“Perfectum” Beautiful Photo Effect

The goal of this Photoshop tutorial is, in a very simple way teach even the Photoshop beginners how to add a very immense, beautiful photo effect to your cherished photos. In my experience this is great for the wives that want to add a special effect to their wedding photos!

Before and After Photo Effect Tutorial

Read article. 3 responses. Posted Jul 12th, 2008 under Photo Effects.

Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation

In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.”

In this tutorial we will use the burn tool, dodge tool, brushes, layer modes and more to add an interesting effect to an otherwise regular stock photo.

Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation (Photoshop Tutorial)

Read article. 22 responses. Posted May 1st, 2008 under Photo Effects.

Photo Restoration: Correcting a Red Over-Saturated Photo

Correcting a red over-saturated photo using Photoshop can be either very easy, or very hard. For example, if you have a photo that is completely red rather than just a little bit over the top, then I think you would basically have to desaturate the photo and recolor it from scratch - now this, you don’t want to do.

Correcting a Red Over-Saturated Photo Restoration

The easy case though, when you have a photo that is only tinted an abnormal red, this is nice and easy to fix. There’s a few ways to do it, but in this tutorial we’re going to be using some adjustment layers, mostly the Channel Mixer adjustment layers. :D

Read article. 8 responses. Posted Nov 14th, 2007 under Photo Effects.

Hot & Fiery Photo Effect

Basically, in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to create a photo effect like the one in the below image, it’s pretty much all accomplished by using Filters, as are most photo effects, right? Photo manipulation on the other hand uses many tools of the trade, most commonly “airbrushing”, as everyone calls it. But we’re just going to be making a nice, hot, fiery kind of photo effect in this tutorial!

Hot & Fiery Photo Effect Tutorial Result

Read article. 13 responses. Posted Jun 11th, 2007 under Photo Effects.

Summer Photo Manipulation

In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a nice, warm, summer photo manipulation for a photo. This tutorial best works for fairly colorful, fairly bright photos. In this tutorial I will be using this stock photo of the lovely Evangeline Lilly.

Evangeline Lilly Photoshop Tutorial

Read article. 21 responses. Posted Sep 20th, 2006 under Photo Effects.

Abstract Photo Manipulation

In this really easy tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to turn a regular old photo into a really interesting, abstract piece of artwork! Just like the one shown below:

Read article. 16 responses. Posted Aug 6th, 2006 under Photo Effects.

Dark, Gritty Photo Effect

In this nice and easy Photoshop tutorial I’m going to be teaching you how to add a very simple, dark & gritty-style effect to a photo, in this case a photo of the beautiful Evangeline Lilly!

Read article. 9 responses. Posted Jul 20th, 2006 under Photo Effects.

Adding a Blurry Glass Effect

Blurry Glass Effect Result Image

Firstly, you’ll be needing a stock photo. Below I’ve written down some good sources for free stock photos.

  1. stock.xchange
  2. Yotophoto
  3. DeviantART

After you’ve chosen a nice stock photo, we can move on with this tutorial. You can download the stock photo that I used from here: Water Droplets Stock.

Read article. 5 responses. Posted Jun 19th, 2006 under Photo Effects.