There is a new Photoshop User Group starting in Fort Collins Colorado at The Center for Fine Art Photography. For those who have never been in an user group before this is a loose knit group of Photoshop fans who get together to talk and share tips, tricks, links, and mostly talk about everything Photoshop. [...]
I love layers, it is great that I can do so much to an image that if necessary (mostly from clients) something needs to changed I just go to that layer and rework it. Here is quick tip for creating a Merged Layer with all the work layers intact. We call it the Left Hand [...]
When you start with Photoshop you learn by clicking on tools and using them. Need another tool just go to the tool bar and click on it. Simple but what a lot people don’t know is that with many of the tools if you hold down the Alt (Ok you Mac users the Option) key [...]
One of the great things about Photoshop is that there is always about a dozen ways to do something. The thing that drives me crazy about Photoshop is that always seems to be about dozen ways to do something.
I do not like in camera conversions to Black and White because there is no one setting [...]
Windows users are use to getting beat up by Mac users on style and coolness. We are like the AV club, sure we know a lot of stuff but we get no respect.
Well there is a cool thing that only the cool kids with a two button mouse and scroll wheel can do that the [...]
Thought I would add a new feature to the Blog of Friday Fix it where I will share questions from students and professionals on problems they have with Photoshop or photography.
One of the members of the Photowalk a couple weeks ago was asking about doing panorama shots. These are those long narrow shots of the [...]
One of the best parts of Raw files is that a single image can be used to bring out both shadow and highlight detail. This is because of much higher dynamic range of a Raw file over a jpeg file. Some have even used a single Raw file to give a fake HDR (High Dynamic [...]
Smart Objects in Photoshop is a fast and easy way to work on images in a non destructive way and can be a great timesaver. However many users are hesitate to use them because I don’t think Adobe has done a good of explaining them.
When Smart Objects came into CS 2 it was handled with [...]
While getting ready for a class I am teaching tomorrow on Fearless Selections I stumbled across an easy way to fake a High Dynamic Range (HDR) look for images. If you have seen any HDR images you may have thought that some look like a Harry Potter movie on LSD. But this was a easy [...]
In the modern world of Digital Cameras one thing that comes up in conversations with other photographers is White Balance. This is code for color because today’s cameras see color differently than film cameras. In the old darkroom ages we would purchase film that color balanced as to what we were shooting. If we were [...]