Photoshop Tutorials on Digital Photo Editing

Photoshop may be up to version CS3, but the core skills you need are the same now as they were back in Photoshop 3, and that includes knowing how to use layer blend modes. Learn the five essential blend modes every Photoshop user needs to know, including what they are, how they work and when to use them!

Learn The Five Essential Blend Modes Every Photoshop User Should Know

Learn an easy way to smooth and soften someone's skin in a photo without losing important image details, using a technique normally used for advanced image sharpening!

Learn How To Smooth And Soften Skin In A Photo

Tired of the sky in your photos being dull, faded and washed out? Learn a simple technique for boosting image contrast, enhancing details in the clouds, and turning those gray skies to blue, all with just a few easy steps!

Learn How To Enhance The Sky In A Photo

Learn how easy it is to match colors of objects in separate photos using Photoshop's Match Color command, as well as how to quickly fix up the results when Match Color doesn't get it quite right.

Learn How To Match The Color Of Objects In Separate Photos

Learn how easy it is to color or tint someone's hair in a photo with Photoshop! Use this technique on photos of other people, or use it on yourself to see what you'd look like with a different hair color, then go back any time you want and change the color again without having to redo all the work!

Learn How To Color Or Tint Someone's Hair In Photoshop

Let's face it, sometimes photos don't do people justice, and a wrong setting on the camera or an unflattering angle can make their nose look bigger than it really is. Fortunately, Photoshop makes digital plastic surgery a breeze without the need for any fancy surgical tools or even a steady hand!

Learn How To Easily Give Someone In A Photo A Digital Nose Job

Bring colors to life in your images by tinting and enhancing them with Photoshop's Photo Filter. Thanks to the layer mask that comes with adjustment layers, we can easily combine multiple Photo Filters to enhance different areas of the image separately! We'll even finish things off with a Curves adjustment just for fun!

Learn How To Tint And Enhance Colors With The Photo Filter

When it comes to editing images, the very first step should always be to fix any overall tonal and color problems, and the Levels command allows us to quickly and easily fix both problems at once!

Learn How To Fix Color And Contrast With Levels In Photoshop

Get great results when sharpening images without fumbling around with confusing options by using Photoshop's High Pass filter and your choice of layer blend modes.

Learn How To Get Great Image Sharpening Results With High Pass

Learn how to quickly neutralize a color cast in an image using the Photo Filter and the exact opposite color.

Learn How To Use Photoshop's Photo Filter Adjustment To Fix Unwanted Color Casts

Add some visual snap to your images in Photoshop by boosting the color and contrast using a simple blend mode and a little-known selection trick.

Learn How To Use The Luminosity Mask To Boost Contrast And Color

Unless you're looking at a photo of a guy in the rugged outdoors, chances are the stubble on his face isn't adding anything to the image. In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll see how to give a guy a virtual shave and improve his appearance.

Learn How To Reduce 5 O'Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble

Nothing seems to have the power to captivate us quite like a person's eyes, and in this tutorial, we bump up that power even more with a shadowy, sultry look.

Learn How To Give Eyes A Shadowy, Sultry Look

Learn how to add, subtract and intersect your way to the full potential of Photoshop's basic selection tools.

Learn How To Unlock The Full Power Of Basic Selections

Learn an easy way to make teeth whiter and brighter in Photoshop without going too far and making your image look fake.

Learn How To Whiten And Brighten Teeth In Photoshop

Whether you're an amateur or pro photographer, you can make ordinary photos more extraordinary using Photoshop and a simple yet powerful design trick.

Learn How To Add Visual Interest To Your Photos With The Rule Of Thirds

Smart Filters are easily one of the best new features in Photoshop CS3, and using them couldn't be easier. In this tutorial, we take a look at the basics of applying Smart Filters to an image.

Learn How To Apply Smart Filters To An Image In Photoshop CS3

Levels and Curves are great for fixing tonal problems when important images suffer from underexposure, but what about all those photos you take just for fun? Is there a faster, easier way in Photoshop to brighten them up?

Learn How To Quickly And Easily Brighten Underexposed Photos

When color correcting photos inside 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 them without simply guessing? There sure is, and it's one of Photoshop's usually overlooked blend modes that makes all the 'difference'.

Learn How To Easily Find Neutral Gray

You've finished working on your photo and now you want to post it on the web, but how do you do that without shrinking it down to only a fraction of its actual size? Photoshop CS3 makes adding high quality, high resolution photos and images to the web a reality with it's brand new Zoomify Export feature!

Learn How To Add High Resolution Images To The Web With Zoomify