Here Bob (“The Miz”) shows us how easy it is with just a few steps to remove color cast issues that might have happened in your images.  Make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel for more step-by-step, easy-to-follow Photoshop video tutorials!

Have you ever taken a photograph of someone near a brightly colored wall, object, or in a certain environment; only to realize there has been a terrible colorcast on the subject?  This happens a lot.  The white balance isn’t always the issue, but more so what the light is reflecting off of.  Taking photographs of someone in the grass on a sunny day can many times make them have a slight greenish hue in their skin tones. Using some simple color range selections, and curves adjustment techniques, you can easily remove color cast issues using this simple technique that Bob Mizerek demonstrates in this video tutorial.

Want to learn how to crate and use actions in Adobe Photoshop?  Maybe you’ve heard about it, or tried it in the past, only to find yourself getting stuck or held up at a certain point?  This tutorial is for you.  It will walk you through the basics of how to record an action and then how to use it in your post processing workflow.  Tutorial by the one and only Bob Mizerek.

Cross processing is a technique where you either have the same image, shot on a tripod, captured with multiple exposures. Or, cross-processing can also be done by creating mutltiple exposure levels in post, using an original RAW file.  Here, Bob Mizerek gives us a peek inside his personal workflow to see how he took a landscape photo of a forest from dull to spectacular by cross-processing the image.

Here is a Photoshop tutorial by Bob Mizerek which shows you how to move layer masks; no matter which version of Photoshop you have.

This video tutorial shows you a few different ways in which you can select parts of your image for isolation using Adobe Photoshop.  Tutorial by the late Bob Mizerek.  Comment, share, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for many more tuts and creative goodness.

Selectively highlighting parts of your photographs is made easy, using the methods taught in this free quality Photoshop tutorial by Robert Mizerek.  Put it in HD mode, and watch it full screen.  The best part about this method, is because it gives you the freedom to selectively accentuate certain parts of your image.  Less is more, many times.  Comment / share / subscribe to our youtube channel for more.

Here Bob takes a nature / landscape photograph and shows us how to really bring it to life even further using Adobe Photoshop.

Have you ever wondered how you can make someone or some thing look like it is melting or bursting into pieces in Photoshop?  Another way to describe it is dispersion techniques or fragmentation.  Here is a tutorial I found of basketball player melting or being liquified by Doucin Pierre that will walk you through it step by step.

All you ever needed to know about the quick selection tool in adobe photoshop – here is an easy tutorial to help you figure out how to handle it.  Making selections is one of the most important skills to master in Photoshop.  This is just one method for quick selections that you might find a good use for, depending on the image or graphic you’re working with.  I find it’s sometimes a nice alternative to the magic wand or magnetic lasso tools.  Watch it in 720 HD at full screen, and have fun listening to me babbling like I just drank 5 coffees (maybe I had; I can’t remember).

Don’t forget that with cropping, you will be losing some resolution.  If you shot the original image at 6 or 8 megapixel, you don’t want to crop too much if you intend on printing the image at a larger size.  If you’re shooting a larger megapixel camera, in the 15+ megapixel range, then you will have a lot more freedom with cropping.  I find myself mostly cropping in the camera as I’m shooting, but that’s just me.  It’s not always possible to get the perfect composition in ever single photo that you end up loving (in post processing) so there are rare occasions when cropping in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom comes in handy.

Here is a Photoshop tutorial I recently made for OnlineWebMarket.net showing how to use the define pattern feature in order to create seamless textures and seamlessly tileable graphics.  I post a lot of tutorials narrated by other people, but this time the voice you’re hearing is my own. This is a quick demonstration on how easy it is to create a metallic mesh or grille texture that you can use as a background or a design element.  In just a few simple steps, you can use this easy to learn technique to create all sorts of backgrounds and backdrops.  Whether you need a fresh twitter background, a texture for your website, or even something high-resolution, this is a great technique to learn and know.

Cycling through blending modes can be a pain if you’re doing it one at a time with the mouse.  I quickly discovered clicking on the list, and then using the up and down arrows on the keyboard.  This method is even easier, using the shift and plus minus keyboard shortcuts.  Enjoy! I’ll have to remember to start breaking my old habits, and use this way myself.

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a simple selection using the lasso and magic wand tools in Adobe Photoshop. After making the selection, Bob shows how to clean it up with masking, using the quick mask mode. Later, the actual color of the gumdrop candy is actually adjusted in the hue / saturation dialog box. Yes, this is just one of many ways to adjust color of an object in a photo, selectively. If you get adventurous, try also playing around with “select color range” as an added selection option. The “replace color” feature is also a pretty valuable resource, when used properly. Each of these techniques can be done very wrong, if the details are overlooked. Be careful to watch surrounding color casts. If a green object is casting red, it’s just not going to look all that real.

Here is a simple to follow tutorial on how to use levels adjustments layers in Adobe Photoshop to change the lighting in a photo in post processing.  This photo of the trees in a forest is a great candidate for this technique.  Bob also shows how to work with basic selections and layer masks, in addition to the levels controls.  Another method taught here is how to apply a photo filter in Photoshop to warm up the tones of certain areas of the image.

I have been wanting to use some palm tree vectors in some of my designs and stock vectors.  Seeing that last summer I was able to visit the Caribbean to shoot stock photography, I have a lot of elements ready to go.  I’ve always been such a sucker for palm trees.  Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in New England my entire life.  The maple, pine, and oak trees are beautiful as well, but to me, coconut palm trees are probably my favorite.  I have a huge print of one on the wall in front of my desk, just about my monitor.  I like to stare at it and drift away sometimes… LOL

You really can use this technique with any type of shape or silhouette.  If you just want to employ this technique on a photo of a person or an object that is already isolated over a white background, then you can very easily do so.  Just darken the person with the levels and dodge/burn tools, if necessary.  Then, follow the same process we guided you through in the tutorial video.

Here is part 2 of 2 of the exploding bits and pieces Photoshop tutorial continued from yesterday’s post.  This is how you can make any object or selection fragmented into tiny shards or chunks and make them look like they’re bursting apart from the original object as tiny, separate pieces. Here the final touches are added, and you can see how to push this effect to even further realism using basic techniques. Tutorial by the late Bob Mizerek.

Ever wonder how to make something look like it’s exploding into bits and pieces in Photoshop?  This easy to follow video tutorial will walk you through this technique step by step.  Here is part 1 of 2.  Stay tuned for the second half of this cool method of making things look like they’re exploding, or breaking into tiny pieces.