In this Photoshop tutorial, we're learn how to create a mirror image effect with a photo, turning the right half of the image into a mirror reflection of the left half. You've probably seen this effect used everywhere, especially in movie posters or album covers, and as with many of Photoshop's classic and most popular [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily add realistic falling snow to a winter photo. This version of the tutorial is for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. Photoshop CS6 and CC (Creative Cloud) users will want to check out our fully updated Photoshop Weather Effects – Snow tutorial. Call me crazy, but I [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to place an image inside of another image using the "Paste Into" command in Photoshop. With this year's Super Bowl coming up (at the time I'm writing this), all of the major electronics stores have been filling their websites and weekly flyers with pictures of [...]Read More
In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to create a collage of "warped" photos. Now, don't go letting your imagination run wild here. When I say "warped", I don't mean "sick, twisted and shocking", unless of course those are the types of photos you want to use. What I'm talking about is [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to truly make a picture worth a thousand words by adding a different shadow behind someone in a photo, as if to imply that the person in the photo is one day going to become the image in the shadow. Or maybe they really are the image [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily add realistic looking water drops to a photo, as if someone splashed water all over the image. We're going to be using a few filters and adjustments to create some random water drop shapes, and then we'll be making them look like water [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to add focus to an image with light using Photoshop's Lighting Effects filter. We'll see how easy it is to add multiple light sources to the same photo, rather than limiting ourselves to a single light source, so we can control both where the light is coming [...]Read More
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to see how to turn a photo into a simple 1950's and 60's pop art-style effect. If you can make a selection with the Lasso tool and you understand the basics of using layers in Photoshop, you have all the skills needed to create the effect. We're going [...]Read More
Let's face it, Photoshop's built-in drop shadow effect has it's limitations. It's fine for basic shadow effects, like making text appear to be raised slightly off the background on [...]Read More
Painted Edges Photo Border Effect In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to combine a couple of different effects. First, we'll give a photo easy-to-create painted edges, and then we'll make it look as if it was printed on canvas. We'll be loading in and using a couple of Photoshop's brushes for the painted [...]Read More