This how to video is a primer on the Layers panel and some of the cool and time-saving hotkeys that you have while using layers in Photoshop. Selecting multiple layers, duplicating layers, moving layers around quickly, changing opacity, hiding and unhiding layers, linking layers, and more! The photo I used in this tutorial can be...
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
How to Edit Video in Photoshop CC
In this how to video tutorial we’re going to learn how to edit video in Adobe Photoshop. We will take these clips that I shot and explore how to edit and trim footage, how to fade clips together, how to work with audio, how to mix levels so the audio works well together, how to...
My 5 Favorite Things About Smart Objects!
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!...
How to Defringe in Photoshop (Perfect Selection Edges)
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...
High Frequency Separation in 10 Minutes
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...
HBO Style Movie Poster Effect in Photoshop CC
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:...
Advanced: How to Select Difficult Hair in Photoshop
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...
Beginner: How to Select Hair (and other difficult selections)
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...
Video Game Style Tones in Photoshop CC
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...
Canvas Size & Expanding your PSD
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...
All About Resizing Images in Photoshop CC
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,...
Create Multi-Layered Grain and Noise in Photoshop CC
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....