This photographer turns aerial photos into dream-like composites

Being able to turn your vivid imagination into art is not an easy task. It takes skill, time, and of course – the imagination, of course, above all else. Photographer Darren Wilden is an imaginative artist, passionate about flying a drone and working in Photoshop. He brought his two passions together in a magnificent series of […]

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How to color grade in Photoshop using only Solid Color Adjustment Layers

Each of us has our own style and our methods for editing photos. There are a few ways for color grading, and we can do it in different software. I have stumbled upon an interesting video from Eye Stocker for color grading in Photoshop. It uses only Solid Color Adjustment Layers and “Blend If” mode. […]

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Artist combines hundreds of photos to create dream-like Flying Houses

Photomontages belong to photography on the one hand, but on the other – this technique is art on its own. French artist Laurent Chéhère has created a series that’s a real example of this. His composites are created from photos, but with the reality of their own. Laurent’s series Flying Houses depicts the architectural objects […]

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Artist combines hundreds of photos to create dream-like Flying Houses

Photomontages belong to photography on the one hand, but on the other – this technique is art on its own. French artist Laurent Chéhère has created a series that’s a real example of this. His composites are created from photos, but with the reality of their own. Laurent’s series Flying Houses depicts the architectural objects […]

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5 tips for customizing your copy of Photoshop

We’ve presented you with plenty of editing tips, tricks and tutorials for Photoshop. But this tutorial is about editing Photoshop itself. Scott Kelby gives you 5 practical and quick tips how to customize your copy of this editing software so it suits your needs and preferences. From layout, to shortcuts and commands, you can change […]

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Learn Photoshop tricks in only one minute with Adobe’s “Make it Now” series

If you’re looking for the most useful way to spend a spare minute, I think this might be it. Adobe’s “Make it Now” series will show you how to make all sorts of creations in Photoshop in only a minute, sometimes even less! In the video above, you can see less than a minute-long tutorial […]

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Shot a person from below? Fix the perspective with a few clicks

Something came to my attention recently thanks to some feedback from close friends. This was called “Fixing the Keystone” or “Keystoning” and it simply means making sure that your verticals are vertical and horizontals are horizontal. A very simple concept and also one which architectural photographers will have been on top for decades. Here’s how you […]

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Retouching interiors in Lightroom & Photoshop

Here’s a typical quick interior shoot for a Swiss brand called VIU Eyewear. They contacted me to create three images for their website/social networks. The only rule was to stay in the same style than their other images on their “Stores” page (something very simple, white and luminous with an emphasis on the store interior […]

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This is what it was like to work in Photoshop 1.0

The 1990s brought a real revolution in digital technology. Considering that this era brought us digital cameras, broader use of PCs and Internet, we can say that it was revolutionary for photographers, too. And this revolution wouldn’t be complete without the most famous editing tool – Photoshop. In this demo, one of the inventors of […]

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