In this Photoshop series I will be providing tutorials on how to perform a complete digital makeover. This makeover will include the whole body and will be digitally enhancing various parts of the body. The techniques involved in this series will be fairly straight forward even if you have no knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. Please remember to subscribe for the latest digital series.

Airbrushing skin technique - Airbrush skin to make it look smooth and healthy with no wrinkles.
Remove red eyes from image – Learn how to use remove the red eyes from an image using the red eye tool.
Change eye colour – Transform the colour of your eyes in three simple steps.
Add lip gloss – Give your lips some extra shine with this tutorial.
Multicoloured iris – Instead of having on eye colour, why not have multicoloured iris.
Create an incredible Hulk look – Why not look like the incredible hulk with some nice green skin.

In this tutorial you will learn how to perform partial desaturating to an image. This means some parts of the image will remain black and white and other part will be in colour. You will need to use the quick mask tool for this tutorial, but you can also use the pen tool if you wish.


Partial Desaturate

Step 1

Open an image in Photoshop and duplicate the background layer (Ctrl + J). Then reset the colour palette by pressing the ‘D’ key.

Step 2

Select the Quick mask tool and hit the ‘Q’ key on the keyboard to enter quick mask mode. Now paint over the areas of the image where you don’t want the black and white effect to appear. Note that this is the opposite way around. If you make a mistake you can use the eraser tool.



Step 3

Exit Quick mask mode by selecting the ‘Q’ key again. Then choose Select > Inverse and your image should look like below:



Step 4

Now select Image > Adjustment > Desaturate and deselect the selection (Ctrl + D) and your image should look like below.

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create an analogue TV effect on an image. This effect will give blurry horizontal lines on your image. I have used a free stock image of a living room for this tutorial. A huge list of free stock image can be found here.


Analogue TV effect

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop and duplicate the background layer by pressing Ctrl + J on the keyboard.




Step 2

Select Filter> Sketch> Halftone and add the following settings. I have set the size to 1, the contrast to 12, and the pattern type to line.




Step 3

Add a motion blur to your image by selecting Filter > Blur > Motion Blur then apply the following settings. You may change the distance depending on the size of your image.




Step 4

To return colour to your image, you need to change the blending option of the layer. Now change the blending option to ‘Soft Light’.



You should now have a Analogue TV effect.

This is part 14 of the Photoshop quick tip series where you will learn how to fix a common problem with the crosshair.

If you have any Photoshop tool currently selected and the ‘Caps Lock’ turned on. You will receive the following crosshair as shown below. This crosshair feature is extremely annoying and many users have complained that they can’t get rid of the crosshair, even from the preference menu on the tool bar.

This problem is fixed by simply turning off ‘Caps Lock’ on the keyboard. If you ever need to use the caps lock remember to turn it off afterwards, or you will not be able to use any of the tools.

I previous wrote a post on free wood texture. Today I will provide a collection of four cloud textures which are available to download for free. These textures can be used for adding clouds to your Photoshop files. To download the images, simply right click and select ‘Save As’,

This is part 13 from the Photoshop quick tip series and in this quick tip you will learn how to quickly select the hex colour codes in Photoshop.

Normally if you want to find out the hex colour code in Photoshop you would have to select the eye dropper tool, then open up the colour picker panel and copy the code as show below.



However, there is a much quicker method of finding the hex colour code. Firstly, you need to have the eye dropper tool selected. Then you click to choose the colour you want, and then right click and select ‘copy colour as html’. This will copy the select the colour into a hexadecimal value.

This is part 12 of the Photoshop quick tip series where you will learn how to quickly cycle through the blend modes on the layers panel.

The blend modes on the Layers panel can normally be changed by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting an individual blend mode. Below is an example of where the blend modes are located.

There is a quick method of cycling through the different blend modes using keyboard shortcuts. By holding down the Shift key, you then either select the + (plus) or the – (minus) key to change to a different blend mode.

Note that if your blending mode is highlighted as shown below. You will not be able to use the shortcut keys. To remove the highlighted blend mode, you simply click any where on the Photoshop background.