Vintage Photo Effects

VintageScene 2.0 is an update to the professional level retro photography app for Mac OS X. Offering powerful features, great workflow, and gorgeous results, VintageScene is the premier app for converting new photographs into retro, aged, and vintage style effects. Version 2.0 adds new user interface as well as a new effect called Faded Time. This effect recreates a photograph that has been faded and severely weathered. July 18, 2011

Photoshop for Looney Tunes

This Photoshop tutorial answers a call for help from a Photoshop 911 reader, with a series of steps used to simulate the famous "Looney Tunes" logo screen -- while practicing techniques common to all versions of Photoshop -- that all Photoshop users should know April 28, 2010

Flaming Text Tutorials in Photoshop

Dirty Dozen Photoshop tutorials for very hot, flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects! Whew! I'm sweating from all this heat March 29, 2010

High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique that lets you to portray a much greater range of tonal detail than a given camera could capture in a single photo. Utilizing HDR in Photoshop makes for some spectacular photos. Let's take a look February 15, 2010

Creating Contrast in Photoshop

In this tutorial, Scott Kelby shows you how to create contrast using the Targeted Adjustment Tool (or TAT for short), which lets you click-and-drag right on the image, and the tool will tweak the right part of the curve for you automatically. December 14, 2009

Photoshop Eye Effects #1

This tutorial was prompted by a Photoshop 911 reader who wanted to know about techniques that would allow the merging of a symbol into a person's eye. We run through several layering techniques -- but also discover that what you want isn't necessarily what you get. September 7, 2009