Who wouldn’t want to look younger? Though erasing the effects of time in real life can require expensive treatments or even surgery, you will only need some knowledge and effort to retouch photos digitally. The Healing Brush in Photoshop CS3 can be used to remove those inevitable signs of aging such as wrinkles and blemishes better than makeup in photos.

Open Photoshop, and then open the photo you want to retouch. Always make sure that the image you choose is one you own, have permission to use, or is available in the public domain. In order to avoid saving mistakes on the original, you may decide to save a copy and then close the original photo, or create a duplicate layer on the original by clicking on Layer and then clicking on Duplicate Layer.

Choose the Healing Brush Tool by clicking and holding on the Band-Aid icon located above the Brush Tool. In the fly out menu, click on the Healing Brush icon. Adjust the brush size so that a small area of the photo will be used, set the Mode to Normal and the Source as Sampled. The other settings can be left as their defaults.

Zoom in on the photo and find an area of skin without wrinkles or blemishes that closely matches the color of the skin in an area to be altered. Hold down the Alt key and left click to select the area. Let go of the Alt key to save the selection.

Move the cursor to an area you wish to correct. Left click and drag the cursor over the wrinkled or blemished skin. While you are using the Healing Brush the area will be darkened, but will return to the correct color when you stop. Check the result and continue or undo if necessary. While learning this technique, it is easy to sample too large an area or try to use a selection that is too light or dark.

The main point to remember when using the Healing Brush to erase aging or blemishes is to keep your manipulations natural looking. Maintain the skin tones as closely as possible and do not remove too many wrinkles; otherwise the end effect will look like a caricature of the original photo.

Retouching photos using the Healing Brush tool in Photoshop CS3 can take years off your real age, or remove unexpected skin blemishes from important photos. Experiment with different settings such as Screen Mode instead of Normal to simply minimize aspects rather than removing them completely. You may have to look your age in real life, but your pictures can reflect a more youthful appearance.

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…

By using a wide angle lens and especially if you rush a job, you will end up with wonky walls. It is important that you correct this either at the time of shooting or in Photoshop later.

If you have a tilt shift lens, use it. Although they are expensive, they can save a lot of time adjusting and tweaking in Photoshop.

If you have a standard wide angle lens, make sure that you set up the tripod and camera as best you can to get the walls as straight as you can at the time of shooting;

• Check the walls on both sides of the room
• Check the ceiling and floor
• Make sure that the furniture and windows are straight too
• Generally keep the image looking symmetrical where it is needed

There will be times when you load an image into Photoshop and there is some correction needed. When the image is loaded, make sure that you use the GRID tool from the top menu bar;

VIEW > SHOW > GRID

Check each area to see where the image needs adjusting. In the image below, you can see that both the walls and the ceiling are slightly off. If I was to leave it like this it looks sloppy and unprofessional, people would wonder whether it is the image or house that is wonky…not good.

What you need to do is first of all, select the entire image;

SELECT > ALL

Then, I like to use the "Distort" tool as it allows you to push and pull each corner individually, perfect for this adjustment. Go to;

EDIT > TRANSFORM > DISTORT

Now, starting at one corner, gradually pull it out until the walls and ceiling are perfectly horizontal and vertical as in the following images.

Then, even though this is a relatively minor adjustment, the results are clear.

One thing I have noticed as I talk to people, look at photos and visit forums, is that with all the bells and whistles that modern editing programs have, a major point is overlooked at the editing stage. Color correction using Photoshop!

With the new digital age well and truly upon us, it is more often than not, down to us to "develop" our images every step of the way. Your negatives from film photography (if you ever ventured that way) would have been entirely processed at professional labs who would have corrected the color, among other things, for you.

It is therefore more noticeable when an image has a color cast to it, normally red or yellow, and can make people think there is a problem with their camera. This color cast is quite normal, and usually appears when you have been shooting in low light, perhaps indoors, with no flash or studio lights, or maybe you or the camera had set the incorrect white balance.

Ok, open the image that you want to adjust, go to

Image > Adjustments > Color Balance

Now, as this image has a fairly large amount of red and yellow cast to it, we need to make adjustment to those colors. So with the "Midtones" box ticked in the tone balance area of the box, slide the Cyan - Red slider to the left to decrease the red hue, but not too much, and then slide the Yellow - Blue slider to the right to decrease the yellow hue, again not too much.

If you have the preview box ticked, you will see the adjustments happen as you make them. Obviously each image is different and will need varying amounts of adjustment. For my image, in the midtones section, I reduced the Cyan - Red slider to -40 and increased the Yellow - Blue to +40.

If you don´t see a huge difference, don´t worry, there is more. Now, tick the Highlights box in the Tone Balance area, make similar adjustments, i.e., decrease the red and yellow hues. For my image I decreased the red to -30 and the yellow to +70, and the result is this;

Lastly, you can also try ticking the shadows box and making very minor adjustments there too. Too much and your contrast will suffer so make gradual alterations and see what happens.

The difference in quite noticeable as you can clearly see above. The skin tones are correctly balanced, the clothes have their "just washed" brightness back in them, but the yellow glow of the lights and reflection on the grooms back are still effectively there.

First, we copy the image into Photoshop format before we apply the effect:

• We do a Select - All to copy the jpeg to the computer’s memory.
• We then do a File - New… - OK to create an empty canvas with the same dimensions.
• An Edit - Paste will paste the image previously copied into the computer’s memory onto our new canvas.
• File - Save this new picture with a new name as a photoshop file (.psd).

Next, if necessary, you might want to brighten up any areas that are too dark, or they will translate into solid blacks:

• Enhance - Brightness/Contrast - Brightness/Contrast… - Select Preview (if not already set ON). Then, slide the Brightness control right or left until the desired brightness is achieved.
• You can also select part of the image with the Marquee Tool and apply brightness only to that area.
• I darkened the highlights and brightened the shadows.

If you want to reduce the size of the image, do:

• Image - Resize - Image Size… - Select Constrain Proportions (if not already set ON). Type in your new Pixel Dimensions.
• I resized to a Width of 450 and the Height was automatically adjusted to keep the proportion.
• You may wish to crop the picture anyway you want.

Apply the Watercolor Effect:

• The watercolor effect is obtained at Filter - Artistic - Watercolor…
• In the example below, I used a Brush Detail of 14, Shadow Intensity of 0, and Texture of 2.
• Depending on your image, you might want to play with those numbers until the effect pleases you.

Save your newly created watercolor image as a new file:

• File - Save As… and save it as a Photoshop file.
• If desired, convert it back into a jpeg for posting to the web or for emailing (give it a new file name). Some resolution will be lost in the compression: File - Save for Web… and save as a JPEG with Medium compression.

These days you don’t need a special camera to create awesome panoramic photographs. With Photoshop CS using Photomerge makes the process quick and easy. Photomerge in Photoshop CS was created especially for panoramic photography. The process itself is really quite easy but the results of the merge will be depend on the layout and image source quality. The Photomerge feature permits the selection of images intended for automatic panoramic Photomerge and it also allows for manual arrangements.

Since your final photo depends on the quality of the source images it is necessary to make note of some tips when shooting scenic photographs. These tips include:

• Use manual exposure when shooting pictures. Merging the pictures later on will be difficult if different exposures per shot are used.
• Try to keep the camera as steady as possible when shooting. If you can, use a tripod to steady the camera.
• Keep a long distance between the camera and the subject, especially when working with landscapes. Chances of parallax are greater when objects are too close to the camera.

Here are simple step-by-step instructions on how to come up with great panoramic images using Photoshop CS Photomerge:

• Open several images of a single scenery in Photoshop CS.
• Go to the File option, the select Automate, and then go to Photomerge. This will open the Photoshop dialog box.
• Check that the images you want to merge are in the dialog box.
• Next check the Attempt to Automatically Arrange Source Images box and then select Ok.
• The program will then automatically select the images one by one, and attempt to merge them into one panoramic photo. If your photos don’t quite match you may get an error because the program cannot merge the images automatically. If this happens don’t panic. It is still possible to arrange the images manually.
• If an errors does occurs, integrate the image or images that were not merged by pulling that image or the images from the top window into the panorama and arranging to the desired position. Photoshop CS will then integrate the image into the panorama automatically.

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create any kind of tone for your photo that you want.  With this technique you can make all sorts of unique tones that many graphic artists use to create fascinating scenes.  This tutorial will involve desaturation and color balance.  Okay, once you have your picture open in Photoshop:

1. Convert your photo to black and white by Desaturating it. (Image>Adjustments>Desaturate)
2. Create a New Color Balance Adjustment Layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance)
3. For the Blue tone as shown above I adjusted the colors to the following:
   Red: +14
   Green: +14
   Blue: +60
4. Another Possibility could be a unique greenish tint as shown on the left. For the greenish tint I adjusted the colors to the following:
   Cyan: -39
   Green: +23
   Yellow: -25

For different photos, the process and amount of adjustment won’t be exactly the same.  But with this technique the possible tints are endless.  See if you can come up with a unique tint to market with all your photos.

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This tutorial is to help you learn how to adjust the depth of field for any photo.  To do this normally you would have to know what aperture to use on a camera.  But with this tutorial you can just artificially lower the depth of field in Photoshop.  Ok, once you have your picture open in Photoshop:

1. Make a copy of the Background Layer, so you have two layers with the exact same photo on them (Layer>Duplicate Layer).
2. On the top layer (with the top layer selected) apply a Gaussian Blur Filter (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur). Set the Radius to somewhere around 14.7 pixels. This might vary according to your desired intensity.
3. Then select the top layer, and add a Reveal All Layer Mask to it (Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All).
4. Then select the Brush Tool (B) and select a big, soft paintbrush.
5. Then (with the layer mask selected) simply paint brush the color black anywhere on the photo where you would like something to be in focus.

For this technique it is a good idea to sometimes change the opacity of the paint
brush you are using. By changing the opacity you can blend the effect and make
the low depth of field look more realistic. For this photo you can see where I
lowered the opacity as I brushed toward the back of the car so the gaussian blur
is only partially erased in some areas.

Here’s a quick update for you on tomorrow’s launch of "Photoshop Fast Track For Digital Photographers!"

I’ve decided to offer a very special "fast mover’s" bonus, to everyone who grabs their copy right away (when we launch tomorrow of course). Here’s the details of the bonus:

Have you ever heard of flickr.com?

The truth is that no other site has ever had such an impact on the Internet as flickr.com has for digital photographers.

Flickr.com is the world’s best online photo management and sharing application… and it’s free (there’s also a very inexpensive pro version if you want it, but it’s not needed).

The only problem is that to really get the most from it you need someone to show you how it works… So I’ve had these video tutorials created. (Not even flickr.com themselves have video tutorials!)

They show you everything you need to know to really get the most from this amazing free website, and once you start using flickr.com you’ll soon become addicted… just wait until you see how easy it is to set up a blog and share photos.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Tutorial #  1 - Introduction
Tutorial #  2 - Making Your Flickr Badge
Tutorial #  3 - Batch Organizing in Flickr
Tutorial #  4 - Blogging Linking and Downloading in Flickr
Tutorial #  5 - Customizing in Flickr
Tutorial #  6 - Geotagging in Flickr
Tutorial #  7 - Notes and Comments in Flickr
Tutorial #  8 - Licensing and Privacy in Flickr
Tutorial #  9 - RSS Feeds in Flickr
Tutorial # 10 - SETS are in Flickr
Tutorial # 11 - TAGS are in Flickr
Tutorial # 12 - Uploading for Beginners in Flickr
Tutorial # 13 - Uploading for Advanced Part 1 in Flickr
Tutorial # 14 - Uploading for Advanced Part 2 in Flickr

If you want to see an example of a video from these video tutorials just click here to see "Uploading for Beginners in Flickr" (this video opens in a new window)

I plan on selling these videos separately for around $50 (as soon as I actually start to sell them I will remove this as a free bonus for "Photoshop Fast Track For Digital Photographers"). However, right now, these videos will be FREE for anyone who purchases "Photoshop Fast Track for Digital Photographers" when we launch tomorrow.

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