‘Photo Effects’

The Making Of Creating Monochrome Masterpieces

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Simple Lighting with Flashguns
Simple Camera Set Up
Infared
Copy & Pasting Channels
Painting in Depth
Selective Sharpening
Adding Two Layer Grain
Colouring With Gradient Maps
Curves For Colour
Painting in Colour Tints
Intensifying Blacks
Digitally Dropping The Focus
Replacing The Sky
Masking & Refining The Mask
Retouching Arkward Shadows
Intensifying Skin Texture

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Stitches

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In this tutorial, we will learn to add stitches to any image of your choice.

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Watermarking

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For this tutorial I will show you a quick, easy and effective method for watermarking your images. Any beginner should be able to finish this tutorial in under one minute. No plug-ins are required.

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Convert Photo to Painting and Add a Frame

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This tutorial will show you how to give a photo a “painting look” and how to put a frame round it. Ideal for making a gift of a family photo.
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Newspaper Photo Effect

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The proper term for the newspaper photograph effect is half tone. The traditional halftone process converts different tones into dots of varying size. The eye has limited resolving power and, at a distance, is tricked into seeing these dots as continuous tone.

This effect is extremely easy to re-create in photoshop.

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Pop Art

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Create a pop art effect on a picture. I’m going to show you 2 different methods on 2 different pictures.

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Quick Emo / Goth Makeover

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Whether you’re just trying to see how you’d look in a different style, or you’re messing with a friend (or enemy’s) picture for laughs, changing someone from a “normal” look to a “goth” look is both fun and easy.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will step you through some easy techniques that will allow you to quickly and easily recreate this effect on your own photographs.
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Creating Emphasis In Your Photos

emphasis 5When you take a picture on the spot, you can’t instantly pick out exactly what you want and make it stand out exactly how you want. That’s where image editing takes over. In this tutorial, we will teach you how to place emphasis on certain objects to make them stand out vividly. This includes adding brightness/contrast to certain colours on the focal point, adding obvious factors to improve your visualization to your audience, and other techniques, natural or artificial.
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Whooshing Sky Effect

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Hello, In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a whooshing sky effect on your photography. This can also be used to create a motion blur effect, to show speed down a long straight road or path. Everything in this tutorial can be done using any recent version of Adobe Photoshop. Including Elements, which I will be using for this tutorial.

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