Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials
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Creative Focus with The Lens Blur Filter
When it comes to adding blur effects to an image in Photoshop, most people yawn and think "Gaussian Blur filter". But spend a little time with Photoshop's much more powerful Lens Blur filter, along with its easy-to-create depth maps, and there's no limit to how many creative and imaginative uses you'll come up with for it!
Add Transparent Type To An Image
Learn a few different ways to add transparent type to an image in Photoshop, from the quickest and easiest way to more interesting ways using layer styles and blend modes. We'll also look at the important and often confusing difference between a layer's Opacity and Fill options.
Wedding Couple In A Wine Glass Photo Effect
Learn how easy it is to create this classic wedding photography effect in Photoshop, placing a wedding couple inside a wine glass. Not into wedding photography? You can use this same technique to place an image inside any glass object, like a bottle or an hour glass, or even place an image inside a bubble!
Interweaving Photo Strips Effect
Learn how to use layers, layer masks and clipping masks in Photoshop to create the illusion that your photo is made up of vertical and horizontal strips that weave under and over each other.
Adding Rain To A Photo With Photoshop
How do you take photos of rainy days without getting your camera all wet? Easy! Add the rain later in Photoshop! This tutorial shows you how it's done.
Using A Photo As Its Own Background
Learn how to take any photo and use it as its own background, an effect that works great with wedding photography but can also be used with any image!
Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids
Take a photo and easily turn it into a collage of separate polaroid photos, each one displaying a small section of the larger image!
Add A Realistic Water Reflection To Any Photo
Learn how easy it is to add a realistic looking water reflection to any image in Photoshop. No water required!
Bourne Ultimatum Color and Motion Blur Effect
Learn how to easily recreate the same color and motion blur effects used in the movie poster for the biggest action movie of the summer - the Bourne Ultimatum!
Digital Pixel Photo Effect
Create a digital pixel effect in Photoshop by fading an image into pixels, an effect often used in ads that sell anything that has to do with digital. We'll also look at a couple of variations on the effect, including how easy it is to create a completely different effect simply by changing blend modes!
Tearing A Photo To Reveal Another
In this tutorial, we're going to look at another movie poster-type of effect, tearing a section out of one photo to reveal another one hiding behind it!
Add Realistic Water Drops To A Photo
Learn how to easily add realistic water drops to a photo, as if someone splashed water all over the image!
Adding Fireworks To A Photo In Photoshop
Finish your photos off with a bang by adding real fireworks to them in Photoshop. If you can paint with a brush and change a layer blend mode, you have all the skills you need to fill your night skies with huge explosions and brilliant colors!
Fill A Photo With More Photos
Create a bit of an optical illusion in Photoshop by making a larger photo appear to be made from many smaller photos inside it. Great for family photos, wedding photos, or just as a fun thing to do with your friends.
Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop
Learn how easy it is to blend two images seamlessly together and create a Hollywood movie poster-style effect.
Adding Focus To An Image With Color
Thanks to the power and flexibility of Photoshop's adjustment layers, we can easily bring more focus and attention to the main subject of an image using color, an effect that's very popular with sports and wedding photography.
Combining Reality With A Rotoscope-Style Painting
Combining live action with hand-drawn or painted images is a popular technique used in everything from tv commercials to Hollywood movies, and in this tutorial, we'll see how easy it is to create something similar in Photoshop.
Making Your Subject Pop Out Of A Photo
Create the illusion that the subject of your photo is walking, running, jumping, or otherwise popping right out of the image with this easy effect.
Silky Smooth Waterfalls Photo Effect
Give waterfalls a silky smooth appearance without the need for any fancy photo filters or longer exposures.
Using A Photo To Mask Itself In Photoshop
Learn how to give a photo a soft glow effect by turning the image into a layer mask, essentially using the photo to mask itself, something Photoshop does not normally allow us to do.
Extreme Contrast Photo Effect
Combine a few layer blend modes, some noise, a little sharpening, and a simple adjustment layer to give your photos an extreme contrast effect.
Fast, Easy Pop Art With Lab Color In Photoshop
Learn how to quickly and easily create a pop art-style effect from any photo using the Lab color mode in Photoshop.
Inverted Colors Photo Effect
Learn how to flip nature upside down and turn a forest's natural greens and browns into something a bit more mystical.
Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Squares
Turning a photo into a collage of squares in Photoshop is not only fun, it's also incredibly easy, since most of the work is just simple repetition.
Dramatic Black & White Photo Effect
Create a more interesting black & white version of an image with some dramatic lighting effects that help bring attention to your main subject.
Old-Fashioned, Hand-Tinted Effect
Learn how to give any photo an old-fashioned, hand-tinted look in just a few simple steps.
Ghosting An Image
Turn a living, breathing person into a ghost and let Photoshop take the rap for it in this photo effects tutorial.
Create A Burnt-In Edge Effect In Photoshop
Create an all-time classic effect in Photoshop in a way that is both easy and flexible, then add the same effect to other photos instantly.
Add A Copyright Watermark Pattern To Your Photos
Before showing a client your work or displaying your portfolio on the web, make sure everyone knows whose work it is with an easy to create copyright watermark.
Add Focus With Light In Photoshop
Learn how to use light to bring focus to your images with Photoshop's Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.
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