Drop Shadowing

Using a drop shadow or transforming a copied of the layer into a shadow will help this image to create depth.

Lens flare

Lens flare creates a light source to the image. you can add a lens flare by making a separate layer and add the lens flare, to get rid of the black is to use the screen blending mode.

Blending Modes: Opacity

The opacity mode lets the image under another image to show. the opacity and be change to both images to give it a fading effect.

Blending Modes

There are three main types of blending in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Screen, multiply, and overlay. these three blending modes all have different types of functions. They All ignore a type of color that goes in this order, black, white, and grey. When the color is ignored, it will slightly or fully blend in the background of the photo.

UpSharp Mask

I selected smart filter, then I added the UnSharp adjustment. The adjustment brightened the watch's details to show more crisp and clear.

IR/Noise Effects

I used Black and white adjustments, and then I smart filtered the image and added the noise filter. then i adjusted the opacity and overlayed the filter to the image.

The Lasso Tool Transpose

The Free hand lasso tool can be used for many things. its for a loose selection, it is very hard to use for a defined selection. You have to start at a point and drag it out. Deselection is by pressing the esc button. there are many different types of lasso tools. There are of course, the lasso tool, the polygonal lasso tool, and the magnetic lasso tool. the polygonal is used for a defined selection. and the magnetic lasso tool helps the user to select something the user wants to select. 

Gaussian Blur Technique

I used the smart filter, then I added the gaussian blur to give the image alittle much punch.

Smart Filter

I added three filters, and edited the opacity of each of them. I gave the image a little bit of an artistic look to it, like someone has painted it.

Gradient Mask

The Beach

I added a slight green filter to bring out the vegetation in this image.

Telescope and bench

I was able to use the same contrast and hue/saturation for both images in a quick and easy way.

Ladybug Adjustments

I adjusted the image and reveal only the colors of the ladybug.

The five skin colors

The avengers in their real skin colors.

YMCA

I tried to make the mannequin spell out ymca.. i tried... 

Color Schemes

Blank Face

I Took the eye from Nicolas Cage, nose from Voldemort, and mouth from Will Ferrell too create this sexy beast.