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Photoshop Better | Use Linked Smart Objects To Keep Photoshop Faster & Flexible
Linked Smart Objects can revolutionize your workflow in Photoshop. In a previous article (find here) I talked about smart objects in general; what they are, how to use them, and why I tend to avoid...
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Three Different Blend Modes to Use In Frequency Separation For Ease & Speed
Love it or hate it, frequency separation has become a staple for many portrait photographers. There are many editing programs and plugins that can be purchased, however, it isn’t a necessity. When used...
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Frequency Separation Pitfalls To Avoid | Beware Of Actions & Cautious With...
Like some sexually charged romance from a telenovela, I have a love/hate relationship with frequency separation. I love it because it just works so well, and the hatred exists because it is abused and...
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Image Deconstructed | How to Retouch an Iconic Image Like Patrick Demarchelier
Open any major fashion magazine today and you will be hard pressed to not see a campaign that was photographed by Patrick Demarchelier. His list of advertising clients is extensive and includes the...
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Editing From The Bottom Up | Discover Your Unique Style To Create Your Own...
So I realized something the other day. As I was editing I was for whatever reason scrolling to the bottom of the develop panel in Lightroom and I worked my way up on my image, and I LOVED it. From what...
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How To Change Background Color In Photoshop
If you’re going to shoot headshots it helps to have a seamless background – actually, it helps to have many of them in a variety of colors, textures, and even widths. But if you had to begin with one,...
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Five Ways To Retouch Blemishes In Photoshop
Part of a portrait photographer’s job is to make their subject look as good as possible, maybe even a little better than reality. There’s much that can be done in-camera, from lighting to posing, that...
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All 27 Photoshop Blending Modes Explained | Required Learning For Best...
Pareto’s principle isn’t just something to throw into a theoretical mix in business school, but something pervasive throughout (arguably), everything, and photography included. In photography it’s...
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Fast And Easy Color Grading Using Split Toning & Blend If
Split toning is about adding different tints to highlights and shadows, and can add a little something special to an image. While easily done in Lightroom, you can get a little more control over the...
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How To Easily Blend Exposures For Interior Photography In Photoshop
If you’ve ever taken interior shots with windows included and then combined the exposure in Photoshop, you likely know that without some particular know-how, it can go a couple of different ways....
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An Intro to Non-Destructive Dodging & Burning
The method of dodging and burning has been a staple among photographers since the inception of it. In the dark room, it meant dodging areas of light that needed to be a little brighter or burning areas...
View ArticleHow To Make Selections In Photoshop
Almost anything you do in Photoshop can be done with more precision or just to a better degree if you are familiar with how to utilize selections. Whether you’re retouching a body, a face, building a...
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How To Upload Images To Facebook At Higher Quality With Less Banding & Artifacts
Just a few days ago we shared a short how-to article detailing how to ensure that the images you upload to Facebook from a mobile device like your iPhone are of the highest quality. Essentially, the...
View ArticleMake Color Adjustments & Match Color With This Clever Trick Using Black &...
Photoshop is a tool that gives you multiple ways of doing almost anything and you for the most part you can’t possibly hope to learn them all. Think of it as a buffet that gives you options you can’t...
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Photoshop Blend Modes: Color vs Luminosity
Photoshop puts a vast arsenal at our disposal to fine tune our images. It seems that the better acquainted we become with it, the more we seek out subtle yet effective ways to enhance our work. Blend...
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Photoshop Buried Treasure | The Image Processor Tool
Photoshop has more features than you could possibly hope to master, giving you a multitude of options geared towards enhancing your images and streamlining your workflow. It’s not a static application...
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How to Clean Skin In Photoshop Using the Clone Stamp Tool
It seems that with each new day there is a new video tutorial with “high end” retouching, but that’s fair since very photographer should learn these skills at some point in their career, and the...
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Corrective Dodge & Burn For Adjustments For Portrait & Beauty Retouching
When we take beauty portraits, there is usually a gap between that initial raw image and the vision we hold in our mind’s eye. Once we get that image into our editing software, we subject that original...
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Advanced Content Aware Fill Tutorial | Easily Dictate What You Want & Get It
It wasn’t until about 2015 that Photoshop Content Aware abilities sort of came into their own, but that progress didn’t cease, and it continues to improve to the point where it is indespensible for...
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Using Photoshop to Correct Severe Distortion
Panoramic photographs provide a sprawling view that can communicate the grandeur of a subject or expand what would otherwise be a constrained perspective. With little exception, there is a penalty for...
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