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Creative Photo Manipulation and Special Effects

Techniques for changing, manipulating and blending photos in Adobe Photoshop. Includes tutorials for combining images, creating collages, adding artistic and painterly effects to photos and pictures, removing an object from its background, cloning, reproducing photographic effects, colorizing, and more.
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Create a Magnified Cutaway Detail View in Photoshop

How to create a magnified detail cutaway view in Photoshop. Use this technique when you want to show more detail in a specific area of an image.

Turning Pictures into a Coloring Book with Photoshop

[Video Tutorial] How to turn digital pictures into a coloring book using Adobe Photoshop.

Creating 3D Anaglyphs in Photoshop

A 3D anaglyph image will appear three-dimensional when viewed through red/blue lenses. Here is a reader-submitted technique for creating 3D anaglyphs in Photoshop 5.5. The tutorial should be compatible with later versions of Photoshop as well.

Add a Watermark to a Photo

Protect your photos and images by adding a translucent copyright watermark over them to identify them as your own work. This technique does not require you to render the layer, so your text remains editable.

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