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!

The picture above is a combination of two different images, proving that the sky is the limit when you Photoshop is given to the hands of very talented people. This tutorial goes through the steps needed to combine two photographs and create a new one, which by the way could looks extremely realistic, adding lighting and mood to a flat photography.

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Have you ever wondered how those shiny icons found in Mac OS are drawn? Well, wonder no more! This great article by PSDTuts shows you how to achieve a very realistic look in a couple of steps. The results are superb, go there and check yourself.

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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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