Category: Photoshop

Aerial Perspective – The depth your images have been consciously missing.

Joseph Parry

Something I’m going to be touching on today is referred to in the painting world as “Aerial Perspective”, a way, if not “the” way to create depth in your images. When you see pictures of mountains, or landscapes you’ll often notice that they are coated with fog, clouds, smoke, steam, etc in order to make […]

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How to create a cinemagraph in Photoshop

John Aldred

If you haven’t been living under a photographic rock lately, you’ll probably have heard about Plotagraph. It’s a new system which allows you to give some motion to a still. It’s an evolution of the cinemagraph. A hybrid of still image and video. While Plotagraph has had a mixed reception, the concept is still a popular one. Unlike Plotagraph, cinemagraphs […]

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5 ways to get rid of chromatic aberration in Photoshop

John Aldred

Chromatic aberration (CA) can be a pain, especially in high contrast situations. It’s also called colour fringing. It’s most common in inexpensive consumer lenses, but pro glass is not immune. Shooting at extreme wide or tiny apertures can introduce it quickly even with the best gear. You can take care of most chromatic aberration within Lightroom or ACR. […]

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How to Create Perfect Shadows in Photoshop

Eric Reagan

In this Photoshop tutorial from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to create shadows in composited images. Because of the complexity of shadows, it is importable to use multiple layers with your gradients to give them a more realistic appearance. Check out the full video above. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on […]

Photoshop Power Tip: photograph objects over flour to give them a cracked look

Udi Tirosh

Here is a quick, yet powerful tip from Felix Alejandro Hernández Rodríguez. It is simple and all it involves is a couple packs of flour, and can really boost a photo. Here is how Felix describes it: Here is a simple technique that I “discovered” a while ago… It has been useful in some projects… With […]

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Quickly and easily retouch shiny skin in Photoshop & Lightroom

John Aldred

Shiny skin can sometimes be a problem for portraits, especially if you don’t have a makeup artist. Camera LCDs are so small that you might not notice the shine while shooting. When the shoot’s all over and you’re looking at the images on the computer monitor, what can you do? There are a million different […]

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Professional retoucher “spills the beans” on how swimsuit campaigns are really edited

Udi Tirosh

We know that those models that we are seeing on cover shoots have been shooed to death. We shared a few of those before/after over the years (see here, here and here for just a few). So we know that extreme retouching exists, and we also know that it’s an issue that bogs both models […]

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How to Select and Mask Hair in Photoshop

Eric Reagan

Check out the above video from Photoshop Cafe, which shows us how to use the latest version of Photoshop CC to select and mask hair (or any other tough-to-select object). The updated Select and Mask workspace offers some new features highlighted in this video. Have you tried out the new features yet? Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS […]

Adobe Camera Raw 9.6.1 Adds Fuji X-T2 Support

Eric Reagan

Adobe has released Camera Raw 9.6.1, which adds RAW file support for the new Fuji X-T2. The new release also brings a couple bug fixes: Uncompressed DNGs files converted from Fuji X-E2 RAF source images were are unable to be read Errors that preventing customers from creating a panorama from two HDR DNG source images. You […]