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9 Essential Photoshop Beginner Tips & Tricks

We have a number of tips for improving your Photoshop workflow. There are many tools, techniques and features that you may not have uncovered yet, so we thought we’d share a number of them with…

9 Tips for Working Smarter in Photoshop

These little insider tips and tweaks will help you to quickly develop your skills and understanding of Adobe's amazing layer-based image editing software.

How To Apply Soft Focus Effects

Soft-focus is an effect used widely in television and in the movies, as well as in many commercial and advertising photographs, for producing a dreamy romantic look. It’s also a big favourite with wedding photographers.

Replace Dull Skies in Your Images

Adding drama to a dull sky in Adobe Photoshop. Here’s a nice quick and easy method that works well with blue sky replacement.

Pencil Sketch Effect in Photoshop

Photoshop and all its photo editing counterparts offer various artistic filters that can turn your image into a watercolour or an oil painting. Some of them can be quite effective. However, the pencil sketch filter…

Modify and Refine Selections in Photoshop

Photoshop’s standard selection tools, the Marquee, Lasso and Magic Wand, are fine for making basic selections of regular, well defined shapes, but they’re not so good at picking out soft-edged or very fine shapes.

Clean Up With The Healing Brush Tools

Even with a modern digital camera, your photos may have slight imperfections. Maybe it’s just a stray hair or an unwelcome skin blemish in a portrait, or maybe some dust has managed to get onto…

How To Add a Graduated Filter to Images

Photographers use graduated filters placed in front of the camera lens to selectively change the exposure, usually to darken the sky to bring out details in the clouds and balance the exposure with the landscape…

Perfecting the Orton Technique in Photoshop

The Orton technique is named after its creator Michael Orton. One shot was taken in perfect sharp focus and the other was completely out of focus to register only light, dark and colour.

Selective Colour – B&W With a Splash

It is quite popular to convert your images to black and white, but then to return part of the image to its original colour. This is done to create a small splash of colour that…

How To Create Lomo-effect Images

The Lomo Kompakt Automat is a Russian point and shoot camera built in the eighties. It wasn’t exactly the best film camera on the market but it was responsible for kickstarting a whole new style…

Learn to Master Exposure Blending

Exposure Blending is an often used technique where you process a single Raw file a number of times with different exposure settings to get the most out of the various elements in the image.

Colour Replacement in Photoshop

By using some of the selection tools, along with the Hue/Saturation controls, we can change the colour of individual objects in our photos

Learn Monochrome Techniques in Photoshop

With the right choice of subject, a good well-exposed monochrome image can become a work of art. Almost all digital cameras include a black and white mode, and as you’d probably expect Photoshop offers multiple…