Coming Soon to Photoshop: Editable Toolbars

Coming soon to Adobe Photoshop CC, you’ll be able to edit your toolbars – rearrange tools you use often, hide tools you don’t, and even sync them to the Creative Cloud for on-the-go work.   Howard Pinsky is a Photoshop & Lightroom educator based out of Boulder, Colorado. Since 2007, he has accumulated over 500 free […]

Tips for Restoring Scanned Slides and Negatives

If you’ve had the pleasure of converting film slides of days gone by to the digital format, you may have experienced that bittersweet feeling of excitement mingled with a tinge of disappointment upon the first viewing the dust, debris and tiny fibers accumulated by storage over the years in the scanned result. Building on a […]

Making Selects by using Flags in Lightroom

Once we imported our photos to our catalog, we need to quickly review each image and select our favorites. The trick is NOT to make this a time consuming task. One option is to use the Flagging system to temporarily select your favorite images. It’s important not to get hung up on an image. If […]

Add Hanging Letters on an Image using Photoshop

Inspired by the cover image of Rich Harrington’s recent post ‘An In-Depth Look at Selling, Budgeting, and Planning Video Projects’ in this tutorial I’ll be looking at how to take text and manipulate it so that it looks like it’s hanging from ropes. I’ll be exploring how to change the text to shapes, moving and […]

Selecting Hair in Photoshop

Our friends over at lynda.com posted a great free tutorial on how to select hair in Photoshop.  This is perfect if you need to change the backdrop to a different look. This tutorial is from the Photo Tools Weekly series presented by lynda.com author Jan Kabili. In the complete course Jan shares weekly tips and […]

Fast Retouching in Photoshop with Wes Maggio from Wacom

Wes Maggio from Wacom joins us to share a quick tip on processing a portrait of Skylar he shot in the desert in Las Vegas during Photoshop World last month. Starting in Lightroom, Wes works through the develop module, but then jumps into Photoshop for a window replacement made easy by using a Wacom pen tablet.