1. How To Create A Cartoon Character With Photomanipulation & Retouching
We will be covering a lot of things in this massive tutorial. You will learn step by step how you can create any cartoon character you imagine using photomanipulation, retouching and color grading techniques. With only Photoshop and stock photos (or your own) you can create a unique caricature that can be a logo, a mascot for a product, a character in an ad, etc.. You can of course use the same techniques explained in this tutorial, in a more subtle way, to spice up your portraits or images.
This tutorial has a massive 89 steps detailing the entire process to achieve the image above and don't worry, all my tutorials can be done by anyone who has basic knowledge of Photoshop. Unlike other tutorials you'll sometimes see out there, you don't need to be a skilled digital painter to achieve the same results I get here as I'm not a good digital painter myself ;)
2. How To Make Facial Features Pop Out With Retouching
In this 130 minute video tutorial I will show you different retouching techniques and tricks that will help you transform regular people into eyepopping characters. In this Photoshop tutorial, we will enhance the facial features of the man and the woman giving them a funny cartoonish look perfect for our artwork. We will then work on colors and add a background that will mesh well with our characters. In this case, I choose a background that would give the impression that those two were in an insane asylum!
3. How To Make Your Portraits Look Out Of This World
In this 50 minute VIDEO tutorial, we will start with an unretouched portrait of a girl, a photo anyone can take at home with their camera and transform it into some sort of fantasy character. We will go through every step I took to get the final result, from working on the skin, color grading, lighting and finishing with the background. With the techniques you'll master after completing this Photoshop tutorial, you will be able to create many different looks for your portraits, whether you just want a subtle enhancement or you really want to push it and transform your portrait into something that is out of this world!
4. How To Change The Lighting In A Photo
In this 140minute VIDEO tutorial, we will start with a basic studio photo and create a completely different, much darker environment, add sources of lights and create a cool smoky vapor effect which will give our photo the look of a commerical poster featuring a celebrity athlete. By mastering the Photoshop techniques shown in this tutorial, you will be able to create any mood you wish for your photos even though they were taken in a bright environment! You will also learn how to create light effects that will make your photos "pop" and grabs everyone's attention!
5. How To Glam Up A Budget Photo Shoot With Editing
In this 150 minute VIDEO tutorial, we will use gradients to glam up a casual portrait and make our subject look like a highend fashion model! After using a very effective retouching technique to create our base, we will then create a totally different look and mood by using a variety of gradients along with other color grading techniques. Gradients are very powerfull when you understand how to use them. If you are serious about photo editing, you must add this important tool to your toolbox!
6. How To Create A Surreal Looking Character With Advanced Retouching Techniques
In this detailed 3 hour Video Tutorial, I will show you step by step how you can turn an average Joe into a surreal eyepopping character using advanced retouching techniques. We will also be working on adding light effects to the image, adding a rim light around our character and then color grading our scene to make it look rather creepy. This Photoshop tutorial will benefit anyone who wants to take their game to the next level when it comes to creative portrait retouching!
7. How To Turn Your Photos Into High Impact Magazine Ads
In this 55minute video tutorial we will use advanced color grading techniques to transform a photo that needs more punch into an high impact image that could be used in a magazine ad for example. By using different techniques to exaggerate to contrasts and accentuate the colors, we can give our photo a sort of "painted" look that is very popular right now with commercial photographers. If you want to take your photography to another level, this tutorial will show show step by step how to edit your photos like the pros. And if you are a graphic designer, the knowledge you will learn in this Photoshop tutorial will further help you to create eyepopping art! ALSO, because we dramatically enhances the contrast and details of the photo, this technique becomes perfect for anyone who wants to create stunning Black & White photos.
8. How To Give Your Portraits The "Video Game Look"
Video games these days are more and more realistic and a lot of attention is put on the esthetics of their 3D characters. In this 2 hour+ Video Tutorial, we will transform a portrait of a regular guy into something that look straight out of the latest video game. And of course, if you want something that looks a little more realistic, we can easily tone down the effects while keeping a very original look!
In this Photoshop tutorial we will use advanced retouching techniques that you can use to create that same sleek/artistic look for any portraits.
9. How To Create More Impactful Portraits
In this 105minute video tutorial, I show you how you can improve the look and details of someone face/skin and really give your photos or the people in your photomanipulatons a very cool and impactful look! Starting with a generic picture of a business man, we will layer by layer improve the details, contrasts and colors until we get something that will really get people's attention!
10. How To Turn A Girl Into A Surreal Character
In this 87minute video tutorial I will show you how to use the photo of a person and transform him or her into an eyepopping real life looking Disney character! We will first use a pretty neat technique to retouch the model, the skin and then we will use photomanipulation methods to transform the girl into someone with pretty wacky proportions which will give us a very cool and surreal result!
In this Photoshop tutorial, we will cover many aspects of photo editing which will surely help you make your photos ''pop'' and attract attention!
11. How To Create Stylised Black & White Portraits
In this 40 minute video tutorial, we will create a black & white portrait giving it a style often seen in promotional images of TV series like 'Game of Thrones' and 'Sons of Anarchy'. Simply desaturating your photos to create a black & white image will only give you basic results and who just wants basic results? If you want to create awesome B&W photos that will stand out from the rest, this tutorial is for you!
12. How To Add An Enchanted Atmosphere To Your Photos
In this 2 hour video tutorial we will take this photo of a little girl standing in the woods, transform it into a fairytale-like scene and make her pop out of the photo! Most of this tutorial will focus on color correction/color grading techniques that will allow you to drastically change the look of a photo!
If you are looking to make your photos 'pop' more by improving the look of the background and foreground, this tutorial is for you!
13. How To Create Breathtaking Images
Getting guest teachers to create premium Photoshop tutorials for this site is something you will see more and more and for this one, it's an exceptional artist and photographer known as Ipoenk Graphic who wrote this exclusive tutorial for the members of LearnPhotoEditing.net! Ipoenk starts off with a photo he took himself and by using advanced color grading techniques and a bit of photomanipulation, he turns a snapshot of rural life into a breathtaking award-winning image. In this tutorial, he will show you step by step how he was able to achieve such a transformation. The knowledge you'll gain after completing this tutorial will allow you to transform your own photos into magical works of art!
14. How To Create A Fantasy Environment With Photomanipulation
If you are a professional photographer, you absolutely need to learn the art of photomanipulation as this simple skill will allow you to offer much more than simple photos to your clients, you could offer them, for example, a trip back in time! Way back!
My friend and great artist Rivo Rareano created this tutorial exclusively for the members of LearnPhotoEditing.net using a photo he took of his son to create this beautiful "Lost World" art. In a Video Tutorial that last just about 2 hours, I will recreate his fantastic image and will explain to you step by step how Rivo created it. The end result is what you see above! In this Photoshop tutorial, you will not only learn about photomanipulation but also different color grading techniques.
15. How To Turn A Daytime Scene Into A Night Scene
In this 115minute Video Tutorial, we will transform this photo taken in Old Montreal and turn it into a night scene where we will focus on accentuating the details, add elements to spice up the image and work on the highlights and shadows to make everything pop more!
The photo editing techniques learned in this tutorial can serve to improve any photos that especially include buildings, streets, bridges, etc...
16. How To Turn Your Photo Into A Flashy Poster Ad
In this 110minute Video Tutorial, we will be transforming an unretouched photo of two models into a slicker and flashier image that will look like some poster ad used to promote products such as soft drinks or candies! Menthos anyone?! While we are doing this Photoshop tutorial, we will mostly concentrate on changing the look of the skin, add colored lights from both sides reflecting on the models' skin, add a much more interesting background and of course, we will spend some time color correcting/grading our image. If you want to add some 'flash' to your photos, then this tutorial is for you!
17. How To Retouch Your Portraits Like The Pros
Retouching is something photographers always end up doing when taking portraits but one particular popular look, one that we often see in magazines or ads for beauty products is the flawless "airbrushed" look. Well, there's no airbrushing going on in this Photoshop tutorial but what we will do here is take the unedited photo of a model with minimal make up and we will "glam it up", get rid of all imperfection and finally create the type of photo we can often see in beauty product ads and fashion magazines. Click the link below to learn more.
*Update* For this retouching tutorial, I am using a completely different technique than the one I used for the NEW retouching tutorial at the top of this page. Both techniques are really useful and can be used for different situations.
18. How To Give A Photo A Cool Grungy Desaturated Look
In this 85minute Video Tutorial, we will transform this photo of "rebellious" teenagers into something much edgier and grungier, something that could certainly be used as a poster or album cover for a music band. This look/effect could also be used for photos of extreme sports or even portraits!
In this tutorial, we will explore different editing techniques that will allow us to bring out the details in our image, improve contrast and adjust the colors to give us the look you see above.
19. How To Do An Extreme Makeover Digitally In Photoshop
In this MASSIVE 2 hour VIDEO tutorial, we will digitally transform a model into a Supermodel using advanced retouching techniques. This is a tutorial I'm doing in collaboration with popular professional photographer Bishop Bautista who took the original photo. This tutorial was actually inspired by the way he edited and transformed that same exact photo. I tried to somewhat recreate what he did and this is my version and I'll show you exactly, step by step, how I did it!
I believe that anyone with basic skills in Photoshop can do this tutorial and once you'll master this extreme transformation technique, you'll be able to not only do wild transformations like this one but also more subtle ones that your subject will certainly appreciate and be amazed by!
20. How To Bring Out Colors & Details In Your Photos
In this 52minute video tutorial we will use advanced color grading techniques to create a tone mapping effect without the use of any plugins or 3rd party software, we'll only be using Photoshop and what comes with it. We will start out with a photo taken with the aid of an off-the-camera flash and turn it into some sort of "reality show" poster ad. Taking a photo while using an additional fill-light or reflectors helps us retain a lot of details in the shadows and highlights which make it easier in postproduction to really push the color grading.
This tutorial will be really helpful to anyone who wants to give their photos a professional look with richer colors and higher contrasts.
21. How To Change The Look Of A Dull Photo With Color Grading
In this 57Minute Video Tutorial I take a RAW photo and transform it into something much more interesting by pushing the color grading to the max. I start off in the Photoshop RAW photo editor (Camera Raw) and go through my usual workflow to prepare the photo for an extreme transformation in
Photoshop. Then I show you all the steps I took and techniques I used to achieve the image you see right above!
Shooting RAW is so essential in my opinion to really get the most out of your photos, to be able to bring back the details in the shadows and highlights but also to be able to bring back colors that could have been lost if you shot JPEGs.
22. How To Make The Most Out Of Your Raw Photos
In this 45minute video tutorial I will show you how you can get the most out of a RAW photo especially when your subject or the sky couldn't be properly exposed. When you take photos in nature and you don't have with you a reflector, especially when the sun is going down and you want to capture it along with your subject, you'll run into some problems. Either the sky will be blown out or your subject will be too dark. You can however with Photoshop correct that problem, bring out hidden details in the shadows and highlights as well as colors you didn't think were there. If you want to make your photos "pop" more, this is the tutorial for you!
23. How To Create A Lightbox For Pocket Change!
This one is a huge tutorial, actually 11 wrapped up into one. 11 objects were photographed using different-lighting setups and I will demonstrate in details how each were done on video. Then I go through how I color corrected/graded in Photoshop each of the 11 photos.
The entire goal of this tutorial was to build the cheapest lightbox possible that would also give you professional results for photos of products you are selling, photos of food for your blog, stock photography, photos for your design business, etc... All the lights used were bought at the dollar store and at my local hardware store for barely any money.
24. Digital Painting For Beginners: How To Paint With A Mouse
In this 3hour video tutorial I'll show you how you can take retouching to the next level by mastering digital painting. In this tutorial, we will create everything from scratch, the eyeball, the iris, the eyes, the face, the nose, the mouth, the hair and the shoulder/neck.
Digital painting can really be difficult, it usually requires a digital tablet and if you are not a great painter to begin with, you are looking at a steep learning curve. In this tutorial, I show you techniques any beginner’s in digital painting can recreate and that, with his/her mouse! Once you master those techniques, you'll be able, for example, to add digitally painted eyes, like on the 'asylum lady' image above, which will give your images a really cool and original look!
25. How To Create Fantasy Characters In Photoshop
What you can do with photomanipulation is only limited by your imagination. No need for any 3D software’s to create what you have in mind, all you need is Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how I turned an old man into an alien creature. With the knowledge you'll acquire here, you'll be able to do much more than just aliens, you will be able create your own photomanipulations and transform any image you want that you can use for any purpose you want. Aside from being a fun thing to do, photo manipulations are especially useful for creating ads or high impact images for your blog.
26. How To Make A Portrait Pop Out Of The Screen
Make your subjects "pop" by increasing the details and realism of your photos. This Photoshop tutorial will focus on just that where we will start with a generic photo of an old man and then using different techniques we will transform the photo into something much more eyecatching.
27. How To Transform Your Portraits With Color Grading
In this tutorial, we will push the limits of color grading without degrading the image. We will add colors to a very grayish, nearly black and white photo and then we will bring back the details from the shadows resulting in a drastically changed and more pleasing look.
28. How To Create A Zombie Infested City
Compositing is a very useful procedure that consist of combining visual elements from separate sources into a single image it is a process used for many purposes but it is especially useful for creating a fantasy background for your model/character/subject. Compositing is a tool anyone who wants to spice up their images need in their toolbox.
In this Photoshop tutorial, I used compositing to create a burning city with crumbling buildings that served as a backdrop for my post-apocalyptic scene and then I used photomanipulation to transform regular people into the flesh-eating zombies you see in the foreground!
29. How To Improve The Look Of Your Wedding Photos
This is a 25 minute long video tutorial going through the steps I take to color correct and color grade my photos. This is the perfect tutorial to learn the basics of photo editing in Photoshop and get you started.