Learn how to give your photos an enchanted, dream-like quality with this simple technique for creating a surreal, soft-focus effects.

This soft focus effect make portrait photos look dreamy and soft.

Learn several easy soft focus effect techniques.

Learn eight ways to create a soft focus effect.

Great for softening scenic photos as well as portraits, this quick and easy soft focus method will preserve more sharpness and give you more control than standard blur methods.

A cool effect that looks like a photo slightly placed on a background

Bring more focus and attention to the subject of your photo and add excitement to your image by creating the illusion of a photo within the same photo.

This video Photoshop tutorial will show you how to take a photo that has great potential and turn it into one that will stop people dead in their tracks and have them gazing at the photo.

In this tutorial you will see how to give an image more color and to blur out the background to make an object in focus.

Follow this easy tutorial to create a variety of soft photo effects with Photoshop CS3's smart filter.

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.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to make something like focus-effect. You will learn how to make simple effect that can keep observers' attention in one place.

Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots - however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects and manual). Itâ??s no wonder then that many photographers never make use of their camera and lensâ?? ability to focus manually. In fact this week I spoke with one DSLR owner recently who hadnâ??t even noticed the manual/auto focus switch on the side of his lens. Image by dsevilla When is Manual Focus Better than Au

Learn how to make a diffused black and white photo effect.

How to pop your foreground in Photoshop.

This tutorial will teach you how to focus on a specific object in the forground.

Protect a central part of an image from a change.

Learn how to draw a viewer to the central part of an ad or image.

This will show you how to create a focus point while at the same time reducing your file size.

This is a nice effect to use when you want to emphasize a subject. Looks great on sports photos.