How do you whiten teeth in your photographs? No, you don't need to pay a single cent out of your pocket to ask a dentist to correct the colour of your teeth and you take the photograph again. Now, you can do it yourself in Photoshop within 5 minutes! Yes, it is so easy to whiten your teeth in Photoshop. You do not have to be a professional digital designer to do this task.

The invention of Photoshop gives photographers a new way of creating creative photos. There are endless possibitites of what one can do to a piece of JPEG file. This tutorial will teach you how to bring some life back to a seeming uninteresting photography by giveing it a Hong Kong movie like effect !

Vignetting is an effect where edges of a photograph are dark in colour and appear to be block by something around the lens. It normally occurs if you taking a wide angle photograph.

In some situations, vignetting is undesired but in some special exceptions, having vignetting effect will add more artistic touch to the whole photograph. How to add vignetting effect to a photograph in Photoshop?

There are times where the subject of a photo is "outshined" by the distracting background and thus failed to bring out the feeling that the photographer meant to portray. To ensure a subject is really outstanding, the colour must be contrasting enough and the background must be blur enough to make the front subject really seems outstanding. With photoshop, you can literally bring any subject out to make viewers focus better on the intended effect.

I had helped to cover for an basketball competition organised by one of my close friend in NUS sometime back last year. There is this really interesting photo that captured the expression of this guy in "total despair" when trying to block his opponent shooting a basket.

There are several techniques in Photoshop that can be used to convert a full colour photograph into black and white. Typically, a Photoshop "newbie" like me in the past will just pull the saturation bar to the minimum to desaturate the colour or choose "Grayscale" in the image mode.. However this kind of conventional method, you tend to lose control over the details and contrast that you wish to preserve in the photo. You will end up with a photo that is flat and "normal".