Here is an effect that can shed new light on a flat image – literally. The possibilities for improving the illumination in your photos are pretty amazing.

You can tranform a picture with flat lighting into a picture where the subject looks as though they were photographed with a spotlight or another type of light with a narrow beam. Neat trick! This effect works well for portraits and still-life photographs.

Here is a quick and easy Photoshop tip for creating either a dark or light vignette for your photo.

One thing that can wreck a great photo is the sky. In fact, you can wait all day long for the perfect sky and it just doesn’t happen. So, many pictures end up with dull and uninteresting skies.

There are a number of ways to replace the sky using Photoshop. In this tutorial you’ll learn one of the more convincing techniques for replacing a dull sky with a beautiful deep blue one.

Sooner or later everyone comes up with an overexposed picture. Most either delete the image or spend far too much time trying to save it using Photoshop. Here’s a short tutorial that will give you the necessary skills to salvage your overexposed photographs.

Just about every photo taken can be improved with a little bit of post production. Problem is most people are unsure as to how to enhance their photos using Photoshop. Sharpening, exposure and white balance are some of the first areas everyone migrates to. Upon further inspection it appears Photoshop’s high pass filter can provide a level of enhancement that gives a majority of photos just enough “enhancement” to elevate them from mundane to very nice.

In this well done tutorial at abduzeedo.com you even learn how to use the Shadows/Highlight adjustments to easily simulate a sort of HDR style.

Technically it’s called masking and with it you can take two photos of the same scene and merge the pictures together to create an image with perfectly exposed sky and subject. It involves 3 simple, fast, and easy steps.

It’s always nice to know what the pro’s do to get better image quality using Photoshop. Some photographs look like they jump off the page while most look normal to bland. Here’s a easy and quick technique that you can use to make your own photos “pop.”

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to quickly remove freckles using a layer in Photoshop. The right side of the photo is the after and left is the before layer effect.

Here are 100 of what are considered the best 100 photo effects you can achieve in Photoshop.