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Photoshop Tutorial : 3 Easy Photo Effects

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This Photoshop tutorial covers how to create three different photo effects. The first tutorial covers how to add a gradient silhouette effect. The second tutorial shows you how to quickly create a color splash effect and the third tutorial teaches you how to create a ghost image effect, or a ghostly image.

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Quickly Smooth Skin and Remove Blemishes & Scars

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Have you ever needed to enhance or change eye colors? Or perhaps you want to see what you or someone else looks like with different eyes? In this tutorial I will show you just that very process in Adobe Photoshop!

There are different approaches to changing eye colors and I will show you a quick and easy step-by-step to achieving any color spectrum you want!

Open up your file in Photoshop (Ctrl/CMD + O). The image I'm using is from Unsplash.com. It's a site where you can find free high resolution photos to use in anything your heart desires.

Once you have your image opened up. Select Edit in Quick Mask Mode (Q). This will put you in a mode to quickly make masks around anything you select.

Create a mask by using the Brush Tool (B). Make sure the brush tool is set to a black color. You'll know if you are making your mask by the area turning a light red.

Once you have the area colored in Get out of Mask Mode (Q). Your red area will then become selected or "Marching Ants" will appear. Then Select the inverse (Ctrl/Cmd + SHIFT + I). This will select just the eye area.

You'll then want to adjust the color area by going into your Hue/Saturation (Ctrl/Cmd + U) to change eye colors to how you see fit.

And you are finished! This is one way to quickly change eye colors in any photo image. There are many other ways to do it.

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Changing Eye Colors in Photoshop - Lindsay is Awesome

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Have you ever needed to enhance or change eye colors? Or perhaps you want to see what you or someone else looks like with different eyes? In this tutorial I will show you just that very process in Adobe Photoshop!

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Create a Selection of the Area You Want to Colorize

In order to colorize a specific area of a photo, first, you will need to create a selection around that area. In this example, we use "Select-Color Range' to select out the pink hair.

After making the selection it needs to be refined. To refine the selection even more, hold ALT/OPTN and click on the layer mask of the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer and paint white or black with the Brush Tool set to 'Overlay' Blend Mode.

Hue/Saturation + Colorize

Once the selection around the Hair is perfect, click on the 'Colorize' Button in the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer Properties window.

When Colorizing an image, you have control over Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. You can use the combination of these three sliders to make any Color.

In this tutorial, we use several Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers to Colorize different parts of the hair and eye Shadow.

How to Use Two Layer Masks on One Layer

In this example, we work hard to create a great selection around the Hair of the subject. Because we want to colorize different parts of the Hair, it makes sense to keep the original Layer Mask intact.

To keep the original Layer Mask intact and hide additional parts of a layer, try grouping a layer with itself and adding a layer mask to that group. This is a way to effectively have two Layer Masks controlling the visibility of one layer.

Featured Tutorials

In this tutorial, we'll help you master every layer effect with practical examples like adding photorealistic text to an environment, creating a neon glow effect from scratch, using layer styles to add a natural glow to a light source and more.

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In order to colorize a specific area of a photo, first, you will need to create a selection around that area. In this example, we use "Select-Color Range' to select out the pink hair. After making the selection it needs to be refined.

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Photoshop offers a large selection of tools and features for retouching photographs and images. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the common touch-up tools.

Spot Healing Brush Tool

The Spot Healing Brush is primarily used to quickly remove blemishes, imperfections or other unwanted elements from an image. To use it, paint over an imperfection you'd like to get rid of using a suitable brush ( brushes can be selected and modified in the options bar). The Spot Healing Brush Tool will automatically try to repair the imperfection by sampling the surrounding area.

Careful! Although the Spot Healing brush can be a great tool for quick fixes, it's not always guaranteed to work if the area surrounding the imperfection is busy. Generally speaking, the surrounding area should be an approximate match in color & texture to what you want to take place of the unwanted element in your image.

Healing Brush Tool

The Healing Brush Tool performs a similar function to the spot healing brush tool mentioned above. Instead of automatically trying to determine the lighting, shading, and texture from the surrounding area, the healing brush tool lets you manually select a source, and then paint over an imperfection. To select a source, hold alt and click the desired part of the image. Then paint over the area you wish to replace. As with the Spot Healing Brush Tool, settings such as brush size can be controlled in the options bar.

Patch Tool

With the Patch Tool, an entire area can be repaired with pixels from another area. Just like the healing brush tool, the patch tool will try to correct lighting, shading, and texture. To use the patch tool, first draw a selection with any of the selection tools (or the patch tool, which will function as a lasso tool). Then, using the patch tool, drag that selection over the destination you want to use to repair that area.

Clone Stamp Tool

The final tool we'll cover in this tutorial is called the Clone Stamp Tool. The Clone stamp tool allows you to paint with a sample of an image.

Keep in mind that you are not healing/repairing an image when you use the Clone Stamp Tool. Therefore, lighting and shading will not be maintained when you paint over an area. What you see is literally what you get when you paint from a given source, making it very useful in certain situations.

Blur & Sharpen Tools

The Blur and Sharpen Tools allow us to manipulate edges by making them softer or harder. They do exactly what you would expect them to do; blur and sharpen.

Both tools have similar attributes such as Strength (increase or decrease the strength of the tool, or how much it will blur) and the brush, all of which can be adjusted in the Options Bar for each tool. To use the blur or sharpen tool, simply set up the brush to your specification, hold down the mouse button, and hover over the areas you'd like to alter in your image.

You should have a pretty good feel of the basic retouching tools by now. The next step in mastering Photoshop is usually learning how to use the painting tools to compliment your photo remastering abilities!

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Photoshop offers a large selection of tools and features for retouching photographs and images. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the common touch-up tools. The Spot Healing Brush is primarily used to quickly remove blemishes, imperfections or other unwanted elements from an image.

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Filters are used to change the appearance of an image, layer or selection in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to some common filters, and show you how to use them.

For me, filters in Photoshop are sort of like those special effects you can add to home videos with those consumer handheld video cameras - easy to use, but they certainly have their place in design. That said, there are plenty of ways to get creative using filters, so they are definitely worth understanding in Photoshop!

Using Filters from the Filter Gallery

Photoshop's Filter Gallery is basically a one-stop place for working with filters in your documents. In the Filter Gallery, you can browse through many different types of filters, apply them individually to your image, or even stack them on top of one another like you would with layers. You can get to the Filter Gallery by going to Filter > Filter Gallery.

Here's a quick overview of the Filter Gallery:

Filter Gallery Interface

A. Filter Preview

B. Filter List ( Note: You can show or hide this list by clicking the arrow icon to the top right of it)

C. Currently Selected Filter

D. Filter Options

E. Effect Layers

F. New / Delete Effect Layer
The Filter Effect Layers work just like ordinary filters in Photoshop, and can be dragged and dropped on top of one another for desired results.
Applying a filter from the gallery is very easy to do. Simply Click on a filter, adjust it's options to your liking, and click OK to apply. To stack multiple filters on top of one another, just hit the New Effect Layer ('F' in diagram above), and select another filter. You can expand filter types by clicking the folders in the filter list.
The Cutout Filter quickly transforms a photograph into an abstract piece of art.
Quicker Access to Filters

The Filter Gallery is really just a browser of sorts. If you know exactly what kind of filter you want to use, you can access it directly from the Filter menu in Photoshop to speed things up.

Using Other Filters

Not all filters in Photoshop are available through the Filter Gallery. Many of them must be accessed directly through the Filter Menu, and have unique interfaces and options of their own.

We're not going to go over every individual filter in this tutorial ( doing so would take a very long time), but I highly suggest doing some experimentation on your part with different filters to get an idea of what some of them do.
Let's look at some of the more common filters used frequently in design.
Blur Filters (Filter > Blur)

The Blur Filters are useful in lots of situations. We've actually written several popular tutorials on Tutorial9 that depend on the Blur Filters, such as our article on Adding Depth of Field in Photoshop, and our Windows Vista Aurora Effect Tutorial.
The Lens Blur Filter makes it very easy to create a realistic lens blur effect in Photoshop.
Noise Filters (Filter > Noise)

Noise Filters are great for adding, or reducing noise and grain in photographs. You may find filters such as the Reduce Noise Filter extremely useful if you work with old, damaged, or dusty photographs that need repair work done to them. The Add Noise Filter can also come in handy, and has some creative applications of its own.
Noise can easily be reduced with the Reduce Noise Filter in Photoshop.
Sharpen Filters (Filter > Sharpen)

The Sharpen Filters are also great for correcting imperfections in photographs, as well as putting emphasis on important elements in a design. When working with blurred images, a sharpen filter can be used to clarify and better define edges by increasing contrast between pixels.
The Smart Sharpen Filter used to sharpen a photograph of a statue.
Filters Disabled?

While all filters are available to be used on 8-bit RGB images, many will be unavailable if working with other color spaces, 16-bit, or 32-bit documents. Filters will also be unavailable for use in Bitmap and Indexed-color documents.

If you're not able to use filters, you may need to go to Image > Mode, and make sure you're set to RGB, and 8 Bits/Channel, although some image data may be lost.

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Filters are used to change the appearance of an image, layer or selection in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to some common filters, and show you how to use them.