An important thing to remember when retouching photos is to exercise a little restraint. You probably don’t want to retouch a subject so much that they cease to resemble themselves. Take this photo of a beautifully freckled woman. If we remove her freckles completely, it wouldn’t look like her.

In this tutorial I will show a quick way to simulate that effect using only Photoshop and some brushes.

In this tutorial, we’ll create a wallpaper in Vista style. A black background will be filled with stylish gradients decorated with blue and green abstract curved shapes. The techniques used in this tutorial are scalable. It’s easy to turn the final design into different sizes to fit various monitors. Let’s learn how to do it.

This tutorial will show you how to create your own glorious siren, reflecting the beauty and vigor of the beast, and bringing it firmly into the present digital age. In addition, we’ll reveal how to create your very own water splash techniques using only Photoshop, and you’ll learn how to customize brushes that are essential to this effect’s success. You’ll also explore specific blending...

In this tutorial we will show you ways to adjust and blend multiple stocks together to create a seamless kaleidoscopic base for an artwork. We also cover basic etching ( extraction ) techniques, look at some new layer-masking methods and have a play with different kinds of blur effects. We will also show you a way to create some nifty brush effects and to Finnish off with some adjustment layer fun. Plenty to...