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]
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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]
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]
How to Cut Out an Object From Its Background in Adobe Photoshop Mix
Hi Everyone Last month we demonstrated how to create a simple composite image using pre cut-out elements in Adobe Photoshop Mix. This month we will be looking at how to extract elements from their [More]
Advanced Compositing With The PixelSquid 3D Photoshop Extension
In this tutorial we'll look at the advanced features of the plugin, where we can import a high-resolution layered Photoshop PSD file that replaces the low-resolution preview. As well as being highly detailed, the PSD version gives us the ability to blend the 3D object into the scene using specially created layers that allow us to easily control the colour and tone as well as being able to quickly select and adjust the different components of the object. [More]
How To Create A Surreal Image With Adobe Photoshop Mix
Working with the Adobe mobile apps gives you the freedom to create images wherever you are, either in their entirety or for comping ideas and refining them later. Using Adobe's Creative Sync enables you to transfer your work between your devices, both mobile and desktop, so you can start your project on the phone and add the finishing touches in Photoshop when you get home or to your studio! [More]
Tinting With the Photoshop Gradient Map Adjustment
There are many ways of tinting an image, and many of those ways I employ regularly, sometimes trying multiple methods on a Tint-Scary-Gradphotograph to get the best result because, as you regular users know and you newer to Photoshop will soon learn, every image is different and no one method will work – or work the same – 100% of the time, and different methods, of course make for different results. For the purposes of this article, however, I’m focusing on the Gradient Map adjustment layer for tinting, and using one custom gradient with the crazy hex value combination [More]
How To Create A Composite In Photoshop With The PixelSquid 3D Extension
The main focus of the tutorial is an amazing stock image site named PixelSquid. If you haven’t heard of it before, PixelSquid specialises in pre-rendered 3D stock image objects that can be rotated in real time, enabling you to pick the perfect angle before placing the image into your designs and photo-montages. When the site first launched, it was necessary to download the object at the required angle before adding into your composites, which still left a little guesswork as to whether it was going to fit the scene properly. A recent update has change this. [More]
Changing Summer to Autumn in Photoshop or Lightroom
In this post I take an image taken in the Summer and transform it to one taken in the Autumn with just a few sliders in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom. [More]
Beauty in Decay – Repairing a Photo with Photoshop
It’s a funny thing about me; if I see a damaged picture, sometimes I just really, really want to fix it. It’s almost like my fingers start tingling for the Wacom pen so I can get started. It doesn’t happen every, single time, but when it does good things usually happen. So, I decided to take a little time and fix one of them…
About 6 (working) hours later, I was done with the first one I picked. It wasn’t one of the worst, but it sort of spoke to me. [More]
Photoshop an Ink Drop Video Logo Effect
In this video I make a really effective ink-drop logo effect in less than 10 minutes! It may look complicated but there's nothing here that you probably don't already do with your still images.
As always I'd love to see what you do. [More]
Create a ‘Splinter’ or “Shattered’ Portrait Effect in Photoshop
Using selections and the arrow keys you can create this Splinter or Shattered effect in Photoshop in no time at all... and it's quite good fun too! [More]
Photoshop Blur Gallery – Path Blur
Blur, the nemesis of all photographers, but there’s times when adding it can really make a difference, in this tutorial I take a look at Path Blur, one of the latest additions to Photoshop's Filter menu; [More]
Photoshop Blur Gallery and Selections
While recently writing an upcoming post for Fotolia about the Photoshop Blur Gallery and Iris Blur I made a selection and found the difference between selection, non selection and Smart Objects is [More]
Running Photoshop Levels, Curves and other Adjustments as a Smart Filter
For as long as I can remember the advise to all Photoshop users is 'Never use the Levels and Curves from the menu, always use an Adjustment Layer.' This is good advise, working non destructively is the best plan, but with the update to Photoshop CC 2015 things have changed. [More]
