20 Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop emerges as a savior for the Photographers and web designers. Every Photographer can have a bad day at work.

When you check the final images you may find that bride has red eye effect in most of her photographs or her face is looking dark because of bad light. There are high chances that photographs get spoiled because of some unavoidable reasons. But in most cases, creating that moment again is not possible, mainly in case of functions and celebrations.

But thank God, Photoshop is a great tool in the hands of digital artists which gives them the boon of making each and every photograph “a perfect shot”. You can highlight the images or give them a vintage look. This post has its focus on showcasing different techniques which will help you in creating stunning effects on photographs. These Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials are collected keeping in mind creative requirements of both amateurs and professionals, so every one will get benefited with these Photo Effects Tutorials. Now retouch your photographs and give every image a professional look.

If you like this article you might be interested in some of our older articles on Web Design Tutorials, Photoshop Cheatsheets, Lighting Effects Tutorials, Photoshop Video Tutorials, Advanced Photoshop Tutorials, and Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners.

Photoshop Tutorial To Enhance Photos and Still Keeping Skin Pores

People in the ‘real world’ (particularly women) want to look natural. These techniques will help you achieve this whether its your own photo or someone else’s. Noise is a good tool to replace skin pores in a small to medium size images.

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Photoshop Skin Retouching

The skin retouching is recommended if pimples, spots and light reflections let the skin effect of restlessness and unclean. The effect of the retouching is silky-smooth skin that will look even more natural.

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How to Retouch a Photo

In this tutorial author will show you how to retouch a picture of a person and get the image more celebrity-like or magazine-worthy (in society’s eyes, not mine), without getting an airbrushed look.

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Fix Blown Out Skin

Blown out skin can be an annoying problem with daylight photos. Learn how to use Photoshop to fix overexposed skin areas without creating a gray color cast.

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Eyes Retouching

Author will show you my non destructive technique of eyes enhancement and eyes coloring.

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Beautiful Facial Make Up Photoshop Retouching Tutorial

In this tutorial author will show you how you can dramatically change one woman’s face with simple photoshop techniques. Author will try to create unrealistic woman portrait. The face will have a plastic look, and author will try to create an effect between a plastic girl and a cartoon image.

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Professional Beauty Retouch

In this tutorial author will show you how to enhance a beauty portrait to give your model a flawless appearance in three simple steps.

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Retouching a Studio Portrait

This Photoshop tutorial is written for experienced Photoshop users and will show you unique techniques for retouching photos. You’ll learn how to enhance backgrounds, dodge and burn, brighten eyes, and add hair shine while keeping a low count of layers. The techniques you learn from this tutorial can be used for other portrait photos.

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How To Repair Scratches, Tears, and Spots on an Old Photograph

In this tutorial you will learn how to repair cracks, scratches, and spots so this photo of the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind, looks just like new. We will purposely avoid using some of the quick fix tools such as the healing brush so that you can gain an understanding of the basics of photo restoration.

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Enhance portrait photo with natural look

In this tutorial author will show you a way that gives your portrait a very nice, smooth but still very natural look. Your photo wil have a real skin with lively skin, nice shadow and highlight, lively and sexy lips and eyes. It gives you the best and natural look that’s possible.

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Adjusting skin tones in Photoshop

In this picture the baby has had some bruising to the face during delivery. This has caused it to go very red and also dark in comparison to the rest of its skin tones. The idea here is to use adjustment layers and masks to make the face match the rest of the body.

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Curves Adjustment in Lab Mode

Switching to the Lab color mode can be very beneficial when doing curves adjustments for photographs as you will only do the adjustments to the lightness of the image, reducing the risks of color artifacts in the two color channels.

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Advance masking

Second part for the advance masking series using Calculations Photoshop tutorial.

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Restore An Old Photo

Explore the power of the Refine Edge tool and masking to restore an old duo tone photo all inside Photoshop.

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Remove Freckles

Reduce slight freckles naturally without using the Healing Brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to subtract freckles using a layer. This process provides the most natural results for light-brown freckles (ephelides) but will not work for dark freckles (lentigines).

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Photo Treatment: A Delicious Hamburger

In this tutorial we will edit a photo of a hamburger, making it looks more delicious but not very artifical. Light and a few adjustmes like deleting little holes of the bread makes a lot of difference. It´s not very difficult to do this editing but it requires a lot of attention to details and patience.

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Color and Luminosity Correction – An Easy Way

Getting the basics right in images such as color and brightness settings seems simple enough but often times, the automated tools in Photoshop don’t give us what we’re after and without having a good understanding of color correction, fixing an image with a color cast can be more difficult than it seems. This series of short videos will explain an easy way to do it.

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Graduated Filter in Camera RAW

You can replicate Graduated Filters inside of Camera RAW and in this video tutorial you will learn just how you apply them and work with them.

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Complete portrait retouching

In this tutorial author will tell you how to make a complete portrait retouch. You will know how to remove blemishes, retouch and enhance the skin, eyes, eyebrows, lips, as well as improve the highlight and shadow to make your picture look natural, vivid and beautiful. During this process many different techniques are shown and everything is explained in detail.

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Beautify a Face

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face. The corrections that we’re going to do will make the face look different, but at the same time we avoid to make the results look unnatural like we tend to see in other Photoshop tutorials.

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Adding Color To Your Subjects In Photoshop

Most of us now use a handy little tool in Photoshop for correcting an stylizing our photographs, That’s right, ACTIONS! You got to love ‘em. But if you’re like the author; you want your subject to pop, and actions sometimes seem to flatten the colors of your image especially of your subject. So hopefully this quick tip will help us all out.

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Faking a Dental Ad: From Gorgeous to Gross – Reverse Cosmetic Dentistry

Reverse cosmetic dentistry tutorial, where we made an ugly set of teeth for a dental template’s “before” photo, and kept the original spotless smile as the after in the Delicious Smile Template.

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