Whether you're an amateur or pro photographer, you can make ordinary photos more extraordinary using Photoshop and a simple yet powerful design trick.

This tutorial is more of one related to composition than to a specific technique. The Rule of Thirds is a principle of composition used for centuries by artists and photographers.

Detailed tutorial in which you create a shape that you use at a later stage as a Rule of Thirds overlay to crop an image.

Give an ordinary photo a more focused and dramatic look to it by creating a light source that appears to be shining through a window onto your main subject.

Used the history palette and brush for creating visual action

In this tutorial author shows you how to make some abstract visual effects

Use scrapbooks filled with images that others have taken to freshen up your own photos.

Adding a sense of action to a somewhat static photo of one black belt about to introduce his foot to another's face.

Add some more action to your images with this tutorial for Motion Blur

Tutorial using the history palette and brush to funk a picture up and add a sense of motion.

Discover how high dynamic range imaging works in Photoshop and learn how to work with 32-bits/channel HDR images.

How to download and use a decorative frame on your photos in photoshop.

Learn how to create a fun photo collage in Photoshop by bending, twisting, curling, and reshaping photos using the Warp Tool! We'll even see how to create more interesting drop shadows with the Warp Tool, as well as how to add subtle shadows and highlights to enhance the 3D look of our warping effect!

It's a fact of life with digital photos that sometimes we need to compress them to make our file sizes smaller. Our computer screens don't always make it easy to see the damage being done to the image, but thanks to one of Photoshop's rarely-used blending modes, the horrors of jpeg compression become strikingly clear.

Learn how to combine photos in all sorts of interesting and creative ways using the Apply Image command, one of the most powerful, flexible and fun image blending tools in all of Photoshop!

A simple photoshop tutorial about converting black and white photos to colored. Includes adding adding colors to background, using photoshop to put make-up and color highlights, and paying attention to small details to make the color conversion look authentic.

Learn the things to pursue and the things to avoid in order to become a better photographer.

Learn how to reduce red eye with Photoshop.

I use this technique quite a bit in my print work and the clients love it. I thought I would share it with you, its kinda like those old

Give your photos an old-time look.