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Before we get into the manual corrections, we need to show you the different auto correction features in Photoshop. Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color are the areas we will be discussing in this tutorial. You will find most of the time, these 3 tools will improve your image, but most of the time if you manually adjust the settings you will get better results. If you are looking for a quick fix, these tools will do a good job (not a great job) at correcting lighting and enhancing colors....

In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to use the Crop Tool and the Slice Tool. Most projects you will end up using the Crop Tool which allows you to remove extra unwanted picture information. We will also be showing you how to use the Slice Tool. If you are going to be uploading images to a website and want to either slice it up into multiple pictures (it loads each image separately) or maybe you are interested in adding a hyperlink, well this is the tutorial for you. Along the way, w...

It is time to put on your artistic hat and learn how to use the Art History Brush to make some very interesting styles that look similar to a painting effect. Both the Art/History Brush allow you to restore a portion of the image back to a previous snapshot of history. In this tutorial, we will also be showing you how to create a Radial Blur effect by using a Filter. Along the way we will also be giving you tips and tricks, such as how to add more detail when using the Art History Brush.

So you learned History in school? Well that is not going to help you with the History palette options within the Photoshop program. We will soon be discussing the History Brush and the Art History Brush and we wanted you to get a great understanding of how to take snapshots, delete, add, etc. in the History palette. In this tutorial, we will even show you how to change the preferences so you can support more than 20 history steps. Along the way, we will show you tips and tricks within this p...

In the first quick tips list for Photoshop we will be covering mostly new tips (ok 1 tip from a previous tutorial). There are 10 tips in this tutorial and they are all related to previous tutorials. We want to either show you an easier or even a different way to accomplish a certain task in this graphics program. We felt that 10 tips are enough for you to chew on for now. In the future, we will be releasing more tricks! These are NOT full tutorials and are only quick tips and tricks to this ...

In this tutorial we will be showing you how to use the Red Eye tool, Clone and Pattern Stamp tools. You will find the Red Eye tool is very easy to use and the Clone Stamp tool to be very useful. We will also be discussing the Pattern Stamp tool which can be used to fill a portion of the image with a Pattern. Along the way we will be giving you tips and tricks such as the “Impressionist” option for the Pattern Stamp tool will give it an artistic effect (blurs certain areas). For fun, we will...

In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to use the Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, and the Patch tool. Even though these 3 tools are commonly thought of removing wrinkles, age spots, acne, scars, or even moles, these tools can be used for any image to help it blend better. We will show you that the Spot Healing Brush is very easy to use, but the Healing Brush allows you more flexibility when fixing images. We hope you enjoy this tutorial and the many other tutorials on our site that he...

The Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools in Photoshop help you mimic a photographer’s tricks in correcting lighting in an image. We will be showing you the Dodge tool which will help you lighten an area and even the Burn tool which will darken an area. Finally we will show you the Sponge tool which can desaturate or saturate a color. These tools are a necessity for any amateur or professional photographer that is looking to enhance specific areas of a photo.

We already covered how to create Gradients in the previous tutorial (Gradient And Paint Bucket Tools) and now it is time to add onto your knowledge and learn additional features of this tool. In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to add a Gradient to the presets and how to load and save Gradients. Also included in this training will be how to rename or delete your Gradients. Don’t worry if you run into problems, you can always reset your Gradient presets back to the Photoshop defaults. ...

This tutorial not only shows you the features of the Paint Bucket tool within the Photoshop program, but it also shows you how to use the Gradient tool. We will even show you how to create custom Gradients! You may be thinking that you do not need to know how to use these tools, but you will be using these tools once we get into shadows. While proceeding through this extensive screenshot tutorial, we will also give you tips and tricks.

In this course, we will be discussing how to use the Sharpen, Smudge, and Blur Tools within the Photoshop program. You will find these tools to be very useful for making small corrections to an image. Sometimes blurring a part of an image can help you camouflage an imperfection. The Sharpen tool is best to sharpen edges of an object or a subject. Finally, smudging allows you to drag a color from one area into another. Along the way we will show tips and tricks with these important tools wit...

You are about to tackle one of the tougher tools within Photoshop, the Pen Tool. Because we are a beginner/intermediate site, today we are just going to go over the basics of how to use the Pen Tool to make a selection. Back in the Text Features tutorial, we showed you how to type on a Path and you created the Path using the Pen Tool. Today we take you 1 step closer to learning this feared tool.

We have now gone over the basics of masking, let’s take this tutorial and add on to your knowledge and learn more basic functions of Layer Masks. In this tutorial we will be showing you another way to copy from one image to another image. We will show you a quicker way to create a Layer Mask and how to disable/enable the Layer Mask. In the past, we have explained how to crop a full image and in today’s course we will show you how you can crop a layer. Finally the reveal all versus hide all w...

Have you ever tapped off portions of a room before you painted it? Well then you have already masked before. In Photoshop you paint on a mask and in this tutorial we will be showing you how to do a Quick Mask to select an area and what a Layer mask is. We stated back in the Eraser tool tutorial that once you learn how to mask an image; you will never want to go back to the eraser tool. We will also be showing that the Transform Path which we explained in a previous tutorial is exactly the sa...

With this tutorial you are one step closer on learning how to mask areas of an image. We wanted you to learn how to crop an image or even how to resize the picture. We will walk you through on how to change the canvas size. This is a very nice feature and if you want to expand onto the canvas size (top, bottom, left, right or even the corners) without causing problems with your original image use this tool. Please take a moment and review this quick tutorial because we will be using the fea...