25 Ways to Spice Up Blog Post Photos

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Images enhance the visual impact of a blog and make it more likely a post will be read. One good photo can grab a reader's attention and drive them to the article.

A post without any graphs, drawing, or photos can look daunting. Even if it's well written, the wall of text might not appeal to anyone. A good image is often a must-have for a great post.

But sometimes the images available for publishing are poor quality, or just don't suit quite right.

With the tricks below, you can use Photoshop to fix up your images in minutes. Instead of a dull photo, you can liven it up to an image that might actually appeal to someone.

Strong Focus for Killer Portraits

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Create A Photo Within A Photo using Photoshop

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Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments

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The effect of Tilt-shift camera lens

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Easily Smooth And Soften Skin In A Photo

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Add A Realistic Water Reflection

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How to Create a Fantastically Formal Photo Effect

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Photo Retouch using Photoshop Techniques

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Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids

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Easy "Whitening Teeth & Eyes" in Photoshop

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Photoshop Lovely Fog Overlay

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Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo

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Superb Skin Airbrush Technique

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Enhance Eyes and Make Them Stand Out

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Photoshop tutorial Changing Heads

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Vintage Clouds Effect in Photoshop

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Adding Rain Effect To A Photo in Photoshop

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Turn Your Photo Into a Movie Like Effect

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Trendy Neutral Photo Effect

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Beautiful Lighting Effect

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Easiest Way To Change Hair Color

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Ultimate Makeup Using Photoshop

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Adding Reflections To Sunglasses

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How to Replace Faces on Movie Posters using Photoshop

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Quick Way to Enhance Image Color

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Now there's no excuse for a boring photo in your post. It only takes a minute to fix up that image you found and the effect can be profound.

What are your favorite tricks to improve an image?

About the Author - Michael Martin is the founder of Pro Blog Design. He works as a freelance web designer, loves WordPress, and has an unhealthy addiction to smilies. Written on 29th September 2008.

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Comments

57 Comments

  1. Great I've tried it right away on my sister!
    Worked great, amazing tuts very detailed.

    Regards Humper

  2. Thanks for great post !
    Keep up your good job.

  3. Thank you for this post and this site worth more for me and ........!

  4. Thank you for your great post it has helped me a lot!

  5. Thanks I will be sure to try out some of these on my poker blog.

  6. great tools to enhance images, bookmarked it, sure will try few tricks.

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