Selection Basics in Photoshop
Way back in my early days of learning Photoshop, selections were a mystery to me. Sometimes they made perfect sense, and other times they were nothing but a source of frustration. This cloudy [More]
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Using The Histogram and Curves in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at one of my favourite tricks for improving photographic contrast more quickly and more accurately, using the Histogram sliders in Curves. This technique [More]
Lightroom ‘Nose Trick’
A Happy Thanksgiving to those of you that are state side in the USA. For this week's article, I thought I'd share the "nose trick" everyone's been asking about. In case you missed it, I used Lightroom to get the red out, while doing a portrait model retouch. Here are the basic steps for the nose portion of that video: [More]
Photoshop a Holiday Card 2010 Part 1
For this year’s holiday card, I figured we try something a little tougher. Sometimes when looking through your family photos to find the perfect one for a card, you realize that instead of one [More]
Half-Sketch Half-Photo Morph with Photoshop
Today’s tip comes to you courtesy of my wife, Carol, who liked the image you see below well enough to hang it on a wall in our house. That’s saying a lot to me, since I have over 30,000 images in [More]
Changing the Background Colour with Photoshop
For this tutorial I want to share a couple of techniques with you for changing the look and colour in the background of your photographs. These are techniques that I employed recently when I decided [More]
Working with type on a path
Back in the days before Photoshop CS, type on a path was the domain of Adobe Illustrator. With CS, and every version since, Adobe added type on a path to the arsenal of tools available to Photoshop [More]
Blurring the Background with Adobe Camera Raw
For this tutorial we’ll take a look at how we can add a soft glow to the background of our raw images, using ACR’s local adjustment and masking tools, without softening the subject area. [More]
Page Curl Effect with Photoshop
I love Photoshop for many reasons. One of those reasons is the huge number of filters, effects and actions that come built in as standard. Great as Photoshop is, there are a few things that Adobe [More]
Day into Night with Photoshop
Here’s a fun effect and a way to change perspective on reality… using Photoshop adjustments to turn day into night. The difference is mostly a matter of temperature and illumination, after [More]
Photoshop’s Black and White Adjustment Layer
In this post, author Richard Harrington shows us how to use the Black and White Adjustment layer for a combination of effects, including on colour images. Richard Harrington on [More]
Recreating Lith Grain in Photoshop
This week I’m going to show you how to recreate a black & white effect that was all the rage back in the day when I used to spend hours stuck in a darkroom straining over a hot [More]
Photoshop Exploding Text (Sort Of)
I’d like to continue my TS tutorials with a text effect I like, its fairly simple but looks effective. Step 1. We start by making a 1000×1000 pixel document – we have to have a square [More]
Zoomify your Panoramas in Photoshop
Over the past few version updates, Adobe has given us a Photoshop capable of creating some magnificent large images using the Merge to Panorama feature. Creating these images can give you quite a [More]
Creative Effects with Photoshop’s Liquify Filter – Pt 2
In the second instalment of the “fun with Liquify” series, Dan focuses on brush parameters and useful masking options to help ‘carve’ a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.There’s also a few [More]
