Create a Dancing Shadow in Photoshop
Here’s a nifty little tutorial for you. I’ll show you how to add a little extra to your photos with a quirky shadow that can represent the person photographed. I’ve used this a few [More]
Toggle Views in Photoshop CC
Changes to Photoshop CC mean that some people aren't able to use the F key shortcut for different views, here's how to re enable it. [More]
Adobe Theatre at The Photography Show 2016
The Photography Show 2016 is just a week away and I’m super excited! Getting to spend time talking about Photoshop for four days! Plus, and equally important of course, I get to hang out with friend and fellow Nut Gavin Hoey while catching up with friends Rich Curtis and Dave Mallows (I’ve not seen Dave since last Photography Show!) [More]
Restore a Sky Lost to Over-Exposure in Lightroom and Photoshop
Whilst on a recent travel photography task in Havana, Cuba I encountered a problem in balancing exposure. To overcome the loss of detail in the sky there are several things I could have done, [More]
Photoshop Problem Panoramas
In this video Gavin comes across a a problem when Photoshop puts together his panorama, knowing how the panorama works and where the settings are soon makes light work of putting things right. [More]
Photoshop an Artistic Double Exposure
In this video I take a look at making a double exposure in Photoshop, then go a little further to create something a little more interesting and 'artistic'. [More]
Animated Intro with Photoshop
In this video I take a look at creating a little intro for a video using Photoshop. As I say at the beginning of this, it may not be an effect you want to use but you may be interested in some of the techniques.
You should be warned, for the first time I actually make an apearance! [More]
Simple Filters Through Split Toning in Lightroom and Camera Raw
Split toning is my favourite tool in Adobe Raw, once I’ve made my normal exposure, vibrance, clarity etc adjustments I always move over to split toning. So I though I would share a three of my go to settings. [More]
Saving A Photoshop Look Up Table
In this post Eric takes a look at Look Up Tables or LUTs that help you add a look to your images time and again. [More]
Common Photoshop Content Aware Uses
This month Gavin demonstrates the most common Content Aware features that he uses on a regular basis. [More]
How to Create an Abstract Silhouette Image with Adobe Photoshop MIx
In this month’s tutorial for the Adobe mobile apps, I’m going to show you how to create a Magritte-style surreal abstract image using a silhouette of a businessman with an umbrella. This [More]
Making A Photoshop Moon Brush
Photoshop brushes are all greyscale, where the brush is darker its less opaque, brighter less so. This means that we can make some quite detailed brushes by converting images to grayscale. In this [More]
How To Create A Rippling Flag Using The Displace Filter In Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial we'll be creating the effect of a rippling flag using custom artwork and one of Photoshop's oldest distortion filters, Displace. The filter uses a monochrome image map to distort the pixels of the target layer based on the tones of the map. The brighter or darker the tone, the more the pixels of the image are pushed horizontally or vertically. This is great for creating the appearance of an object or text following the contours of a texture. [More]
Photoshop Blur – Save Mask to Channels
If you've used the Blur Gallery's Tilt Shift, Path Blur, Iris Blur and Field Blur you may have noticed a check box called 'Save Mask to Channels', in this post I'll take a look at just some of the possibilities this opens up [More]
Punch Through Text Effect in Photoshop
In this video I use text and Shape layers to create a really simple, but effective, text effect inside of Photoshop.
While I'm there I'll also use a few layer effects to make the text a little more interesting including Bevel, Drop Shadow and the sadly underestimated Satin (I like Satin) [More]
