This Airbrush and Touch-Up tutorial covers one of my favorite Photoshop tools; the Heal tool. We are about to demonstrate the power of the healing brush using a photo of an old cracked statue, but you can gain the same effect on a human face, covering spots, blemishes, lines and wrinkles.

Often under used, it is one of the most powerful tools available to you in Photoshop and has been getting better and better with every new Photoshop release. Not only is it extraordinarily powerful, its extremely simple to use (as you are about to find out).

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Another tutorial request, this time for an iPhone style icon!

This simple tutorial covers the basics of using Photoshop CS4 to create lighting effects to give your graphics depth and shine.

We’ll also show you how to use your new iPhone icon in your iPhone application project.

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This tutorial was requested by blog reader Matt – who wanted to create the effect of an exploding planet which didn’t look like a cartoon. We’ll show you how to go from a photo of some cracked ground, to a planetary fireball.

This tutorial will make use of Photoshop CS4’s clever polar coordinates tool, combined with a distortion technique explored over at tutorialwiz.com – but with our own tweaks here and there.

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The following Photoshop CS3 Tutorials describe some of my favourite techniques for creating and modifying both photos and graphics for web use. Whilst not all the tutorials require Photoshop CS3, having a CS version or above is recommended.

During the series the Photoshop CS3 Tutorials will cover; Touching up photos, Use of light and shadows, The wonders of the Burn, Dodge and Saturate Tools, Warping, Blending and Liquefying. Along the way i hope you will pick up some useful ideas to help inspire your own Photoshop CS3 creations!

If you have a tutorial that you would like to share, or that you wish to feature on our blog, please get in touch.

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