Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials
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Colorizing A Photo With Multiple Colors In Photoshop
Create an interesting color effect in Photoshop by dividing a single photo into multiple sections and colorizing each section with a different color, then learn how to easily change all the colors at once!
Split Toning Black and White Photos
Looking for a way in Photoshop to spice up a black and white photo? Try a classic split toning effect! Learn how to quickly create your own custom black and white version, then add more visual interest by tinting the highlights and shadows with different colors, all without harming a single pixel in the image!
Photoshop Jigsaw Puzzle Effect
Photoshop can certainly seem puzzling at times, but using it to turn any photo into a puzzle is easy! In fact, Photoshop even comes with a free puzzle texture to get us started, but in this tutorial, we're going to take things a bit further and give our puzzle effect a "work in progress" look to it!
Soft Focus Lens Photo Effect
In this tutorial, we look at how to easily create the look of a photo taken with a soft focus lens or diffusion filter, and since we're doing it all in Photoshop, we have complete control over the final result!
Fun With Silhouettes In Photoshop
Learn how to create a basic silhouette from a photo in Photoshop, then learn how to fill the silhouette with an image to create interesting designs!
Classic Starburst Background Effect In Photoshop
Learn how to recreate the classic starburst-style background you've seen hundreds of times in grocery stores, department stores and weekly flyers, using a little-known but very powerful feature in Photoshop - Transform Again.
Simple Focused Lighting Effect In Photoshop
Learn how to bring focus and attention to a specific part of an image using a simple and easy to create lighting effect!
Easy Soft Focus And Glow Photo Effect
Whether you're a wedding photographer, nature photographer or you simply enjoy taking photos of family and friends, learn how to quickly and easily add a soft focus or glow effect to a photo and see if it doesn't make your images look a bit more magical.
Adding Light Streaks To A Photo In Photoshop
Learn how to add colorful streaks of light to a photo by combining paths with Photoshop's brushes and layer styles! Also learn how to simulate pen pressure with a brush even if you're not using a pen tablet!
Casting Light Through Window Blinds In Photoshop
Learn how to create the illusion that light is being cast on to the subject of your photo through window blinds, using a displacement map to bend and wrap the shadows around your subject while a simple adjustment layer helps create a more natural light source.
Warm Golden Sunsets Effect With Gradient Maps
Sunsets are one of the most commonly photographed aspects of nature, yet photos rarely manage to capture their intense beauty. Learn how to easily bring vivid, golden colors back to your sunsets with Photoshop's Gradient Maps!
Easy Depth Of Field Effect
Learn how to bring focus and attention to a specific part of an image in Photoshop with an easy to create depth of field effect!
Creating Photo Borders With Displacement Maps In Photoshop
Learn a great way to create unique and interesting photo border effects in Photoshop using your own texture images as displacement maps!
Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo In Photoshop
Learn how to do a little reverse photo restoration by taking a new or recent photo and making it look like it's been around for a while, combining several separate effects to create the final result!
Placing An Image Inside Of Another With Photoshop
Learn how to easily recreate the same Photoshop effect seen every week in electronics store ads, where one image is placed inside of another!
Turn Any Photo Into An Interesting Background
Learn how to easily turn any photo into an interesting background in Photoshop using a couple of basic selection tools that seem to have no other purpose. Then learn how to combine the newly created background with the same photo it was created from!
Blend Photos With Apply Image In Photoshop
Learn how to combine photos in all sorts of interesting and creative ways using the Apply Image command, one of the most powerful, flexible and fun image blending tools in all of Photoshop!
Create A Wood Picture Frame In Photoshop
Learn how to create a simple wood picture frame in Photoshop using a layer mask, layer styles and one of Photoshop's built-in patterns!
Creating Photo Borders In Photoshop With Masks And Filters
Learn how to easily create interesting photo border effects in Photoshop simply by applying a filter directly to a layer mask!
Giving A Photo Rounded Corners In Photoshop
If you're creating a fun design or collage out of your photos, those sharp, right-angled corners may not be sending the message you want. Fortunately, Photoshop makes it incredibly easy to give your photos warm, friendly, rounded corners using a simple Shape tool and a vector mask!
Create A Starry Night Sky In Photoshop
If the ability to capture a beautiful starry night with your camera seems as out of reach as the stars themselves, no need to worry! Photoshop makes it easy to fill our night skies with as many stars as we like!
Easy Photoshop Watercolor Painting Effect
Learn how to easily turn a photo into a watercolor painting in Photoshop with just a few simple steps!
Creating Photoshop Templates For Photo Effects In CS2 / CS3
Learn how easy it is to create your photo effects as reuseable templates thanks to Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2 and Smart Filters in Photoshop CS3.
Cast Light From A Window Photo Effect
Give an ordinary photo a more focused and dramatic look to it by creating a light source that appears to be shining through a window onto your main subject.
Telling Stories With Shadows In Photoshop
Learn how to truly make a picture worth a thousand words by adding a different shadow behind someone in a photo, as if the person will one day become the image in the shadow! A fun, easy and popular Photoshop effect that's limited only by your imagination!
Create A Collage Of Warped Photos In Photoshop
Learn how to create a fun photo collage in Photoshop by bending, twisting, curling, and reshaping photos using the Warp Tool! We'll even see how to create more interesting drop shadows with the Warp Tool, as well as how to add subtle shadows and highlights to enhance the 3D look of our warping effect!
Sunlight Through The Trees Photo Effect
Learn how easy it is to create realistic beams of sunlight shining through the trees in a photo, then finish off the effect with patches of sunlight hitting the ground below.
Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo
Create a custom made sparkle brush in Photoshop, then use it to easily add a classic sparkle trail to a photo!
Adding Reflections To Sunglasses In Photoshop
Creating reflections in sunglasses is a very popular Photoshop effect and opens up endless creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing them and who or what you have them looking at. In this tutorial, we see how easy it is to do!
Create A Simple Portrait Studio Background
Learn how to quickly and easily create a simple background in Photoshop that can then be used to make any portrait style photo look as if it was taken in an actual photo studio!
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