Resizing a Photo with Content-Aware Scaling [UP20]

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated.  It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus.  To learn more see this article. Don’t Skip Column 19 The Content-Aware scaling feature is a way to intelligently scale an image that allows for certain […]

Photoshop Power Tip – Using Screen Blending To Spice Up A Portrait

Here’s a quick, yet powerful, tip on how to move a portrait from great to awesome fairly quickly. While this method is quick the results can be very impressive if done right. You would need a fire on black pattern like the Fire Pack from the texture store, a copy of photoshop and of course, a portrait. I […]

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Dodge & Burn – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

If you split an image into its most basic components, you can look at each pixel as the sum of the following info: Brightness Color Tone Saturation If we look at a black and white photo for example, one only element present in the photo is brightness. So any three-dimensionality is determined exclusively by the (relative) […]

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Are Your Photoshop Skills Enough To Save The Lives Of The IXS Farstar Crew

What a fun way to learn Photoshop test your Photoshop skills. Adobe has created an Escape Room style mystery, where you need to need to assist a crew of a spaceship to return to earth. Here is the adobe connection though. Instead of solving math or click to find puzzles, you will need to work through […]

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How I Composited An Elemental Sorceress Photo – A Walkthrough

I’m excited to be showing this video tutorial to you guys. One of my shoots have been cancelled and we already had everything in place and so we set out to create this photo. Aside the actual photo (which you can see below), I’ve been given the opportunity to work with some awesome textures from the […]

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