Back in Bridge CS4, Adobe introduced a cool navigation feature in Bridge called “Folder Cruising.” It’s very simple, but really effective, and in Bridge CS5 it received some slight tweaks that make it even easier to use. Here’s how it works. For this particular technique, you need to be able to see the Enhanced...
Stylized Black and White Photos with Topaz BW Effects By Dan Moughamian This month I thought it would be fun to cover a Photoshop plugin that I discovered this summer, which has quickly become one of my favorites. Topaz BW Effects (from Creating a Rubber Stamp Brush Preset in Photoshop Elements. By David...
This month I thought it would be fun to cover a Photoshop plugin that I discovered this summer, which has quickly become one of my favorites. Topaz BW Effects (from Topaz Labs) contains a wide range of creative presets that make it a snap to create some really interesting effects in a short amount...
In this tutorial we’ll firstly be creating the effect of a slightly worn out rubber stamp. Once we’ve created our stamp, we’ll be converting it to a brush preset that can be used over and over again and at any size. We’ll also take a look at Elements’ Brush Dynamics panel, which allows us...
If you’ve created a 3D object with complex materials, you may have been disappointed with the appearance and shape of the features on your 3D object. In today’s video, learn how to tweak the scale and position of the 3D diffuse texture to correct any of these types of problems with you may encounter....
In this follow-up to last week’s video, Rich Harrington teaches us how to fix clipped shadows, overblown highlights, and soft detail when working with photos shot under low lift conditions.
This month’s tutorial is going to be an in-depth look at a black & white photograph that was used in one of my tutorials on black & white conversion earlier this year. I recently showed this image at Beacon Camera Club, where I was a guest speaker, and they were very interested in the process so...
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended has a wonderfully capable 3D environment. It isn’t high powered like some advanced 3D modeling software, but the capabilities are really good, and the learning curve is nowhere near as steep. In today’s tutorial, we’ll create some Christmas ornaments using some very simple Photoshop 3D capabilities. We’ll start with this...
In this, made for TipSquirrel.com, video, Rich Harrington explores the power of Adobe Camera Raw. Here Rich has a real world example to work though with amazing outcomes.
Here’s a super simple way to add a little depth to an old image just by making certain elements stand out from the rest.
You may have used Quick Collections in Lightroom to create temporary sets of photos to organize your work. Here’s a tip to show you how to extend the Quick Collection feature to apply to any collection in Lightroom, making ALL your collections “quick.” Bookmark It Hide Sites
Vintage photo effects are all the rage in photography at the moment. Often they created in mobile apps or in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’m going to show you a simple vintage effect that can be applied to images inside Adobe Camera RAW. Aged and vintage effects tend to have a few things...
One of the things about Lightroom that I love is that even though it is the little brother to the mighty Photoshop, it is still has a few tricks up its sleeve. I am always looking for ways to do ‘Photoshop’ things in Lightroom, there are 2 reasons for this.. 1) if I can...
When you resize images in Photoshop, you are adding or deleting pixels to your image. As the pixels are created or destroyed, how do you control the way Photoshop decides how to color the new pixels, or what to throw away? Photoshop has several methods (techies call them “algorithms”) that allow us to affect...
Making horror art I often get asked how I get texture to show through flesh, its actually very simple and uses my favourite Photoshop tool, Layer Masks.
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