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Adobe Photoshop Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

The Adobe Photoshop section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of opening, editing and exporting photographs and graphics into and from Photoshop. Discussion includes how to effectively utilize this piece of photo editing software in post-processing to best arrive at the result you're looking for. Additional topics include how to work efficiently with all of Photoshop's tools and panels; color, clarity, size, type, filters, etc...for both print and the web.

How to Use the Face-Aware Liquify Filter in Adobe Photoshop

Adobe introduced one of the coolest features available into Photoshop back in 2016. This feature is called the Face-Aware Liquify Filter and what it can do is simply outstanding. There aren’t many tools this intuitive and powerful out there and I have to say, I’m more than impressed by it. Basically, this filter can recognize […]

Checking Out Some Histogram Options in Adobe Photoshop

Histograms are immensely helpful tools when it comes to editing photographs, but I have to say, while they look very cool to have hanging around our cameras and editing applications, they’re also one of the most ignored features out there. Personally, I feel very professional when a histogram is in view. Do I use it […]

Animating Scale, Rotation & Opacity in Adobe Photoshop

I sat down a few days ago and started messing around in Adobe Photoshop. My goal was to see how cool I could make an already exciting and interesting motocross photograph. The image screams action and I thought a bit of text as well as another similar type of image would help, so after playing […]

Using the Dust & Scratches Filter to Clean Up a Photograph

If you’re old enough to remember back, you’ll recall that there was once a time when people used cameras that contained film as opposed to using digital cameras. I had one (or many) of those film cameras and I can tell you that while I took hundreds and hundreds of photos, I like digital a […]

How to Focus Stack Your Images For Better Photography

This is a very exciting post to share with you. Believe it or not, I’ve actually been having multiple conversations with various people lately on the topic of depth of field as it pertains to photography. Basically, the conversations go something like this: THEM: I would love to solve the issue of not being able […]

Colorizing Objects with the Hue Blending Mode in Adobe Photoshop

Have you ever wondered how websites that sell clothing and others that sell cars change the colors of whatever it is they’re selling? You know what I’m referring to here. Pretend you’re looking at a Honda Civic on the Honda website and the default color is gray. Below the photo of the car are alternative […]

A Creative Text Effect Using Blending Modes in Adobe Photoshop

The thing I love most about this text effect is that it’s so easy to pull off. There’s no special knowledge you need to accomplish what I’ll show you below, so if you can type out a few words and change a blending mode or two, you’re all set. I can see this type of […]

How to Separate a Drop Shadow From a Layer in Adobe Photoshop

Did you know that you can separate certain layer effects from the layers you applied them to in Adobe Photoshop? No? Well, don’t worry about it. Not many people do, but the good news is that you can, in fact, separate these two things and what you can do with them after that is so […]

How to Add Multiple Shapes to the Same Layer in Adobe Photoshop

I work with shapes in Adobe Photoshop nearly every day of my life. Even in the posts that I write for this blog, I oftentimes include shapes. You can see them as circles, squares and ovals around things I like to highlight in the many screenshots I share. Shapes are easy to use and are […]