Retouching Tips & Tricks

Photoshop

How to add Shadows in Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add shadows in Photoshop and how to manipulate shadows to match the light source, angle, perspective, blur, and opacity. It’s pretty simple, but it looks pretty cool. To get started, Download the source files to follow along with this tutorial. Get the source files Overlaying the Sky in Photoshop Open the road.jpeg and sky.jpeg files in Photoshop. With the Move tool, drag the sky image over to the road image file.

October 4, 2023

Photoshop

Dramatic Lighting in Photoshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to add drama to any picture using Photoshop In this tutorial, you will learn how to create dramatic lighting in Photoshop to give your images a completely new look. This technique involves adding light to a darkened image, simulating windows, lens flares, and manipulating the channels to create selections. First Download the Free Source Files You can follow along by downloading the sample file here. You can also watch the video by clicking here.

September 14, 2023

Retouching

How to retouch a Portrait in seconds

In this tutorial I cover How to retouch a Portrait in seconds – what if I told you there is a way to retouch a portrait in photoshop with one click? Would you be interested? Would it save you time? Yes, of course, it would. I’m a professional retoucher based out of Washington, DC. My business is shark pixel, and I will help you learn photoshop and lightroom. In this tutorial, I’m going to tell you about one specific action I think every portrait photographer should have in Photoshop.

November 30, 2022

Retouching

How to Add and Retouch Hair in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to teach you some crazy tricks for adding, retouching, and manipulating hair in Photoshop. Some of these techniques you may already know, but I’m sure there will be some workflows tips you’ve never seen before! Watch the video or just follow the steps as outlined below. Download Tutorial Files In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to add and retouch hair in Photoshop.

October 28, 2022

Compositing

How To Make Colors Pop in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you’re going to learn how to make colors pop in Photoshop along with some really easy tricks on managing any Photoshop document. If you want the files used in this tutorial to follow along, click below. Download Tutorial Files You can also watch the video by clicking here or just follow the steps outlined below. Now let me show you how to make colors pop in Photoshop.

October 24, 2022