When thinking about changing colors of a picture, the first tool that comes to your mind is the Color Replacement Tool. However, it’s not the best option due to it’s destructive nature (it messes with the pixels directly) and lack of fine adjustments options. So, what can you do turn a red show into a blue one? Your best bet is to use layer blend modes do change the color of the objects, since you can have full control of the lighter and darker parts of the image.

This tutorial is going to show you exactly how to do that, so don’t wait any longer, check it out right now!

Separate the hair of a close-up picture from its background is one of the most difficult tasks in photo retouching, if you ever tried to to that you know what I’m talking about. Without the proper tools and techniques this simple task can take a huge amount of time, and drive you mad pretty quickly. In this tutorial you can learn how to effectively use the background eraser tool in order to easily select the hair and make it pop-up from the background.

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Isn’t fantastic to be able to use some brushes, combined with some layer overlays, and be able to apply some eyeshadow in the eyes of a pretty woman? Yes, that’s the magic of Photoshop, simple steps to achieve great results. Check-out this tutorial to learn the ins and outs or modern age virtual make-up!

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Removing the background of an image can be really challenging, specially if the contour of the foreground has lots of details. Unfortunately, this is one of the most common tasks performed everyday by every single Photoshop user around the world and can be extremely time consuming.

Luckily for us there are several smart techniques that help reducing the amount of time in this tasks, and one of them involves the use of channels to mask the background of an image, making the creation of a selection marquee a piece of cake. Basically, all you have to do is choose the channel with the higher contrast between the foreground and background and use it as the base of a new selection. Yes, it’s that easy! What are you waiting, go there and check the tutorial for the details.

Read Mask an image using channels.