Sometimes the only thing that keeps a good portrait from being a great portrait is a little too much shine on the skin. Here's a quick and easy way to tone down those highlights.

Highlight a button in a different way than usual.

Control highligts and shadows in a photograph.

We lighten up shadowed areas while breaking in those unruly highlights.

Learn how to restore hidden details in areas such as overcast skies. This final outcome is natural with no halos or other defects.

Create a sweet looking indent orb with burned shadow edges and a crab nebula for the texture.

Add depth and contrast to your imagery.

In this tutorial you will learn how to add perspective shadows to character renders or text.

Learn how to add shadows with perspective to shapes, text or isolated objects.

Create a shadow with pixel art.

Learn how to create a cast shadow in a few simple steps that will look more realistic than a drop shadow.

Add some visual interest to text with this easy shadow effect.

Make shadow 'cuts' in your artwork to give it a little more dimension.

Let's start our shadow work by creating a basic shadow for some strawberries. Our unretouched image, is a good example; most shadows I am asked to create are this type of simple basic shadow.

Sometimes it is necessary to make an image a little brighter. Sometimes it is necessary to make it a little darker. But what if you need to do both? Or what if you only need to brighten up a small portion of an image, perhaps where there are some dar

This will teach you basically how to add gradient transparent shadows.

Sometimes a drop shadow needs to fall on only part of the layer or layers below.

Our tutorial will be about how to drop the right shadow in Photoshop and how to make a clean nice selection. This is a technical tutorial so we will get no pretty images in the end.

Create a nice looking shadow behind some text, and a simple reflection below it. Albeit being a very simple tutorial, this skill can be applied to many advanced techniques for a very impressive outcome.

This video clip shows how to use the shadow/highlight filter for photo retouching.