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A tanning bed, just a click away.

Aging a color photo by decades.

Once again, we pick a fight against noise, more exactly against the grains of luminance noise.

Professional photographer jargon calls strong, unnatural over-exposure "High key". This is what we try to emulate in this article by preparing a B&W high key version of a color image. The procedure is further spiced by leaving the eyes colored, so that the gaze and the color catch the viewers’ eyes.

When lighting is strong, you have to fight shadows, too. They might overcome for a time, but there is always a chance for another battle.

Noise… the bogeyman! We can almost see digital photographers shiver and shrink. Well, not those who read us.

We try to simulate a relatively rare photo filter of a special effect.

We conjure colors onto a bleached sky while leaving the irrelevant areas untouched.

Once a digital photo, now a pastel crayon drawing.

Sending a bit of sunshine to the shadowy areas of a landscape photo.

It is a well known issue, particularly when using small cameras with built-in flashes, that your photo subject looks back from the photo with a pale face if you flashed them straight in the face. Wax-like colors and marble-like liveliness don’t do much good to a portrait, so we took the effort and made a procedure to enhance facial colors. It’s not that difficult.

Two different photos merging with each other.

An annyoing darkness covers the edges of your photo. The solution is in our hands. Or rather, in this article.

Not really smoothing out but making freckles vanish.

Sharing the secret of piercing Photoshop looks.