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Gradient Map Click on the first color patch below the gradient, and change the color to red. Set the color patch on the opposite ...

Observe the movement from a blue to a golden sunset. ...

Creating Smiles Roughly select the area around the mouth with the Polygon Lasso tool. Go to Select → Modify → Feather, and enter ...

the corners of the mouth. Add more pins to distinctive spots of the mouth. By clicking and dragging the mesh, you can shape a ni ...

Set the blend mode to Color, the opacity to 50%, the gradient to “Foreground to background color” and the angle to 90%. The grad ...

Adjustment Layer: Hue/Saturation Using white color and a soft brush, paint over the skin areas so that only they get treated. Fo ...

Optimized skin tones Matching Skin Tones A sunburn or a blush can disrupt a portrait, especially if there is a contrasting pale ...

pixels. Use the Control/Command + J shortcut to copy the selection to a new layer. Adjustments: Match Color ...

Using the same technique, copy the non-reddened skin to a new layer. In the next step, you’ll have to differentiate between the ...

Paler skin after Match Color ...

Reducing Noise Noisy images are annoying. One way to reduce noise is through the channels. Copy the background layer by pressing ...

Click on the Layer Miniature icon, and select Filter → Blur → Surface Blur from the menu. Play around with the Radius and Thresh ...

Retro Look With Curves Go to Layer → New Adjustment Layer → Curves and switch from RGB to Reds. Then drag the line downwards a l ...

Create a new layer with Shift + Control/Command + N, and fill it with 000066 (RGB 0, 0, 102). Set the blending mode to “Exclusio ...

Achieve a simple retro look in a few steps. ...

Identifying Layers If you’re ambitious with your collages, then you’ll be familiar with this problem: meaningful layer names are ...

Control/Command + left-click with the Move tool selected and, in most cases, you’ll select the corresponding layer of the elemen ...

Layers Palette options ...

Conserving Resources Plug-ins save time, but they’re a bit resource-hungry; at least, they lengthen Photoshop’s start-up time. Y ...

start up quickly. Your RAM will be relieved. Because you neither deleted nor uninstalled the plug-ins, they’re available to use ...