In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll cover a bunch of different ways to cover creating light leaks and lens flares. We’ll talk about mixing blend modes and brushes, we’ll talk about the adjustment brush and non-destructive, we’ll look at blending in light leaks, and we’ll take a look at a trick that makes the built-in Lens...
In this Lightroom tutorial, we will talk about how to get great color correction in your photos by the numbers or just color correcting until it looks the way that you want it to look. We’ll use some tricks of the White Balance tool, check out the Histogram, and even break it all down by...
In this Premiere Pro video editing tutorial, we will cover how to import and work with short light leak clips to create flashy and smooth light leak/lens flare transition effect in Premiere. You’ll learn a couple cool tricks about reversing a flare to get the perfect moment of transition as well as working with blend...
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll create a super cool colored wave animation. Check out the download link here to grab the free PSD full of colored waves pre-made for you to use. You’ll learn how to create multiple waves shapes and use the Timeline panel to animate vector masks to create a beautiful flowing effect....
In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll talk about how to create this dots and lines effect in Illustrator. I couldn’t come up with a good name for this effect, but rest assured, it’s really, really cool. We’ll talk about using a bunch of different tools as well as a script to create this crazy shape,...
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll cover how to create five different moody Photoshop preset actions that we’ll be gearing specifically for portrait, but really could be used for any type of image in Photoshop. We will use the point curve in Camera Raw and the Hue, Saturation, Luminance sliders in Camera Raw almost exclusively to...
In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial, we’ll cover using the Adjustment Brush tool to target and retouch each part of the eye of our model. This technique is fast, easy, and something that will help your portraits looks much better! Check out the quick video and enjoy! Tags: How to retouch eyes, retouch eyes, retouch eyes...
In this Premiere Pro video editing tutorial, we’ll talk about how to create five different types of subtle and beautiful camera movements in Premiere Pro. We’ll cover a simple pan/slide movement, a zoom with or without movement, an aerial rotation shot, a simple tracking/counter tracking style animation, and a 3D camera zoom through 3D space...
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll tackle the complete process of blending two images together in Photoshop to create a movie-style composite image and pull together the foreground and background to create a smooth colored composite image with depth and contrast. You’ll learn about cutting out an image and creating a mask in this tutorial as...
In this Illustrator tutorial, we’ll create this text effect using the power of the blend features in Illustrator. We can create custom text using the Pen or Pencil tool in mere moments or, in the second half of this tutorial, we’ll take a typeface and split the letters apart and find the center of each...
Learn to make virtually ANY selection and cut out anything you would even need in Photoshop. We’ll make simple, straight-line selections with the Poly Lasso tool, we’ll select car parts with the Pen Tool and edit the path, we’ll use Calculations to create extremely intricate and difficult selections VERY quickly, we’ll learn to use and...
In this Lightroom tutorial, we’ll look at five different retouching workflows in Lightroom that work particularly well with wedding photos. The types of images we’ll cover are: #1. Crisp, sharp, high contrast black and white. #2. Rich and cinematic environmental bridal portrait. #3. Lite “VSCO” faded style. #4. Colorful low-light venue shot retouch. #5. Faded...