Photoshop Curves Tutorial: Adjusting Tones
For someone who has just started using Photoshop, the Curves is possibly one of most intimidating tools for them. Using the Curves tool in Photoshop gives you more control in editing photographs such as the brightness, contrast and tones. So if you are not using the Curves yet, then you are missing on a lot of things. Beginners usually try to correct tones, brightness, contrast and sharpness of a picture by playing around the Brightness and Contrast control or the Levels. This Photoshop Curves tutorial will try to explain in simple terms and some illustrations the basic techniques for the powerful secrets of image correction using Curves. Getting familiar and mastering Adobe Photoshop Curves is the key to many advanced image correction techniques.
Read More20 Examples of Out-of-Bound Photos
Out of Bounds or simply OOB is a technique used to add a 3D feel to a flat photo image. It is a lot of fun and pretty easy to do. Here are a couple links to out of bounds tutorials just in case you will get inspired enough of the OBB photos featured here to get interested in learning how to create this effect in Photoshop. I assume you already have some basic Photoshop skills such as cloning, resizing and working with layers, which are necessary to create the out of bounds effect.
Read More10 Time-Saving Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
Each of us has his or her own favorite keyboard shortcuts when using Photoshop or any other program for that matter. I am referring to those keyboard shortcuts or keyboard plus mouse click combination we use to perform certain tasks in Photoshop that would otherwise takes more time to execute. Here are my personal favorites when it comes to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. I have been using most of these techniques over the past decade.
Read MoreTutorial: Converting Picture to Black and White
There are two ways that I know of to instantly convert colored photos to black and white in Photoshop. First is by desaturating the photo (image>adjustments>desaturate). Second is by converting your image to grayscale (image>mode>grayscale). Most of us use either of these two method to convert our colored pictures to black and white. However, professionals have another way of converting colored photos to black and white in Photoshop without the help of any third party plugin--through the use of Photoshop's Channel Mixer.
How Professionals Sharpen Images in Photoshop
There are a hundred ways to improve your photos. In addittion to color correction, the other important aspect of photo retouching that you should be looking at is how to sharpen your images. Photoshop offers you extraordinary degree of control over the sharpness of your image.
60 Spring Color Palettes, Background Patterns
Spring is here so let me share with you my favorite spring-inspired color palettes from Colourlovers. If you happen to like one or more of these palettes and would like to use it in Photoshop, I have provided below the link to the ACO (short for Adobe Color) file. To use these .ACO files in Photoshop, just go to the preset manager (File->Edit->Preset Manager), or open up the "Color Window", by pressing F6, and select the "Swatches" tab.
Read MoreHow to Create A Color Palette from Photograph
Color is an important aspect of design. In fact, we always strive to come up with the combination of hues that would look best for our projects. One of the options that we have in Photoshop is to use the Color Swatch palette. However, we are limited to the default color swatches that we have in this program. So, here, I will show you how to create your own palette of colors using the hues from a photograph. Using this technique gives us an assurance that we are using harmonious colors, without worrying about whether our monitors are calibrated or not. It is simply because you will still be using hues that are actually found in the photo.
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