Tag Archives: Photoshop
How to Enhance Portraits Using Gray Layers to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop
What is dodging and burning? The techniques of dodging and burning are hand-me-downs from the days of the darkroom. The idea was to manipulate parts of an image while the paper was being exposed to light from the enlarger, where the … Continue reading
How To Perfectly Line Up Layers in Photoshop Using a Blend Mode
From the KelbyOne YouTube Channel: Scott Kelby shares a really slick little tricky for aligning two piece of anything and have it be right-on-the-money pixel perfect using (wait for it…) a little used Blend Mode. It’s cooler than it sounds. B&H carries … Continue reading
#CreativeFriday – Face Aware Liquify – Photoshop 2015.5
You may have seen the great new Face Aware Liquify feature in the last update to Photoshop CC. It’s a wonderful tool, and designed to help with your image manipulation around the face and remove the complexities that existed around … Continue reading
How to Use the Text Tool in Photoshop
As photographers, we often swear by the mantra that a picture speaks a thousand words. Yet there are some instances when we just wish we could add a word or two to help facilitate the understanding of the image, or … Continue reading
How to Edit Photos Using the Histograms in Photoshop
Histograms are helpful tools for both capturing your images and editing them. When used correctly, histograms can help you to use the proper exposure levels while capturing your images. In this video tutorial, Phlearn explains how histograms work and how … Continue reading
#CreativeFriday – Photoshop 2015.5 – Match Font
Inside Photoshop CC 2015.5 a new feature for designers was introduced, Match Font. The idea of match font is to help and identify and find similar fonts from an image or any kind of capture that has no information about the … Continue reading
3 Quick Photoshop Edits You Need to Know
For many photographers, spending time behind a computer editing images, can be annoying. I personally enjoy the editing process, but I often hear photographers saying that they wish they didn’t have to spend time editing images. Of course, the image … Continue reading
How to Add Patterns to Clothing in Photoshop
From the Phlearn YouTube Channel: Scale Pattern into PlaceStart by scaling and rotating the pattern into place. In this example, we also invert the pattern to change colors by pressing CTRL/CMD + I. Make sure to make the pattern a bit … Continue reading
How to Create a Dramatic Cinematic Style Portrait Using Photoshop Color Grading
Cinematic style portraits are personally one of my favourites. What I like the most about them are the desaturated colours and the dramatic ambience. Before we start the tutorial on colour grading, I will give you some of my best … Continue reading
10 Quick Photoshop Tips to Improve Your Workflow
Whether you are a Photoshop newbie or a guru, there is always something new to learn or discover in this extensive image editing software. One of the joys of using it, is that there are many ways to do the … Continue reading
Use Photoshop to Correct Perspective Distortion of Buildings in Your Images
Shooting buildings can be tricky. The main reason is that they are tall, and you need to get far away from them if you want to fit them into the frame. If you are shooting in the city, you don’t … Continue reading
#CreativeFriday – Content Aware Crop in Photoshop 2015.5
Well big news this week with the launch of the new update to Photoshop CC 2015.5 ! Content aware crop is a super feature that I think will save lots of time when working on crop correction with some of your … Continue reading