120+ Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

With the right Photoshop photo manipulation tutorials you can learn to make the most stunning photo effects. These skills are not just fun to play around with, but first of all useful if you work professionally as a designer or photographer.

Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating stunning photo manipulation effects from simple to advanced makeovers and for fixing great shots where the light or color balance need a bit of adjustment or where some elements need to be removed.

In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners. I find large compilations of Photoshop photo manipulation tutorials to be great resources for inspiration and learning. Therefore I decided to create and maintain the best and most comprehensive roundup available online. I hope this resource will be a good help for everyone including people new to Photoshop trying to do some photo magic for the first time.

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Introduction

This article focus on all the fancy photo manipulation stuff you can do in Photoshop with photos or elements from photos. It is possible to apply effects to photos fx. making them look like comic drawings or like really old pictures – possibilities are almost endless. Also if you got the codac moment photo but for some reason it got too dark or too light a bit of Photoshop photo manipulation will be able to save your precious shot. Finally if you want to catch a scene with your camera but for some reason you are never on the right spot at the right time….then Photoshop may help you create the illusion that you got it… Photo manipulation is one of the really strong sides of Photoshop and it is almost possible to create any idea you can come up with. The materials used (photos, graphical elements et.) is of cause important but knowing the secret tricks of Photoshop is possibly even more important. The photo manipulation tutorials in this article will not turn you into a professional photohopper over night but you will certainly be on the way…

• Photo Manipulation involving Light Effects
• Water and Rain Photo Manipulation
• Manipulating Humans with Photo Manipulation
• Inserting Objects and Building Scenes with Photo Manipulation
• Photo Manipulation for Great Finish and Edges

Photo Manipulation involving Light Effects

How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

On this tutorial, you’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command.

Creating Energy Spheres

Learn how to add cool Energy Spheres in Photoshop

Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop

It basically mixes some techniques from tutorials like Magic Lighting Effect, Amazing Photoshop light effect in 10 Steps, and the latest Create the MSNBC header effect.

How to Make a Vector – Style Woman Composition

Vector graphics design is one of the leading styles for print magazines and in titling of movies right now. In this tutorial, we are going to cover the entire body of a woman with stock vector art by employing some of the basic tools and blending options in Adobe Photoshop. We will also need Adobe Illustrator to open the vector files and to provide a source for importing the vectors into Photoshop.

Electrifying Energy Beams

Here’s a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. We’ll be wrapping this singer’s arm with a glowing beam of light, adding sparkles, and adjusting the colors to make it all seem magical.

Creating an Impactful Disco Party Poster

This tutorial will show how we can create an impactful disco party poster. There are some new methods in making lighting burst and streak effects. We will also touch a little on using the settings in Brushes Panel, so let’s check it out!

Create A Fiery Face Explosion

Learn to create a hot face explosion in Photoshop

Give a Car Photo Super Slick Lighting Photoshop Effects

Apply some pretty cool light effects to cars or other objects.

Blend Photos With Apply Image In Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how easy it is to blend photos together using Photoshop’s Apply Image command to give us all kinds of different results and effects. The Apply Image command is one of those features in Photoshop that, for one reason or another, doesn’t get used very often, even by people who have been using Photoshop for years. Many people don’t know it’s there, or if they happened to stumble across it one day while browsing through Photoshop’s Menu Bar, took one look at it, said “I don’t get it” and moved on. And that’s unfortunate, since as we’ll see in this tutorial, not only is the Apply Image command one of the most powerful and flexible photo blending tools in all of Photoshop, it also happens to be very easy to use and a whole lot of fun!

Amazing Photoshop Light Effect In 10 Steps

A smokey light effect complete with glowing particles.

Iron Man View Interface Effect In Photoshop

This is very close to the amazing effects seen in the movie.

How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop.

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Lighting effects can make or break any digital artwork. When done properly, lighting can add visual impact, draw the viewer’s eye, convey depth and emotion, and tie together all the elements of the piece for a quality finished result. However, achieving brilliant lighting is not always an easy task, particularly for newer digital artists. Perfecting contrast, color variation, sharpness and depth will help make your digital art more enticing

Design an Intense Particle illustration using Photoshop

In this tutorial, I thought I would show you a simple process of manipulating a image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes too. This tutorial will bid you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome.

Displacement Effects

How to use a variety of filters and techniques to produce an image in an experimental style.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create scorching Photoshop effects

Fake an image of a burning man in Photoshop with these flaming brilliant techniques from Fabio Sasso

Create a glowing effect scene in photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to come up a cool glowing effects on your artworks

Water Spirit – drawing fire

This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone’s hands

The Making of “Constant Slip”

This photoshop effects tutorial will take you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work

Create a Lady Walking in Night Scene

Whatever you imagine, you can use manipulation to create. This tutorial will show you some tactics to do that. You can use the same idea to implement.

Water and Rain Photo Manipulation

Create frozen liquid Photoshop effects

This tutorial will show your the techniques to give almost anything a liquid or frozen fluid effect

Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial showing how to create splashing milk photoshop effects

Water Dress Tutorial

Cool way to create a realistic water dress.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

Learn how to add drama or a cinematic quality to a regular portrait photo.

Realistic Water Reflection

How to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo.

Water effect photo montage

How to create water like head and arms.

The Making Of “Our Future”

The Rain Photoshop Tutorial

Adding realistic rain as a photo manipulation isn’t that hard.

How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene

In this tutorial, we will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. We’ll use some relatively simple techniques to give this image a semi-realistic, stylized feel.

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

Manipulating Humans with Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This photoshop effects tutorial will teach you how you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more.

Create a Greek Sculpture Using Stock Photography and Photoshop

In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a Greek sculpture using several stock images. We will then discuss how to add blood, cracks, and other elements to give it texture and depth.

Dreamy photo effect

In this tutorial we will take a photo and use different color adjustments and something like pattern floral brushes to make it better or to make a different mood to our picture.

How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artwork

Creating a vector composite effect from a photo

This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes. Along the way, we’ll use some fairly basic techniques, including clipping masks and displacement maps, to achieve a unique effect!

Learn How to Create a Fiery Demon Montage

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a photo montage of a demon destroying a city using only stock photos and of course Photoshop. What are we waiting for?

Crack And Peel

How to make skin look cracking and peeling

Realistic Tattoos

This tutorial uses a few basic photoshop techniques, masking, color adjustment, liquify and the resize and transformation tools.

Applying a Realistic Tattoo

There are lots of tutorials on the Web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they want to use as a tattoo and to set it to overlay. Out of experience I can say that this does NOT look like a tattoo. It looks like…well…an overlayed image.

Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

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.

Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images.

Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create the disintegration effect using photoshop. Brushes and the blur filter will be mainly involved. It is really simple and you are able to apply this effect into different images by this sort of trendy style effect.

How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model’s face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results. Let’s get to it!

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).

Photo retouching

In this tutorial we are going to practice some amazing Photo effects using Wacom tablet. Of course you will be able to do it with PC mouse. But graphic tablet will save you a lot of time.

The Making of Mystic

Cool tutorial on how to use e.g. a golden frame and apply it to a phase as a photoshop effect.

Bringing A Stone Statue To Life

How to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.

Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation

In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.”

Devil’s Eyes

Turn human eyes into devil eyes.

Alien Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Turn a woman into an alien by combining two photos. This tutorial will teach you several photo manipulation techniques for creating scary photo manipulations.

Creating Medusa With Photo Manipulation

This tutorial will teach you how to create the piece ‘Medusa’ using a range of techniques including photo manipulation.

Create a Face Shattering Photoshop Effects

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial you will learn how to create a face shattering effect photo manipulation in photoshop.

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial you will learn a neat grungy photo effect using a variety of Photoshop filters and image adjustments.

Selective Focus and Tilt-Shift

In this Photoshop tutorial we will explore the basic technique and options for creating selective focus without the use of a macro lens or fast exposure and the Tilt-Shift effect created by large format cameras and 35mm cameras outfitted with a Tilt-Shift lens

Simply Creating a Vector Object in Photoshop

Creating a Smoke Fading Effect

Create a human smoke photoshop effect

Age Progression

Tutorial in how to age-progress a person in Photoshop

Make Photos More Suggestive

Learn how to make the model in this tutorial more suggestive with awesome curves

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works.

Comic Book Photo Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to add a comic book effect to an ordinary photo using a few layers, the Cutout and Poster Edges filters and a few different layer blend modes.

Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop

How to tuen a photo into a cool retro pop art photosop effect

Transform A Person Into An Alien

How to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Puzzle Photoshop Effect

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to look at how to easily create a Photoshop puzzle effect, allowing us to turn any photo into a jigsaw puzzle! Or at least, we’ll be creating the illusion that the photo is made up of small puzzle pieces, although I suppose you could print the photo afterwards, cut around all the pieces with scissors and make an actual puzzle out of it, but as I like to say, why fumble around with reality when faking things in Photoshop is so much easier.

Inserting Objects and Building Scenes with Photo Manipulation

Lighting a Giant Elephant

A Photoshop Effects technique for matching the lighting between a subject and its background.

How to Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire

This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects. So, let’s get fired-up for this one!

Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial

In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800?s

Smoke Designs & Anti-Smoking Ads – Decoration and Destruction!!

How to Create a Cute Green Apple Face Photoshop Effects

Here is a tutorial where you will learn how Create a Cute Green Apple by manipulating some photos.

How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop

One of the most disappointing things that can happen to you as a photographer is to have a once in lifetime chance to take a photograph of something and to have the weather let you down. So, instead of luscious blue skies you’ll get grey or dull skies in your image. You can replace the sky in an image in a number of ways. One method I like to use involves the Blend If tool because it avoids the need to make a detailed selection around the area of sky to replace. This is particularly handy if the skyline has trees or other wispy elements along it. The principle of this tool is you blend two layers together conditional on the overall lightness or darkness of the top or bottom layer or you can do it conditional on the lightness or darkness of a color on the top or bottom layer.

Photoshop Effects: Placing An Image Inside Of Another In Photoshop

Of course, none of these images are really being displayed on the screen, since it’s next to impossible to take a high quality photo of something appearing on tv. It’s all done in Photoshop. An image of whatever it is they want to have appearing on tv is simply pasted into the image of the tv itself. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to see how it’s done so you can use the same technique with your own images!

Photoshop Sunglass Reflections Effect

In this Adobe Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’re going learn how to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses. This is a popular Photoshop effect and opens up a world of creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing the sunglasses and who or what you have them looking at.

Photoshop Effects: Telling Stories With Shadows

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to truly make a picture worth a thousand words by adding a different shadow behind someone in a photo, as if to imply that the person in the photo is one day going to become the image in the shadow. Or maybe they really are the image in the shadow but they manage to keep it hidden from everyone, sort of a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” scenario. Or, as in the case with the image I’ll be using in this tutorial, perhaps the person is imagining themselves as the image in the shadow.

Making of a Forest Magical Scene

Sometimes, you may wish to create a magical scene as your personal poster. And this tutorial is going to present you how to make a nice one for your image. It mainly includes to teach you adding some special lighting effect and color tuning techniques

Compositing with Adjustment Layers : Photoshop effects tutorial

Compositing with Photoshop is one part technique and two parts imagination. In the example below, I’ve created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to present you how to make a nice one for your image. It mainly includes to teach you adding some special lighting effect and color tuning techniques.

Create an Incredible Avatar Inspired Matte Painting of Pandora

The artworks from Avatar and the visual effects from the film were largely considered some of the highest quality and innovative artworks seen in film up until that point, perhaps rivaled only by Star Wars in terms of their ingenuity and use of new techniques for visual effects. The world of Pandora has inspired many artworks and imaginative interpretations

Mysterious Hollow Photoshop Effects

This Photoshop Effects tutorial is going to show you to create a mysterious hollow scene. You may wonder how to create the movie or poster with such extraordinary scenes. This is not difficult, as long as you pick the right images or photos to start to. At the end, you just need to add some techniques to make it to be more realistic.

How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll gonna take an image of a baby iguana and another of a bat, then combine the two to create a fantasy dragon.

Using Lighting, Atmospherics and Digital Illustration Techniques for Matte Painting

To create a realistic matte painting, or any artwork for that matter, it is important to understand the properties of light, atmospherics, color and perspective. Proper perspective and use of light can bring out the true scale and depth to any image, while using the wrong lighting or perspective can make the artwork feel pasted together, or make it seem as though it is a miniature model instead of a realistically scaled image.

Mysterious Lightning

This is a photos combination tutorial about a castle and natural scene of river. Firstly, you have to prepare two photos to start up. After combination these two pictures, Fog, lightning & other color adjustments will be added in order to make it mysterious.

Create a Scenic Photomanipulation

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial Andreea takes us through a very scenic photo manipulation. Using some provided stock images you’ll learn how to manipulate color effects using textures and contrasts, these techniques will provide a platform for creating future photo manipulations and will enhance your skills.

Create a Wallpaper for Blog Action Day

Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted. Psdtuts has decided to help raise awareness of the issue by doing what we do best, publishing tutorials. Today’s tutorial will demonstrate how to create a wallpaper for Blog Action Day.

Storm Photoshop Effects

In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform a normal countryside picture with a dramatic lightening scene. To complete this, the blend mode and filter functions will be mainly involved. You can also apply the same skill to different environment.

Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques

In this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.

Manipulating a WW2 Fighter Aircraft

In this tutorial we will be learning some indispensable techniques to use for any type of photo-manipulation. We will be doing this by taking a photograph of a model plane and editing it to to look like a photograph of a WW2 spitfire which has just been shot down and is on fire. The techniques used here are the same for any type of ‘destruction’ photo-manipulation.

Create a dynamic butterfly inspired photo manipulation

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a digital illustration using just stock images, Photoshop and your design skills. This tutorial can get tricky and is a bit long so some good knowledge in Photosop is a plus. If your a beginner, then you will learn some great Photoshop tips and tricks!

Vibrant Photo Manipulation

A Photoshop Effects tutorial on how to use lots of vibrant color to create a slightly abstract photo manipulation using pencils and fruit. you will learn how to use the pen tool effectively and also some freehand brushing which looks good.

Design a Photo Manipulation from Sketch to Color

This Photoshop Effects tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. You’ll look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation.

How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with a few images and create a really interesting photo manipulation.

Create a Devastating Twister With Photo Manipulation Techniques

If you’re looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you will have to combine several photos and apply a few effects to get your desired look. In today’s tutorial I decided to combine a few photos that I took while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming everything in its path.

Alien Invasion

In this tutorial, you will learn how to manipulate an alien invasion scene in photoshop.

Making a Disaster Impact Scenery to the Earth

Meteor impact to earth is always a popular topic to lots of movies. You may also have the same imagination to such scenery. You can create this scene with some images such as fire, and earth, then you can apply some lighting effect into.

Displacement Water

Orange Porsche. Fruit Skin

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, it will show you how to re-decorate the Posche with fruit skin. This time, orange skin is used for making the skin. Then use the color adjustment plus other special effect to complete this tutorial.

Photo Manipulation for Great Finish and Edges

Basic Photo Reflections

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

Creative Edges Using Smart Filters

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to make some cool edge effects using the power of Smart Objects and Smart Filters in Photoshop CS3.

Grunge Photo Edges

In this Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks.

Photo Transfer Edge Photoshop Effects

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create a cool old photo transfer edge effect using a piece of stock photography, an alpha channel and the burn and dodge tools.

Changing Eye Color

In this tutorial, we’ll take a photograph of a person’s eyes and learn to change the color to whichever color we want.

Colorizing A Photo With Multiple Colors In Photoshop

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to colorize a photo using multiple colors. It’s an effect I’ve seen used quite a bit in ads for photo printers and for color calibration software. The idea is simple. Take a single photo, divide it into multiple sections of equal size (usually four sections), then colorize each section using a different color, or a different shade of the same color, to create interesting results.

Basic Image Adjustment 101

In this tutorial I will cover the four introductory adjustments that go into a good digital photo. We will be using the Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation and Selective Color Adjustment Layers.

Making Noses Smaller

Ever wondered what your nose would look like if it were smaller. This tutorial will walk you through the steps for reducing the size of a nose in a photograph using Photoshop.

Gritty Effect

Improve your photos with a dramatic gritty bronze effect to make them truly pop though the techniques discussed in this Photoshop tutorial. The tutorial uses a combination of techniques including the utilization of a Curves Adjustment layer.

Basic Graduated Neutral Density Filter

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to achieve the effect of using a Graduated Neutral Density filter to make a sky more dramatic using one simple Gradient layer and the Soft Light layer blend mode.

Photo Color Correction

If you have an image that you would like to correct for color, Photoshop is here to help!

Soft Focus & Glow Effect

Do you want to change a plain and boring scene into a dreamy and surreal photo? If so – check out this wonderful tutorial on applying a soft focus and glow effect onto your photos using the Gaussian Blur filter and adjusting layer Blending modes.

How To Turn Your Photo Into Movie-Like Effect

Greate a cool movie style photoshop effect on your photos

Split Toning Black and White Photos In Photoshop

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to look at an easy way to give a photo a split toning effect. The term “split toning” means we’ll be adding a color tint to the highlights using one color, and then using a different color to tint the shadows. The two colors you use can be similar, giving you a subtle effect, or they can be complete opposites. It’s really up to you and the effect you’re going for. Whichever colors you choose, split toning an image can be a great way to add more visual interest to a black and white photo. As with most things in Photoshop, there’s several different ways to create a split toning effect, but in this tutorial, we’re going to look at one of the easiest ways. We’ll be using a couple of Photoshop’s adjustment layers, one to convert our full color image into a custom black and white photo, and then another to add our colors to the highlights and shadows. A nice thing about this technique, besides being easy, is that it allows us to create the split toning effect without harming a single pixel in our image!

The Velvia Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create look of Fujifilm Velvia film, specifically the slight over saturation that has made Velvia so popular by landscape photographers through the years when film ruled photography.

Intensify A Dull Sky

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you a creative and extremely effective way to improve an overexposed image by using Luminosity and the Multiply blend mode.

Basic Sepia Tone Old Photo Effect

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial I’ll show you an easy way to create that old photo “sepia tone” look in just a few basic steps.

Infrared Photo Effect In Photoshop

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to simulate the look of infrared photography in Photoshop. We’ll be taking a look at Photoshop’s Channels palette and seeing how to isolate a color channel as well as how to apply filters to color channels, we’ll be using adjustment layers, specifically the Channel Mixer adjustment layer to adjust how much impact each individual channel has on the image, we’ll be using a few different layer blend modes, adding some noise, and at the end, seeing how to bring some of the color from the original image back into the effect.

Removing Partial Color from a Photo: Photoshop Effects Techniques

While there are lots of ways that you can convert an image into black and white in Photoshop sometimes you want to remove some of the color but not all of it. One method to do this, is to use a tool such as an adjustment layer to remove the saturation from the image or to apply a black to white gradient map adjustment. This removes all the color and you can then recover some of it by reducing the opacity of the adjustment layer to show some of color from the image layer underneath. However, when you adjust opacity, the setting is applied to every pixel in the image so light and dark pixels are treated equally. You can achieve a richer effect by using the image as its own mask so that the desaturation effect is applied with different strengths to pixels in the image depending on their relative lightness or darkness.

Photoshop effects: Create Silky Smooth Waterfalls

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to give waterfalls a silky smooth appearance, as if the photo was taken with a longer exposure which would normally require the use of a neutral density filter.

Photoshop HDR tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create true HDR using bracketed exposure and Photoshop for post-production.

HDR-Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop

Learn how to achieve HDR results in Photoshop using bracketed exposures during the production process and then Photoshop layers afterwards.

How to Create Professional HDR Images

Here’s an excellent (and very popular) Photoshop Effects tutorial on creating high dynamic range (HDR) images; the author focuses on realism instead of going overboard with the application of HDR.

Spot Sharpening with a Faux Layer Mask in Photoshop (Elements)

One of the features on the wish list of most advanced Photoshop Elements users is Layer Masks. It is one of the key features that separates Photoshop Elements from Photoshop – but it doesn’t have to be that way. It is possible to create faux layer masks in Photoshop Elements if you know how – and today, I am going to show you how. One of benefits of this approach to creating faux layer masks in Elements is that it uses features built into Elements and it doesn’t rely on a third party plug-in so it works with most versions of Photoshop Elements.

Lars

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.