Have you ever wondered how people get their photos to take on certain shapes? Like, how someone turns a square photograph into a circle one or even something much more complex? Well, I’m here to tell you that the process for doing something like this is so very simple. What these people are using to […]
Archives for May 2019
How to Create a Falling Snow Effect in Adobe Photoshop
I was working on a larger project a few days ago that I’ll discuss here on this blog soon when I stumbled across a neat effect that I thought you’d like to know about. the technique I pulled off creates what appears to be snow in a photo. It’s pretty cool looking and somewhat adjustable, […]
What’s the Difference Between Lightroom Classic & Lightroom CC?
I have the Adobe Creative Cloud app installed on my desktop computer. Every so often, I receive a notification that a few of the image editing applications that I use need to be updated. I go about the process of updating them, which really only consists of me clicking the Upgrade button. After a few […]
Lightroom Classic vs. CC
I’ve been reading a lot about the differences between Adobe Lightroom Classic versus Lightroom CC. I know these are two applications that do somewhat the same thing, but that operate differently. There’s a post I’ve written that discusses the distinctions between the two versions of Lightroom. I know what they are, but what I’m more […]
Cropping a Measurement in Adobe Photoshop
As they say about Photoshop, there are nine ways to do everything. I’d say that’s a good thing because I like having options. When it comes to cropping, there’s no shortage of how we can get things done. For years and years, I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool to crop my images. I still like […]
Adding a Colorized Background to a Photograph in Adobe Photoshop
I see this all the time. Lots of folks out there take great photos that they’d like to add colorized backgrounds to. The reasoning behind this is to either give the photo an alternate look or to avoid distraction from the subjects in the images. Whatever the reason, it’s a good enough subject to cover […]
Which Is Better For WordPress – Full Post or Summary (Excerpt)?
Question: I’ve been going back and forth with this for years. When I first began blogging back in 2006, I believe the only option was to have WordPress display the full content of a post on the homepage as well as all the archive pages, including categories and tags. This worked fine for me and […]
Duplicate a Smart Object in Photoshop? Here’s How You Do It
I’ve got a very cool and extremely helpful bit of information to offer you today. If you’ve ever attempted to duplicate a Smart Object layer in Photoshop and then had some issues working with the duplicate, I think I may know just what’s going on. Typically, when you duplicate a Smart Object layer the same […]
Wordfence Firewall Causing 403 Forbidden Page Load Error
I just wanted to get this out there, just in case anyone else experiences the same set of events that I did this morning. Okay, yesterday or the day before, I was attempting to update a few of the widgets I have installed on some forum software I’m running on one of my domains. I […]
How to Use Smart Guides in Adobe Photoshop
I use guides for so much in Adobe Photoshop. As a matter of fact, I just finished up a project in which I used a fair number of guides to trim multiple images that were to be sized identically. I love the fact that I can resize an image using the Free Transform tool and […]