Photoshop Photo Effects Journal

These Photoshop tips and tricks will help you work quicker and are essential knowledge for anyone who wants to improve their photo editing skills.

In this photo effects tutorial, learn how to brighten your stormy skies by adding a rainbow, or even a double rainbow, to a photo using one of Photoshop's ready-made gradients.

This week’s tutorial we will show you how to create a flaming car. We saw this effect before and it’s quite simple but it’s a good exercise and the result is quite good. You can also apply this effect on other images.

This skin smoothing technique is a quite different approach than the usual.

Learn how to design a scenic photo manipulation with an out of frame effect. You'll work with blending, masking, adjustment layers and more!

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a quick instagram effect in photoshop.

Basically I wanted to show how to get a high contrast hard light effect in Photoshop, almost HDR looking. I wanted to keep things realistic so I used the contrast masking technique to keep the original shadows of the model.

In this tutorial, you will learn the steps to Create a Surreal Dark City with Meteorite Fall Scene in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorial and some steps can be a bit tricky. 

"This is a very basic tutorial to show to you how you can use the Healing Brush tool in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will make use of an image of a flower covered with little drops of water. We will then use Photoshop’s healing brush to select an area on that flower, and remove the drops of water from it. You got to applaud Photoshop for the brilliant algorithms that it makes use of, because a simple touch of the healing brush tool will make an otherwise difficult process extremely easy."

In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a black and white photo and add color to it from your imagination. The entire idea is to bring the black and white photo to life. We will be using a de-saturated picture for this tutorial that consists of a beautiful Aston Martin parked in an alley. The Aston Martin is what we will be working on today.

Let's take a look at how Image Based Lights can drastically improve your images when design in 3D in Photoshop CS6!

Like everything in Photoshop, there are more than one way to saturate the colors in your image. There’s always an easy way around it and a more complex way of doing it with a lot more control.

Using real life elements in your designs is a great way to add interest without spending hours creating something from scratch.

Learn how to photo manipulate a rich and complex falling angel scene. You'll work with matte painting, complex lighting, advanced extraction techniques, warping and distortion and much more!

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, learn how to give someone's eyes a fun, easy to create 'zoom' effect with blur streaks that appear to zoom out from the center of the eyes.