Proper use of shadows and lightings Adobe Photoshop / Photography
Shadows add facet and meaning to an image. Without shadows the object may appear plain and boring. Lights and shadows establish the correlation of one object to another and their place in the full scene.
Basic Digital Darkroom Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
Some ways to enhance an image: contrast masking, reducing highlights, bringing up shadows, sharpening, curves and white balance, black and white, duotones, blur and softness, vignetting, burn and dodge.
Basic Anime Hair Adobe Photoshop / Drawing
Comprising of thousands of curves, shadows, and highlights, hair is difficult to color effectively, but make it anime-style hair and the problem gets even worse! This tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough for one way of tackling this advanced artistic dilemma.
Half Sepia Adobe Photoshop / Color
Add a modern sepia tone to your photos. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to add a sepia tone specifically to the highlights or shadows of an image.
Projected Shadows Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
Obtaining a good shot of a shadow interacting with your subject can be difficult, especially considering that you can cast shadows too, making interference a very real and annoying issue. But why spend hours frustrated by nature's own little lighting problems when you can simply take any shot you like and add your shadows later?
The Starlight Photoshop Filters Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
This lesson you'll learn how to insert on the picture real looking stars - highlights and create your own brushes sets. You may choose in the Photoshop any placement for the highlights and draw the stars with the quantity of rays on your wish.
HDR with Smart Objects Adobe Photoshop / Photography
This article could be easily called "Shoot once, Use twice", because this article explains how to use a single RAW file to get most data out of it. Usually the dynamic range of the camera (or JPG file) doesn't allow capturing all the details in highlights or in shadows. But the RAW files have this information and a few steps would allow us to retrieve and use this information. That's why we are going to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) file using Smart Objects.
Drop Shadows Adobe Photoshop / Getting Started
This is a basic tutorial that will teach you several ways to make a drop shadow in Photoshop. Even though drop shadows are very simple, you'll most likely find that you will end up using them quite a bit in your work.