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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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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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This tutorial will show you how to convert a photo into a black and white with splashes of color using brush tool. This is a great technique for anyone who wants to add dynamic color effects and emphasize some part of a photograph.

I have here a photo taken from the recently concluded Bb. Pilipinas 2011 and our task is to highlight the newly crowned Binibining Pilipinas Universe Shamcey Supsup.

Here are the 5 easy steps:

1. Open a  photograph.

Newly crowned 2011 Bb. Pilipinas Universe Shamcey Supsup* (center). Photo courtesy of showbiznest.blogspot.com

* 2010 Architecture board topnotcher and magna cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman Shamcey Supsup, was crownednamed the 2011 Binibining Pilipinas Universe during the pageant coronation night on Sunday, April 10 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.

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My tutorial for today will teach you simple processing tricks on how to adjust the depth of field of a photo using Photoshop.

Depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image (wikipedia.org). To do this normally you would have to know what aperture to use on a camera.  But with this tutorial you can just artificially lower the depth of field in Photoshop.

Nonito Donaire, Jr., The Filipino Flash*

To do this, you need to:
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