Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials
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Add A Realistic Rainbow To A Photo In Photoshop
In this photo effects tutorial, learn how to brighten your stormy skies by adding a rainbow, or even a double rainbow, to a photo using one of Photoshop's ready-made gradients. We'll also learn how to flip the order of the colors in a gradient to create a more realistic double rainbow effect!
Dancing In The Stars Tutorial
Let Photoshop make their special night even more magical and send the wedding couple dancing in the stars with this step by step photo effects tutorial.
Add Bubbles With A Custom Photoshop Bubble Brush
In this photo effects tutorial, learn how to add realistic bubbles to a photo using an easy to create, custom Photoshop bubble brush!
Create And Add Photo Mount Corners To An Image
In this two-part Photoshop tutorial, learn how to create and add photo mount corners to an image, a nice finishing touch for wedding or engagement photos, family portraits, travel photos, and more!
Gallery Style Photo Frame Layout Tutorial
In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to display your photos as if they were hanging in an art gallery with this easy to create gallery-style photo frame layout!
Screen Jumping Effect Tutorial
Sometimes, the action in a movie, sports event or video game can be so intense, it seems to jump right off the screen, especially if you're using Photoshop! In this tutorial, learn how to create this popular and classic photo effect.
Retro 3D Movie Effect Tutorial
Long before Avatar, monsters and aliens were leaping out of screens at moviegoers wearing cardboard 3D glasses with red and blue lenses. In this tutorial, learn how to recreate that same 50's retro 3D movie look with Photoshop!
Overlapping Text With An Image In Photoshop
Every month, magazine covers show people or objects overlapping text (usually the name of the magazine along the top). In this tutorial, learn how layers in Photoshop make it easy to recreate the same effect with your own images and text!
Colorizing Images With Gradients In Photoshop
Learn how to add complex colorizing effects to images in Photoshop using a Gradient Map, including a look at how to create your own custom gradients!
Add A Lens Flare Effect With Blend Modes
Learn how to add a popular lens flare effect to an image in Photoshop without harming the original photo using layer blend modes!
Flip, Rotate And Mirror Designs And Patterns
Learn how to create fun and interesting designs and patterns from a single image in Photoshop by repeatedly flipping, rotating and mirroring it, and experimenting with different layer blend modes!
Mapping A Texture To A Face In Photoshop
Learn how Photoshop's Displace Filter makes it easy to map an interesting texture to someone's face in a photo!
Three Image Photo Frame Template with Smart Objects
Learn how to create a simple three-image photo frame in Photoshop, then how to easily convert the final result into a reusable template with Smart Objects!
Worn, Torn Photo Edges Effect
Learn how to easily combine the Eraser Tool with one of Photoshop's built-in brushes, along with a few layers and some layer styles, to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect!
Action Zoom Blurring Effect
Learn how to create a zoom blurring effect in Photoshop, a popular and easy way to give a photo a sense of action and motion!
Film Strip Photo Collage in Photoshop - Part 2: Creating The Collage
In the first of this two-part Photoshop tutorial, we created a film strip shape to use as a photo frame. In this second part of the tutorial, we'll use multiple copies of that film strip to create our photo collage!
Film Strip Photo Collage in Photoshop - Part 1: Drawing The Film Strip
In this two-part Photoshop tutorial, learn how to create a fun photo collage using a film strip as a photo frame for multiple images. In this first part of the tutorial, we'll see how Photoshop's various shape tools make it easy to draw the actual film strip itself, which we'll then use in Part Two to create the photo collage!
Creating Photo Borders With Photoshop's Brushes
Learn how easy it is to create interesting photo border effects using Photoshop's brushes, including how to load additional brush sets and combine multiple brush strokes with different tools, like the Eraser Tool, for virtually endless creative possibilities!
High Key Glow Effect In Photoshop
In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, learn how to give your images a romantic, magical look by adding a glow effect to just the highlights in the photo, an easy effect to create thanks to Photoshop's Color Range command.
Create A Portrait From Text In Photoshop
Learn how to create the illusion that a portrait photo is actually being created by multiple lines of type in this photo effects tutorial.
Halftone Pattern Photo Border Effect
Learn how to create a fun and simple halftone pattern photo border in Photoshop! We'll use Smart Filters in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 to keep the effect fully editable even after it's completed, but this photo border can be easily created with any version of Photoshop, including Photoshop Elements!
Photoshop High Speed Motion Trail Photo Effect
Use Photoshop to add a sense of speed, direction and excitement to your images with a high speed motion blur photo effect! Great for sports photography!
Photo Effects With The Dissolve Blend Mode In Photoshop
Learn how the Dissolve blend mode in Photoshop can be used to quickly add more interest to your photo effects, as well as how to easily create a speckled photo border!
Painterly Glow Effect With Smart Filters In Photoshop CS3
Learn how to blend multiple motion blurs together to create an interesting painting/glow photo effect using Smart Filters in Photoshop CS3!
Create Cinematic Panoramas With Photomerge In Photoshop CS4
Photoshop has been somewhat capable of creating panoramas for quite a while now, but it wasn't until Photoshop CS3 came along with its dramatically improved Photomerge command that its ability to stitch photos together really began to shine. Now Photoshop CS4 makes it easier than ever to create seamless cinematic panoramas!
Photoshop Mirrror Image Photo Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to easily create a mirror image effect with a photo, turning the right half of the image into a mirror reflection of the left half!
Outlining The Action In Photoshop
Bring the action in your images to the forefront by highlighting the main subject of your photo with an easy to create outline effect in Photoshop!
Photoshop Falling Snow Effect
We may not be able to control the weather outdoors, but thanks to Photoshop, we do have some control over it in our photos! In this tutorial, learn how to add falling snow to a winter scene, and see how the same basic technique can be used to create entirely different effects!
Gritty, Overprocessed Photo Effect
Learn how to give a photo a gritty, overprocessed look to it with extreme levels of contrast and sharpening, noise and washed out colors. The final effect looks rather harsh, but Photoshop makes creating it quick and painless.
Darkening Photo Edges In Photoshop
Learn how to easily darken or burn the edges of a photo in Photoshop, creating a vignette effect, using a filter that was actually designed to remove unwanted vignette effects!
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