15+ Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Effects

In this article, you’ll discover plenty of techniques that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques.

HDR Photo Effect

Create a pseudo-HDR image by reading through this popular Photoshop technique that uses basic Photoshop tools, options, and techniques such as adjusting Shadows/Highlight settings and changing layer Blending modes.

Soft Focus & Glow Effect

Do you want to change a plain and boring scene into a dreamy and surreal photo? If so – check out this wonderful technique on applying a soft focus and glow effect onto your photos using the Gaussian Blur filter and adjusting layer Blending modes.

High Pass Filter

In this straightforward image-editing technique, you will learn a quick technique for enhancing your images to give them a subtle HDR effect by using Photoshop’s handy High Pass filter and adjusting layer Blending modes.

Video Technique: Enhance Detail Using Correction

This technique will lead you through three common ways to apply local tone and color adjustments to your image.

Photoshop Technique: Wrinkle Reduction

In this guide you’ll find a proper explanation on how to retouch your photo.

Cross Processing

You can learn how to apply the Cross Processing film-developing technique digitally to your images by reading through this quick and educational tutorial that leverages the powers of the Curves tool in Photoshop.

Streams Of Dusty Light

This interesting Photoshop tarticle shows you how to add a surreal stream of light to make your photos truly unique and eye grabbing. The tutorial leans on the Radial Blur filter to create the streams of light.

Lomo Photography

Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect (also known as Lomography) that will apply a dreamy and surreal effect onto your images in this technique that uses a Levels Adjustment layer among other Photoshop techniques.

Removing Objects From Photos

Learn the basics of removing objects you don’t want to be seen in your photographs by following along in this Photoshop techhniques

Shining Neon Text Effect

Create a colorful neon text effect by using a Gradient Overlay and a few Layer Styles.

Wood Inlay Text

Using wood textures and some layer masks, you can create this “wooden inlay” effect.

Watercolor Text

Learn about the Brushes Palette to achieve a water-color painting effect.

Text In Stitches

This technique shows you how to create an stiched effect using a custom brush set.

The Sugar Bag Effect

Find out how to create this “Sugar Bag” effect using basic Layer Styles and selections.

Paint Effect

UBL Designes shows us how to accent text as though you splattered paint on it.

Spectacular Style Text Effect

Create a 3D text effect by duplicating layers and offsetting each layer.

Pimp your text

Can’t afford real bling-bling? Make some digital ones with this quick tutorial.