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Energize That Photo

 

Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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31 Comments

  1. Walter D. said on — October 5, 2008 @ 12:01 pm

    Great way to add exclitement to a photo. You are a genius as usual.

  2. cvision said on — October 5, 2008 @ 2:02 pm

    Impressive tip. Thank you for posting

  3. Justin said on — October 5, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

    Great tip!

  4. Wakkos said on — October 5, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

    It’s cool to see how you can use diferent tools to make same things -Layer Mask, Layer Blending, Stamp Tool- , gives you a nice idea on how extense Photoshop is.

    Great tips you guys have here!

  5. Mark said on — October 5, 2008 @ 5:18 pm

    This was great! I am now going to have to get into the options of every brush I use! Didn’t realise the scope that was there - thanks.

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  7. Márcio Guerra said on — October 6, 2008 @ 8:58 am

    YOU ARE GOOD, MAN… The question isn’t the tools, the question is WHAT YOU DO with the tools! Really good one. I had already enjoyed very much the horse one, and now, simply brilliant! Incredible!

    Thanks, and keep them coming!

    Márcio Guerra

  8. Jan said on — October 6, 2008 @ 10:10 am

    Great stuff! Going to try this right away!

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  10. mitzs said on — October 7, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

    I love this Corey. Thank you. I’ve blogged it to help spread the word.

  11. denacho said on — October 8, 2008 @ 9:37 am

    just curious if the Fade Radial Blue is something NOT available in CS2. that’s what i’m currently using as i wait to got to CS3 but i’m not finding anyting on it in CS2.

  12. denacho said on — October 8, 2008 @ 9:42 am

    nevermind. got it. the trick seems to be you HAVE to go to the Edit menu right after applying the Radial Blue or it doesn’t show up. sorry. that’s my newbie showing!

  13. Greg Snowden said on — October 9, 2008 @ 12:29 am

    Corey! Another example of how much you can do with a few steps. Off to play with this now.

  14. Howard Pinsky said on — October 9, 2008 @ 1:41 pm

    Great tutorial! Really nice end effect!

  15. jean-pierre prieur said on — October 10, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

    super tutorial

  16. Jacque said on — October 10, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

    this is awsome

  17. Mark R said on — October 11, 2008 @ 7:12 am

    what a great tutorial, I will be using this idea

  18. Tasmmy Jo said on — October 17, 2008 @ 1:29 am

    How in the world do you know all of these things? I have been sitting here for 2 days straight having a blast following your tutorials. You are so smart and offer easy and clear instructions to follow! Thank you Corey

  19. IOANNIS said on — October 23, 2008 @ 7:31 am

    Oh, what a tip!!!
    It is amazing what we can do if we have fantasy.
    Thank you for posting this.

  20. rosie said on — October 24, 2008 @ 1:55 am

    this is brilliant!

  21. ViZion said on — October 30, 2008 @ 4:50 am

    Hi!
    Nice and easy tricks, Clear tutorial. PS gives many way to get the same effect, and U showed us an easyer way. thanx.

  22. ilijusin said on — November 1, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

    This is awesome. Thanks a lot!

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  24. Krishnendu said on — November 7, 2008 @ 2:39 am

    Just superb, hats off to your expertise. Very very helpful tutorial. Regards,

    Krish

  25. johnson said on — November 11, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

    Another amazing tutorial! LOVE this!

  26. Atallah said on — November 12, 2008 @ 9:48 pm

    How do you think of these things Corey HOW!
    the effect sort of looks like your on LSD
    very nice effect

  27. Maureen Kovacs said on — December 1, 2008 @ 6:51 pm

    I love your tutorials, however it’s very difficult to try to write down what you are doing and apply it to PhotoShop Elements 6.0 on my Mac. So many things are similar but they are in different menus. Do you have a hard copy available so I
    can try to figure it out? I know it will work on Elements.

    Thanks so much.

  28. Mariam said on — December 11, 2008 @ 11:03 am

    I absolutely LOVE these tutorials! They have made me look soooooooooo much more talented than I can take credit for!! Thank you soooooo much!

  29. kristy said on — December 17, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

    wooooow!!!! like it veeeeery veeery much! I did it whith my photo and it is great!!! like your ideas and your voice! :) thank youuuuuuuu

  30. Michael said on — December 20, 2008 @ 8:09 pm

    Corey you’re a genius. I’m addicted to these videos.

  31. Darlanne said on — December 31, 2008 @ 3:02 am

    You are my new inspiration! What a fantastic tutorial and the steps work nice with all kinds of different photos.

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