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Generate Amazing Text FX
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Create AMAZING Text FX Online!

Generate your own amazing, photoshop quality text effects online! textfx.co

Using Adjustment Layers and Masking
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Using Adjustment Layers and Masking

This tutorial will teach you how to take advantage of adjustment layers in recent versions of Photoshop to enhance your photos with more precise control.

Add Focus And Interest To A Photo With A Light Source Cast From A Window
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Add Focus And Interest To A Photo With A Light Source Cast From A Window

Give an ordinary photo a more focused and dramatic look to it by creating a light source that appears to be shining through a window onto your main subject.

Adding Focus in Your Photo for the "WOW" facotr
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Adding Focus in Your Photo for the "WOW" facotr

Learn how to shift the limelight onto the main character in the Photo.

Screenshot Focus Points
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Screenshot Focus Points

In this tutorial I’m going to be teaching you how to create those screenshot focus points that are used on many blogs these days to make lists of sites less boring :) We’ll be blurring around our focal point, and then distorting the screenshot so it looks 3D-ish.

 Make Parts of an Image Stand Out by Changing Focus
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Make Parts of an Image Stand Out by Changing Focus

In this tutorial I will show you an easy way to take an image and make parts of it out of focus to bring the attention on another object in the image.

Combine Illustrator Patterns with Photoshop Masking
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Combine Illustrator Patterns with Photoshop Masking

Using both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop together can produce some original designs. I’ll go over a technique of creating a shape in Illustrator and then using it as a clipping mask in Photoshop, which is then partially hidden for a nice background effect.

Working With Photoshop CS3 Masking Tools
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Working With Photoshop CS3 Masking Tools

Shows you how to take a glass bottle and make it appear in a different photo by using Photoshop's masking tools.

Advanced masking and selections with photoshop
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Advanced masking and selections with photoshop

Advanced masking in photoshop video tutorial

Photoshop Masking Techniques
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Photoshop Masking Techniques

In this video tutorial you will learn about masking techniques, how to isolate, or how to extract or how to remove a background to produce creative compositions.

Create detail in noisy or unfocused images
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Create detail in noisy or unfocused images

This technique is pretty effective on noisy images or images with focus problems that you nevertheless want to print in high resolutions. It does two things: accentuate what edges are there, and increase detail, but both without increasing noise. Of course this is invented detail, but sometimes it does not matter what details you have, it suffices that there is detail at all.

Layer Masking
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Layer Masking

Instead of wasting countless hours cutting you can quickly mask the background of the image.

Applying a Soft Focus
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Applying a Soft Focus

Great for softening scenic photos as well as portraits, this quick and easy soft focus method will preserve more sharpness and give you more control than standard blur methods.

Create A Photo Within A Photo To Add Excitement And Bring Focus To Your Subject
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Create A Photo Within A Photo To Add Excitement And Bring Focus To Your Subject

Bring more focus and attention to the subject of your photo and add excitement to your image by creating the illusion of a photo within the same photo.

Repairing Missed Focus
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Repairing Missed Focus

This tutorial will help you get perfect focus on certain areas (eg. eyes) that you missed slightly when taking the original photo.

Add Focus With Light In Photoshop
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Add Focus With Light In Photoshop

Learn how to use light to bring focus to your images with Photoshop's Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.

Photoshop Masking & Montage Tutorial
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Photoshop Masking & Montage Tutorial

Learn about Photoshop's powerful masking and selection tools from an expert.

Adding Focus To An Image With Color
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Adding Focus To An Image With Color

Thanks to the power and flexibility of Photoshop's adjustment layers, we can easily bring more focus and attention to the main subject of an image using color, an effect that`s very popular with sports and wedding photography.

Focus Effect
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Focus Effect

In this tutorial we'll make a "focus effect". We'll use black gradient, sharpen filter and others to keep observer attention in one place.

Add Creative Focus To An Image With Lens Blur
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Add Creative Focus To An Image With Lens Blur

When it comes to adding blur effects to an image in Photoshop, most people yawn and think "Gaussian Blur filter". But spend a little time with Photoshop's much more powerful Lens Blur filter, along with its easy-to-create depth maps, and there's no limit to how many creative and imaginative uses you'll come up with for it!

Add Focus To Your Photo And Grab Attenion
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Add Focus To Your Photo And Grab Attenion

This video Photoshop tutorial will show you how to take a photo that has great potential and turn it into one that will stop people dead in their tracks and have them gazing at the photo.

Layer Masking in Photoshop
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Layer Masking in Photoshop

One of the tedious tasks you’ll often find yourself doing is cutting stuff out, putting them somewhere they don’t belong and making them fit in. And there are many ways of doing this. If you’re not using layer masks by now, than you should really read this.

Recreate A Soft Focus Lens Or Diffusion Filter Effect In Photoshop
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Recreate A Soft Focus Lens Or Diffusion Filter Effect In Photoshop

One of the great things about Photoshop is its ability to recreate many of the same effects we'd normally be able to achieve only with special camera lenses or filters. In this tutorial, we look at how to easily create the look of a photo taken with a soft focus lens or diffusion filter, and since we're doing it all in Photoshop, we have complete control over the final result!

How to Create Soft-Focus Fog Effect
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How to Create Soft-Focus Fog Effect

How to give a photo a soft-focus, foggy/smokey look.

Importance of Color Evaluation, The best for masking
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Importance of Color Evaluation, The best for masking

There are plenty of techniques for doing masking, some uses channels, color range, pen tool and lot of times for those who has a tablet they just paint it with their brush tool. For me I use free hand masking for those edges who needs additional details, I have here a perfect example of a photo which I bet you won't use your favorite pen tool or your free hand to pick the capsule. You can find the high resolution of this source in here, a forum on photoshoptalent.com

Beginner Masking: Change the Backdrop of Your Photo
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Beginner Masking: Change the Backdrop of Your Photo

This is an introduction to masking, a Photoshop tool that can make working on multiple layers really efficient. Allison will show you how to remove the backdrop from a photo and replace it with another. Great foundational tool for beginners.

Text out of focus
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Text out of focus

Learn how to easily camera-like-focus on a part of a text.

Adding a Reflection to an Eye and Changing Focus
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Adding a Reflection to an Eye and Changing Focus

This will be a really quick tutorial just showing you some basic techniques on how to add a reflection easily to an eye and also shifting focus to one eye or the other.

Selection tools and advanced masking
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Selection tools and advanced masking

learn about the different selection tools in Photoshop CS and Elements. Also contains an advanced masking technique.

How To Create a Soft Focus Photo Effect
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How To Create a Soft Focus Photo Effect

In this tutorial I will show you how to transform your photos into a glowing and dreamy looking photo in Photoshop.

Master Masking with Photoshop's Alpha Channels
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Master Masking with Photoshop's Alpha Channels

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel.

How to do Hyperfocal Distance Focusing in Photography
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How to do Hyperfocal Distance Focusing in Photography

In this article I am going to discuss the special focus condition called Hyperfocal Distance (HFD) and how you can employ it with today’s DSLR cameras to achieve the absolute greatest possible depth of field for any given situation.

Create a burlesque photo montage using pro-level masking skills
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Create a burlesque photo montage using pro-level masking skills

In this tutorial, Radim Malinic lets his imagination go for a wander, creating a unique image by blending a burlesque-style central figure with other exuberant, whimsical elements – including a dream catcher and a merry-go-round.

CS5 Masking Tricks The Perfect Cut Out
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CS5 Masking Tricks The Perfect Cut Out

Want to get that perfect cut out? If so, try your hand in this new tool in Photoshop CS5, Masking. This tool will provide you with everything you need to put in place a perfect cut out.

Image Masking Tutorial
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Image Masking Tutorial

There are several ways to mask an image in Photoshop. Let me show you some. .

Create Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns
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Create Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can Create this Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns. Some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!

Learn The Basics of Color Focus Editing in Photoshop CS5
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Learn The Basics of Color Focus Editing in Photoshop CS5

In This tutorial we will learn the basics of “color focus editing” or selective color, the post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color to draw the viewer’s eye.

What is a Fixed-Focus Lens in Photography
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What is a Fixed-Focus Lens in Photography

Fixed-focus lenses are not the same thing as auto-focus lenses. The automatic mechanism of an auto-focus lens still must adjust the lens to achieve maximum sharpness. A fixed-focus lens, on the other hand, never needs to be adjusted to deliver sharp images.

Advanced masking method
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Advanced masking method

In this tutorial we will learn a powerful technique to create advanced masking; Calculations. With this technique you will be able to mask even the most complicated images like the hair of a model

Creating Focus on the Photo
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Creating Focus on the Photo

In this tutorial I will show you how to create the focus on individual items on a photo. Usually, this effect can be done with a photo camera. But what if the focus needs to be done already on the finished photo?

Advance masking part 2
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Advance masking part 2

This is a great a technique to mask and extract hair from the most complicated images. For this second part we will work with a blond model.

How to Use Layer Masking in Photoshop
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How to Use Layer Masking in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to use layer masking in Photoshop in order to store selections and save transparency. Layer masking can be useful in many situations.

Master seamless layer masking
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Master seamless layer masking

Give your surreal and fantasy images extra pop using advanced compositing techniques, layer masking and custom brushes.

Quick-Masking Soft Light Leaks on Photographs in Photoshop
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Quick-Masking Soft Light Leaks on Photographs in Photoshop

This is a tutorial on how to recreate light leaks on photographs similarly to the those found on film photos that have been exposed to light via a crack or gap in the case. It is not as sharp and defined as most light leaks, as a softer finish is more appealing in this case.

Create Leafy Text Effect Using Brush and Masking Techniques
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Create Leafy Text Effect Using Brush and Masking Techniques

Use this tutorial to create a “leafy” text effect utilizing custom brushes and masking. The techniques that you will learn could be used in many different ways with a variety of objects.

Create Amazingly Sharp Photos with Focus Stacking
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Create Amazingly Sharp Photos with Focus Stacking

Photography and photoshop tutorial video. Step by Step lighting set up for Jewelry shot using focus bracketing. Focus stocking technique in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Sharpen Focus with Photoshop's Auto-Blend
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Sharpen Focus with Photoshop's Auto-Blend

Learn how to easily merge the areas of sharpest focus from several stacked images into one final composite using Photoshop CS4 or CS5.

How To Create a 3D Sphere With Reflection Using Layer Masking in Photoshop
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How To Create a 3D Sphere With Reflection Using Layer Masking in Photoshop

Add depth to your artwork by learning these simple layer masking tricks. Create those realistic reflections that can be used in any application.

Masking Easily With Photoshop
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Masking Easily With Photoshop

Today, I am going to teach you how you can mask complicated images.

How To Apply a Soft Focus and Glow Effect in Photoshop
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How To Apply a Soft Focus and Glow Effect in Photoshop

This photoshop tutorial will show you how to add a subtle soft focus and glow effect to any photo which helps it "pop" out and gives it a little extra interest to grab attention from viewers.