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Introductory Photoshop Lessons and Tips

Introductory Photoshop Lessons and Tips

This page is designed for beginner photoshop users who are trying to find the essential tools to editing photos.  But these are just the absolute basics, there are many more possibilities that are more advanced. Probably the first thing you should learn about would be adjustment layers.  Adjustment layers can be used to augment many […]

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How to Create a Soft Edge Border in Photoshop

How to Create a Soft Edge Border in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to give a photo a soft edge. This technique is mainly used for collages, but it can also be used for displays, reports, or just to make a picture more pleasing to the eye.

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Hue/Saturation Without Losing Exposure in Photoshop

Hue/Saturation Without Losing Exposure in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to adjust the Hue and Saturation of a photo without burning out colors. This tutorial uses a different technique that will prevent you from losing your exposure settings.

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Gradient from Black and White to Color

Gradient from Black and White to Color

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create the effect of blending black and white into color. For this tutorial we will be using a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer and the Gradient Tool.

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Professional Black and White Photo Retouching

Professional Black and White Photo Retouching

This tutorial is to help you learn how to retouch black and white photos like the pros. More specifically, how to create harsher darks and lights. The two tools we will be using to create these effects are the Dodge Tool and the Burn Tool.

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How to Create a Diffused (Soft) Black and White Effect

How to Create a Diffused (Soft) Black and White Effect

This tutorial is to help you learn how to make a diffused black and white photo effect.

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Custom Photo Tinting in Photoshop

Custom Photo Tinting in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create any kind of tone for your photo that you want. With this technique you can make all sorts of unique tones that many graphic artists use to create fascinating scenes.

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How to Create a Custom Border in Photoshop

How to Create a Custom Border in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create a custom border for any digital photo using masks. I also use this technique sometimes when I want to crop a lot of the photo away on certain sides.

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How to Crop Badly Composed Photos in Photoshop

How to Crop Badly Composed Photos in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to crop badly composed photos and make them more pleasing to the eyes and to the rules of composition. Many people tend to always put their subject right in the middle of the frame which works, but it may look better somewhere else.

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How to Create Action Sequences in Photoshop

How to Create Action Sequences in Photoshop

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create an action sequence in which you splice multiple photos together to show how or where a subject moved. This technique can be used for sports, following movements, or simply making weird pictures where you can talk to yourself or include copies of people in one photo.

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