Whether itâ??s for a friend, family member or client, retouching images is very common these days. In this tutorial I will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, applied, layer by layer.

What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.

How to turn pencil art into something that you can color.

This tutorial explains how to ink, as in where to make your lineart thicker and thinner, which really can be used for traditional and tablet users. Even if you have a tablet, or if you are a traditional inker this has some things that can help you. It has tips for people scanning in their lineart and some brush settings for tablet ppl. Then it goes over the path tool, and how to use it with different brush settings. NO TABLET NEEDED.

Cleaning up scanned artwok is fraught with problems, extending from finding the perfect color mix to working out ideal levels of sharpness. The technique detailed in this tutorial will not act as a cure-all but it does detail a method of cleaning up your line art quickly and easily.

Cleaning up scanned artwok is fraught with problems, extending from finding the perfect color mix to working out ideal levels of sharpness. The technique detailed in this tutorial will not act as a cure-all but it does detail a method of cleaning up your line art quickly and easily.

Learn how to draw a cool cartoon car in Photoshop.

Sure, seeing a pencil sketch on paper has a certain type of charm to it, but come on, you know you're aching to put some bright colors, light sources, and all other kinds of special effects on it. The only way to do that is, of course, scanning it in

Learn how to create a quick layout.

This video tutorial will show you how to make a basic design for a website.

Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds.

Learn how to create a quick layout.

This tutorial details a quick technique for converting a bland mid-day photo into a dramatic sunset scene.??The results aren't perfect, but for the little time it takes you to do, the resulting images are surprisingly artistic and well defined.

In this tutorial you will learn how to take a sketch and turn it into a fully colored image.

Flame effect tutorials abound on the internet, but most of them are quite fiddly and take forever. You can, however, break the mould with this simple tutorial that takes under 10 minutes to complete and can be applied to anything. And hey... the results look pretty darned realistic too! ;)

This week I'll show you a quick way to turn your photos into a line art drawing.

Creating these little technological marvels may seem easy enough in theory, but in practice they are rather fiddly to make, and the random distribution of the lines is particularly hard to duplicate. Learn a simpler and quicker method in this tutorial...

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to use quick masks. Quick masks are similar to the selection tools but are more useful as it give you more control.

This tutorial explains how to do vector, engraved text, watermark, barcodes, colorize, and pixel shadow quickly!

Realistic metal is a difficult look to achieve in Photoshop, but here's a quick way to make good looking, metal bars, rods, and shiney pipes.