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Placing One Image Inside Of Another

Placing One Image Inside Of Another

Learn how to easily recreate the same Photoshop effect seen every week in electronics store ads, where one image is placed directly inside of another!
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Adding Light Streaks To A Photo

Adding Light Streaks To A Photo

Learn how to add colorful streaks of light to a photo by combining paths with Photoshop's brushes and layer styles! Also learn how to simulate pen pressure with a brush even if you're not using a pen tablet!
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Easy Depth Of Field Effect In Photoshop

Easy Depth Of Field Effect In Photoshop

Learn how to bring focus and attention to a specific part of an image in Photoshop with an easy-to-create depth of field effect!
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Five Essential Blending Modes

Five Essential Blending Modes

Learn how to use the five essential blending modes for photography.
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Warm Sunsets

Warm Sunsets

Create warm, golden sunsets using gradient maps.
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Filling Text With Multiple Images

Filling Text With Multiple Images

In a previous tutorial, we looked at how to place a single image inside text in Photoshop. This time, we take things further and learn how to fill text with multiple images!
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Fill a Photo with Photos

Fill a Photo with Photos

Create an optical illusion in Photoshop by making a larger photo appear to be made from many smaller photos inside it. Great for family photos, wedding photos, or just as a fun thing to do with your friends.
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Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo

Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo

Learn how to do a little reverse photo restoration by turning a new or recent photo into one that looks like it was taken many years ago, combining several separate effects to create the final result!
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Power Shortcuts For Working With Layers

Power Shortcuts For Working With Layers

Get the most out of your time with Photoshop by learning these essential shortcuts for working with layers! Includes shortcuts for both Photoshop CS2/CS3 and previous versions of Photoshop.
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Blending Photos With Apply Image

Blending Photos With Apply Image

Learn how to combine photos in all sorts of interesting and creative ways using the Apply Image command, one of the most powerful, flexible and fun image blending tools in all of Photoshop!
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Enhancing The Sky In A Photo

Enhancing The Sky In A Photo

Tired of the sky in your photos being dull, faded and washed out? Learn a simple technique for boosting image contrast, enhancing details in the clouds, and turning those gray skies to blue, all with just a few easy steps!
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Creating A Starry Night Sky

Creating A Starry Night Sky

If the ability to capture a beautiful starry night with your camera seems as out of reach as the stars themselves, no need to worry! Photoshop makes it easy to fill our night skies with as many stars as we like!
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Turning Text Into Gold

Turning Text Into Gold

Learn how to easily create a sparkling gold-plated text effect in Photoshop using Layer Styles, some sampled colors and a neat little brush.
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Sunlight Shining Through The Trees

Sunlight Shining Through The Trees

Learn how easy it is to create realistic beams of sunlight shining through the trees in a photo, then finish off the effect with patches of sunlight hitting the ground below.
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Fake A Layer Mask

Fake A Layer Mask

Adobe gave Photoshop Elements very limited support for layer masks, but with Adjustment Layers and a couple of extra steps, we can use masks in Elements just as easily as we can in Photoshop!
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Matching Colors Of Objects In Separate Photos

Matching Colors Of Objects In Separate Photos

Learn how easy it is to match colors of objects in separate photos using Photoshop's Match Color command, as well as how to quickly fix up the results when Match Color doesn't get it quite right.
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Turn Any Photo Into An Interesting Background

Turn Any Photo Into An Interesting Background

Learn how to easily turn any photo into an interesting background in Photoshop using a couple of basic selection tools that seem to have no other purpose. Then learn how to combine the newly created background with the same photo it was created from!
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Watercolor-Style Painting Effect

Watercolor-Style Painting Effect

Learn how to easily turn a photo into a watercolor-style painting in just a few simple steps!
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Seeing The Difference With Digital Photos And JPEG Compression

Seeing The Difference With Digital Photos And JPEG Compression

It's a fact of life with digital photos that sometimes we need to compress them to make our file sizes smaller. Our computer screens don't always make it easy to see the damage being done to the image, but thanks to one of Photoshop's rarely-used blending modes, the horrors of jpeg compression become strikingly clear.
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Photo Border Effects

Photo Border Effects

Learn how to easily create interesting photo border effects in Photoshop simply by applying a filter directly to a layer mask!
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Wedding Couple In A Wine Glass

Wedding Couple In A Wine Glass

Learn how easy it is to create a classic Photoshop effect, placing a wedding couple inside a wine glass. Or use this same technique to place any image inside any glass object, or even inside a bubble!
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Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn some handy tricks and keyboard shortcuts for working with type inside Photoshop, like how to quickly select words, lines and paragraphs, how to easily switch between fonts, how to quickly access bold and italic font styles, leading, tracking and kerning, resizing, aligning and justifying text, and more!
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Simple Wooden Picture Frame

Simple Wooden Picture Frame

Learn how to create a simple wood picture frame in Photoshop using a layer mask, layer styles and one of Photoshop's built-in patterns!
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Plastic Text Effect

Plastic Text Effect

Easily make text appear as if it's made out of plastic using Photoshop's Layer Styles and some additional contours we'll be loading in.
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Create A Digital Pixel Effect

Create A Digital Pixel Effect

Create a digital pixel effect in Photoshop by fading an image into pixels. We'll also look at a couple of variations on the effect.
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Add Transparent Type To An Image

Add Transparent Type To An Image

Learn a few different ways to add transparent type to an image in Photoshop, from the quickest and easiest way to more interesting ways using layer styles and blend modes. We'll also look at the important and often confusing difference between a layer's Opacity and Fill options.
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Making Selections With The Pen Tool

Making Selections With The Pen Tool

Still using the Lasso Tool to select everything that isn't a rectangle, square or circle? It's time to take your selections to a whole new level! Learn how to outline objects with paths using the Pen Tool, and then how to easily convert those paths into professional quality selections!
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Quick and Easy Digital Nose Job

Quick and Easy Digital Nose Job

Photoshop makes digital plastic surgery a breeze without the need for any fancy surgical tools or even a steady hand! Learn how easy it is to give someone a digital nose job!
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Light Burst Text Effect

Light Burst Text Effect

In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, learn how to engulf your text in an explosion of light and color.
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Creating Custom Shapes For Digital Scrapbooking

Creating Custom Shapes For Digital Scrapbooking

Whether you're into digital scrapbooking or just want to learn how much fun it is to create custom shapes in Photoshop, this tutorial is for you!
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Turn A Photo Into Interweaving Strips

Turn A Photo Into Interweaving Strips

Learn how to use layers, layer masks and clipping masks in Photoshop to create the illusion that your photo is made up of vertical and horizontal strips that weave under and over each other.
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Add Creative Focus To An Image

Add Creative Focus To An Image

When it comes to blurring an image, most people think "Gaussian Blur". But spend a little time with Photoshop's much more powerful Lens Blur filter and there's no limit to how many creative uses you'll come up with for it!
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Digital Dentistry: Whiten And Brighten Teeth

Digital Dentistry: Whiten And Brighten Teeth

Learn an easy way to make teeth whiter and brighter in Photoshop without going too far and making your image look fake.
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Add A Copyright Watermark Pattern To Your Photos

Add A Copyright Watermark Pattern To Your Photos

Before showing a client your work or displaying your portfolio on the web, make sure everyone knows whose work it is with an easy to create copyright watermark.
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Easily Give Your Photos Rounded Corners

Easily Give Your Photos Rounded Corners

If you're creating a fun design or collage out of your photos, those sharp, right-angled corners may not be sending the message you want. Fortunately, Photoshop makes it incredibly easy to give your photos warm, friendly, rounded corners using a simple Shape tool and a vector mask!
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Extreme Contrast Photo Effect

Extreme Contrast Photo Effect

Combine a few layer blend modes, some noise, a little sharpening, and a simple adjustment layer to give your photos an extreme contrast effect.
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Old-Fashioned, Hand-Tinted Photo Effect

Old-Fashioned, Hand-Tinted Photo Effect

Learn how to give any photo an old-fashioned, hand-tinted look in just a few simple steps.
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Create A Light Source Cast From A Window

Create A Light Source Cast From A Window

Give an ordinary photo a more focused and dramatic look to it by creating a light source that appears to be shining through a window onto your main subject.
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Easy Hair Coloring

Easy Hair Coloring

Learn how easy it is to color or tint someone's hair in a photo with Photoshop, then go back any time you want and change the color again without having to redo all the work!
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Tinting and Enhancing Colors with the Photo Filter

Tinting and Enhancing Colors with the Photo Filter

Bring colors to life in your images by tinting and enhancing them with Photoshop's Photo Filter. Combine multiple Photo Filters to enhance different areas of the image separately!
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Neutralizing Color Casts With Photoshop's Photo Filter

Neutralizing Color Casts With Photoshop's Photo Filter

Learn how to quickly neutralize a color cast in an image using the Photo Filter and the exact opposite color.
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The Writing's On The Wall With Photoshop's Advanced Blending Options

The Writing's On The Wall With Photoshop's Advanced Blending Options

Making text appear to be painted on the wall, using Photoshop's advanced blending options and the Blend If sliders.
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Tearing A Photo To Reveal Another

Tearing A Photo To Reveal Another

In this tutorial, we're going to look at another movie poster-type of effect, tearing a section out of one photo to reveal another one hiding behind it!
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Making Your Subject Pop Out Of The Photo

Making Your Subject Pop Out Of The Photo

Create the illusion that the subject of your photo is walking, running, jumping, or otherwise popping right out of the image with this easy effect.
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Fixing Overall Tonal and Color Problems With Levels

Fixing Overall Tonal and Color Problems With Levels

Fixing overall tonal and color problems should always be your first step when editing an image, and the Levels command makes it both simple and easy.
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Collage Of Warped Photos

Collage Of Warped Photos

Learn how to create a fun photo collage in Photoshop by bending, twisting, curling, and reshaping photos using the Warp Tool! We'll even see how to create more interesting drop shadows with the Warp Tool, as well as how to add subtle shadows and highlights to enhance the 3D look of our warping effect!
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Saving And Reusing Text

Saving And Reusing Text

If you've arranged some text in Photoshop to use as a logo, there's no need to recreate the logo every time you need it when you can easily save your text and reuse it as a Custom Shape.
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Custom Color Swatches

Custom Color Swatches

In this tutorial, we go back to the basics with Photoshop and learn how to create custom color swatches out of colors sampled from a photo, then how to save them as custom swatch sets for use whenever we need them!
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Add A Rainbow To A Photo

Add A Rainbow To A Photo

Learn how to easily add a rainbow to a photo using a couple of built-in Photoshop gradients and some simple layer masks.
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Using A Photo To Mask Itself

Using A Photo To Mask Itself

Learn how to give a photo a soft glow effect by turning the image into a layer mask, essentially using the photo to mask itself, something Photoshop does not normally allow us to do.
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Understanding Layer Masks in Photoshop

Understanding Layer Masks in Photoshop

Still using the Eraser Tool because you think layer masks are beyond your skill level? If you know the difference between black and white and can paint with a brush in Photoshop, you have all the skills you need!
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Color and Motion Blur Effect

Color and Motion Blur Effect

Learn how to easily create a color and motion blur effect.
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Pop Art Style Effect

Pop Art Style Effect

Learn how to use Photoshop to turn a photo into a simple pop art effect from the 50s and 60s using nothing more than a basic selection tool, an easy image adjustment, and lots of solid colors.
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The Inverted Forest

The Inverted Forest

Learn how to flip nature upside down and turn a forest's natural greens and browns into something a bit more mystical.
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Hollywood Movie Poster

Hollywood Movie Poster

Learn how easy it is to blend two images seamlessly together and create a Hollywood movie poster-style effect.
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Realistic Water Reflection

Realistic Water Reflection

Learn how easy it is to add a realistic water reflection to any image in Photoshop.
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Fake Text Wrap

Fake Text Wrap

Learn how to fake the same text wrap feature normally found in page layout programs.
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Creating Reflections In Sunglasses

Creating Reflections In Sunglasses

Creating reflections in sunglasses is a very popular Photoshop effect and opens up endless creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing them and who or what you have them looking at. In this tutorial, we see how easy it is to do!
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Rotoscope-Style Painting

Rotoscope-Style Painting

Learn how to create a hand-drawn effect on a photo.
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Simple Portrait Studio Background

Simple Portrait Studio Background

Turn any photo into a portrait studio photo with this easy to create Photoshop background!
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Smooth Waterfalls

Smooth Waterfalls

Learn how to use Photoshop to give waterfalls a silky smooth appearance without the need for any fancy photo filters or longer exposures.
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Pop Art-Style Effect With Lab Color

Pop Art-Style Effect With Lab Color

Learn how to quickly and easily create a pop art-style effect from any photo using the Lab color mode in Photoshop.
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Worn And Torn Text Effect

Worn And Torn Text Effect

Learn how to easily give text a worn, cracked look, using nothing more than a basic selection tool, a brush filter and a layer style.
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Reducing Beard Stubble

Reducing Beard Stubble

Learn how to give a guy a virtual shave and improve his appearance.
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Adding Focus To An Image With Color

Adding Focus To An Image With Color

Learn how to bring more focus to the main subject of an image using color.
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Adding Fireworks To A Photo

Adding Fireworks To A Photo

Learn how to add fireworks to a photo.
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Using A Photo As Its Own Background

Using A Photo As Its Own Background

Learn how to take any photo and use it as its own background.
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Shadowy, Sultry Eyes

Shadowy, Sultry Eyes

Learn how to edit a photo to create a shadowy, sultry look.
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Fragmented Tiles Text Effect

Fragmented Tiles Text Effect

Learn how to create a "fragmented tiles" effect with text using Photoshop's Tiles filter.
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Turning A Photo Into A Collage Of Squares

Turning A Photo Into A Collage Of Squares

Turning a photo into a collage of squares in Photoshop is not only fun, it's also incredibly easy, since most of the work is just simple repetition.
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Boosting Contrast and Color with the Luminosity Mask

Boosting Contrast and Color with the Luminosity Mask

Add some visual snap to your images in Photoshop by boosting the color and contrast using a simple blend mode and a little-known selection trick.
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Add Realistic Water Drops To A Photo

Add Realistic Water Drops To A Photo

Learn how to easily add realistic water drops to a photo, as if someone splashed water all over the image!
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Create Gel Text Effect