Photo Retouch Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Cloning and Healing
This tutorial is about 3 very powerful tools you can use in Photoshop. These are the cloning stamp, the Healing brush and the Spot healing tool. They all work in a similar way but achieve different results and have different uses.

Dodge and Burn
The dodge and burn tools in Photoshop are perfect for changing areas of light and shadow to give a more dramatic effect and make features look less flat. What these 2 tools do is darken or lighten the shadows, highlights or midtones of an image using a brush tool. Just some of these tools uses are to lighten harsh shadows, darken areas that are to light, create dramatic images by increasing the shadow areas, alter exposure problems and add depth a textured surface.

Chromatic Aberration and Purple Fringing
Chromatic Aberration and Purple Fringing are a common problem in cameras with anything but high class lenses. It is very common on fixed lens cameras of all kinds as well. Some will get rid of it on the JPEGs for you with in camera software but if you shoot RAW then this doesn't help you. CA and PF are both fairly ugly and take something away from an image as it gives adds unnatural coloured outlines. However you don't need to worry because they can be fairly easily removed using Photoshop.

Portraits Retouching Skin and Teeth
This tutorial will run through the basic process of retouching portrait photos and show you some of the techniques that are used. You can use these on your normal snaps as well. The reason the Pro models wear a lot of make up is to make the post processing easier, so its a balance of the two. Less make up means more post processing. There are many areas of portrait retouching so in this tutorial I will be concentrating on cleaning up and softening the skin and also whitening the teeth .

Christmas greeting card
As the holidays draw near, wed like to contribute to the Christmas feeling in our own way this tip helps you prepare a very simple but solemn greeting card to print and send to your friends and relatives. You don't need to be very good at drawing as Photoshop contains built in templates that can be colored to conjure up a Christmas atmosphere.

Design an Shining Girl Poster with Awesome Lighting Effect
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really cool, shining girl poster by using the powerful photoshop brush engine.

Portraits Retouch eyes
It's no wonder that the eyes are considered the window to the soul. They can give away your emotions and are, too many, a thing of beauty. In the world of photography and Photoshop one of the most import things to do in a portrait shot is get the eyes in focus. The are instinctively the first thing we look at in a portrait shot, both of humans and animals. If you get the eyes out of focus it can ruin the shot. However if you get almost everything out of focus except the eyes the image can still work. In this second portraiture tutorial I will go through 4 ways to help you retouch the eyes to make them really stand out using Photoshop.

Correction of white balance errors III
One of the novelties of Photoshop CS was Photo Filter, which could imitate in a single step the color temperature filters used in traditional film photography. Sometimes it happens also with digital photos that white balance is off target and the colors of the picture are shifted towards yellow or blue. Photo Filter, mentioned above, is a quick and handy solution for this problem. Of course, users of pre-CS Photoshop versions don't need to fear either as they can easily create a similar color filter on a separate layer...

Switching heads
So you have been out taking photos of your family, friends or even for a client. You get home and you have plenty of decent single portrait shots but not a single decent group shot. They are looking the wrong way or pulling faces, generally not giving you the picture you want. Well you can always save the day by replacing the heads using some other shots you took that did come out well. Using a combination of photographs that already match up, colour and light correcting, some clever masking and a bit of cloning you should be able to get a result your happy with.

Blend a surreal mix of retro and modern art styles
You'll learn how to use brushes to replicate clouds, dust and grime, how to add foreground blur to objects to give the impression of depth, and will also see how the Warp tool can manipulate shapes. Our tutorial will show you how to enhance detail with curves, and how to match different tones with hue and saturation. You'll also be working with the Pen tool to mask and edit stock images and learn a great trick to mask hair.

How To Create a Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures
In this tutorial I will give you some tips on how to take your own photos for the photo manipulation. You will learn, how to blend pictures, apply textures, create your own brushes etc.

Create a happy girl wallpaper
In this tutorial, Childesign will teach you how to create a wallpaper of a very happy girl, who enjoys life.

Color saturation II
More vivid colors in a not very traditional way

Change car colour 3
This car tutorial is will teach you how to change the colour of a car. There are two other methods of changing the car colour, but this is the quick and dirty method.

Reducing Photoshop File Sizes with Adjustment Layers
Photoshop file sizes getting out of control? Learn how Photoshop's adjustment layers can help keep them to a minimum and keep you, your computer and Photoshop running smoothly!

Retouching with Vanishing Point
The Vanishing Point function can retouch in perspective and match surfaces in different dimensions.

Quickly and Effectively Clean Out Body Hair
In this tutorial, I will show you the method I use to quickly and effectively clean out Body Hair in Photoshop, which you can use for a wide range of occasions in your Photoshop Retouch works.

Color matching II
Borrow sunset colors from another photo.

Selecting Hair and Backgrounds with Channels
This tutorial will teach you how to select complex objects such as hair using the channels and levels in Photoshop.

Create an incredible Hulk look
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create an incredible Hulk look.