Free Photoshop Guides » Photo Effects

High-Key Black & White Photo Effect

Kelli — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:34:29 +0000

This 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

Kelli — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:28:34 +0000

In 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

Kelli — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:16:25 +0000

Learn 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

Kelli — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:35:16 +0000

In 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

Kelli — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:51:43 +0000

In 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

Kelli — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:19:59 +0000

I'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.

Rescuing A Bad Photo

Kelli — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:59:18 +0000

In this tutorial, we're going to go through some basic steps for re-touching and correcting common problems in digital photographs, from color correction to sharpness to exposure problems

Vintage Photo Effect

Kelli — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:36:59 +0000

Today I'm going to demonstrate a simple technique to giving any photo a vintage look and feel. This one's a quickie. It should only take you a few minutes to complete, but the effect is quite nice on the right photo.