Using Photoshop Selections to Add a Paint Splash Effect
In this video I step a little out of my comfort zone and create something 'arty'. Using selection techniques I add a splash effect obtained from two water splash images. [More]
Tutorial
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]
Photoshop Displacement Maps
When you want to add two or more images together quite often you’ll want to contort one to the shape of the other. This can be done with ease in Photoshop using the Displacement Map filter. Its been around for a long time and not a lots changed, but then, does it need to? [More]
Using Upright In Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw
Often when we take images of structures we get this effect that makes it look like it’s falling backwards. In Lightroom 5 and later and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 8 and later there’s some settings that can really help.
For this explanation I’ll take a look at the settings in Lightroom CC, its exactly the same in ACR however. [More]
Dude, Where’s My Save For Web?
With the update from Photoshop CC 2014 to Photoshop CC 2015 Adobe make a lot of great changes, as always there were the headline grabbers but there were a few little tweaks that didn’t hit the [More]
Photoshop CC 2015 Install
By now, most of you know about the big Creative Cloud version update, CC 2015. Some of you have no doubt already installed the update. If you haven’t, or you have but you missed this part, be aware [More]
What Is Photoshop’s Overscroll? And Why You Might Need It
If you’ve been digging through Photoshop’s preferences you might have spotted a checkbox for Overscroll and wondered what it does, lets take a look; [More]
Synchronize Color Settings in Photoshop and Creative Cloud Apps
If you've ever delved into the Photoshop menus you might have come across Color Settings in the Edit menu. There's a lot to alter here, but what's that down the bottom right corner telling me that my Colours are not synchronised? There doesn't seem to be any way to synchronise them either.... [More]
Portrait Retouching Using Frequency Separation
With the trend for retouching heading to the more natural Frequency Separation fits the retouching bill perfectly, it maintains the texture of the skin as well as the tones and is incredibly fast and easy to do once you know how. [More]
HDR in Adobe Camera Raw 9
If you use Adobe Camera Raw as opposed to Lightroom, and there's still a few of us left, you'll love one of the updates to ACR. No more need to go to HDR pro or Photoshop to do panoramas, they're right here in our favourite editor; [More]
Vintage Portrait Effect with Photoshop
In this video, what's old is new. We'll look at the restoration process in reverse! We'll take a modern image, and explore ways to simulate the vintage look of vintage photographs.
While there are plug-ins that can do some of this work for you, I rather like the hand-crafted, unique results that you get when you experiment with different effects and techniques, and that's exactly what we'll do here. [More]
30 Second Photoshop – Colour Match Layers
Quickly match the color of your composite layers with this quick tip. [More]
Retouching Using Frequency Separation in Photoshop
In this video I do a spot of retouching using frequency separation in Photoshop. This is a great technique and can get some amazing results very quickly. [More]
