Blemishes have the power to cause us great embarrassment – think of the phrase, “Pizza face”? Blemishes are usually temporary anyway, so why remember them forever in a photograph when we can easily get rid of them. 1.Step 1 Open up your photo, and then double-click on the Zoom Tool to bring your image to […]

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Sometimes you look at a color photo and instinctively think, “This would look much better in black and white”. So how to do you go about achieving the monochromatic look, when you didn’t shoot in black and white or design the image to be grayscale? Luckily, Photoshop has some fairly easy ways of doing this… […]

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It has been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Unfortunately, when the eyes don’t stand out (for whatever reason . . . and there are many), the window blinds are closed and the eyes can look a little dead. Cleaning up the eye-whites is a way to bring them back to […]

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Here’s a common problem: Your subject looks great, but the background, not so great. Never fear, Photoshop is here to save the day and your photos. You can change backgrounds with the handy Quick Selection tool, which enables you to “paint” a selection with a brush, and then as you drag the brush the selection […]

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This is the cheapest (and least painful) facelift you will ever have! As we all know, there are good “facelifts” where you look like you just returned from a relaxing vacation (Vacation Lift), and, of course, there are bad facelifts where everyone knows you have had a facelift (Drastic Lift). Depending on how the image […]

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The Dodge Tool, like in a traditional darkroom, will make areas of a photo lighter. The Burn Tool will make areas of a photo darker. These are two critical areas of control that will enable you create rich and/or moody atmospheres with your photos. These tools are particularly handy when looking to enhance a B&W […]

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There’s a technique that photographers use to create a zoom blur in their photographs; this is usually done by manually zooming the lens as quickly as possible while taking the photo. It’s hard to get right, so in Photoshop there’s a quick and easy way to obtain that same zoom blur effect that sports photographers […]

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One of the biggest “defects” in photography is a slightly out-of-focus image. Well, Photoshop has the means to eliminate that little error (courtesy of the auto-focus). There are two ways to buff out the soft focus, the Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen Filter. AUsing the Unsharp Mask Filter The Unsharp Mask, contrary to its name, […]

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HDR or High Dynamic Range is the ability to capture the full luminance spectrum of the real-world. This is extremely difficult to achieve and is usually reserved for movies, special effects and some other specialty photography. What’s marvelous about Photoshop, is that you can photograph a subject (multiple times at varying exposures) and then merge […]

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A person’s smile is probably one of the first things others notice, so who wouldn’t want to look younger and more attractive by having whiter teeth? The problem is, if you over-whiten teeth, they can become a distraction. (If the only things you notice in an image are the teeth, they’re too white!) That being […]

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