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Photoshop Better | Five Photoshop Tips In Five Minutes
Anyone who has a little familiarity with Photoshop knows that there are more ways to do any one thing than most people will ever know. But the real intrigue with Photoshop lies in the fact that there...
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Sharpening Your Images | How It Works, What To Look For, And Why To Tone It Down
There is a video doing the rounds right now that’s essentially a public service announcement by Tony Northrup on the perils of over sharpening. We’ve highlighted this on a few occasions here on SLRL...
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Photoshop Better | Exploring The Abilities & Settings Of The Healing Brush
The healing brush is one of the most widely used tools in Photoshop and one of the very first tools that new Photoshop users will find a use for and try on their work. Used well, it can remove unwanted...
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How To Change A Sky In Photoshop
Contemporary portraiture often focuses on isolating your subject from the background by having it melt away into a glorious amalgam of colors. However, there are times when your portraits feature a...
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The general photography audience and practitioners are more sophisticated now than they were 5 years ago. There’s a desire for deeper understanding and deeper appreciation that exists now, even whilst...
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Photoshop Tutorial | 5 Ways To Change The Color Of Anything In Photoshop
The ability to change specific colors in post-production is a good skill to have in general but, it’s also a necessity for working professionals. For example, any number of logistical reasons may...
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How to Make Strong Black & White Images Using Gradient Maps
What is it about a good black and white? Similar to a waltz, monochromes are timeless and beautiful while maintaining a magical aesthetic. Waltzes, like black and white images, are deceptive in nature...
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Photoshop Tips | How To Easily Remove Distractions Using Plate Compositing
Compositing can range from simple to incredibly involved. One of the easiest ways to make a convincing composite involves a technique called ‘plate compositing.’ It’s got nothing to do with dinner...
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Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool | Two Ways to Adjust It To Make Your Retouching...
Using Photoshop is, metaphorically, akin to the practice of a martial art, or indeed any art, in that you can learn all the fundamentals but continually develop and realize the nuances of your actions....
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A Guide To Color Processing In Lightroom Or Photoshop | Step Up Your Image Color
Preamble: I edit emotionally not systematically, I’ve learned not to idolize scenes I’m not in, and the adjustment brush is your friend. I had a much longer and more drawn out article prepared for this...
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Photoshop Better | Setting Up A Retouching Workflow With A Tablet & Custom...
Photoshop is its own kind of environment. When you’re a new user, everything is overwhelming and daunting, but when you start to devote more of your time to retouching, you will get a sense that you’ve...
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Photoshop Tips | Does Your Photo Actually Have Banding, Or Is Photoshop...
The world around us is a vibrant setting; displaying a palette of colors that compels us to try and capture its wonder. However, the tools we use often fail to do it justice. Nature’s subtle...
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Photoshop Brush Smoothing | The Mystery Of The Purple Line, Explained
With Adobe’s newest updates, there has been much chatter about Lightroom CC vs ‘Lightroom Classic’ and what it may mean for photographers in the future, but there is another, smaller thing that has...
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Photoshop CC 2018 | 5 Need-To-Know New Features
With 2018 versions of Adobe program releases came much scrutiny of Lightroom naming conventions and confusion over the purple line that appeared when using Photoshop’s brush tool upon update (we...
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Frequency Separation | What Is It Really And When Should You Use It?
Frequency Separation is a powerful retouching technique used to soften a subject’s skin without degrading his or her skin texture. When executed well, it produces are a pristine photograph that gives...
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Photoshop Tutorial | Curves Versus Levels: What’s The Difference?
As you advance in your post production training, you learn that programs such as Photoshop often provide more than one route to the same destination. However, even though more than one tool in the...
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Photoshop Tutorial | How To Blend Exposures in Photoshop
HDR programs tend to be like a Bob Ross paint by numbers. Some with a little time and patience can create beautiful final pieces; others will leave you frustrated with something that looks...
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Photoshop Tips | 10 Uncommon Shortcuts You’ll Want To Remember
Shortcuts are king when it comes to maximizing your use of Photoshop. Once you build your own signature workflow, the next step should be finding a way to do it faster so you can ultimately do more....
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Photoshop Update | Perfect Selections & Using Machine Learning To Work Smarter
Adobe is in the midst of evolving its suite of software offerings in order to adapt to a changing and increasingly competitive market. While some of the new changes, such as creating two variants of...
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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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