Photoshop
Introduction
This page details information that should help enhance the Photoshop experience.
Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
- 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop
- Photojojo - An excellent DIY photography site complete with video demos, examples, hints, and tips on creating create photos and videos.
- Photoshop Cafe - A busy site but check out their tutorials tab.
- Laurie McCanna’s Photoshop Tutorials
- Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Modeling and Design Skills
- Receding Hairline - Fake Model Photography
- Graphics - Photoshop Tips
- Absolute Cross - Tutorials
- Heathrowe - Tutorials
- Eyes on Design - Tutorials
- Graphic Design - Tips and Tricks
- Designs By Mark - Tips and Tutorials
- O’Reilly - Automate Your Favorite Photoshop Routines
- Lifehacker - Give your photos a Hollywood effect.
- Lifehacker - How to create smoke.
- Digital Photography Journal - Turning Portrait into Stone Statue.
- 18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts.
- The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web.
- Tilt-Shift Photography Tutorial.
- When Good Isn’t Good Enough - Tips on printing better digital photos.
- Lighting Essentials - Information, workshops, etc. related to setting up and using good lighting techniques.
- Creating Your Own Planets and Space Nebulas.
- Photography Light Box - Learn how to build your own light box.
- Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
Books
- An Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop - A free PDF download to learning Photoshop.
Plug-ins
- Luce - A filters that adds lighting effects to pictures.
- Dust & Scratch Removal - As the filter name implies it removes dusts and scratches from photos.
- Virtual Photographer - The filter as described on their web site: “Includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing.”
- Border Mania - A bunch of filters for adding borders to pictures.
- Auto FX’s Mosaic Filter - The filter as described on their web site: “Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.”
- Auto FX’s Dreamy Photo - The filter as described on their web site: “Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. This is a superb effect for enhancing stock photography, digital camera photos and any image you want to add a warm feel to.”
- Harry’s Filters - As described on their web site: “lets you choose the appropriate effect without hassling through different menus and dialogs. The main effect categories are called Color, Artistic, Gradients, Patterns, Warp, Noise, En/Decrypt, Other and Nature. They include filters for changing the image color or mood, for creating artistic effects, producing colorful gradients or impressive patterns, warping images and adding special noise effects to image. Additionally they let you encrypting and decrypting images with 64 bit keys, produce zoom, mirror or paint effects as well as natural effects like lightning, tornado and polar lights.”
- Little Ink Pot Xpose - “An exposure adjustment plugin. It was written to offer quick adjustment of highlights and shadows with a rapid preview feedback and a simple, intuitive interface. With just a few sliders you can attain better exposure of your digital photos.”
- Little Ink Pot Thredgeholder - Uses edge detection to create great pictures sketches.
- Little Ink Pot Chalkaholic - “Renders chalk and charcoal type effects with artistic panache and flair.”
- VanDerLee Camouflage - Allows one to create a camouflage textures.
- VanDerLee NightVision - Adds night vision effects to an image.
- VanDerLee Snowflakes - Adds snow flakes to images.
- VanDerLee Snowscape - Creates “layers of snow, dirt, gooey, slimy stuff, blood and similar effects to your (semi-)transparent images.”
- PanoPreviewer - Allows you to preview panoramic photos while editing them. Cost: $19.95.
- Bracketeer - Combines photos of multiple exposures to produce a picture that is uniformly lit. Costs: $19.95.
Check out more plugins here.
Brushes
- BrushKing - Over 2,000 choices of free brushes.
- Grinder Sparks - Add sparks to your images.
Actions
- PanosFX Fan - Turns a picture into a fan.
Automator Actions
- Automator Action Pack - 87 automator (MacOS Only) actions for automating your photoshop work.
Resources
- Megapixel Chart - A chart that shows the print dimensions of photos based on megapixels.
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