In this video tutorial, I will show you some techniques I use for general fixes on my images. Firstly, we are going to create a new “retouch” & “help” layer. We will then run through our help layer and point out all the areas that we want to retouch. We will select the Liquifying tool and [...]

In this, the  last, tutorial in the hair retouching series, we are going to apply two more effects to our layers. We are  going to tweak the highlight and shadow areas to bring more “pop” into our hair. Then we will we create two new gray layers, alter them and use them for our “dodge” and “burn” techniques! [...]

In this video tutorial, we you are going continue with retouching and cleaning the hair. Incase you’ve missed the previous installments, please see “Hair Retouching Techniques part 1 & part 2“. We will create a new layer via a master shortcut and start healing and cloning again in new areas! Once we are done with that, [...]

This is part 2 of our “hair retouching” mini series. In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to fix and clean up the hair. In this video tutorial, I will show you another step. I’ll be using a copy and paste technique, moving layer positions and then fixing the rest with the Healing and Cloning tools. [...]

In today’s video tutorial, I will show you the techniques I use when doing basic hair retouching. I will create two layers, rename & group them into a group called HC (Healing & Cloning layer).  I’ll select the Cloning tool and before I start cloning, I’ll adjust the tool with a small trick. Afterwards I’ll switch [...]

In this, the final tutorial in the Photoshop Basics series, I’ll demonstrate the workings of the Foreground Colour Setter and the tool which I consider to be the most important, the Masking tool. I will select my brush and roughly paint on my original layer, change my foreground colors through the color setter and continue painting with [...]

In this video tutorial I’ll discuss the Shape tool, Hand tool, Rotate view tool and Zoom tool . Very important: If you do not know how to work with the pen tool, please watch Photoshop basics & tools part 8, because the Shape & Pen tool work together. I will show you how to create different [...]

In this video tutorial, I will show you how to work with the Pen tool and also all the other features around the Pen tool. Once you’ve set a new anchor point, drag your line ” Path ” into the desired direction. Once I’ve placed my anchor points, I will go to the Direct Selection tool [...]

Please note: This video tutorial requires no advanced photoshop skills and only shows Basics & Tools. In today’s video tutorial I will quickly introduce the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools. Please note: The Blur & Sharpen tools are not the ideal tools to create a blur or sharpen effect. Rather use the Sharpen or Blur [...]

In this tutorial, I will show you how to work with the Eraser tool and how I adjust my Eraser size with a shortcut. The Eraser tool has almost the same functions as the Brush tool, which I covered in this post. I will discuss the Gradient tool and show you a few techniques to [...]

In this video tutorial I’ll run through the Clone stamp & Pattern stamp tool. We will also discuss the History brush & Art History brush tool. I will discuss some basic points after which I’ll create a new layer and some pimples on the model. I’ll merge the layer and then use the Clone stamp [...]

This video tutorial is the fourth part of Photoshop Basics & Tools. I will show you how to remove some red eyes with the red-eye removal tool. I will also run through the Brush tool & Pencil tool setups, as well as the Brush presets and the Brush panel setup. Then, I will show you a website [...]