Repost: Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching (Part 1)
Dirk Metzmacher created a great round-up of Photoshop tips for photo retouching. You can find it on the Smashing Magazine website which is a great resource — I recommend you check them out even if you don’t need any tips on Photoshop.
Here’s a preview of tip #4 of 17, “Color Look With An Adjustment Layer”:
In this first part of a two-part series, Dirk covers:
- Naturally Increased Light
- Simulate Infrared Images
- Levels
- Color Look With An Adjustment Layer
- Controlling Mid-Tone Contrasts
- Sunset
- Creating Smiles
- Colorful Water Drops
- Skin Color
- Matching Skin Tones
- Reducing Noise
- Retro Look With Curves
- Identifying Layers
- Conserving Resources
- Classy Sepia Look
- Precise Positioning
- Applying Layer Styles Multiple Times
The second follow-up post will appear in a couple weeks. If I catch it, I’ll re-post on my blog as well.
Update March 25, 2011: The second part of the article has been posted.
If you have any Photoshop tips or blog posts to share, please share them in the comments.



