Underwater Photo Retouching

One of the most common underwater photography difficulties is trying to capture a photo without extreme color and contrast loss. In this Photoshop Tutorial, you'll learn how to analyze and restore the color and contrast of underwater photos.

Medical Imaging with DICOM files

DICOM is the industry standard format for medical scans. Learn how DICOM files are used with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended to create animations and measurements.

Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin

Since the pre-digital era, glamour photos have been airbrushed by skilled photographers to remove imperfections on the skin. Now, with advance image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, airbrushing can easily be mimiced with realistic results. However, many airbrushing techniques removes too many details causing the skin to look plastic and unrealistic. In this tutorial, we'll teach you an effective Photoshop technique to simulate airbrushing without losing the texture.

Faux Dynamic Range Increase

Learn how to artificially increase the dynamic range using one picture. Increasing dynamic range make photos to look more alike to what the eye sees in real life. This technique is also an effective alternative for correcting exposure.

Digital Star Effect

Turn a regular photo into a high-tech digital artwork. Digital Star Effect Photoshop Tutorial Creating the Dots - Part One First, we'll transform a photo into a series of circles. This is done by combining several filters.

Bloom

Add a blissful glow to the highlights of a photo.  This effect works well with portraits.

Exposure Blur

Create animated light streaks using special Photoshop techniques.

Diffusion

Add a strong diffusion glow effect. This Photoshop effect makes light skin glow while keeping dark areas, such as hair, dark. Adding the Diffusion Effect Many experienced Photoshop users may already know about this popular effect. For those who don't know, you can apply a quick version of this effect by duplicating the layer, changing the blending mode to Screen, and applying a Gaussian Blur to the new layer. This tutorial goes further by showing you how to filter out the effect from dark areas and how to restore edge sharpness.

Lomography

Simulate the effects of a lomo camera. Photos taken with a lomo camera have high contrast, twisted colors, and a noticeable vignette.

The Photoshop Computer

Learn how to choose the right hardware to build your own computer optimized for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and learn how to tweak Photoshop to take advantage of the new hardware.

Pop Art

Transform a photo into retro pop art.

Soft Contrast

Enhance dull photos soft contrast. This Photoshop effect enhances contrast and saturation.

Glossy Photos

Create a stack of glossy photos. In this tutorial, you will learn how to place images into a document, add layer styles, and add a glossy shine to the photos.

Adaptive Saturation

A better way of adjusting saturation. This technique adjusts saturation according to the level of saturation in the image.