Photoshoot and Beyond
Folks often “complain” about the results they get from the Healing and Spot Healing Brush tools. In this video Dave gives some tips on how to get the best results from the Healing and Spot Healing Brush tools. (Spoiler Alert: Often it comes down to using both tools together…with a little bit of Clone Stamp tool…
I’m a huge believer in the power of experimenting in Photoshop to help discover what’s possible. One of the comments I hear a lot is “I’m too busy to experiment”. Believe me, I understand about deadlines and getting your work done, so here’s my idea: experiment for nine seconds. Generally, I think we’re creatures of habit: we do things…
Many years ago I taught a student who had decided to come up with her own names for Photoshop tools – somehow that helped her remember what the tools did. One of her more interesting ideas was calling the Option key (PC: Alt key) the “make better” key. When asked why she simply said, “every time I hold down Option…
I’m a big (huge) advocate of working non-destructively in Photoshop. To me it just makes sense to build Photoshop documents that take advantage of all the non-destructive methods that are available. But in case you’re still not sure, here are my top reasons why you shouldn’t work in a non-destructive manner. 1. You never change…
(PUBLISHER’S NOTE: We welcome Dave Cross as a new contributor to the Photofocus team.) In this video I show an example of what I mean by Smart Flow: how using non-destructive methods can save you time. In this example I show how to create a printing template that allows you to quickly print a series…