10 Powerful Photoshop Skills Every Photographer Needs To Know
Whether you are in the beginning stages of retouching and compositing, or a seasoned pro that utilizes the program daily, there is always some function or shortcut to learn to maximize your time in...
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A Creative Approach to Dodging and Burning in Photoshop
Regardless of what you shoot, dodging and burning is a classic, and effective method for maximizing a photo’s visual impact. If you’re unfamiliar with the terminology “dodging” and “burning,” they...
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Your First 3 Steps To Learning Photoshop
The darkroom has always been a place where manipulations to photos occur, and those manipulations range from the minor to the extreme. The general public are usually unaware of the lengths that...
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How To Sharpen Photos Cleanly In Photoshop Without Edging
When attempting to sharpen our images in Photoshop, what exactly is the software programmed to do to increase sharpness? Well, the software searches for edges throughout the image and exaggerates them...
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How to Create Burning Skin in Photoshop This Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, this may be a fun trick to try if you aren’t in the mood to spend money on special effects makeup. After all, Photoshop is the best costume accessory. DIY...
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An Effective Way To Remove Banding That’s Not Adding Noise
Ask any retoucher what their number one nemesis is and they’ll probably say “Banding!”, those curving lines separating each band of color as the tones go from light to dark. These bands are caused when...
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Select & Mask vs Refine Edge | Having Your Cake & Eating It Too
Many photographers have been grappling with Adobe’s baffling choice to remove the refine edge tool in favor of the new “select and mask.” Adobe has been known to leave legacy features for generations,...
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3 Ways To Adjust Color In Photoshop | Photoshop Tutorial
While Capture One has intensive color editing controls to get your image’s colors looking exactly as you intend and Lightroom has its Hue/Saturation/Luminosity sliders to help with things like color...
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30 Essential Tools and Features in Photoshop CC
The sheer scope of Photoshop’s abilities is massive, and can be intimidating for beginners; Even experienced Photoshop users may only know a relatively limited portion of the functionality of the...
View Article10 Easy & Immediately Actionable Photoshop Tips & Tricks
Learning new tricks of the trade is paramount for photographers. Fortunately, we have a tool in Photoshop that provides an inexhaustible supply of techniques to refine our art. The sheer amount of post...
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Bringing Light To Dark Eyes | 3 Ways To Brighten Eyes
It is said the eyes are a window to a person’s soul, which makes them so very important when it comes to shooting and retouching a portrait. After all the retouching, blemish fixing, and color...
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How To Replace A Sky Above A City And Tips & Tricks In The Process
Can’t really help but love the guys from Tutvid, and Nathaniel Dodson speaks faster than you can read and fast enough to hold your attention while covering a lot of material, avoiding the typical slow...
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3 Steps to Removing Shadows With Custom Luminosity Masks
Luminosity Masks Made Easy If you’ve spent any amount of time in Photoshop you will inevitably run into a situation where you are looking for a bit more control over your color or tone adjustments....
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3 Curves To Help Check Your Work Is Ready For Publication | Photoshop Tutorial
Seasoned Pros know how critical it is to double, or even triple check their retouching to make sure they haven’t missed anything. Over the years of working as a high-end retoucher I’ve traded lots of...
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How-To | Easy, Seamless Exposure Blending In Photoshop
Photoshop can be a mystifying environment, where despite a user’s best intentions sometimes things can go awry and make a mess out of a photo. Or, the results may be dazzling and exactly as intended,...
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How To Color Grade With Luminosity Masks In Photoshop
In case you missed the memo, in a world where everyone is on the same presets and basic skills of retouching are commonplace, it is planning, vision, and color grading that set you apart in post...
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The Editing Processes of Some of SLR Lounge’s Best Wedding Photographers
How do SLR Lounge’s best wedding photographers (the U.S. & Canada and International) edit their work? What software do they prefer? What do some of their before and afters look like? We asked, and...
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Is it Ever Necessary To Use Smart Objects In Photoshop?
Photoshop is a complicated beast and if used incorrectly, it can quickly become a tool to ruin your precious images. Smart Objects are a sophisticated tool of retouching in Photoshop which can yield...
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Photoshop Better | Tips On Making Difficult Selections & Masks In Photoshop
As your photography abilities expand, so must your retouching abilities (unless you’re fielding it out), and one of the most important things you can learn in Photoshop to do really well, which will...
View ArticleHow to Shoot & Retouch Like Mario Testino | The Story Behind The Towel Series...
It’s difficult today to create an image that becomes iconic, but Testino has a flair for it. From the groundbreaking photos of a relaxed and languid Princess Diana that changed how royalty was...
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