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How To Create Natural HDR Landscapes Using Blend-If Photoshop Layer Technique
HDR Photography Thankfully, HDR photography has come a very long way since the term was first coined in the early days of DSLRs. Back then, the dynamic range of a digital sensor was almost as limited...
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Photoshop Tutorial | 4 Quick Tips To Help Speed Up Your Workflow Immediately
Becoming an expert at anything requires a constant aggregation of skills and knowledge that result in a refined workflow. The ultimate shortcut or hack doesn’t exist, so you’ll have to reach that level...
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Photoshop Tips | Blend Modes Crash Course
Photoshop’s blend modes are among its most powerful tools. They are one of those little things that are easy to miss for a novice. They’re “hiding” in plain sight in a drop-down menu at the top of...
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Photoshop Tips | Advanced Hair Masking
Layers and layer masks are vital elements in Photoshop, and they have played an enormous role in Photoshop’s trajectory toward its adoption as the industry-standard tool you see today. When learning...
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Preset Brewery App | Drag & Drop Lightroom Preset Conversion for Photoshop Use
There has probably been no more pervasive trend in photography over the last 5 years than that of the preset. In actuality, it’s been longer than that, but still, in the last half decade it seems...
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Photoshop Tutorial | Sharpen Better With Layered Sharpening
Every now again we want our images to have a little extra pop to catch the eye of anyone who comes across them. Although our eyes prefer images with stunning clarity, they can also detect when things...
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How To Set Up Your Wacom Pen For Better Use In Photoshop, Capture One, &...
Since we first wrote some Wacom Pen Tablet reviews there has been a massive interest in new versions of the hardware, how different they are, and particularly how to set them up for different...
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How To Retain Edits Made In Adobe Camera Raw When In Lightroom
If you’re a part of the SLRL family, and our site is somewhere you frequent, I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that so far as post-processing and file management goes, you live in and...
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2 Tools That Boost Lightroom’s Develop Module & Presets
Developing with Lightroom is a different art to Photoshop in pretty much every respect. Whereas to work within Photoshop properly, it demands you understand how it thinks and does what it does; with LR...
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How To Do A Quick & Easy Portrait Retouch From Start To Finish
Retouching is something you’ve got to come to grips with, and if you’re looking for a decent primer on being able to do a decent job, Jessica Kobeissi‘s tutorial on how she approaches retouching is a...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Use Content-Aware Scale To Extend Backgrounds
It happens to the best of us. You take a few shots, but the one where the subject looks, hands down, the best isn’t framed the way you’d like it to be. There are a few tricks you can use to add to the...
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Adobe Updates Editing Capabilities to Lightroom & ACR With New ‘Profiles’
Adobe has made a relatively major update to Camera Profiles (now known simply as ‘Profiles’) which affects Adobe Camera Raw, and all versions of Lightroom from CC to Classic to Mobile, along with other...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Reduce Noise In Photoshop
We can’t all have state of the art, top of the line cameras that can take a clean shot at ISO one trillion, but most of us have access to Adobe’s $9.99 Photoshop/Lightroom bundle. For those times that...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Use The Color Picker Tool
If there’s one sure bet in Photoshop, it’s that there’s always something new to learn. Even the tools you’re already using may have more uses and features than you know if you scratch just beneath the...
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Photoshop Tip | Split Your Screen For One Image To Maximize Efficiency
I’ve come to realize over the course of my relatively short and fortunate life, that often I don’t know what I want until I’m given it. That has been true in my dating life no doubt, but in education,...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Match Colors In Photoshop
When it comes to color spaces, you already work in RGB, you may have heard about CMYK, but there is another color space that is lesser-known yet highly useful. It’s called “Lab,” and it isn’t something...
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Photoshop Tips | Photoshop ‘Auto Adjustments’ For One-Click Color Correction
You could probably learn about a new Photoshop feature every day for the rest of your life and still not cover them all. That’s what makes Photoshop such an incredibly powerful program that’s...
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Hands On With Pratik Naik’s Infinite Color Panel | What It Does, How It...
Pratik Naik has been working in the photography industry as a high-end retoucher and educator for more than 10 years, with his work published in the likes of ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ and Marie Claire....
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Photoshop & Lightroom | Simple Portrait Retouching From Start To Finish With...
Great images don’t always require a marathon editing session. Sometimes, thoughtful and well-placed edits are all that’s needed to make a session’s photos magical. Julia Trotti has decided to pull back...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Use Curves
Hey Photoshop users! Are you using Curves adjustments? You should be. Otherwise, you’re missing out on one of Photoshop’s most powerful tools. The idea of the Curves tool is this: when you create a...
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Photoshop Tips | How And Why To Use Droplets
Droplets are among Photoshop’s lesser-known features, but if you need to process batches of images in Photoshop, they can save you a lot of time. So, what is a Droplet, anyway? In short, they are a way...
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How To Accurately & Easily Match Skin Tones In Photoshop | Selective Color
In case you’ve been too buried to see it, there’s been a significant shift in photo manipulation in recent months and even years, and it’s two-fold. On one side images are trending toward the much more...
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Wacom Intuos Pro (New) Review | Refined & Essential
Given the inordinate amount of time photographers are apt to spend in post processing, it goes without challenge that anything which makes that time more productive, more efficient, faster and more...
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Instagram Better | How To Split Images For Seamless Panoramas For Instagram
Instagram has continuously evolved the way in which we share our images. The seamless panorama is a feature you may have come across on the platform but never knew how to create on your own. There are...
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Apple Will Fix Macbook & MacBook Pro Keyboards For Free Or Refund Your Repair...
Apple will now fix faulty Apple Macbook and Macbook pro keyboards, and that’s good news. Various Apple laptop models from 2015 to the current generation have had problematic keyboard functionality...
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Artistic Motion Blur in the Studio | How I Shot (and Edited) It
I found myself interested in the idea of capturing and conveying movement in still photography. There are, ostensibly, two approaches to the idea: you can either use a very short shutter speed, or...
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5 Beginner Steps to Create a Great Composite in Photoshop
If you’ve ever dreamed of creating high-quality commercial images like Joel Grimes, Erik Almås, Tim Tadder or Alexia Sinclair then you may also know how much they rely on post-production in photoshop...
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How To Cure Age Spots With The Dodge & Burn Reverse Time Machine!
Portraits of seniors can serve as great examples of celebrating the experience of those folks who have lived life well. As it turns out, the experience of living life well can show up as dark age spots...
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Lose the Glare! 3 Simple Steps to Cleaning Up Those Blinding Glares in...
A good portrait frequently includes careful placement of your lights to nicely sculpt the subject’s face complimenting them making them look as good as they can. But when the person you’re shooting is...
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Retouching Toolkit 3.1 Review – A Near Perfect Extension For Adobe Photoshop...
If you’re anything like me, you love getting hands on with any and every tool that comes out in regards to photography and videography. Having a background in IT, I love finding any new ways to make my...
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