Learn to Intensify your Images in Photoshop

Often you take pictures with your digital camera and you look at them and wonder what’s missing. The pictures just don’t look good enough. The obvious solution is to buy a better camera, but in all honesty, even pictures taken from the best of cameras require a little bit of Photoshop touch at some stage. In this tutorial you are going to take a seemingly ordinary picture and intensify its colors in Photoshop to give it “that” feel. It’s almost going to be like you are bringing your picture to life through Photoshop, and the best part is that it requires very little hard work and technical Photoshop skills; just a few little steps and you are done. Of course you need to make note that the same exact steps are not going to produce the same effect for every image in Photoshop, but with a little bit of alteration, you will be good to go.




1. Open any image in Photoshop. This is the image we will be using for this tutorial.


2. Go to: Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation. This is the primary Photoshop tool to help intensify your image.
Make the following changes:

You can already see the image’s colors starting to intensify. For example, the sunlight hitting the grass is now more pronounced than before.
3. Go to: Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast
Make the following changes:

4. Go to: Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap.

5. Go to: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

6. Go to: Filter > Texture > Texturizer.

7. Change its Blend Mode from Normal to Soft Light

That’s it, babe, and now you have successfully intensified your image in Photoshop.
Final Picture: