3D Album

If you have a large stock of images whether stock or of your family you can turn them into albums. If you want you can also give a 3D effect. For the 3D effect you will need Photoshop CS5 Extended for it.

You can make an album like this.

The 3d effect.

The tutorial is here

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Color Shading Action

This is another tutorial on making subtle shifts in the color tones in an image with ordinary photoshop tools like adjustment layers, gaussian blur etc. I will also show how you can make it into an Action which you can reuse on other images without having to go through all the steps again.

The two images above have been processed which you will find in the tutorial.

These are the original images.

The photoshop tutorial is here

Color Shading

This tutorial is about subtle change to the colors of the image in Photoshop that rightfully can be done in a studio. The method is simple using Adjustment Layers, Hue/Saturation and Equalize.

This is the image after processing

The original image.

The tutorial is here

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Blending with Layer Mask

One of the ways to blend two images together is to use the Blend Modes in Photoshop. Another is to use a Layer Mask. With  a Layer Mask and a Gradient you can get very beautiful results. You can blend photos with opposite content seamlessly. You will also need a few other skills like cutting out an image, but nothing difficult. I will also show you the Channel Mixer in passing.

This is the effect I intend to create using the two free stock photos below.

The tutorial is here

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Sketch Partial

Turning an image into a sketch is easy. There are various methods to do this. I find the one that I use very satisfactory. But here I will only turn part of the image into a sketch.

This is the effect I will create.

This is the original image.

The tutorial is here

Channel Mixer in Photoshop made easy

The Channel Mixer used as an Adjustment Layer is a very powerful tool to tinker with the lighting and contrast.   But the channels and sliders appear to be quite confusing. Using the sliders at random sometimes may create an effect by accident, which cannot be replicated on other images. It gets to be frustrating. This is not so much as creating an effect, but to know what makes the Channel tick. 

This is a free stock image processed only  with Channel Mixer. Levels and Curves have not been used. 

This is the original image.

The tutorial is here

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Saturation and Gaussian Blue trick

Sometimes the photo you took at the beach or when you went camping turns out to be too bland. There are many ways to make colors pop in such images. This is perhaps is the easiest method and can be done in any version of Photoshop without any trouble.

This is an image after processing.

The original image.

Another processed image.

The original image.

The photoshop tutorial is here

Other tutorials are here