Photoshop

The Blur Gallery filters in Adobe Photoshop have an extraordinary amount to offer in the way of enhancing the look of a photo. Just a few days ago, I wrote a post that discussed the Iris Blur and a while before that, I wrote one that talked about creative blurs in general. Both were really […]

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to fake a shallow depth of field? In the next few posts, I’ll show you three different methods for doing just that. While they won’t give you an exact representation of the blur a lens might offer, they should give you that spark you just might need […]

There may come a time when you need to change just one individual layer in your Adobe Photoshop project to grayscale in an otherwise color image. There may also come a time when you’d like to do this in a non-destructive manner, meaning, you can easily change the layer back to color if need be. […]

I’ve written quite a few posts that talk about selecting areas or parts of an image. There’s certainly no shortage of methods to take advantage of when it comes to something like this. And really, Photoshop has come a very long way with making life easier for editors like you and me. Selecting can be […]

Creating selections and masks is tough enough to do once. If there were a way to recycle them, things in my world would be almost perfect. Luckily, in Adobe Photoshop, there is a method for reusing selections and masks and in today’s post, that’s exactly what I’ll talk about. I’ve written about this topic a […]

In the past, I have expounded the benefits of working with Smart Objects on a number of occasions. I explained, sometimes in great detail, how valuable these things are when it comes to working in a non-destructive manner. I’ve even given a number of examples to back up my claims. What I haven’t done though […]

This is one of those posts that’s going to be super helpful to a ton of people. I’ve seen a lot of video in my day and some of the coolest effects are derived from how the speed of the video is portrayed to the viewer. While normal speed is obviously the most common, faster […]

Today, I feel like doing a bit of video editing. I’m going to use my previous post, where I discussed using text as a layer mask and apply the same concepts to using vector shapes as layer masks in this one. Nothing in this post will be new, but it sure will be fun. And […]

In a previous post, I described how easy it is to launch an image from Adobe Camera Raw into Adobe Photoshop as a Smart Object. to make a long story short, all you need to do is to press and hold down the Shift key while in Camera Raw and then click on the Open […]

Have you ever seen those teeth whitening commercials on TV that tell you that they’ll whiten and brighten your smile? Regardless if the products these people are selling work or not, the goal is still to whiten and brighten your teeth. So, when working in Adobe Photoshop to achieve these goals, take a tip from […]