Editing your pictures

Photo editing for dummies :

There are some easy to operate and FREE picture editing programs for beginners. The one I was using the most and was doing a great job, when I had windows XP was the plain and simple Windows picture manager. It has all the options that you need to enhance your digital shots that you download from your camera for a WOW effect. First I adjust brightness/contrast/midtones, than saturate with hue/saturation. If there are red eyes you can fix that too. Crop the pic for better effect etc etc.

Dodging and Burning in Photoshop and How It Can Enhance Your Photos

still FREE but advanced like http://www.gimp.org/ or the ArcSoft Photo studio, and Panorama Maker that are included in the installation cd whenever you buy a Canon product.

Learning Photoshop :

Understanding the Difference Between Photoshop and Lightroom

Ten Go-to Editing Tips for Using Photoshop

A Beginners Introduction to Using Layers
An Introduction to Photoshop Compositing for Beginners

Photoshop Curves Tool: 6 techniques every photographer must know

how to use Curves more creatively

Exposure vs. Brightness vs. Fill Light

Practical White Balance and Why You Should Learn It!

Vibrance vs. Saturation in Plain English

How to Make It as a Professional Retoucher

10 Photoshop Tips and Tricks for Beginners

That’s a Photoshop! All photographers post process their work.

How to Use Photoshop Curves to Correct Exposure and Colour

How to use shadow highlight in Photoshop to get impressive results

How to Sharpen Non-destructively in Photoshop

http://www.lightstalking.com/post-processing-software-2

Photoshop is not for everyone. It is an advanced picture editing software and is VERY frustrating at the beginning. I was struggling with it for some time, and failed at every attempt. Good enough to make most people give up. That’s until I came accross some online step by step tutorials. So I started trying them out, sometimes it worked, sometimes not and I was still not understanding what was I doing. But the more you do , the easier it gets. So if you are stubborn enough, go for it! It will give you endless opportunites of editing your pics just like the pros.

A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Photoshop – Part One

20 tutorials on how to make basic adjustments in photoshop

Retouching portraits in photoshop :

Complete portrait retouch workflow

How the Photoshop Liquify Tool Can Be Used to Improve Your Portraits

Indoors Photo Rescue – How I did it

How to to create the Illusion of Depth of Field

Creating Depth Of Field With Filters and Masks

How to Achieve Porcelain Skin with Natural Airbrushing in Photoshop

dodging and burning

The Fast Way to Remove Dark Circles Under Eyes in Photoshop

Creating a Stunning High Pass, “Ill Effect” Portrait