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A collection of tutorials dedicated to photo effects, exploring striking creative techniques to transform images with filters, overlays, and artistic enhancements.

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Blow Steam Out Of an Angry Man’s Ears

In this tutorial by Aaron Nace at Phlearn, you will discover how to incorporate smoke, fog, and steam into your photography. This technique allows you to add a unique touch to your images, creating an engaging visual experience. The process is straightforward and requires minimal equipment. You will learn how...

Create an Awesome Nuclear Warrior in Photoshop

In this comprehensive tutorial, you will gain insights into the process of creating an impressive Nuclear Warrior using Photoshop. Starting from the initial photo shoot, the guide takes you through each step of post-production, ensuring that even beginners can follow along. You will learn how to design a Nuclear War...

Add a Snow Storm Effect to a Regular Winter Photo in Photoshop

The serene beauty of a winter landscape often hinges on the delicate dance of falling snow, transforming ordinary scenes into magical vistas. Capturing this ephemeral quality in photography, however, often requires more than just waiting for the perfect storm. Digital artistry can enhance or even generate these atmospheric elements, lending...

Create a Winter Wonderland Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial by Howard Pinsky from Ice Flow Studios, you will learn how to transform a regular photo into a stunning winter wonderland scene using Adobe Photoshop. This detailed guide breaks down the process step by step, making it easy for anyone to follow along. You'll start...

Add Stylish Lighting Effects to a Photo in Photoshop

Applying lighting effects to model shots is a classic application of Photoshop, but through poor practice and overuse of the same tricks, it’s become something of a cliché. In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to put a fresh, stylish spin on lighting effects. The secret here is...

How to Create an Etch a Sketch Drawing Effect in Photoshop

The charm of the classic Etch A Sketch toy lies in its distinctive line art. Discover how to transform photos and text into this iconic style, creating a nostalgic visual effect directly within Photoshop. This tutorial guides you through the process, allowing you to produce unique artwork that captures the...

Create a Quick Grunge Photo Border in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, Gavin Hoey demonstrates how to achieve a grungy effect on an image. Starting with duplicating the background layer and expanding the canvas, Gavin adds a clouds filter and adjusts blending modes to enhance the image's texture and depth. Using techniques like applying fibers filters...

Add Quick Dreamy Effects to Portraits in Photoshop

In this tutorial by Andrei Oprinca from PsdBox you are going to learn how to make some quick edits on a personal photo without doing anything complicated. The author explains very clearly how to add nice effects to your portraits without the need of years of Photoshop experience. This technique...

Create a Dreamy Lighting Portrait Effect in Photoshop

Discover how to infuse your images with a captivating fantasy aesthetic, transforming a simple photo into a scene rich with dramatic light and atmosphere. This process involves more than just filters; it's about meticulously shaping light and shadow to evoke a sense of magic. This tutorial provides a...

Create an Andy Warhol Silk Screen Effect in Photoshop

This video by Richard Brouwer focuses on creating an Andy Warhol silk screen style effect in Photoshop. It breaks down the process into clear steps. The introduction walks you through the initial setup: downloading and cropping an image, converting it to grayscale, and making a duplicate layer. Then, you'...

Create See-Through Ghost Photos in Photoshop

This tutorial offers a straightforward guide to creating an eerie see-through ghost photo using just one image. Perfect for beginners, it simplifies the process while ensuring you can achieve impressive results. You will learn essential techniques that allow you to manipulate your image effectively. The tutorial walks you through each...

Grunge and Dirty Retro Photo Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to give a grunge dirty retro photo effect to any image in a quick and easy way. For this matter we are going to use the awesome Perfect Effects Free Edition Photoshop plugin, which is, by the way, absolutely free. 👁️This...

Fun Toy Camera Photo Effect in Photoshop

Toy cameras are fun to play around with but most of them take 120 film and for a quick experiment, processing 120 film can get pricey. Also, toy cameras are quite unpredictable. More often than not, you don’t know what will come out of them nor can you get...

Classic Solarisation Photo Effect in Photoshop

Solarisation has been used since the very beginning of photography but was made famous by Man Ray when he rediscovered the technique by accident in the 1930’s. The effect consists mainly of partially reversed tones in an image recorded on a negative or a photographic print. Basically the dark...

Cool Bleach Bypass Photo Effect in Photoshop

Bleach bypass is a photo effect used very often in the movie industry. It has been used in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and many others. To achieve this effect, filmmakers either partially or completely skip bleaching during the processing of a color film giving as a...

Fiery Redscale Photo Effect From Hell Photoshop Tutorial

Embraced by the lo-fi photography movement and toy camera fanatics, redscale film consists in exposing photographic film from the wrong side. In other words, the emulsion is exposed through the base of the film which acts as a red-orange filter. The resulting colors range from bright red shadows, orange midtones...

C-41 to E6 X-pro for psychedelic colors!

X-pro (short for cross-processing) is basically developing your film in the wrong chemicals. If you are shooting color negative film you develop it with E6 (chemicals for slide film) and you will get slides. If you´re shooting slide film, you develop it with C-41 (chemicals for color negative film)...

27 Super Creative Photo Effects Tutorials for Photoshop

This guide features 27 beautiful photo effects, including fire effects, multiple exposure, levitation, sketch, lighting effects, and various other photo manipulation techniques. These examples can be applied to your photos or designs, enhancing their visual appeal. While most of these tutorials require an intermediate knowledge of Photoshop, beginners will also...

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