Home
photolesa.com
The creative tutorial home of image wrangler, Lesa Snider.

Step by step tutorials

Welcome to the home of the step by step creative online tutorial. Here you will find detailed, easy-to-understand steps accompanied by screen shots. These tutorials are liable to be about anything from my current project to something that drove me nuts trying to figure out. It is my hope that the things I can convey here will save you time and frustration.

If there's something that you'd like to see written up, please feel free to let me know

Super Sparkling Eyes

Oversharpening trick makes retouching eyes a snap

In most situations oversharpening is a very bad thing. However, when it comes to making eyes sparkle, it's just what ye ole doctor ordered. Today I'm going to show how oversharpening just the eyes can improve a portrait by galactic amounts. It can be done in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and literally takes about 5 minutes.

Take this shot of a pretty blonde girl and her guitar from iStockphoto.com. It's certainly a good photo, but wait till you see it after we make her eyes all bright and super sparkly.

scoreless-slow
Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss Livin' La Vida Levels
Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos Fall Digital Scrapbooking Fun, Part 1
Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2 Give Your Photos an Edge
How to design business cards in Photoshop Pick a New Picker
Lines of All Kinds Placing Text Behind an Object
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Using another photo to create texture for your type Gettin' Grungy With It
Learning to Love Levels How to instantly reverse color Fun with Adjustment Layers
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop Build a Custom Twitter Background in Photoshop
Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 1 Photo Spotlight
The secret to losing 5 pounds--digitally! The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1 Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Fire It Up! Polaroid in a Picture
Black and white photos with just a touch of color Partial Color Using the Minimum filter to fix edges Zapping Edge Haloes
Retouching People How to recreate the effect of a popular new lens Blurry Background a la Lensbabies
Zapping contrary color casts with Hue/Saturation Gettin' the Red Out The No-Name Photo Effect
Fall Leaf Photo Frame Classy Thumbnails
Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect How to add soft or hard round edges to your photo The Secret to Round Edges
Using the Brush tool to create grunge type Weathered Words The magic of the Background Eraser Tough Selections, Part 1
Photoshop CS2 Survival Guide Replacing Backgrounds with Photoshop's Background Eraser
How to turn friends and loved ones to stone (or a zombie--you pick) Simply Statues Burn baby burn!
How to add a page curl using Free Transform in Warp Mode Creative Curls Managing Photos with Bridge CS4, Part 2
Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles Painted Edges in Elements
Scanning Secrets Blur Baby Blur!
Getting "Smart" with GoLive Five Fast Photo Effects Photo Favorites
How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2 Retaining a photo's aspect ratio while cropping Zoom Crop

Pages