This is a collection of links to Photoshop tutorials and tips to help you work with photographs. To return to the home page for this section, click here.
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| Photo | Dodge and Burn | Limiting dodge and burn to shadows, midtones or highlights. |
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| Photo | Straightening a Crooked Image | Step by step method for using the Crop tool to straighten a crooked image |
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| Photo | 6.0 Color Corrections | A low-tech may to get prints from your desktop printer that a reasonably close to what you see on your monitor |
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| Photo | Restoring Old Black & White Photos | Getting old black and white photos into Photoshop to begin work |
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| Photo | Newspaperlook | Using the Color Halftone filter to attain the newsprint effect |
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| Photo | Enhancing Images | Fix and jazz up your photos for the web |
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| Photo | 6.0 Combining Images | One way to combine images |
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| Photo | Aging Photographs | Take any color photo and make it look weathered and old |
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| Photo | Dynamic Duotones | Simple two-color solutions |
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| Photo | Retouching Resized Images | Sharpening up the fuzziness of a resized photo |
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| Photo | Making GIFs "Translucent" | Seeing through a picture |
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| Photo | Vignette | Create a simple vignette around your photos |
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| Photo | Cleaning Up Scans | How to bring a crap scan back to life |
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| Photo | Curves, Levels or Contrast/Brightness | Which method to use to adjust contrast and brightness of your images |
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| Photo | Basic Layers | Tutorial walks you through the making of a composite photo image |
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| Photo | Restoring Photos: Sharpening Blurry Scans | Using the Unsharp Mask filter to bring out the details |
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| Photo | Fixing Bad Contrast | Step by step method for using the Overlay blend mode in the Layers palette to improve image contrast |
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| Photo | Rubberstamping | Using the rubberstamp (cloning) tool to remove imperfections |
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| Photo | Fixing Washed-out Images | Step by step method for using the Multiply blend mode in the Layers palette for improving washed-out images |
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| Photo | Restoring Photos: Stamping Out Defects | Using the Rubber Stamp tool to remove image defects |
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| Photo | Swapping Colors | Change an object's color with an existing photograph |
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| Photo | Creating Decorative Photographic Edges | Step by step method for using the Quick Mask mode to add an "artsy" touch to your prints |
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| Photo | Combining Images II | Blending images when the moved image is to be partially covered by objects in the receiving image |
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| Photo | Framing a Picture | Do you have a picture that you want to show off? Mat and frame it to make it a masterpiece |
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| Photo | Watercolor from a Photo | Make a favorite photo into a watercolor look-alike |
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| Photo | Burned Edges | Create a special look for your photo with burned edges |
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| Photo | Fixing Demonic Pet Eyes | This method, while limited, will sometimes work for red-eye in people as well |
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| Photo | Changing a Head | Eyes closed? Stupid expression? No worry ... Just replace the person's head |
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| Photo | Pen and Inked Watercolor | Make a favorite photo into a pen and inked watercolor |
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| Photo | Cutting Out Hair | Just one way to cut a hairy subject out to put her on another background |
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| Photo | Sepia Effect | Make a sepia effect for your photos |
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| Photo | Basic Photo Retouching | Using the rubber stamp tool, smudge and color correction to enhance a photo |
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| Photo | Color | How to colorize a B&W photo |
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| Photo | Correcting Flesh Tones That Are Too Red | Step by step method for using the Hue/Saturation command for fixing beet-red skin |
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| Photo | Restoring Photos: Adjusting Image Tone & Contrast | Using the Levels command to adjust an images overall lightness and darkness |
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| Photo | Adjusting Contrast | A method to adjust contrast in different ways in different parts of a photo |
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| Photo | Restoring Photos: Fine Tuning | Using the Dodge and Burn tools to restore image detail and fine tune the finished product |
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| Photo | Clipping Paths & Close Cropping | Merge images into complex backgrounds |
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| Photo | Contrast Fast with Burn and Sponge | Using the Burn and Sponge tools to increase contrast while retouching photos |
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| Photo | Artistic Colorizing | Painting color over a black-and-white image |
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| Photo | Great Grayscale from Color Photos | Converting even those midtones to good greyscale |
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| Photo | Scanning Negatives | Using Photoshop to help increase quality of negatives scanned without a transparency attachment |
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| Photo | Restoring Photos: Banding, Mottling and Other Defects | Using the History Brush and History palette to eliminate banding, mottling and other image defects |
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All links checked and working on September 10, 2001