Photo Tutorials

Here is a nice little tutorial to show you how to electrify your images with lightning in Photoshop. This spooky graveyard will have lightning added in Photoshop, we will make our own lightning, no cheating by adding a photo.

All new local adjustments with the new Filter Brushes in ACR 9, allow you to paint on or subtract from gradient and radial filters. Adobe Camera Raw 9.1 new feature tutorial

This tutorial shows how to crop a photograph in Photoshop to an exact size and resolution. Includes tips, composing and advanced cropping with the Photoshop crop tool. Learn about aspect ratio.

This free tutorial explains one of the hottest trends in photography; HDR. High Dynamic Range. Learn how to shoot, merge into 32 bit images, tone-map photos to extend the dynamic range and produce strikingly realistic or surreal looking results. Covers Photoshop CS3-CC.The ultimate HDR guide.

Learn How to do a splatter, shatter effect in Photoshop tutorial on the dispersion effect. This dynamic free tutorial adds visual punch to all your photographs.

I am going to show you an alternative to lightening your photographs. This technique will add depth to your lighting and emphisis to your subject. a pro touch to your montages and collages. You asked for it, you got it

What do you do when a drop shadow isn't realistic enough? Create a cast shadow. When you see an object in a spotlight or a setting sun, you will notice the long shadows that are created behind them, this technique will teach you how to add realism to your images and anchor them to their backgrounds.

Collaging - Merging 2 images with a layer mask. This is a very requested technique and will be the first in our series on creating collages and montages. You will learn how to seamlessly blend 2 images together, using the layer masks.

Photoshop Camera Raw is a powerful photo editor. Presets can easily change your photographs with a single click. This free tutorial shows you how to make your own presets and use them on all your photos. You can download some free presets here.

We will use Channels to help mask out a complex objects with clean edges. This technique will also save you a lot of time and enable you to make precise cutouts.

Frequency Separation allows retouchers to separate the high frequency pixel information from the low frequency pixel information in images and make edits to them separately, in other words you can work on texture and detail independently from colour and tone and vice versa making most day to day retouching so much easier

Time-lapse photography is enjoying a spike in popularity. In this tutorial, you will learn what time-lapse is, how to shoot it and how to build a time-lapse video in Photoshop. In this video, Colin Smith shows you how to create a time lapse sequence in Photoshop. How to shoot, arrange and export time-lapse video from […]

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to show you how to turn on the lights in a photo. I made this car composite where I shot both the car and the background during the day, cut out the car and dropped it into this scene.  I changed the mood to nighttime as well as a raining evening. […]

Tutorial on how to turn a video into a panoramic photograph in Photoshop and Lightroom. works with any camera, shot with GoPro Hero 3 on DJI Phantom Quadcopter

Learn how to realistically retouch eyes in this photoshop tutorial. Clean up the whites, remove veins, enhance the iris and pupils and even add a catchlight to bring life into the eyes.