Have you ever wondered how you can easily invert part of your text when it overlaps other text? I’ve wondered that for a long time and today, I’d like to share the trick for how to accomplish that with you. When it comes to text effects, the Difference blending mode can be a lot of […]
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How to Create & Apply Preset Styles in Adobe Photoshop
Styles are one of the first places you, as a new editor, will go when you launch Adobe Photoshop. If you’re working with text at all, you’re most likely going to want to add some flavor to that text. After all, boring text is, well, boring. There are a million different combinations of effects that […]
Working With the Tree Filter in Adobe Photoshop
Did you know that you can make really good looking trees right inside of Adobe Photoshop? I’m not talking about lousy one dimensional trees either. I’m talking about trees that actually look real; ones that you can change and customize in about a million different ways. That’s right, this is one of those virtually unknown […]
How To Embed a Linked Smart Object into Adobe Photoshop
I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one on earth who gets excited over the most mundane details of how Adobe Photoshop works. I think it has something to do with my imagination. I imagine people sitting behind their computers trying to find the solutions to all types of quandaries and honestly, I find that […]
Exploring Slider Effects on Color in Adobe Camera Raw
Correcting color in Adobe Camera Raw can get confusing at times. After all, there are a pretty good number of sliders in the Basic panel and in many cases, one slider value effects another area’s appearance. For instance, if you were to increase the value to the Contrast slider, that adjustment would affect how intense […]
Smoothing Selections with the Color Range Command in Adobe Photoshop
There are many methods for selecting something in Adobe Photoshop, but only a few ways to modify a selection once it’s been made. While the more traditional tools are somewhat strict in their usage (but becoming less strict everyday), there are a few, not as frequently used, tools that really should be looked at more […]
Changing Some Basic Crop Tool Settings in Adobe Photoshop
Have you ever wondered what the most popular tool in Adobe Photoshop is? It’s the Crop Tool. Isn’t that interesting? I think so. Out of all the fancy things Photoshop can do, the basic task of cropping is what the majority of folks choose to do the majority of the time. I don’t know, I […]
Introducing the Inverse Selection Command in Adobe Photoshop
Selecting objects and manipulating those objects is one of the most commons tasks you’ll encounter while working in Adobe Photoshop. Since this type of thing is so common, it’s important that you know the ins and outs of what you can do to speed this process up. Now, I know I’ve touched on this area […]
Brightening Shadows & Darkening Highlights in Adobe Camera Raw
I just couldn’t help it. As I was browsing through photos for my last post, I came across one that would be just perfect to use in this post. It’s a picture of a woman on a beach, facing the sun. The sun is so bright that it’s completely darkening the woman, hiding most, if […]
Recovering Lost Photograph Details Using Adobe Camera Raw
In photography, details are oftentimes lost because of either too much light or too little light in the scene. If there’s too much light, parts of the photo can be washed out looking. If there’s too little light, parts of the photo can be hidden by shadows. If there is both too much and too […]