eye Adjustments With Adobe Lightroom 2


Cosmetic Eye Adjustments With Adobe Lightroom 2

Whiteting teeth and eyes in photoshop portrait make over video tutorial.



from Yanik Chauvin

Fixing over exposure in photoshop video tutorial.

Fixing over exposure in photoshop video tutorial.

Applying digital make up in photoshop tutorial.

 Applying digital make up in photoshop tutorial.
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).

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Remove haze from landscape photos photoshop tutorial.

 Remove haze from landscape photos photoshop tutorial.

In photography, timing is everything. Light changes often throughout the day, with the early morning or late afternoon lighting giving landscape photographs a soft appearance, without the harsh light of midday but with the edge definition that makes photos “come alive”. However, when traveling, you cannot always view landmarks when the light is best, and you often have to settle for hazy view that never appears as well in a photo as you remember it.

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Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Photoshop tutorial.

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We all love Photoshop and its effects, but sometimes it’s great to get your hands dirty when creating elements for your graphics. Ink drops can add a creative and energetic element to your designs. This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

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Professional Portrait Retouching – Comparing Skin Softening Techniques in Photoshop + video.

There are many ways to soften skin inside Photoshop; some methods are more effective than others, but each method typically gives you different results, however slight they may be. It can be confusing and frustrating to try out each of these techniques to find out which works best with your particular photo or photographic style.

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Paint with soft light to bring out more detail or darken a photo with control photoshop tutorial.

 Paint with soft light to bring out more detail or darken a photo with control photoshop tutorial.

In this tutorial we will apply the same effect as dodging and burning but with more control and options and in my opinion better effects on the highlights.This works for isolating a subject, bring out more detail in certain zones, apply slight vignettes, etc …

Creating Fireballs and Explosions in photoshop tutorial.

 Creating Fireballs and Explosions in photoshop tutorial.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform a fairly typical road-trip image – with a big blue sky and wide-open spaces – into an apocalyptic battle scene, complete with tanks, guns,parachutists and a hail of incoming missiles.

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Give a face a darker look in photoshop tutorial.

 Give a face a darker look in photoshop tutorial.

This tutorial will show you how to take an image and split it into two personalities. One side will be dark and evil, the other light and sparkly.

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Photoshop Brushes – Top 10 Releases for Summer 2008.

 Photoshop Brushes   Top 10 Releases for Summer 2008.

There are quite a few trends in web design right now. Some still use a lot of twirly flowerly ornaments, others, following the trends dictated by psdtuts.com and abduzeedo.com have proceeded to glowing lines and starry psychedelic effects but the problem remains with creating the shape in the first place. While some designers, like myself, prefer working with Photoshop shapes, it looks like brushes are still a far more popular and accessible tool for many, so here are the top 10 brushes releases for Summer 2008, which can help you greatly in your artwork or web design.

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