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Find out how to harness the power of masks to combine multiple photos into a single striking image. Pro photographer and retoucher Brad Anderson shares his best tricks.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: April-May 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5
Rating: Intermediate

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Want to add an extra dollop of character to your images? Nathan Duff shows you how to create a grungy, oversharpened effect for your photos.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: April-May 2012
Software: Adobe Lightroom 3
Rating: Basic

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We show you how to strip out a subject from one image and seamlessly transplant it into a new picture. Sounds easy? As any professional image retoucher will tell you it’s actually one of the toughest things to do well in Photoshop.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: April-May 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5
Rating: Advanced

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So you thought you had to be an accomplished illustrator to make your own comic book character? Not so! As we explain, all you need is a camera, some Photoshop know-how and a little imagination.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: February-March 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5
Rating: Advanced

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Don’t let a rainy day dampen your creativity. We show you how to add rich background textures to your images and recreate the look of old-school cross-processed film.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: February-March 2012
Software: Photoshop Elements 9
Rating: Intermediate

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If you want your black-and-white images to stand out you have to do the work in post production. In this step-by-step project, we show you how to selectively fine-tune your black-and-white conversions to create eye-catching images bursting with depth and drama. .

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: December 2011-January 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5
Rating: Advanced

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For the step-by-step instructions that accompany these images, grab a copy of the December 2011-January 2012 issue of digital photography + design.

There are plenty of things you can do to make a group portrait stand out. In this in-depth image-editing project we show you how to turn a rather flat looking group portrait into something special.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: December 2011-January 2012
Software: Photoshop CS5
Rating: Advanced

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Windows: The start image for this project is a .dng (RAW) file. To download a .dng file from this site, right-click the link and choose the "Save Link As..." option.
Mac OS X: The start image for this project is a .dng (RAW) file. To download a .dng file from this site, please use Firefox. (Safari currently does not work with .dng downloads.) To download in Firefox, simply click the link.

For the step-by-step instructions that accompany these images, grab a copy of the December 2011-January 2012 issue of digital photography + design.

Lensbaby lenses are well known for the wonderful effects they produce – ethereal images characterised by a mix of in-focus and blurred elements. In this tutorial, we show you how to mimic the Lensbaby effect in Photoshop.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue:December 2011-January 2012
Software: Photoshop Elements 9 and Photoshop CS5
Rating: Beginner

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The tilt-shift effect can make real cities look like toy towns. Originally the effect was produced in camera using expensive specialist tilt-shift lenses but these days it can be just as easily produced in post-production. Mark Galer shows you how to do it in Photoshop Elements.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: October-November 2011
Software: Photoshop Elements 9
Rating: Intermediate

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Not happy with the sky in that landscape you took the other day? In this project Mark Galer shows you how to swap it for something better.

Magazine: Digital Photography + Design
Issue: October-November 2011
Software: Photoshop Elements 9
Rating: Advanced

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