Photoshop Techniques and Tutorials

Here's a compilation of links to Photoshop tutorials and articles which I've personally found immensely instructive and helpful. You might also like to click here to check for available deals and prices for Adobe Photoshop and related books and products.

Brendan's Photoshop Tips

• An introduction to adjustment layers
• Various techniques for performing black-and-white conversion
• How to perform selective desaturation
• Which Photoshop brushes to use, and why

Creating the Lomo Effect

• Enjoy this series of pictures which demonstrates the use of postprocessing to create the Lomo effect
• Head directly to this well-written Lomo tutorial and then try it out for yourself
• Here's an alternative method as documented in this Flickr discussion
• And even a script that automates the Lomo process for you

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Blending

HDR blending allows you to postprocess two or more images with different exposure values in order to address the problem of capturing a scene with a high dynamic range.

• I like the explanation of HDR concepts in this blog post (I visited Venice in 2002 - it's a fantastic place!). There's a reference in there to a software called Photomatix which assists in automating the process of HDR blending - comes with a 30-day free trial.
• Read this HDR Blend tutorial by Roman Johnston. You might also like to read the related forum thread here.

Free Photoshop Scripts, Plugins and Actions

• Click here to read Joe Colson's forum post where he shows examples of his PrintEXIF and GalleryFrame scripts, and then follow the links to the download section on his site.