Photo Effects

High-Key Black & White Photo Effect

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - High-Key Black And White PhotographyThis tutorial will show you how to simulate the effects of high-key photography in Photoshop. This effect can work great on portraits, particularly of children, where the white, soft tones give a feeling of innocence to the picture.

Retro 50′s Postcard

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Retro 50's PostcardIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take an ordinary photo and transform it into an aged retro postcard straight from the 1950′s.

Surreal Soft Focus Effect

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Surreal Soft Focus EffectLearn how to give your photos an enchanted, dream-like quality with this simple technique for creating a surreal, soft-focus effects.

Photo to Abstract Expressionist Image

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Converting a Photo to an Abstract Expressionist ImageIn this tutorial, we’re going to take a photograph and turn it into an image resembling an expressionist style painting. This technique works best on photos comprised of simple shapes and colors, like this bowl of fruit, for instance.

Understanding & Correcting White Balance

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Understanding & Correcting White BalanceIn this tutorial we’ll discuss white balance for digital photography, learn what it is, what it does, how it effects yoru image quality and how to correct poor white balance in Photoshop.

Simple Photo Sharpening Techniques

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Simple sharpening techniques for digital photosI’m going to pull an old one out of the archives here and show you some quick and simple sharpening techniques to imrpove the quality of your digital photographs.