Did you ever scan a photo or some film negatives on a flatbed or film scanner, only to realize that the image is covered in pieces of dust, pet hair, or lint?  Or maybe you photographed a closeup of an object only to find a bunch of obvious dust or scratches that were not very noticeable to the eye beforehand?  This Photoshop tutorial by the late Bob Mizerek will show you how to Photoshop out dust and scratches in a jiffy using this simple technique.

While the standard dust and scratches removal feature in Photoshop may be enough, you might find that many times that it takes away too much quality from the original image.  Using Bob’s method (as seen in the youtube video above) you will learn that dust removal can be a lot more selective using layers and masking; therefore preserving the important parts of the image, and all of its important details.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

This is a short video tutorial by The Miz on how you can very easily set up a rule of thirds grid for your designs and images in Photoshop.  Composition is important in effective imagery, and this grid will definitely help you in both your design work layouts, as well as in your photo cropping in post-production.  The newer versions of Photoshop also have a “rule of thirds” grid automatically when you select the entire canvas using the crop tool.

Unfortunately the weather and time of day have a lot to do with how your outdoor photos are going to come out.  Landscapes are something I find incredibly challenging, just because of the lack of control you have over all these elements.  When you go on a trip, on vacation, or wherever you are at the moment, you pretty much are at the mercy of nature.  There are certain educated guesses you can make by planning what time of day you might shoot according to the direction of the sun, and it’s height in the sky, but when the clouds or fog start to roll in it’s an entirely different story.  Here is a Photoshop video tutorial by our good buddy Bob that shows how you can repair these types of hazy images in post processing.  Using lab color mode, and later switching back to rgb, you can maintain control of adding too much extra artifacting.  Here we learn how to use the curves on the lightness channel, as well as on a, and b by moving the little points around.  I have to be honest, this stuff was greek to me until I watched the video.  It ended up being a very simple and to the point technique which I find myself using more and more in my daily workflow.  The beauty of Photoshop as I always say, is that there are so many roads to the same outcome, so sit back and enjoy this one.  I’m sure you’re going to find it very useful to remove haze, increase saturation and mid to low level contast.  The results might actually impress you; a lot. They did for me, on an image that I just processed of Flamenco beach.

Here Bob explains how to creatively use exposure adjustment layers to add highlights and subtle lighting effects to your photos.  This feature was originally implemented in the CS3 version of Adobe Photoshop.  Amazingly what he describes as “subtlety” here makes an incredible improvement over the original image.  If you enjoy this tutorial, click the tutorials category to the right of this post for more creative digital goodness.

In this Photoshop video tutorial Bob “The Miz” Mizerek shows how we can replace skies and clouds in our photos quickly and easily.  There are a lot of methods to doing this, as I have posted earlier.  That is the beauty of post processing – it’s similar to programming or web development, where there are 100 ways of doing anything.  You just need to stick to what works best for you.  It still never hurts to pick up a few pointers on how to do something a different way, because you never know; you might just find the new way faster or easier.  This video shows how to use the “blend if” or the blending if option.