PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS

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Photoshop Tutorial 12

How to Simply Tone a B&W Image Using Layer Blending

This tutorial will show you how tone your image using one extra layer and a blending mode.

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Photoshop Tutorial 11

How to Apply a Ready Made Border to an Image

This tutorial will show you how apply a ready made border to your image. (Numerous magazines give some of these borders away freely)

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Photoshop Tutorial 10

Creating a Digital Neutral Density Effect

This tutorial will show you how apply a graduated neutral density effect on an image where you should have used a graduated neutral density filter to correct the exposure for the sky at the time of taking the image.

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Photoshop Tutorial 9

How to Split-Tone a B&W Image.

This tutorial will show you how you can split-tone a B&W image.
Two Adjustment layers are used for this so that you can re-visit the image and change the split-toning any time you wish.

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Photoshop Tutorial 8

A Simple Way to Tone a B&W Image

This tutorial will show you how you can quickly tone a B&W image.
An Adjustment layer is used for this so that you can re-visit the image and change the toning any time you wish.

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Photoshop Tutorial 7

The DEREK DOAR METHOD of Converting a colour image to B&W

NEW MODIFIED TUTORIAL

This tutorial will show you how to convert your colour images to Black & White using RGB Channel mixer and then to modify the tones within the image.
This method is better used for images that normally look flat on normal methods of conversion and will give you control over the whole tonal range of your image.

This tutorial has been modified to also show preparation of images to be converted to B&W in
Nik Silver Efex Pro

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Photoshop Tutorial 6

How to Diffuse the Black Tones in Your Image

This tutorial will show you how to simulate the Darkroom technique of Enlarger Diffision on negatives, by selectively blurring the black tones in your image.
This technique can be used to enhance your Infra-Red images.

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Photoshop Tutorial 5

How to Level Horizons

We have all taken images where the horizon is tilted.
This tutorial shows you how to correct them with ease.

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Photoshop Tutorial 4

An Alternative Method of Sharpening

This method of sharpening is done using the HIGH PASS FILTER and doesn't give the obvious haloes that unsharp mask does.

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Photoshop Tutorial 3

An Improved Method of Dodging and Burning

Dodging and burning should make an image lighter or darker
In this tutorial I show that the dodge and burn tools don't do this, they actually make the image whiter or blacker.
I will then show you how to dodge and burn to make the image lighter or darker, which is a much better method.

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Photoshop Tutorial 2

Apply Filter Effects Selectively

This tutorial will show you how to selectively apply filter effects to an image.

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Photoshop Tutorial 1

Threshold

This tutorial will show you how to find the lightest and darkest parts of your image and how to set them as the white point and the black point. This technique is primarily intended for extending the tonal range in a low contrast image. If a known white or black is targeted in an image, it will remove the colour cast in those tones.