Photography Blog DigitalPixels.net

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"In this article I will guide you through a series of steps to improve skin tones, modify shadow and light patterns to increase the impact, and enhance the eyes and hair to create a striking portrait."

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"Photoshop and Elements allow for layer blend modes that change the way layers react with each other. Some of them you will use in every day work. If you have a photo that is too dark, for example, many times a quick fix is to duplicate the photo layer in the layers palette and change the duplicate layer mode to Screen. If a photo is too light it can sometimes be corrected by duplicating the photo layer and changing the layer mode to Multiply. "

Photoshop Blending modes at Northlight

Blend modes at DigitalArtForm

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Give skin a cracked or peeling look with this tutorial.

Dave Hill look at Flickr

Beers with Dave Hill at Strobist

Creating that Dave Hill look at DIYPhotography

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Digital Foundation - skin retouching and make up in photoshop video tutorial.

Firstly, we need to adjust the levels; So Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels.
Rather than manipulating the layers together as RGB, we'll do them one at a time to create the desired effect.
Here are the settings I've used for each and a small picture of the result at that stage.

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Getting started using white balance, tone & vibrance presets.
Monochrome: Using the Black & White conversion, tints & vignette presets.
Color Effects: Using HSL presets and manual adjustments.

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Bram from Sweetbeat.be tells you how he got the rainbow in the photo above using photoshop :
- Open new document 20x20cm.
- Make a new layer and select it.
- Select the pen tool en draw a bowed line.Make sure when you have the pen tool selected to have the paths icon selected and not shape layers or fill pixels

- I select the brush tool and on the top right-end corner of the window I open the brush menu (brushes).

- Select a hard basic brush of 28px and at the lower part of the window you put spacing on 1%.

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Photoshop video tutorial on using layers for effects.

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 tutorials.

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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 :

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