Bring more focus and attention to the subject of your photo and add excitement to your image by creating the illusion of a photo within the same photo.

Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots - however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects and manual). Itâ??s no wonder then that many photographers never make use of their camera and lensâ?? ability to focus manually. In fact this week I spoke with one DSLR owner recently who hadnâ??t even noticed the manual/auto focus switch on the side of his lens. Image by dsevilla When is Manual Focus Better than Au

A quick way to change those gorgeous people into horrifying demons.

This will teach how to take a piece of an image and bring it forward.

In this tutorial we are going to take some very basic principles of light and shade to make a rather impressive looking text effect.

How to pop your foreground in Photoshop.

This is a nice effect to use when you want to emphasize a subject. Looks great on sports photos.

This will show you how to create a focus point while at the same time reducing your file size.

This tutorial will teach you how to focus on a specific object in the forground.

This soft focus effect make portrait photos look dreamy and soft.

Protect a central part of an image from a change.

Learn how to draw a viewer to the central part of an ad or image.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to make something like focus-effect. You will learn how to make simple effect that can keep observers' attention in one place.

In the first installment of this series, we looked at the theory of sharpening and how it works.

It's generally understood in the Photoshop world that almost every image can benefit from judicious sharpening.

In the first two parts of this series, we looked at the theory of sharpening and the commands and tool available in Photoshop.

Use the gaussian blur filter to obtain a nice focus effect.

Where should I focus when taking a Landscape Shot? When shooting a normal landscape image it is normal to attempt to keep as much of the image in focus as possible. This means selecting a small Aperture (remember the larger the number the smaller the actual Aperture) to ensure that you end up with a large depth of field.

Learn eight ways to create a soft focus effect.

Great for softening scenic photos as well as portraits, this quick and easy soft focus method will preserve more sharpness and give you more control than standard blur methods.