Facebook’s new, awesome Timeline feature is rolling out to everyone, and a few early adopters have discovered a neat trick where you cut your profile picture out from your cover photo, for a very cool picture-in-picture effect. Here’s how to do it. More »
Got an image with a black background and you’d prefer white? While the selection tools in Photoshop and other image editors will easily let you select the background and change it, that’s not enough, since reflections from the background will remain in place and can make the final result look odd. Photoshop expert and tech blogger Helen Bradley walks through how to solve that problem. More »
Dear Lifehacker, I’ve learned a bunch of great Photoshop tricks but whenever I use that knowledge my images end up looking unrealistic. I don’t want my family to look like an airbrushed perfume ad or my nature photos to look like a unicorn threw up a rainbow all over them. How can I touch up my photos without sacrificing their realism? Thanks, Unintentionally Fake More »
Mac: We’ve discussed how a keen eye can help you detect if an image has been photoshopped, but if you need an app to help you determine if that photo is a fake, Photo Police is a utility for the Mac that can help. If it does detect that an image has been modified, it will show you what’s been changed so you can get an idea of what the original may have looked like. More »
Instructables user PenfoldPlant gives a great step-by-step guide to turning photos into colouring book pages using Pixlr, a free online imaging webapp. More »
Photoshop is an amazing tool that can take any photo and change it into anything you can imagine. While it can take years of practice to alter reality like a pro, there are a few simple tricks you can employ to reshape the world captured in your photos. Here are five of our favorite techniques and how to use them effectively. More »
