Using Textures and Blending Modes To Add Drama in Photoshop
Using a combination of Blending Modes and opacity I take a regular Adobe Stock image and make it more dramatic. [More]
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Adding a Sepia Tone in Photoshop
In this 30 Second Photoshop video I’ll show you how to add a sepia tone to your images in three easy steps. Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE for more tutorials from my channel! [More]
Making Corners Lift From The Page in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial video I answer a reader question. How, they asked, can you easily make it look like the corners of the photograph are lifting from the background?
I demonstrate two ways here, with some tips along the way including finding the centre of an image and separating Layer Styles from a layer (yep, you really can!) [More]
Adobe Nav for iPad
As wonderful as Adobe Photoshop is, I doubt there is a person that would call it simple.. There are many ways to do just about anything, from choosing which tool to use, find that skin smoothing [More]
GuideGuide 2 Overview for Photoshop CS6
In this video Howard Pinsky explores the use of GuideGuide 2. If you use guides more than occasionally this extension should be a part of your Photoshop! It works with CS4, CS5 and CS6. [More]
Mixer Brush Tips
With Photoshop CS5, Adobe brought us the Mixer Brush, which, along with the new Bristle Brushes, are perhaps the biggest makeover in the brush engine since version 7.0. In today’s video tip, you’ll learn a few basic techniques for setting up and using Mixer Brushes – including the often overlooked capability of loading your brush with multiple colors at one time. Happy painting! [More]
Speed your scanning workflow in Photoshop
If you’re like me, you probably have stacks of old photographs sitting around in the “to be scanned” queue. In fact, you may, like me, have additional piles from family and friends in the same [More]
Win Adobe Master Suite CS5.5
To celebrate the launch of Adobe UK Education’s great new competition they’ve kindly given us a copy of Adobe Master Suite CS5.5 Teacher and Student Edition to give away to one of our readers. [More]
Get Stuck In To Photoshop – A Beginners Guide
In this video I help those opening up Photoshop for the first time and being a little overawed by it all.
We’ll take a quick look at the layout of Photoshop before singling out the tools and filters best suited for your first ‘play’ with this amazing software. [More]
Photoshop CS5 HUD Color Pickers
One of the more useful improvements to Photoshop CS5 is the addition of the HUD (or Heads Up Display) Color Pickers. A bit of random trivia: this name was borrowed from military aviation. The idea is [More]
Grids, Guides and Putting Them Into Actions
Unlike Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop doesn’t have a grid tool (as yet?), so we’re forced to find ways to make our own. In this video, I’ve demonstrated a couple of ways of making a grid both [More]
Toning and Stylising a Portrait in Photoshop
In this exclusive video, author Rich Harrington uses some of the newer features and Blend Modes of Photoshop to styalise a portrait. [More]
Picking Apart Photoshop Actions
Actions are a great way to get things done quickly, but they’re also a wonderful learning tool. Knowing how to examine an action can help you find new techniques as well as discovering bases that [More]
HDR Toning Black and White Images
Richard Harrington, author of Understanding Adobe Photoshop, From Still to Motion and other great books demonstrates a technique for using HDR Toning on a black and white image. From Bridge, [More]
Blending Images with Various Focal Points with Photoshop
For this video I’ve taken four photographs, all focused on a different Lego figure. Using Photoshop I’m going to blend them together so that I get one, in focus image. This technique is great for macro photography for shooting flowers, insects and other small objects. [More]
