A series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials focused on photo retouching techniques, offering insights into enhancing images through adjustments, corrections, and creative edits.
For those who frequently retouch models, non-destructive burning and dodging in Photoshop is essential. This technique, clearly explained by Howard Pinsky, simplifies the retouching process and prevents the need to restart edits. Applicable to many recent versions of Photoshop, including CS6, CS5, and CS4, this method ensures a more efficient...
This Photoshop tutorial by JustThisGood teaches you how to add creamy tones to your photos, achieving a vintage aesthetic that many find appealing. With clear and simple steps, you’ll be guided through the process, making it easy for anyone to follow along. You will explore various techniques for adjusting...
In this video tutorial by Andrei Oprinca from PSDBox, learn basic beauty retouching techniques to enhance a portrait image. You'll discover how to clear blemishes, apply makeup, and enhance features like the eyes and lips. Additionally, the tutorial goes beyond standard retouching by demonstrating how to add glamour...
Professional beauty retouching demands techniques that smooth skin while preserving natural texture. This advanced method combines inverted layers with Vivid Light blend mode to create seamless skin enhancement without the artificial "plastic" look common in over-processed images. The technique works by canceling out layer information through inversion, then...
The introduction of digital cameras has revolutionized photography. Gone are the days when quality relied solely on film development services, which often meant dealing with color errors or issues like expired rolls or light leaks. Nowadays, these concerns are virtually eliminated, allowing photographers to focus on creativity rather than technical...
Back in the day, when one would print their own black and white prints, you had a choice of a zillion different papers. They basically boiled down to cooltone and warmtone papers. This combined with different developers gave one an array of tones to choose from for any given picture....
Solarisation has been used since the very beginning of photography but was made famous by Man Ray when he rediscovered the technique by accident in the 1930’s. The effect consists mainly of partially reversed tones in an image recorded on a negative or a photographic print. Basically the dark...
Autochrome was a color positive transparency process developed by Lumiere in 1907 and used by such photography greats as Edward steichen and alfred stieglitz, just to name a few. The process consisted in coating a glass plate with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed red, green...
In this tutorial I’m going to show you what I do when a scene has too much unwanted color and how to emphasize a part of the scene with just a bit of a color to draw attention. Try to find a picture with bright colors or a subject...
Color casts can overwhelm an entire image, especially when they dominate the lighting and affect skin tones. Traditional color correction methods often fall short when dealing with extreme cases where unwanted colors make up the majority of the photo. This advanced technique uses complementary color theory and layer blending to...
HDR (High Dinamic Range) images are created using multiple photographs, each captured at a different exposure. It may happen you didn’t have the chance of shooting more than one image.. don’t worry, even if you haven’t got what’s needed to create a real HDR image, you...
When exploring new Photoshop tutorials, it's common to encounter complex techniques aimed at professionals. However, the reality is that many users often need to tackle basic tasks, such as removing red-eye or altering colors in their images. Sometimes, they might just want to learn a single skill from...
When it comes to mind-bending portrait creativity, nothing rivals Photoshop's capabilities. This curated list elevates portraiture far beyond basic filters and effects, exploring 35 of the most innovative and original Photoshop techniques out there. From seamless double-exposures blending humans and nature, to hyperreal pencil renders, to surreal reality-bending...
The Color Replacement brush is a tool that lets you paint with one color over another color, keeping the brightness and contrast of the image. This way you can easily change the color of an object without using complex masking and color correction tools. In this tutorial we are going...
