Learn about Photo Effects

Enhance your images with these photo effects. Whether you want to download ready-made photo effects or create your own in Photoshop, we've got you covered.
  1. Part I: How to Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design

    Part I: How to Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This tutorial will explain the steps needed to turn this boring Prius into an awesome street racer. This tutorial is aimed at intermediate users of...

  2. Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments

    Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I will show you a nondestructive process for color-editing and retouching photographs. These techniques will make your images "finished"...

  3. Making Composites with Octoberfest Glassware

    Making Composites with Octoberfest Glassware

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Placing masked glassware on a new background can be a difficult task. Either the glass looks too transparent, with bits of the old background showing, or it...

  4. Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching

    Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I will show you how to repair some image noise from a low-quality shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a...

  5. Create an Illustrated Look From a Photograph

    Create an Illustrated Look From a Photograph

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I will show you how the create a stylized illustrated look from a photograph. The best part is that it requires no artistic ability! You...

  6. More on Beams of Light, this Time in Colour

    More on Beams of Light, this Time in Colour

    Tutorial Intermediate

    A few days ago, we published a tutorial titled How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds by the fantastically talented Kyle Pero of Lumedia Design and lots of...

  7. Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching

    Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Whether it's for a friend, family member, or client, retouching images is very common these days. In this tutorial, I will lay down the basics of retouching...

  8. How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds

    How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial I will show you how to turn an overcast day into a stunningly dramatic scene with sunlight breaking through the clouds. This technique can...

  9. How to Photo Comp up a Killer Room Full of Objects

    How to Photo Comp up a Killer Room Full of Objects

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I'll show you a really simple effect that together with good photography can be used to make gorgeous results. We're going to compose a...

  10. Photoshop Up Your Own Money

    Photoshop Up Your Own Money

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Ever feel like making your own money? Well you probably shouldn't actually make any, because I don't think the law would appreciate it very much. But if you...

  11. Beyond The Healing Brush - Removing Objects From Photos

    Beyond The Healing Brush - Removing Objects From Photos

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The healing brush and clone tool are fine for fixing blemishes or removing certain things in an open area, but get near a hard edge and these tools become...

  12. Applying a Realistic Tattoo

    Applying a Realistic Tattoo

    Tutorial Intermediate

    There are lots of tutorials on the Web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they...