How to replace and egg with a bubble.
Simple tutorial on how to re-lighten an image.
A beginners lesson on how to apply layers of colour, light and shadow.
How to selectively change part of your image to gray-scale, or to negative, using a mask layer.You also learn how to add and edit a mask layer.
Turning a banana into a lighthouse, and turning day into night.
How to cut out an item and prepare it to be used in a new image or to give it a new background. Tutorial was done in PSP, but will work in PS as well.
This tutorial will give you the basics of using the Photoshop's Match Color function. This is useful when you are trying to bring together two or more images with different color tones. But it is very easy to overdo. So play along and practice with your own images.
I will be going over how I created my "Bubble Berry" entry for the Bubble Wrap contest. This is more of an advanced tutorial so I will not be going into depth about layer masks and other basic steps.
Want to look thinner? Want something to bend? Liquify is your answer!
When adding a texture you don't want to just paste it on. You need to take into account the highlights and shadows and decide how best to blend them in. Blending modes can help both this and your lighting in general. This is a simple outline of the more useful blending modes.
An introduction to layer effects, a useful tool for adding quick highlights and or shadows to your images
The clone tool is one of the most useful things in Photoshop, but can take some thought to use it effectively.
Whether it's an entire image, or a piece that the extract tool just didn't want to cut out, quickmask is a super precise way to cut things out, and give you some wiggle room to undo and redo things.
There are a lot of different ways to cut out an image, but I found this, when using the right image, is the fastest and most effectiveNote: Not available in CS4 or higher!