PhotoSHOP?

[Hayes]

Heyy, thanks for clicking on my question, you're awesome.
Do you know how to make pictures look AMAZING using photoshop? I'm currently working on a business project, and I need to make a collage with some pictures...I don't just want to stick the pictures on simply because that looks unprofessional, but I do want to edit them and blend them in to make it look nice. Please try to help if you can, and for those of you who are just here to criticize, you can leave. Thanks

[Eduardo]

There are many free tutorials for photoshop all over the web. You can find many using google and some are even on youtube.

[Nicole]

Takes practice. That's pretty much it.

Each picture requires different touches.

Seriously, there isn't ONE way to make a picture look good.

[Mccormick]

I like playing with layer styles, you can do beveling, shadows, lighting, etc really easily. Works best for text but it works for collages too. Search the help section of photoshop to learn about Layer Styles. Good luck.

[Meredith]

Filters
Plugins
Skill.

[Hill_Black]

It sounds like the Photoshop techniques that would work best for you would be using blending modes and creating vignettes. For example, using certain blending modes on two layers containing the same image (in other words, there's one layer with the original image and another layer with a copy of the same image right above it) will make the image brighter or darker, make the colors more vivid, etc. Vignettes make it possible to smoothly blend the edges of an image into a background. Fortunately, there are some great tutorials on both of those:

Blending modes tutorial (and don't worry too much about the math aspect; just experiment for yourself and find out which blending modes work for your images):
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Vignettes tutorial:
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Hope this helps.