In the age of incredibly high ISOs and camera sensors that seem to get better by the day, noise and grain are not nearly as much of a problem as they used to be, but when you need some help turning down the grain or noise in your photos there are some great options in...
Of all the sharp things in life that can hurt you, the sharpness in Photoshop will actually do good things for your photos and this tutorial is all about how to find the best sharpening for your photos. We’re going to cover the Unsharp Mask Sharpening, the Smart Sharpening, Sharpening in Camera RAW, and a...
One of the more difficult tasks in Photoshop has long been to make a car look like it is moving at a significant rate of speed. There are some third party applications that are typically used to get a really great look (and they do a pretty awesome job,) but with the addition of the...
When you are building a composite image, you have to ensure that each of the objects in your composite have a perspective that matches the image into which they are being placed. In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about how to find the horizon of your image and then how to find the vanishing...
In this tutorial, we will take a photo of a car on the street and cut it out and move it over to a different background and make it look as realistic as we can. We’re going to cover how to choose images that can work together, how to adjust the perspective of the background...
Vanishing Point in Photoshop is an amazing set of tools that allows us to determine the perspective of an image and then build a more complex set of perspective grids from our initial grid to then be able to retouch surfaces in perspective. We’ve got lots of brick in the image that I’m using in...
In this Photoshop CC tutorial, we’ll take a look at the power of the Color Range tool in Photoshop. We will look at selecting entire swatches of color, specific tones, how to refine a color range selection, how to make a difficult selection and use it as a mask for an Adjustment Layer, and much...
It’s all about Grow and Similar today in this tutorial about putting a new sky into your photo. We’ll talk about how to select a sky that has tree tips sticking up into it and replacing the sky as perfectly as we can by combining our selection with the Refine Edge command and then tweaking...
Well, you know it had to happen. Fat-shaming or not, we had to talk about making a girl thin in Photoshop using the Liquify filter. Ladies, I know you always want to look skinnier and this is the latest and greatest tutorial on losing 10, 20, or 50 lbs in Photoshop fast! We will look...
Camera RAW Filter. This filter allows you to edit any image or graphic in your PSD with the Camera RAW editor. Changing light, color, and tone all with a simple slider has never been easier! Also, if you’re just more comfortable using Lightroom or working in the Camera RAW editor, this is the way to...
In Photoshop CC we have a powerful feature called “Refine Edge” which will help you create complex selections with ease. I will cover some of the things I love about this tool in this tutorial, but I’m also going to talk about some of where it has flaws. Overall it’s a great tool, but if...
In this tutorial, we’ll talk about the somewhat ill-advised “Copy CSS” feature of Photoshop and how it works. We’ll take code for text and a button that we’ve created and move it over into Dreamweaver and adjust and tweak the CSS code until it creates a graphic similar to what we had in Photoshop. You...