PhotoGuides

Today I’m very excited to announce the launch of the PhotoGuides Forum. It’s an addition that I’m hoping will revolutionise PhotoGuides, but we need your help to make it work!

In Apple’s recent iCloud and iOS5 keynote, a vast array of brushed aluminium style icons were used. In this tutorial we learn how to create an incredible iCloud style aluminium icon in just a few minutes.

A portrait itself can be nice, and good looking. But if you like taking photos of people, I’m sure you have experienced the boring light which sometimes appears. Fortunately, our dear friend Photoshop can help us making almost any portrait look better. You know, like the ones you see in magazines, where they claim L’oreal makes you look all better. If you have a boring portrait, or just want to make one more exciting, follow these 6 easy steps.

Today we are going to make a grainy black and white photo using adjusments filters, noise filters and much more. We will look at the difference between different adjustment filters like ‘black and white’ and the saturation adjustment. Which one will we use? Well lets find that out!

Most of us now use a handy little tool in Photoshop for correcting an stylising our photographs. But if you’re like me; you want your subject to pop, and actions sometimes seem to flatten the colors of your image especially of your subject. Hopefully this quick tip will help us all out.

Neons were invented by accident over 300 years ago when a scientist shook a test tube. It took another 200 years for the concept to be rediscovered, and they called their invention ‘The New Gas’, or, as it was known in Greek, ‘Neon’. In this tutorial we learn how to create an incredibly realistic neon using nothing but photoshop.

Adding a reflection is one of the simplest, nicest effects you can apply to an image. Better still, it only takes one or two minutes. In this PhotoShop Quick Tip we go over how to add a reflection to an image or graphic in just a few simple steps.

Lately LetterPress has become a real trend in web design. It’s stylish, very simple, and it’s third dimension allows it to catch the eye without being overpowering. It’s very easy too, and only takes a few minutes. Here’s how to apply the LetterPress typography effect in photoshop.

If you’ve ever seen the show Heroes then you’ll no doubt remember the stunning eclipse intro. It really is an incredible piece of design. In this tutorial, we learn how to recreate that solar eclipse image in a slightly retro style using nothing but photoshop.

In photography, bokeh is one of the most incredible implementations of Aperture. The shallow depth of field causes any light in the background to blur into a floating orb. In this tutorial, we go through how to create bokeh using Photoshop, with simply beautiful results.