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  Lightening A Dark Photo

  1031 readersDo you have any photos in your collection that are very dark? That doesn’t mean they’re a lost cause! Here’s just one way to lighten them up! For this method, we’ll employ one of my favorite tools, the good old Curves Adjustment. Bringing your dark photo into Photoshop, duplicate the background layer (Ctrl or Cmd

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  The Picture on the Wall (pt 2)

  835 readersIn the second tutorial on problems that can be found when taking a picture of a picture hanging on a wall we’ll cover glass glare. Glass glare can come in many forms, such as the glare made by the flash of the camera against the glass of the photo or from a light source behind

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  Photoshop Blend Modes – Part 6

  1157 readersThe Overlay blend mode in Photoshop is typically used to enhance contrast, making the shadows darker and the highlights brighter. Last week, we looked at a method for using the High Pass Filter in Photoshop to sharpen an image, using the layer blend mode of Overlay. Today, we’ll look at a way to use virtually

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  Blurry II: Combining Techniques

  229 readersLast week I went over a few ways to lessen motion blur in a photo. There are also, of course, many other ways you can approach this problem – these were just the tip of the Photoshop iceberg.  Any or all of them may work in certain situations, but sometimes combinations can also yield a

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  Painting With Photo Filters

  2942 readersDo you have some of those 70’s era color photo’s that just look tired? Here’s an easy way to paint a little life back into them using photo filters! For the purposes of this demonstration, I’ll use a photo of a bouquet of flowers my Nana got for her birthday in the 70’s. They obviously meant

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  Striking Silver

  2733 readersUp until the 1960’s, when resin coating became the norm and gave photo paper a smooth, shiny look and feel, photos were commonly developed using the silver gelatin dry plate process, caused by coating glass with an emulsion of silver salts, then letting it dry. One thing that identifies a vintage gelatin silver print is

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  Restoring A Partial Fade

  1284 readersLast week we went over noise reduction, sans plug-in. This week, using the same photo provided, with thanks, by Kelly (Herstoryan), we’ll bring back an extremely faded element. In the example shown, the little boy on the left is fading almost completely away, including his face, yet you can still see clearly where his eyes, nose

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  Dark II; Photoshop’s Layer Blend Modes

  316 readersOk, here’s the deal: There’s more than one way to do 99.9% of anything you do in Photoshop. I think there may be only one way of turning it on and off, I could be wrong. It’s my belief, speaking for myself, of course that, since tutorials are meant to teach, that more than just

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  Color Manipulation on the Photo

  367 readersBasically, in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to create a photo effect like the one in the below image, it’s pretty much all accomplished by using color curves and color levels, as are most photo effects, right? Start by finding some appropriate picture to use it in this tutorial. I used a

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  A Duo Of Duotones

  1713 readersA subtle overlay of color can really perk up a flat black & white image. A two color overlay, composed of (usually) black and another color, called Duotone, and three color, black and two other colors, or Tritone, add depth and tonality to an otherwise uninteresting composition. Photoshop gives us an easy way to give