Dominique Doktor - a New York Institute of Photography student adviser, shows a screencast highlighting a couple of different methods for applying vignette effects to add focus to an image using Adobe Photoshop;

In this tutorial we are going to show you how you can add a realistic fang to someone’s mouth easily.

Here are our before and after photos

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This Photoshop CS2 tutorial will show you how to rot people’s face, expose their skull and turn them into zombie.

Video tutorial is also available here

What you need:
+ A portrait of the victim. AKA, the zombie and a picture of a human skull. Ideally in the roughly the same pose as your portrait which can be found on Google images.

+ Download The “Pretty” free brush collection found here. Ideally you will need to grab “Pretty Cuts`n`cracks” & “Pretty Sore”
+ Download The “Veins” brushes here.
+ It would also be nice if you had the `tonemapping` plug-in by Photomatix. Not essential but handy.

Let’s get started!

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Learn how you can easily blend two exposures to get a higher dynamic range in your photos by using Photoshop

Learn how to process RAW images to bring out detail and texture.

This tutorial shows a quick and simple way to recreate a starburst filter effect in Photoshop

Great tutorial showing you how to create a light beam in Photoshop.

Issuu has How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3 ebook available on their site. This book is not just about Photoshop, it also has some tricks and little gems in regards to composition and to some extent building photographic elements from scratch. The book has 15 chapters easy to understand and fun-to-read info detailed with graphics and step by step instructions.

This cool video tutorial will show you the basic, natural coloring of black and white photos.

Tutorial by ShellBen

Learn how to add fairy or pixie wings to your children photographs with Photoshop