This is an attempt to stylize photo to make it look “Egyptian”. Style components are: hierogliphs, aged photo effect, “pyramid wall” texture.

Sometimes a photo may be greatly enhanced by adding a soft ‘dreamy’ glow. The Photoshop technique described below may be used for creating mystique ‘fairy tale’ look, or just for adding slight and very soft glow effect. It works best for landscape photos.

This tutorial will teach you to create nice glow effect that adds ‘dreamy’ look to your images. You may use this technique both for color and B/W images.

There are dozens of useful Photoshop shortcuts, and here is my favorites list. All shortcuts are for Adobe Photoshop CS2, but they should work in other Photoshop versions as well.

All keyboard shortcuts are for PC. I don’t have a Mac, but as far as I know the main difference is use of the COMMAND key and OPTION key on a Mac instead of the CTRL key and the ALT key on a PC. If I’m wrong - correct me.

This lesson is a part of tutorial series about making rather ordinary things look unusual. This time I decided to stylize the grapes photo and give it lots of color to achieve very unusual look, but keep the details so the image remains “realistic”.

You will learn to use Pen tool, Hue/Saturation command and Adjustment layers together to get interesting and easily adaptable result.

What makes that ‘perfect’ model look in magazine photos? The answer is: a) beautiful models with good skin; b) good makeup and c) professional lighting. But very often the final step - retouching and ‘digital makeup’ done in Photoshop is the most important one.

We will take a very common photo. Not a model. No professional makeup. No professional lighting. And we will try to make it more ‘perfect’ using simple and powerful Photoshop technique that makes skin look soft and nice.

Continue to convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors.

You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce infrared-like grayscale image, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to ‘color’ to control parts of the image independently.

‘Setting up’ the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even ‘crazy’ color effects. 

Convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors.

You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce infrared-like grayscale image, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to ‘color’ to control parts of the image independently.

‘Setting up’ the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even ‘crazy’ color effects.

Use Adobe Photoshop to add realistic snow effect to your pictures. Even if picture is taken in summer

This tutorial will teach you to use several types of adjustment layers to create “platinum” - looking images. I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for this tutorial, but you may use other versions of Adobe Photoshop as well.