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...
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The Power of the Camera RAW Filter
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...
Best & Worst Things About Refine Edge Photoshop CC
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...
Copy CSS: Convert Shapes & Text Effects to CSS
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...
Photoshop: Layer Organization Tip & Tricks
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...
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...