This is a very detailed tutorial covering RAW conversions, color treatment, advanced editing and color work. If you are looking to add subtle or great effects to your image, this is a great lesson for you. We also cover some great clone stamp techniques applicable on any image.

This tutorial covers everything you need to retouch a portrait. Often clients will want an image retouched to represent the best side of the subject. If you are not doing it yourself, you may have to pay someone to do it. That gets really expensive..Save time and money by learning retouch for yourself.

Your senses aren't just a part of you—they define you. Nothing that you experience in your life, from the most important to the most mundane, would be possible without the intricate power of your senses. But how much about them do you really know? Your ability to sense and perceive the world around you is so richly detailed and accurate as to be miraculous. No other animal, no expertly designed supercomputer—nothing in the entire universe of scientific exploration can even come close to matching the ability of your brain to use information sensed by your eyes, ears, skin, tongue, and nose to produce a rich sensory experience in a matter of milliseconds.

If you have ever needed to cut someone out of their background and place them onto a new one, this tutorial is perfect for you. We cover very advanced techniques for cutting objects out, and creating amazing layer masks. We also go over some special techniques for matching color. In this advanced Photoshop Tutorial, we cover how to cut someone out of their bakground, reposition them, add body parts, blend them back into their background, and remove all distractions while we are at it, including an entire full length window. If that doesn’t sound awesome to you, chances are you have never tried to make someone float in a photo. You are going to learn about balancing a person’s pose to make them seem more natural, and how to transform the background to allow the person to interact with it.

Learn how to light an image, remove clothing, blend skin into objects, add light sources, retouch skin and more. You will learn some great techniques on how to blend objects together, while keeping detail, and adding realistic transitions. Lighting an image is often just as important to a concept as the photoshop surrounding it. In this PRO Photoshop Tutorial, we cover all of the lighting used to make this photo, and where everything was placed. We even cover using a ring flash, and how to use it properly so it doesn’t become overwhelming in an image.

There are some secrets to making a composite perfect, and that is what this photoshop tutorial is all about. We go over every detail on how to take an image that was shot in a studio and put it in a new background seamlessly. You will learn an amazing technique developed specifically for this tutorial on sizing your subject perfectly every time.

In this extended tutorial, we cover everything from lighting, lens usage, cutting things out from their backgrounds, adding light & color, working with shadows and highlights, skin retouching, great depth into the pen tool, composing an image & More.

In this course, photographer and educator Erin Manning shows beginning photographers how to appreciate and work with natural light. First Erin takes a look at the qualities of light, from softness to direction to color, and details the camera settings that help you get the most out of the scene's available light. Then Erin works together with a student to shoot a natural-light portrait, employing inexpensive accessories such as reflectors along the way.

Join author Jon Peck as he demonstrates new functionality in PHP 5.5, including generators, the try-catch-finally execution model, and a brand-new password hashing API. A number of existing behaviors, such as the foreach() and empty() functions, have also been updated, and Jon explores what changed and how it can be used. Throughout this course, you'll learn to add new functionality to a simple deck of cards class using these new and updated features, and how to use them for the basis of your own project.

Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects.