Adobe Photoshop Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

There is so much in Adobe Photoshop that revolves around making all sorts of selections. I’ve written about many instances on this blog and I’m sure I’ll continue that trend well into the future. Making selections can range from extremely simple to extremely challenging. Things can get complicated quickly, but Adobe has done a fairly […]

I was messing around in Photoshop the other day and I ended up with a really cool take on an ordinary image. I thought I’d share the process I followed with you today. It was so simple and fast that I figured anyone could do it. All I used was adjustment layers, a filter and […]

I’ve been doing a lot of video work in Adobe Photoshop lately and I have to tell you that when it comes to what makes or breaks a video, it’s the audio. It’s strange, because it seems so obvious that the video has to be of some really great quality for folks to admire what’s […]

For all of you who enjoy editing video in Adobe Photoshop, this post is going to be super cool. In it, I’m going to explain how to animate layer effects in the Timeline panel. Animating this type of thing is just as easy as animating anything else. All you need to do is to set […]

I have another really cool tip for you today. You can put this one in the “best tips ever” category if you want. It’s going to save a lot of people a lot of headaches. I know it did for me when I first learned about this. Have you ever rotated and cropped an image, […]

One of the most basic things you can do to a photo with a person in it to make it look better is to brighten the eyes of that person. The closer and more visible the eyes are, the more important this task becomes. Bright eyes translate to health and vibrancy. This brightness can make […]

If you’re a photo editor for any type of publication, you have likely come across a situation where you needed to add hair to an area that didn’t have any. Of course, you wouldn’t want to add any old hair, you’d want to add the hair that belongs to the person in the photo. This […]

I want to take a moment today to talk about Smart Objects and Smart Filters. As much as I discuss these two features of Adobe Photoshop on this blog, I believe there are still many folks out there who don’t really get what’s going on. It’s easy to work on all sorts of things inside […]

One of the most common Photoshop questions I see floating around out there on the internet looks something like, “How do get an image you show through text?” Or maybe it’s something like, “How do I turn text into an image?” Either way, whoever is asking these questions basically wants to know the same thing; […]