Photoshop Tutorials

In this Photoshop tutorial, I show how to use the History panel as well as the History Brush and Art History Brush tools. I also cover the fill with history command and various way to use the history panel and history brushes.

The ruler tool, note tool, and count tool in Photoshop are covered and explained in this introductory Photoshop tutorial.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I show how to create a custom noise gradient using the Gradient tool.

Learn how to use the gradient tool in Photoshop, part 1.

Learn how to use the blur tool, the sharpen tool, and the smudge tool in Photoshop.

In this introductory Photoshop tutorial, I show how to use the magic eraser tool, the background eraser tool, and the eraser tool.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I explain how to use a clipping mask effect in videos instead of just an image. The video shows through where the text is.

Hey everyone! Check out my new course, Edit Portrait Photos in Photoshop Like a Pro!

Here’s the course introduction:

Over 5 hours of cool techniques!

LEARN PORTRAIT PHOTO PHOTOSHOP EDITING FOR FUN OR PROFIT! Many of my university students have went on to become full-time wedding photographers or do portrait photography on the side for extra income. Learn the industry-standard portrait photo editing techniques today!

Please note that the price will be increasing from the introductory $29 to $49 on February 1st, 2015.

THIS IS LIKE 5 COURSES IN 1 ULTIMATE COURSE: Portrait Corrections, Portrait Retouching, RAW Retouching, Portrait Stylizing and Special Effects, and Advanced Black-and-White Conversions.

This is the course that can teach you everything you need to know to advance in portrait photography Photoshop editing, whether you’re a professional photographer looking to offer more services to clients and increase income, or a hobbyist looking to improve personal photos.

Ever wonder how portrait photographers have compelling portfolio photos? Or how magazine models look so flawless in those feature stories and covers? Or how that black-and-white photo jumps from the page with such detailed tonality and sharpness? Or how that couple’s wedding photos feature that “pop out of the frame” special effect?

In this course, I’ve included the essential techniques to succeed in portrait photography Photoshop editing, including

• Relevant color, lighting, and composition corrections
• Effective retouching techniques
• Stylistic adjustment techniques
• Improved black-and-white conversions
• Special effects and edits to offer as a bonus to your clients

These are methods you can use to improve your own photos for fun, or you can apply them to photos in your portfolio to attract more clients. Add excitement and interest to engagement photos, wedding photos, professional and executive photos, maternity photos, and all the other various categories of portrait photos.

This course will not just help you retouch photos that you’re already taking for a client. It also has the potential to help you land more customers, and add more photo enhancing services to your business.

Enrollment in this course includes access to hours of follow-along lectures where students “learn by doing.” Learn how to retouch photos in Photoshop!

Signing up for the course also includes

• Access to the discussion forums (for discussion and posting links to your portrait photos that you’ve been working on so fellow students and I can critique and give feedback!)
• Access to all future lectures that are added to this course (that may be a result of questions from the discussions forums) or new techniques related to portrait photography
• Discount coupons for other new courses that I launch
• Free support files to follow along in the lectures (most of the lectures feature the same photos available for download, but students are free to use their own photos of course)
• Besides over 5 hours of lectures, I also include quizzes to assess your learning, and some helpful handouts on file formats, color terminology, Photoshop keyboard shortcuts, and a portrait retouching checklist.

See my bio on this page for more of my educational and professional background.

Let’s get started learning and creating! Enroll now!

YouTube now allows animated GIFs for channel art! In this Photoshop tutorial, I show how to use multiple photos in a sequence to create an animated YouTube channel art, and I show how to use layer masking to create specifically a cinemagraph form of animated GIF.

Please watch Howard Pinsky’s tutorial first on using the Tween command if you want to move text or objects easily in an animated GIF.

Support files:
Howard Pinsky’s YouTube Channel header art template.

My support files for photo sequence

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In this introductory Photoshop tutorial, I show how to use the Content-Aware Move Tool.