The key with working in Adobe Photoshop is to achieve your goals with the utmost accuracy, while maintaining a high degree of simplicity. Any time you can accomplish this is a good day. And if you can do it quickly, even better. The issue most of us have is that we oftentimes don’t know how […]
How to Adjust the Brush Tool Settings in Adobe Photoshop
By far, the Brush Tool is one of the most popular tools in all of Adobe Photoshop. In many ways, it’s similar to other tools of its nature, such as the Pencil Tool, the Clone Stamp Tool, the Eraser Tool and the Blur Tool. Of course, there are many others, but I didn’t want to […]
How to Edit Photos in Photoshop From Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is great at accomplishing a lot of things. You can sharpen and blur a photo, add or remove contrast, clarity, vibrance, exposure and adjust many more aspects of the Basic panel. You can even add targeted gradients that will alter the photos’ temperature so it looks warmer in one area and cooler in […]
How to Use the Gradient Tool with Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop
I’ve got some seriously cool tricks for you today. Adobe Photoshop is known for some really neat tools that not too many folks know about. Usually, it’s not until you toy around with one tool long enough that you discover a golden nugget of beauty. And in what I’ve covered below, there are a few […]
How to Add Clouds to a Dull Sky in Adobe Photoshop
Have you ever taken a photo at the beach or of a landscape and found yourself looking at a dull sky? If you’ve ever taken either of these types of photos, I’m betting you have had sky issues. Good sky shots are terribly challenging to capture. They’re usually washed out or overcast. Nothing is worse […]
How to Add a Grain Effect to a Photo in Adobe Camera Raw
During the usual course of editing photographs, one of the tasks more often than not ends up as an attempt to reduce noise and clarify whatever it is that’s making the photo less than perfect. I know this. I’ve done it a thousand times. Either the photo wasn’t taken properly and I look for a […]
How to Select & Mask Hair in Adobe Photoshop
When working on portraits and various other types of photos where people come into play, hair is always tough to deal with. Problems especially arise when you have the intention of selecting and/or masking parts of a photo that include hair. Hair can be extremely detailed and most of the time, you’d rather bypass parts […]
How to Blend Photos by Painting Masks in Adobe Photoshop
A few posts back, I mentioned that I was going to soon write about some of the more intricate details of how masking and the Brush Tool work together. Well, today’s the day. I know that I’ve already covered some topics related to masking, so I won’t bore you with all of them again. What […]
Creating an Awesome Black & White Photo in Adobe Lightroom
When it comes to transforming a color photo into a black and white photo, Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw are virtually one and the same. As I’ve mentioned in quite a few previous posts, Camera Raw’s processing engine is built into Lightroom. This may be why the two application’s Basic panels look almost identical. So, […]
Working Faster with the Quick Mask Tool in Adobe Photoshop
I’ve been writing a lot of posts that cover masking and adjustments in Adobe Photoshop lately. I love these kinds of topics because they’re so popular and useful. The thing is, I’ve been approaching the way I go about things in one general direction. As is the case in many other areas of Photoshop, there’s […]
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