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Graphic & Photo Design Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

The design section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of web design on the internet today. Also discussed is print design for offline media. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of brand identity, graphic design, photo manipulation, typography and more. Additional topics include how to effectively manage website layout, e.g. mobile and tablet interface, responsive website design as well as coverage of online communities that assist with the design profession.

How to Change the Color of a Lens Flare in Adobe Photoshop

In my last post, I wrote about how we can create a new layer in order to manipulate and gain greater control over using the Lens Flare filter in Adobe Photoshop. If you haven’t read that post, you really should. I shared some pretty awesome tips in it that you’ll surely want to tuck away […]

Using Masks & Blending Modes to Control Lens Flare in Adobe Photoshop

If you’ve ever worked with the Lens Flare filter in Adobe Photoshop and wish you could make things easier, this post is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to manipulate the outcome of your lens flare, make your result more flexible, move things around or change its color, this post is really for you. What […]

Finding, Sorting & Filtering Virtual Copies in Adobe Lightroom

On this blog, I write a lot about how to edit photos and how to work with Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom and Photoshop. Much of what I write has to do with what I call “technique.” That is, “how to do” either this or that. In my opinion, that’s fine. It produces a result and […]

Using the Graduated Filter Brush Tool to Erase in Adobe Camera Raw

In Adobe Camera Raw, the Graduated Filter is a tool that’s widely used. I ‘d be hard pressed to find a professionally taken landscape photo on the internet today what wasn’t enhanced in some way with this tool. Making sunsets more vivid and beaches stand out more – the Graduated Filter is where it’s at. […]

Applying & Deleting Presets in Adobe Camera Raw

I’ve written a few posts that talk about Presets in Adobe Camera Raw. Those posts discuss how to create one, how to install third-party presets and how to apply them to a photo you’re editing. There are tons of great tips in these posts, so if you’re interested in this type of thing, please be […]

Where to Find & How to Install Presets For Adobe Camera Raw

I touched on the topic of using outside tools to assist you in your photo editing in a previous post. That one had to do with Color Efex Pro for Photoshop. In that post, I explained some of the many advantages for using tools and presets such as the ones in that package. If you […]

Tips for Clearing Complexion in Adobe Lightroom

I know I already wrote about removing blemishes and spots from photos in Adobe Lightroom, but I just couldn’t help myself when I thought of this image. I had to follow up with a quick post that let’s you in on a new tip or two. Basically, what I want to dive a bit deeper […]

Creating Presets in Adobe Camera Raw & Applying Them via Bridge

I have no idea how popular Adobe Bridge is. Actually, I don’t think it’s very popular at all. I know a lot of people enjoy using their operating system’s file explorer tools and are fine with that. I was for years. That is, until I discovered how cool Bridge really is and until I explored […]

How to Sharpen Photos Using Adobe Camera Raw

In my last post, I talked about how to best remove noise from photos using Adobe Camera Raw. In today’s post, I’m going to follow up with a discussion that covers how to best sharpen photos in the same application. Both of these tasks are quite similar to one another, so if you haven’t read […]

Removing Noise in Photos Using Adobe Camera Raw

I just finished writing a post for my other blog. For this post, I had to edit a few photos using Adobe Camera Raw. This isn’t a big deal, but it did get me thinking. Since I do so much editing in Camera Raw and part of that editing usually involves reducing noise and sharpening […]