There are so many Photoshop and GIMP tutorials on the net for photographers that its hard to keep track of the ones that you have added to your ‘Favourites’. I have put together a collection of these sites which in many cases have collections of their own, hopefully this will help you to keep all of these sites together!!
Always one of the best sites to find collections of tutorials (or galleries of great photo’s) is Smashing Magazine. They have a collection of 50 Photoshop tutorials for photographers which include;
- HDR-Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop
- How to Create Professional HDR Images
- Photoshop HDR tutorial
- Using the HDR Feature in Photoshop CS2/CS3
- How to Make Digital Photos Look like Lomo Photography
- Infrared Photo Effect in Photoshop
- Exposure blending tutorial
- Your photos, 300-style!
- How to Use Photoshop’s Lens Blur Tool for Tilt-Shift Fakery
- Tilt Shift Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes
- The Tilt-Shift Miniature Fake Technique
- Vignette 2.0
- Adding a Diffuse Glow to Your Images
- Improving Landscape Photographs
- Using Masks to Improve Landscape Images
- Color Correction, by the Numbers
- Color Correction Using Levels and Eyedroppers
- Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments
- Black and White Is the Key to Better Color
Another great article on Smashing Magazine in ’70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials’, featuring;
- Beautiful Skin
- Smooth skin
- Beauty Retouching
- Perfect Skin
- Dark skin – bright skin
- Changing Hair Color
- Removing Hair Roots
- Trimming weight
- Enhancing Iris Color
- Red Eye Tool
- Make eyelashes thicker
Hongkiat have a collection of over 30 tutorials which are more about manipulating photos rather than just ‘touching them up’. Different movie poster styles, light effects and using vectors are all covered in this collection.
Smashingapps are another site that often feature great collections of both tutorials and galleries etc. One such collection ‘50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects‘ covers, amongst others, these great tutorials;
- How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet
- Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble In Photoshop
- Remove Freckles
- Airbrushing – Natural Smooth Skin
- Retouch A Girl with Lighting Focus
- Enhance eyes and make them stand out in photoshop tutorial
- Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop
- Comprehensive Skin and Facial Enhancing
‘26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials‘ on Six Revisions is a great collection of tutorials which concentrate enhancing models in post processing, from skin to eyes and bust to hair, pretty much every art of the model is covered!
Basic Photo Retouching In GIMP covers many areas of the technique in one article.
Resource websites
- Smashing Magazine
- Smashingapps
- Luminous Landscapes
- Stuck In Customs (THE HDR tutorial)
- Smash & Peas
- PhotoTuts
- Abduzeedo
Resource ‘Tweeters’
Check out these lists of photographers on Twitter for inspiration;
- Twitter Fan Wiki
- Photocritic
- VirtualPhotographyStudio
- GeoffLinvingston
- thewindypixel
- tomtveitan
- WahliaoDotCom
- Donald Cameron
- Stevo
- Ron Dubin
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