20 Photoshop Lighting Effects Tutorials for Image Enhancement

by Bill Jones

Sometimes you just want to get a little crazy with your photo manipulations. What better way than to add some great lighting effects to really make your images pop. Here is a collection of some of the best Photoshop lighting effects tutorials you will find.

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10 Landscape Photography Tutorials to Help You Shoot Like A Pro

by Bill Jones

Great landscape photography can be a real challenge to achieve. By knowing the elements of what it takes to produce a great landscape shot, you will be well on your way to creating your own masterpieces.

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Outstanding Photoshop Effect Tutorials to Learn From

by Bill Jones

Once again its time to have some fun with your photography. Crank up Photoshop, select some of your favorite images and go nuts. Not only is it fun to play around with tutorials such as the ones I list below but it also serves the practical purpose of keeping your Photoshop skills fresh and hopefully teaching something new and useful along the way.

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Curing Blown Highlights with RAW

by Christopher O’Donnell

Blown highlights are undoubtedly one of the most annoying side-effects of digital photography. The entire image could be exposed perfectly, yet all it can take is a white building, a wedding dress, or reflections on the water to create blown highlights that are incredibly distracting to the eye. However, if you shoot in RAW format and have Photoshop at your disposal, there may be hope yet for a photo that would otherwise not be usable.

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Get It Straight – Using the Photoshop Ruler Tool

by D.A. Wagner

To shoot unnoticed, I frequently hold my camera casually, at waist level, and shoot using my intuition and guesswork. Knowing where to aim, but not seeing through my viewfinder or LCD, gives me uneven results and I have to make some corrections for the photo to look good. Here are two simple tricks – Ruler and Crop:

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Dodge and Burn to Correct Exposure

by Christopher O’Donnell

When viewing your image in post process, you may notice that some areas are perfectly exposed while others fall outside their ideal exposure. Since we can not expose every part of a photo perfectly, we have the Photoshop Dodge and Burn tools at our disposal which help us selectively correct the exposure in the form of a brush tool.

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Combining Images to Create an Antique Look in Photoshop

by Christopher O’Donnell

Whether for business or pleasure, creating antiqued images in Photoshop is always a creative way to edit your photo. In this tutorial, we are going to add a few simple textures that will have people convinced you found a photo album in your great-grandmother’s attic.

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Website-Ready Your Images with Photoshop Actions

by Christopher O’Donnell

Photoshop actions have become a fundamental part of the workflow to many photographers. However, they are not just limited to the automation of editing techniques. If you have an online portfolio to display your photography masterpieces, then you must have developed a certain system to preparing and saving your photos for upload. In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily use Photoshop actions to automate that system and avoid those repetitive steps every time you wish to save an image for your website.

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Authentic Grainy Photoshop Effect for Your Black and White Photos

by Christopher O’Donnell

One of the most beautiful aspects of black and white photography is having the ability to create images with intense grain or noise that gives your photo a dark, gritty, and highly texturized effect. However, we do not always seize the opportunity to use this tool in-camera. Did you forget to bump up your ISO setting again? Or perhaps you found an old image that would look stunning with some high-contrast grain added to the surface? Starting now, there are no more excuses for you since you’ve just discovered a unique and completely reversible way to add authentic-looking grain to your photographs.

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Using Photoshop as a View Camera

by D.A. Wagner

I’d like to introduce to you one of the features of Photoshop some of you may not be familiar with simply because these are the kinds of features found on large format view cameras. You know, those old wooden (not so old, they still make them) cameras with big accordion type bellows and a person hiding underneath a black cloth to keep the light out while looking through the camera’s lens. Working with a view camera might be painful and hard to learn, but this exercise is not.

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Four Simple Ways to Improve Your Landscape Photos in Photoshop

by Christopher O’Donnell

All true landscape photographers take pride in their work, and that pride usually comes from hours of Photoshop editing. While there are numerous guides, tricks, and hints you can follow to edit your landscape photos beautifully, most take some time and dedication to perfect. Before you delve into the unforeseen, and sometimes complicated, world of Photoshop editing, consider the following simple techniques that are the foundation of impressive landscape photographs.

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