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 […]

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 […]

Adobe Photoshop is full of automated tools that we, as photographers and designers, can take advantage of. One group of such tools are called Photo Filters. These filters can be added as an adjustment layer and can give a photograph an entirely new mood. If you want to warm a photo up, you can do […]

Comments are huge when it comes to almost any type of development. I’ve been working online for a very long time and I have to tell you, the more comments, the better. Notes are critical as well, but we’ll discuss that another time. Today, it’s all about comments. I comment when writing code. Pretty much […]

As you go about editing video in Adobe Photoshop, you’ll find that using layer masks is very helpful as a method for telling your story. While working on video, these layer masks act almost identically as they do when editing regular photographs. In essence, they nondestructively hide and reveal parts of a layer, depending on […]

This is pretty cool. I’ve always loved playing with the lighting effects filters in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe has added a lot to this area in the past few years and the changes are worth looking at. In today’s post, I’ll be exploring the Lighting Effects area of the Filters menu in Adobe Photoshop. This is […]

I remember back, years ago, when I used to color correct photos for one of my blogs. I used auto-correct as if it was going out of style. Throughout my editing, I learned that I only did so many corrections and over time, I concluded that auto-correct was the way to go. I’d use auto-tone, […]

Of all the tasks editing video requires, playback is probably the most popular. Editing is all about back and forth, making a change, playing the video back, making another change and playing it again. It’s the same thing with audio editing. I can remember working with an audio engineer a few times and their fingers […]

I’d like to look at something a bit closer today that has to do with the video timeline and Layers panel in Adobe Photoshop. The two areas are connected in that they house and control how video is arranged inside the Timeline panel. This is one of those things folks have a tough time figuring […]

Have you ever wondered how some photographers seem to capture and create absolutely stunning photographs? Have you attempted to recreate what you’ve seen online only to fail time and time again? Have you seen wedding and landscape photos that are simply magnificent and wondered how in the heck the photographer did it? Well, I’m here […]