Photoshop Photo Editing and Retouching Tutorials
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Ready to take your image editing skills to the next level? Our Photo Retouch tutorials will teach you everything you need to know to get impressive, professional quality results, even if you're brand new to Photoshop!
In these tutorials, you'll learn the correct way to judge the exposure of a photo by reading its histogram and how to adjust the exposure with Levels and Curves. You'll learn how to improve brightness and contrast in an image, how to fix simple color problems, the best ways to convert color photos to black and white, how to crop and straighten images, how to remove wrinkles and skin blemishes, change eye color, reduce image noise, and so much more!
Our tutorials are written with beginners in mind, so even if you've never used Photoshop before, you'll be amazed at how much better your photos will look in no time at all!
New photo retouching tutorials are added regularly, so be sure to check back often for the latest additions!
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How To Lighten And Brighten Eyes With Photoshop
In this Photo Retouching tutorial, learn a fast and easy way to lighten and brighten someone's eyes in a photo using nothing more than a simple adjustment layer, a layer blend mode and a brush!
Darken Overexposed Photos With The Multiply Blend Mode
In the previous tutorial, we learned how to quickly brighten an underexposed photo using the Screen blend mode. In this tutorial, learn how to darken and tone down an overexposed image just as easily using the exact opposite blend mode!
Brighten Underexposed Photos With The Screen Blend Mode
In this photo editing tutorial, learn a quick and easy way to brighten underexposed photos using nothing more than simple adjustment layers and a layer blend mode!
Crop, Straighten and Open Multiple Scanned Photos
Whether you're restoring old photos or adding them to your digital scrapbooking designs, let Photoshop's Crop and Straighten Photos command speed up your scanning workflow!
An Easy Way To Find Neutral Gray In A Photo
When color correcting photos in Photoshop, it's pretty easy to find the brightest and darkest areas in the image. But what about those midtones? Is there an easy way to find neutral gray without simply guessing? There sure is, and it's one of Photoshop's often overlooked blend modes that makes all the 'difference'!
Straighten And Crop Images In Photoshop CS5
It took a long time, but with Photoshop CS5, Adobe has finally made straightening crooked images simple, fast and intuitive! In fact, as we learn in this tutorial, Photoshop CS5's new Straighten feature now lets us straighten and crop images with a single click!
Reducing Wrinkles With The Healing Brush In Photoshop
Photoshop's Healing Brush is by far the best of its photo retouching tools, and in this tutorial, we learn how it works and how it can be used to easily reduce the appearance of distracting wrinkles on someone's face!
Photoshop CS5 New Features - Content-Aware Fill
Want to remove an object in a photo with little effort? Check out the amazing new Content-Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5 and watch the object magically disappear as if it never existed!
Photoshop CS5 New Features - Content-Aware Healing
In this first look at one of the brand new features in Photoshop CS5, we check out the upgraded Spot Healing Brush with its new Content Aware Healing option and how an already great photo retouching tool just got a whole lot better!
Removing Skin Blemishes With The Spot Healing Brush
In this photo retouching tutorial, learn how the Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop lets us quickly and effortlessly remove acne and other minor skin blemishes from an image. Once you know how it works, you can use it to remove or repair lots of small image problems, like dust, dirt and mold, or small cracks and scratches!
Reducing Noise In Images With Photoshop
Whenever we shoot in low light, use high ISO settings or leave the dSLR at home because the compact camera is easier to carry, we often end up with noise in our images. Fortunately, Photoshop's Reduce Noise filter can reduce its appearance without sacrificing image detail!
Changing Eye Color In An Image
Learn how to change someone's eye color in a photo quickly and easily without touching the original image using nothing more than a simple adjustment layer!
The Color Replacement Tool In Photoshop
Photoshop's Color Replacement Tool makes it easy to change the color of an object in an image without a lot of fuss or hassle. In this tutorial, we look at how it works (and why it sometimes doesn't), the options that control how it works, and why learning about the Color Replacement Tool may seem like déjà vu!
The Background Eraser Tool In Photoshop
In this tutorial, we look at Photoshop's Background Eraser and how this powerful and popular image editing tool uses differences in color to easily erase unwanted background areas of a photo!
Converting Color Photos To Black And White In Photoshop
In this series of tutorials, learn the many ways of converting color photos to black and white in Photoshop. With few exceptions, the tools and techniques we cover here have been around in Photoshop for years and are available to anyone using any recent (and even not-so-recent) version of Photoshop!
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