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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePreset 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article2 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticleAdobe 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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,...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticleHands 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....
View ArticlePhotoshop & 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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...
View ArticlePhotoshop 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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