Photoshop – Brighten Teeth

In this tutorial, we will brighten up the teeth by using the dodge tool and sponge tool.

I have my sample image below

 

Nifty Keyboards Tricks for Photoshop’s Transform tool

Here is some nifty keyboard tricks with Photoshop’s transform tool that you might like.

ctr + T to transform the layer.

ctr + shift + T, this allows you to use the last applied transformation keeping the layer proportionally scaled from the last transformed layer and also keeps the pixel information.

ctr + alt + T, allows you to transform and duplicate a layer in one action.

ctr + shift + alt + T, allows you to transform, duplicate and use the last applied transformation to the layer.

 

Making an Animated GIF Loop using Photoshop

On the upper most left panel choose File -> Save for Web & Devices or you can press ctrl + shift + alt + S. Then on the Animation panel, changed the looping options from “once”  to “forever”.

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Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color

Photoshop’s Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color are smart commands which changes every images slightly differently.

Enhance Per Channel Contrast(Auto Levels) – Automatically fixes the brightness/contrast. A lot of good brightness/contrast, and removes any color cast. This command affects the image in a channel by channel basis.  Make the darkest color black, while lightest color white.

Enhance Monochromatic Contrast(Auto Contrast) – Same with Auto Level which boost brightness/contrast and keeps the color cast. Instead of a channel by channel basis, Auto Contrast looks on the composite image or the RGB as a whole and makes the darkest composite color black and the lightest composite color white. As a result, it avoids changing the color cast of the image.

 

Effective use of Brightness/Contrast Adjustment

In the old days, using Brightness/Contrast can damage an image by clipping its shadows or highlights. Also turning on the legacy check box clips the shadows or highlights details.

The better way of using the Brightness/Contrast adjusment is to turn off the legacy check box, then add values to Brightness inversely proportion to the Contrast values and vise verse.

 

Color Graph

This pie graph below illustrates how colors are organized in the digital world.

 

Photoshop – Group Blend Mode

In this tutorial I will demonstrate the technique you can acquire using blend mode on a grouped layer.

The final output would look like this.