Category: Photoshop

This digital artist turns animals square for “Minecraft in real life” Anicube project.

John Aldred

Sometimes, you get an idea in your head that you just can’t shake. You just have to go and make it. That’s exactly what happened to Jakarta, Indonesia based digital artist Aditya Aryanto. Aditya is interested in cubes. And he had the urge to turn some animals into cubes to see how it would look. […]

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The three levels of sharpening you should be applying in Photoshop – Detail, Global & Local

Jake Hicks

[I thought that seeing as I have a Post-Producition Workshop fast approaching, I needed a blatant excuse to promote it via an article on my site 😀 Well here it is, a look at some of the sharpening techniques I use in Photoshop to give my images a little visual-pop before I publish them.] What […]

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Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan for $89

Eric Reagan

B&H has the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan for $89.88 (reg. $119.88) as a Deal Zone deal for today only. This is a 12-month subscription that gets you access to Photoshop and Lightroom for a full year, along with the other Creative Cloud benefits like mobile syncing and cloud storage. Check it out while it […]

How to Use Graduated and Radial Filters in Lightroom

Eric Reagan

Here’s a great new video from Phlearn that shows us how to use graduated and radial filters in Lightroom. If you haven’t used these filters inside Lightroom, Aaron Nace covers the basics and nuances of using these tools. Both can be powerful options for fine tuning the exposure or color of an image. Check out the […]

This video explains all 27 Photoshop blending modes

Dunja Djudjic

Most of us use different Photoshop blending modes to achieve different effects. Many tutorials suggest which more to use to achieve a certain look, but you have to admit – they rarely state what exactly the blend mode does to the layers. This comprehensive and thorough video from Photoshop Training Channel explains them all! It […]

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How I shot the Photoshoper’s wet dream: A PSD room where you can control 34 different lights

Stefan Kohler

(hit play on this movie to see what this article is about, this is not a computer generated image, it’s all done in camera – see the final product here) As someone who deals with compositing on a daily basis, I foud myself in a restless state. And I don’t mean that restless state that all […]

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Want better portraits? Rotate your canvas while retouching.

Joseph Parry

Once, the idea of rotating my canvas when retouching was jarring to me. I knew it was something my peers were doing but I just couldn’t be bothered to try it myself. After a few one on one lessons where I was “forced” to do it by David Neilands, I actually found a surprising improvement […]

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Five different and easy ways to clean up skin blemishes with Photoshop

John Aldred

No matter who we are, our skin isn’t perfect. It’s just a fact of life. The odd zit here and there, a little scratch, perhaps a single stray hair. There’s always something. So, for portraits, temporary blemishes usually need a quick touch up. Fortunately, such issues are easy to fix in Photoshop. Or, more accurately, […]

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How effective would a Photoshop traffic light system be on advertising images?

Daniela Bowker

Last week Target announced that its forthcoming swimwear advertising campaign will be Photoshop-free. It’s an approach that I endorse, and I was intrigued to see some of the comments on the article here on DIYPhotography. Don Barnard suggested that having a traffic light system, a little like the nutritional content warnings on food packaging, showing […]

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