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How to remove flaws and retouch skin with portraits in photoshop.

Learn how to retouch skin tones and hair for a glamour portrait; includes airbrushing techniques

In this tutorial we’re going to make custom 3d artwork in photoshop that we can implement in our logo’s, banners, flyers … any custom design

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto's ability with Peter Petrelli's power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it's really not that hard.

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In this masterclass, Craig Shields shows you how to turn these little outbursts of creativity into artworks. You’ll learn how to spirit your doodles off the Post-It note and into a digital illustration, using them to add a very personal touch to an image.

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Lighting effects are a versatile set of techniques that have recently come back into vogue in advertising and the fashion press. Lights and tracing motion effects can become part of the composition, adding brightness and motion to an image.

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In this tutorial I will complete a professional photographic retouching from start to finish. Before watching please note that there is a lot of information in this video to absorb, so watch and re-watch areas that you find more advanced.

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Now, let me say this up front: From the research I’ve done, I don’t believe photographer Dave Hill actually uses a Photoshop plug-in; I believe he creates his look without a plug, using a series of layer blend modes, High Pass Sharpening, Skin Smoothing, and Dodging and Burning (and I am working on that whole Photoshop-only workflow as we speak, and will do a post on it when I’m finished), but since I needed to get this job done fast; I used the Lucis Art Pro 6.0 plug-in, and I feel like it got me pretty close to the look (a mini-review of the plug-in is coming up tomorrow in the 2nd and final part of this post).

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The Lucisart plugin has been quite popular and still emerges daily on photos pushing the hdr-effect look beyond its boundaries.It's a very handy plugin in order to recover detail from your images.

When applying this filter to selections or separate layers, the white-background-syndrome appears, leaving you with a mess to clean, so here is a way around it allowing you to work with this filter on selections with more comfort.Tip came in from SweetBeat

Ok so let's say we only want to apply the lucisart plugin/filter to the water below this ship, leaving the sky etc out of the manipulation.

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Photoshop Curves video tutorial

from Yanik

In this Photoshop tutorial I'll show you how to create realistic reflections on water already present in your favorite photographs.

Let me begin by saying just a few things about this effect. First and foremost, this is one of those techniques that’s better kept to yourself when showing off your amazing photos to your friends and fellow photographers. For some reason, even in this day and age, the digital work a photographer does is looked down on as cheating by others… so mum’s the word.

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Chroma Keying : Color Range in Photoshop