Smart Objects are the bomb, they’re one of my favorite features of Photoshop and in this video tutorial, we’re going to talk about some of the powerful features that I love most about Smart Objects. We’ll talk about wrapping objects as a Smart Object for scaling purposes, multiple file updating, replacing Smart Objects, and more!...
In this tutorial, we’re going to explore what to do with an object or image once we have cut it out and how to really clean up the edges and get rid of stray color that may be plaguing your images. We will cover Color Decontamination, Defringe in Photoshop, Color Decontamination in Refine Edge, and...
This is not your typical scientific approach to High Frequency Separation. I’m going to show you how I create the layers needed, but also how I use these layers to retouch blemishes, sharpen, dodge and burn, smooth skin and add texture, and even flatten out colors so we can control where the light will fall...
Let’s have some fun here and learn about channel-based selections to displace an American flag over this guy’s face and then use Levels, Curves, Color Balance, and a number of methods to adjust contrast, tone, and color to create this epic looking poster image. Download the images used in this tutorial here Model: https://unsplash.com/photos/QPE5988qVoM Flag:...
This tutorial is all about selecting hair in Photoshop. We’re going to tackle three different and very difficult selections in this tutorial. We’ll extract a blonde haired girl from a forest, we’ll cut out a redhead who is lying in the grass, and we’ll also extract a girl who has an incredible amount of teased...
Do you need to get an amazing selection of hair in Photoshop? In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through a very fast, relatively easy, and-most importantly-very effective way to make complex selections like a frizzy head of hair in Photoshop. I consider this a “basic-advanced” selection because the model is standing in front...
In this Photoshop CC tutorial we’re going to create an intense Photoshop action that will edit the color and tone of any image and give you some really cool, epic, moody color and tone for your images and tends to make them look like they’re almost right out of a video game. This is such...
In this tutorial we’ll talk about expanding your canvas outside of where your PSD began. By using Canvas Size we can crop without deleting parts of our image (we can do this with the newer Crop tool too,) we can expand our image and add transparency or a color to any or all sides of...
In the list of non-sexy Photoshop features, resizing might be right up near the top, but there are lots of cool things you can do and should definitely know about with regard to resizing images. This quick tutorial will take you from zero knowledge about resizing images and documents in Photoshop and walk through cropping,...
In this tutorial I’ll cover my current favorite way to create grain for my photographs. Many retouchers will create layers of grain to sit up on top of all of their layers as a sort of finishing layer that helps blend all the colors together below the grain and create a smoother, more finished look....
In this tutorial we’ll cover how we can begin with a simple Threshold Adjustment Layer and end up using layers, brushes, stock images, blend modes, and straight lines to create a space styled double exposure effect in Photoshop. Check it out and enjoy! The stars image I used in this video: https://unsplash.com/photos/8FwiZcXiX_g 1. Threshold Good,...
There are scores of ways to change colors and affect the colors/tones in your photos in Photoshop. The technique that I’m using in this video is using Gradient Map Adjustment Layers to quickly adjust the colors of our highlights and shadows and fade the amount of color in between. There are some very, very cool...