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If you want to connect with friends or meet new people on Facebook, you should look best on your profile picture because it is the first thing people will look at.

Professional photographers use special lenses to create soft focus effect on portraits. Soft Focus is an important effect in photography. It is commonly used in glamour shots and to some extent in wedding photography as well.

The good news is that you don’t have to go to a professional photographer (or a cosmetic surgeon  ) and spend a lot of money for your profile picture. Now you can pick any photo of yours and easily turn it into a marvelous (oh yeah!) profile picture.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to improve your Facebook profile picture using diffuse glow effect in Photoshop. This is pretty simple to do. Just follow the 7 simple steps.

Before and After processing

Step 1. Open your image.

I used a photo of Angel Locsin for this tutorial. Angel is a Filipina television and film actress and commercial model (courtesy of pinoyexchange.com).

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With Photoshop, amazing photo manipulation is possible. Hence, there is no doubt that photo manipulation is very useful and requires a lot of imagination, creativity, precision, and skill.

Photo manipulation is one of the best ways for you to begin using Photoshop, as it exposes you to a wide variety of techniques.

In this post I’ll feature 12 useful tutorials for creating your own photo manipulation. The tutorials shown here will help you gain knowledge/techniques in creating interesting artworks in Photoshop.

1. The Art of Photo Manipulation. Techniques and Examples

2. Color Correcting Photographs Using the Curves Adjustment

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By default, CorelDraw’s Powerclip is auto-center. This means that when you powerclip an object , it will automatically shift to the center of the main object (container). This setting requires you to manually shift the position of the power clipped object (content) to the desired location by editing the content of the power clip.

To avoid this (and so save time), we have to change the default setting that controls the powerclip.

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I have compiled 12 useful  Adobe Illustrator tutorials that can be a great source of inspiration when you are  trying to design a  project or just want to enhance your skills in `vector art.`

Okay, let`s try them one by one.

1. Create retro graphics in Illustrator

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We are now in the modern age but people still long for the touch of something old.

Old photograph always gives us that sense of history and all the great memories that come along with it.

With the use of photoshop we can experiment on adding some filters, make the right adjustments and end up with an interesting final output.

This tutorial from aceinfowayindia.com will teach you to create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop.

original photo

final output

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