Digital Photo Tutorials

53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

Jun 25th in Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Though Photoshop has grown over time to become a many-armed beast of a program, it was first created with the modest aim of helping users to modify and improve their digital photography. In this post we return to Photoshop's roots with a wonderful collection of digital photography and photo editing tutorials.

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Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw is best known for his work at Outlaw Design Blog. Aside from blogging, he also works full time as a Wordpress designer. Danny has freelanced from all over the world and is working on a book and website in which he will share his experience about Freelancing Abroad. Danny also has an unhealthy obsession with toys, LOST, and Sharpie markers.

1. Make your photo impressive


2. Creating Dreamy Photos


3. Coloring a black and white image


4. Post processing: Digital to fake Black & White Film


5. Changing Hair Color in Photos


6. Nesting Smart Objects for Multi-Mask Effects in Photoshop


7. Image Retouching: Advanced Skin Softening


8. Creating a Sunset Effect in Photoshop Tutorial


9. Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutorial


10. Antiquing Digital Images in Photoshop


11. Repairing Old Photos


12. Basic Model Retouching


13. Photo Makeover


14. Black And White Conversions In Photoshop CS3


15. Bringing Out Shadow And Highlight Detail In An Image


16. HDR-Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop


17. How to Convert an Image to a Duotone in Photoshop


18. How to Create Professional HDR Images


19. Using the HDR Feature in Photoshop CS2/CS3


20. How to Make Digital Photos Look like Lomo Photography


21. Create Digital Makeup


22. How to Fix a Botched Tourist Photo in Photoshop


23. Understanding Filters in Photoshop Elements


24. How to Batch Resize in Photoshop


25. Cropping Photos Without Changing The Aspect Ratio


26. Infrared Photo Effect in Photoshop


27. Exposure blending tutorial


28. How to Use Photoshop’s Lens Blur Tool for Tilt-Shift Fakery


29. Vignette 2.0


30. Difference Between 'Resizing' and 'Resampling' An Image In Photoshop


31. Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial


32. Smart Scaling with Content-Aware Scale in Photoshop CS4


33. How Image Resolution Affects Print Quality


34. Gradient Mapping effect in Adobe Photoshop


35. Morning Glow Photoshop Tutorial


36. Using Masks to Improve Landscape Images


37. 5 Steps to Bolder Colors


38. Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments


39. Black and White Is the Key to Better Color


40. Sharpen Those Photos: Unsharp Mask


41. Non-Destructive Dodge And Burn


42. Turn a daylight photo into a night shot


43. Editing with Photoshop Levels


44. Smart Dodge and Burn in Photoshop Elements


45. Sharpening with the Unshap Mask


46. Cropping Photos To Specific Frame Sizes


47. How To Straighten Crooked Photos


48. Getting a Grip on the Vanishing Point Filter


49. How to Stitch Photos in Photoshop


50. Awesome Photo-Realistic Coloring Techniques


51. Matching Colors Of Objects Between Photos


52. A Quick and Effective Way to Enhance Contrast in Photoshop


53. Working With Shadows In Photoshop - Advanced Shadow Techniques



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    Melody June 25th

    I love how photoshop has given people the opportunity to restore their memories of torn/old/damaged pictures….

    Some cool tutorials here..

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      gfxsplatter July 13th

      thought, you look fantastic

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      gfxsplatter July 13th

      thought you look fantastic =)

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    Allen June 25th

    Thanks for the list! Definitely be following some of these tutorials for next week’s photo retouching projects.

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    lawrence77 June 25th

    Comes in a needy time…. ;)

    thanks Danny outLAW… my half name :D

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    Labib June 25th

    Great! Thanks so much! Will have to get my hand at all of them!

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    lovelistenlive June 25th

    Nice list! Thanks.

    By the way, you should fix the link of #17. The correct link is: http://digital-photography-school.com/convert-duotones-photoshop.

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    Philo June 25th

    Nice List! :)

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    Jim Gaudet June 25th

    Uh, bookmark worthy, damn hours of fun on these..

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    Anja June 25th

    Thank you for featuring my tutorial! I really appreciate it and I’m glad to be on your list, it’s really a compliment.

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    m. gartsman June 25th

    very nice list. thanks dudes.

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    Luis Ahmed June 25th

    Excellent list, thanks for sharing

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    Darren Addy June 25th

    I can vouch for #18 being an excellent HDR tutorial by my son-in-law. He’s also a storm chaser and has an excellent storm photography blog at http://www.bigstormpicture.com

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    Lauren June 25th

    Yeah! Lovely.

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    Symon June 25th

    This is gonna keep me busy for weeks! Thx

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    Dullface June 25th

    Loads of very useful stuff here, thank you!

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    蜗牛设计 June 25th

    very useful
    we should to leaning.

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    dotcompals June 26th

    thank you for these tips. Love to try all these, but what to do, we cant afford to have Photoshop. But, I do have photoshop elements. Lets try with that.

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    Shaw June 26th

    Could you sort the Advert banner out please. When the Tuts+ Network dropdown list apears the banner is on top of the links. Thanks :)

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    b June 26th

    nice one thankyou gonna get on with these today – practice cubed :)

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    Jamie Allsop June 26th

    This is a really great list of some very useful tutorials. It’s just amazing what you can do with Photoshop. Thanks for sharing.

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    Ludovic June 26th

    Oh my, those digital make up tutorials are HORRIBLE.

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    david June 26th

    Nice list. Reading the title I was hoping this would be about photography and not photoshop, but some nice tutorials for people who haven’t seen them yet.

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    tot2ivn June 26th

    They list man.. Thanks a lot

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    Lainer June 26th

    Awesome. I’ll have to keep an eye on this web site.

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    Mayakanon June 26th

    Thanks Danny. Awasome tips and tricks.
    Keep it up.

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    Aneslin June 26th

    aww great bookmarks,
    I got 2 most wanted tutorials here, I search for last 6 months.
    but I dont know the correct keyword or the technical term.
    now I found it :)
    thx

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    Margaret June 26th

    oooh there’s a few here that will be extremely helpful to me.
    Awesome! thanks :D

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    David W. June 26th

    Nice list, thanks for sharing!

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    DogBoy June 26th

    Colouring a black and white photo, lol, how 1980 of you

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    Kasper Lau June 26th

    So insanely useful, yeaj! :)

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    josh June 26th

    Not bad…

    some old stuff some new stuff and one great place now to ref all!!

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    joe June 27th

    i’m beginner………
    but all these thing makes me want to learn more
    thank’s alot

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    Liza June 28th

    Thanks for including me in your list (#42), loads of great tutorials here, especially the ones about mixing exposure.

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    DEV July 1st

    Nice collection of tuts

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    Centaurus July 2nd

    Oh, thanks for featuring my tutorial (#1)

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    amit July 4th

    Nice list, interesting design

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    Kate July 4th

    It’s disappointing that you included several retouching tutorials that include blurring the skin. Any retoucher worth their salt would never blur the skin.

    The colorization tutorial is awful. It’s never wise to begin a colorization without color being applied to the entire canvas. The end result was very artificial.

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    Lisa July 8th

    Thank you Danny for useful tips…..

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    Praji July 13th

    Xcellent Tips!
    Thnks dude…

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    Adam July 16th

    This is good stuff. Makes me want to sharpen up my photoshop skills.

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    Joefrey July 22nd

    Great collection…

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    Abby August 31st

    Great Collection Danny, Thanks for Sharing

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    biodun September 1st

    very nice one 4 someone like me!thanks.

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