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Karl Taylor Illustrates How to Create Dramatic Skies in Photoshop

 From the Karl Taylor YouTube Channel: Make your Sky Outstanding with this Top Photographer Trick! – What I’m going to show you today is how you can enhance the sky in some of your photos. So if you’ve ever taken a … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Configuring Scratch Disks in Photoshop CC for Better Performance

Recently my system has become crammed with a lot of files and not a lot of free disk space, leaving me with little headroom for Photoshop CC to work efficiently. In this case, especially on some big render jobs (3D, Video … Continue reading

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Photoshop CC 2015.1.2 Update – Now Available

Photoshop 2015.1.2 – Update (1/20/2016) 1/20/2016 – Today we released Photoshop CC 2015 update version 2015.1.2 on both Mac and Windows, to address several workflow issues. Customer reported issues resolved Crash Reporter: Crash when creating Character Styles Crash Reporter: Crash when … Continue reading

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How to Create a Lightsaber in Photoshop Video Tutorial

With all the recent hype and talk about the newest installation in the Star Wars movie empire (The Force Awakens), I thought this might be a fun project to do. If you’ve followed along with the saga you know about … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Levels in Curves (Photoshop CC)

Most image editors will work with Levels and Curves on an image to :- Levels – Set the white and black point Curves – Decrease the values of black and increase the value of white Both of these in combination … Continue reading

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How to Make a Little Planet Using Photoshop

Photography doesn’t always have to be serious, sometimes it is nice to do something just for fun. Making a landscape look like it is a little planet is one of those things. There aren’t any uses for it, and you wouldn’t … Continue reading

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Photoshop Elements 14 (Download) – $66.95 (Reg. $96.95)

Through Dec. 26, B&H has Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 (Download) available for $ 66.95. Regularly $ 96.95. Product Highlights  Versatile Photo Editing Software Camera Shake Reduction Haze Removal Quick Edits and 34 Guided Edits Refined Hair and Pet Fur Selections Application-Based … Continue reading

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How to Create Snow in Photoshop

It’s wintertime, and everyone’s dreaming of a white Christmas—but not everyone gets it. Thankfully, even if there’s no snow on the ground, there are still ways to replicate snow in your photographs. Here’s how: In this detailed video, Chelsea Northrup shows two ways … Continue reading

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How to Create a Vintage Look for Your Image Using Photoshop

Creating a vintage look for an image is now easy, without having to shoot with an old film camera. Although I would recommend any photo enthusiastic to try! I have a an Agfa camera ISOLA that I use every now … Continue reading

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Serif’s Adobe Photoshop rival Affinity Photo gets a major update

Serif took a bold gamble with its Affinity series, producing brand new professional level Mac applications for photographers and designers, in the form of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Previously best known as a developer of low-cost windows software, Serif … Continue reading

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Using Smart Objects to Add Text With a Reflection in Photoshop

Photoshop is a massive program, with many ways to do things. To help you learn Photoshop it’s great to just pick one thing, one new tip, and try it out. In this video from Phlearn Aaron Nace will show you … Continue reading

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6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn

In the days before digital imaging, if you truly wanted to elevate your photography to the level of art, you learned how to process your images in the darkroom. You learned dodging, burning, masking, sandwiching negatives, flashing and fogging – … Continue reading

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