Here’s a great video video tutorial, which shows you how to fix underexposed photos - incredibly useful to know.

(Remember this is a lower quality “YouTube” version of one of the video tutorials taken from the full edityourdigitalphotos.com set, the full set are much higher quality of course.)

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I just posted this excellent sample video tutorial (it’s a lower quality version of one of the video tutorials taken from the full edityourdigitalphotos.com set) on YouTube so you can see the type of cool photo editing tricks possible with Photoshop…. enjoy, and please leave your comments below. Thanks.

Underexposure in photography is one of the things you can count on as you become more involved in photography. You can set your camera just so for the environment around you, and still end up with something that is too dark. Using any photo editing software you can easily fix this problem. Here I am going to show you how to do it using Photoshop and it is a pretty easy fix.

If you do not have Photoshop installed on your computer you can easily go to www.Adobe.com and download a 60 day trial version. It is a great way to become accustomed to the program without a huge initial expense on your part.

After you have loaded your photo in Photoshop, you will first want to create a duplicate of your picture. Select Layer/Duplicate Layer from the menu bar. Now you will want to select Layer/Layer Style/Blending Options. Select “screen” from the Blend Modes drop down menu.

Immediately you should see a lightened picture. Depending on how dark the picture is, your photo may now be exactly as you want it.

The following tutorial is an essential one for any image editor that likes to timelessness of black and white photos. Something just can’t be explained about the beauty of a black and white image. Adobe Photoshop CS3 provides us with the ability to easily change any digital image to black and white. You can even scan an image and make it look like it is much older than it seems. Of course, this is hard to do when everybody is wearing clothes that are from the future. Below, you will find a quick tutorial on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS3 to change any image to black and white. I hope you enjoy the information.

1. Open up Adobe Photoshop CS3
2. Open up your desired image
3. At the top of the program click the following sequence (Image/Adjustments/ Black & White)
4. One the next screen you will see that your image is the basic black and white image; however, you will be given options to adjust this image. By adjusting the level of intensity in the colors available you can make the black white photo look different ways. You can experiment with this yourself
5. After you are finished just click "OK". This will give you your finished image. All you have to do now is save it or print it. Then you are able to do anything you want with it. Programs like Adobe Fireworks CS3 and old Macromedia MX image editing products do this feature as well. Of course, it is in a different place.

I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial on turning any image to a black and white image. I am sure a few of you will find this quick way of transforming your image without special work from a professional.

This tutorial will show you how you can insert a tattoo design to a photograph with only couple of simple steps in photoshop. So, here we go.

1. Let’s working on the tattoo image first. Select your magic wand tool from your tool pallete, then select the white background on your tattoo design. Make sure you have selected every white on the image. After that, go to select>inverse (shift+ctrl+i)
2. Drag your tattoo design to your portrait. Or you can copy it (ctrl+c) then paste it (ctrl+v) in your portrait.
3. Now, you need to resize your tattoo by pressing ctrl+t so that it will fit nicely on the lady’s back.
4. Done with resizing, your next step is to reshape the tatto like the body part using the warp feature (right click while you’re still in free transform mode) Now change the layer mode of the tatto design layer to multiply and play around with the opacity for the desired look. Mine is 54%

You’re done!

Today’s tutorial will be how you can take your photos and digital pictures and do skin correction. You may have seen sometimes when you take a picture that maybe your child had a jelly stain on her body or they puked on you at an opportune moment. Maybe you have some problems with your skin that you want to erase when you show your picture to people online. This tutorial can help you achieve this type of effect easily and effectively. All you need is Adobe Photoshop CS3 and a computer to follow this tutorial on my website. In light this, lets begin the tutorial.

1. Open up the image editing program Adobe Photoshop CS3.
2. Open the scanned photo or image that is causing you the problem.
3. Zoom in on the problem so that it fills up about 50% of the screen

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4. Now what we want to do after we recognize the problem area is find a place that is similar to what the problem area used to look like. You can use another part of the body or clothing or even take it from another photo if the conditions are similar with lighting, shadows, and tans. I believe it is optimal to take it from the same photo area.
5. Now you should head to the 7th tool down on the row on the left. It should be a bandage looking tool. Click and hold on the tool to bring up the other features for it. Within these features, you will see a tool called the patch tool. Use this to take a sample area that is bigger than the problem from another part of photo.
6. Once you have selected this area, right click the area and you will receive some options. You want to select the option (Use patch as Destination).
7. Now that you have created the patch and it knows that it will be used as a destination, you must move it over the problem area.
8. Once you have dropped it into place, you will have the final product.

I believe there are many situations that you may come across that you will have to use this feature to fix things that are wrong in your photos. Maybe somebody thought they were funny, but maybe you don’t want to remember them or show them to other people. I would go back over my baby photos and erase some things if I could. I don’t have that option though. However, you can do whatever you want with your personal photos.

• Step 1 Open the image in Photoshop. If it is a colour photograph, desaturate it. If it is a black and white photograph, make sure that you are nonetheless in a colour mode (this guide refers to RGB mode only, which can be set in Image|Mode|RGB Color). You may, at this point, also want to subdue the image’s contrast a bit.
• Step 2 Go to Layer|New Fill Layer… and select Pattern
• Step 3 In the dialog box that appears, set the New Layer’s Opacity to 40% (though you can experiment with this; I like 40%) and click OK
• Step 4 Now select the ‘Wood’ pattern and scale it down to 1
• Step 5 Go to Layer|Flatten Image
• Step 6 Increase image brightness by about 5 and contrast by about 25
• Step 7 (optional) With the Eyedropper tool, select a dark brown and a light brown from your image to set as foreground and background colours. Then go to Filter|Texture|Grain… and add grain, tweaking with the sliders for the desired effect.

This tutorial will show you how to edit people’s faces to smooth out their skins, just like how models are edited in magazines.

To start off, lets open up the picture you want to edit.

First, we need to duplicate the layer, so lets go ahead and right click on the layer in the layers pallete and select "Duplicate Layer".

Now we need to select the area we want to smooth out, in this case, we want to smooth out the face, but we want to leave the eyes, nose and mouth intact so it looks genuine. So start by switching to the quick mask mode by clicking on the "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" button in the tool box.

Then select the Brush Tool, and set the brush size to 35 soft edge. (brush size will depend on your image)

Press "D" to reset your colors. Now use your brush and paint over the face, the painted area will become your selected area. The painted area will be red as you can see below. Continue and paint around her face until its covered like mine. You may need to change your brush size to a smaller size to cover the tighter areas.

If you accidentally paint outside the area you want, press "X" (switches colors), then just go over the area you want to erase, then press "X" again to go back to painting your selection.

Now that you have selected your area in quick mask mode, exit the quick mask mode by pressing "Q" or clicking on the "Standard Mode" button (Next to the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button)

Now you should have a selection, around the face.

Now, go to Select->Inverse, then Select->Feather, and enter about 10px.
You can hide the "Marching Ants" lines so you can have a better view of the image by pressing "CTRL+H"

Now go to Filter->Blur->Guassian Blur. Set radius to about 3 pixels.

That is looking too smooth, which make it look rather unrealistic, so lets put some texture back into the skin. Go to Filter->Noise->Add Noise. For amount, put about 2.5%, Uniformed and Monochromatic selected.

That’s it. Here you can see the original and edited version side by side.

Here is a quick and simple way to turn your photo into an old photo

First of all, open up the photo you want to edit. Make sure to make up a backup copy of your original before working on it.

First, lets turn the photo in black and white, go to Image->Adjustments->desaturate.

Then apply some brightness/contrast to it, giving the image that over-exposed look. so go to:
Image->Adjustments->Brightness and Contrast. I set 20 for brightness, and +30 for contrast. You may need to adjust this slightly on your image though.

Now add some grains to the photo to give it the old look. Go to Filter->Artistic->Film Grain.
Now, for these settings, you can adjust it according to your taste, I set mine at:
Grain: 3, Highlight Area: 2, Intensity: 4

Next, add some of those old/brown look that you see on all the old photos, so create a NEW LAYER, and fill it with: #8A681B, now set its Blending mode to: Soft Light

Enjoy!

Making photoshop brushes shaped like eyebrows. This video give great advice to the photoshop expert looking for tips and tricks to save time editing photos. In this video you will learn how to make your own eyebrow brushes to use on faces. No more drawing eyebrows, strand by strand. The skill level needed to learn this video is medium. You need to know basic Adobe photo shop and understand your tool bar.