Category: Photoshop

Photoshop’s hotkeys speed up your workflow and free up more time for shooting

John Aldred

Most of us have a fairly solid order of priorities in our lives.  Family comes first, then photography, then everything else.  For some folks, those first two are the other way around, but whatever allows us to spend more time with our family or our camera is a good thing. I don’t really consider sitting at a computer to […]

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These artists recreated lost and destroyed artwork using Photoshop and stock images

John Aldred

Whether the work we create is digital, or a little more tangible, it’s an inevitable consequence that some of it will be lost or destroyed.  In this short series of videos released by Adobe, we see four of them recreated using Photoshop and stock imagery. Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee went missing […]

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Photoshop CC Update Adds Face-Aware Liquify and Content-Aware Crop Tools

Eric Reagan

The latest update of Photoshop CC includes several updates, including headlining tools like Face-Aware Liquify and Content-Aware Crop. We saw the Content-Aware Crop feature teased last month, so we know what to expect. But Face-Aware Liquify brings the ability to adjust facial features while the Face-Aware technology constrains adjustments to only the areas you want […]

Adobe just dropped a CC2015.5 update with “Face-Aware Liquify” and a bunch of other cool features

John Aldred

Today, Adobe finally unleashes an update that many users have been waiting for. As well as giving us back the Legacy Healing Brush, this update to Adobe’s CC2015 suite of applications brings some great new features to Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and other applications. We’re going to look at some of these new features, and thanks to […]

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The BrushKnob USB dial wants to help you speed up your Photoshop workflow

John Aldred

External dials and gizmos have been common in the movie industry for years.  Their sole purpose in live is to help speed up workflow and productivity, assisting with things like editing and colour grading.  Now, they’re starting to become more popular for the regular desktop and stills editing with Photoshop. BrushKnob, developed by Japanese concept artist, Wataru […]

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How to reduce noise and more easily work with “Blend if” layer sliders in Photoshop CC

John Aldred

Photoshop’s layer blending options are some of its most powerful tools but also one of its most frustrating, particularly the “Blend if” sliders.  Designed to help you blend a layer with those below it based on the luminance of colour channels, actually seeing what’s effect it’s having on a layer often can be difficult. In this video from […]

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Power Trick: shadows for composites and digital manipulation

Aad Sommeling

Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question can’t we just take a copy of the model, duplicate that, make it black and use that as a shadow. My answer was always ‘no’ till recently. I am gonna show you a way how you can (often) use […]

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Follow up to Eyes of the Afghan Girl – A critical take on the “Steve McCurry Scandal”

Kshitij Nagar

While a follow up was already planned, after publishing the previous post and the subsequent, staggering response generated in support, appreciation, comments, critique and criticism I felt the need to also address certain things as well as perhaps reiterate and underline certain points. I also want to fill certain spaces left over in the previous post. […]

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How to composite a car into a new background in Photoshop CC

John Aldred

Unless we are an automotive photographer, getting access to fancy cars at the environments in which we’d like to photograph them can be a tricky proposition.  But what can we do with those images of cars we get on the street or at shows? In this video tutorial from Tutvid, photographer Nathaniel Dodson shows us how we can cut […]

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