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Export panel not working in Bridge CS6
| Nov 21, 2017
Bridge CS6 Export Panel has stopped working ove... |Adobe Community
Adobe Bridge CS6 Export stopped working on 11.01.2017
| Nov 3, 2017
GoPro Fisheye Lens correction in Photoshop CS6
Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter. Interesting
| Jul 8, 2016
How can I recreate the Clarity effect in Photos... |Adobe Community
Includes the steps to create an action
| Jul 3, 2016
Creative Focus with Lens Blur In Photoshop
| Oct 31, 2015
Photo wizard warps reality, invokes interdimensional wormholes on Earth
Interesting panoramic distortions
| Mar 15, 2014
Photoshop's Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide | Psdtuts+
| Jul 29, 2013
Epic Edits Archive Quick Tip: Using Photoshop to Add Vignette
Simple vignette technique using lens correction in a white layer set to multiply.
| Jul 28, 2013
Edit An Image In Under Five Minutes - YouTube
Some fun techniques in this short video.
| Jun 19, 2013
Polaroid Dust and Scratch Remover - Archive.org
A link to the old Polaroid download page on the Wayback Machine. This plugin will not work in Photoshop versions newer than CS2 or Mac OSX 10.5
| Feb 19, 2013
Retouch Necessities - Greater Than Gatsby - Greater Than Gatsby | Professional P
Several collections of retouching actions from $40 to $60
| Feb 17, 2013
How to use Photoshop's Lens Blur tool for tilt-shift fakery (Part 1 of 2) | TUAW
how to apply blur as a gradient
| Nov 8, 2012
| Sep 4, 2012
Keying Green Backdrops | Photoshop Tutorials
Great tutorial for removing green screen backgrounds. Uses a channel mixer adjustment layer and a layer mask.
| Sep 4, 2012
Adobe - Photoshop CS2 tutorial : Photoshop in black and white
Simple and effective methods to convert color images to b+w. One method uses 2 hue/saturation adjustment layers.
| Jun 16, 2012
Black and White Adjustment Layers in Photoshop CS3
One of the best ways to convert to b+w in newer versions of Photoshop.
| Jun 16, 2012
Simulating Film Effects with Curves
Great article with a conversion chart for many black and white films using channel mixer settings. Also has film curves for download. Awesome!!
| Jun 16, 2012
Tutorial Photoshop CS5 - Dragan effect (300 inspired) - YouTube
fairly simple video showing how to do a Dragan effect
| Jun 12, 2012
Adding your signature to your photos in Photoshop
| Mar 29, 2012
Frequency Separation Technique - YouTube
Another interesting way to retouch skin and smooth shadows and highlights.
| Feb 8, 2012
Grunge in 8 Simple Steps.mov - YouTube
This was a simple and fairly good tutorial on getting a "grunge" effect, similar to the "Dragan" effect.
| Feb 8, 2012
Photoshop CS Tutorials - Photo Effects Tutorials - Cartoon Drawing Tutorial
Simple, two step method of converting a portrait to a cartoon sketch.
| Jan 24, 2012
Creating a Professional Cartoon Effect from a Real Photograph - Photoshop Tutori
Very detailed tutorial for creating a comic book illustration from a photo
| Jan 24, 2012
Lots of good articles, unfortunately they are all in a frameset so you can't bookmark individual pages. The B+W section is especially good.
| Oct 23, 2011
Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial
Fixing Lighting Irregularities in Self-Tiling Maps
| Oct 1, 2011
How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop
| May 31, 2011
manipulation tutorial - 9 by 'night-fate
| Apr 27, 2011
Nice step by step of a photo shoot with girl, dog, car shot in a driveway and beach background shot on Ft. Lauderdale beach by Las Olas
| Mar 7, 2011
19 Tutorials for Creating Beautiful HDR Imagery | Speckyboy
| Oct 31, 2010
40 Jaw-Dropping Photo Manipulations | Inspiration
No tutorials but awesome inspiration!
| Sep 20, 2010
Alpha Channels | premultiplied, straight and uncorrelated
| Jul 12, 2010
Photoshop Color Issues on Macs
| Jun 8, 2010
Photoshop Tutorial: Adding Light Streaks To A Photo
| Apr 30, 2010
Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop | Psdtuts+
| Apr 30, 2010
Really nice example of transforming a normal photo of a house into a "haunted house" picture.
| Apr 30, 2010
Photoshop Text Wrap - Faking Text Wrap In Photoshop, Page 3
| Apr 30, 2010
Photoshop Photo Effects - Photo to Sketch in 6 Easy Steps Tutorial
Another good method using two layers and color dodge
| Apr 30, 2010
40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects - Part 2 | Vandelay Design
Really Amazing!
| Apr 30, 2010
Path Styler Pro plugin for Photoshop and Illustrator - Shinycore Software
Really nice looking chrome effects plugin
| Mar 2, 2010
40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects | Vandelay Website Desi
Amazing lighting effects!
| Oct 28, 2008
Classic Starburst Background - Photoshop Tutorial - Photoshop Essentials.com
Neat trick to duplicate a Transform on a vector path!
| Sep 22, 2008
Free and Commercial Photoshop Actions for Beginners and Professionals
"A Scanner Darkly" photoshop action is $15
| Sep 5, 2008
ActionCentral - Photoshop Actions
| Sep 5, 2008
Ken Rockwell Photoshop Tricks - Faux Infra-Red
and other useful tricks for photography
| Jul 27, 2007
girl with hat - photoshop pictures contest - PhotoShopTalent.com
update 2010, the original web site died because of a hard drive failure. No backups
| Jul 7, 2007
Photoshop converts a Photo to a Pencil Sketch
This is really cool. Use brushes to "reveal" parts of the converted image through the brush strokes!
| Jun 30, 2007
AlphaPlugins Engraver plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
convert photos to monochrome engraver style art
| Jun 30, 2007
Imitating A Scanner Darkly | Illustrator Techniques
Another tutorial showing conversion of a photo to vector art, using illustrator instead of photoshop but could be done in ps as well.
| Jun 30, 2007
BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> DuoTones
A good explanation and tutorial on how to create a duotone for printing.
| Feb 6, 2007
BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> Using Calculations & Channels
using channels to create a layer mask for removing the background
| Jan 9, 2007
BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> Extracting Hair
using the smudge tool to "redraw" the stray hairs.
| Jan 9, 2007
BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> Type Along A Path
Simple and very useful!! Good for making text around a circle.
(Photoshop CS ONLY!)
| Jan 9, 2007
Turn Photos of People into Line Art - Melissa Clifton
Awesome but fairly involved tutorial. Other good tutorials on this site as well.
| Nov 7, 2006
Night house starscape on Flickr
Mark Diamond's HDR picture. Photoshop CS > High Dynamic Range
| Nov 5, 2006
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2
| Nov 5, 2006
Photoshop Tutorials - Wood textures
| Oct 9, 2006
phong: stitching images with adobe photoshop
| Sep 14, 2006
Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Coloring Books
| May 12, 2006
| May 4, 2006
SilverOxide The Best Black and White Filters
| May 4, 2006
Creating Aqua images in Photoshop
| May 4, 2006
Welcome to the OZONE Asylum! home of the Mad Scientists
Forum with topics on DHTML/Javascript, CSS, XHTML, Photoshop, etc
| May 4, 2006