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5 Things You Need to Know About Your Lightroom 5 Catalog

June 3, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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Adobe Wordwide Design Evangelist, Terry White, put together this brief video about 5 things you need to know about your Lightroom 5 catalog.

These are helpful tips that advanced Lightroom users probably already know about; however, if you don’t know about them, they could potentially improve your workflow. Here’s a list of the highlights of the tips. [Read more…]

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How to Use Puppet Warp in Photoshop to Manipulate Images

June 1, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Check out this tutorial from Photoshop Principal Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes as he share how to warp, distort and manipulate images using Photoshop‘s built-in puppet warp tool, along with Content-Aware fill and delete commands.

If you are interested in the tutorial on making selections that he references in the above video, you can check it out below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: content-aware, Learn, Photoshop, puppet warp, tip, tutorial

Photoshop Tip: Use Content-Aware Scale to Change Photo Proportions

May 27, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Check out this Photoshop tutorial from Photoshop Principal Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes as he uses Content-Aware Scale to change the orientation of images.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: Content Aware Scale, how to, Learn, Photoshop, tip, tutorial

Tutorial: Selective Edits – Dodging, Burning & Sharpening in Photoshop

May 11, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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In the above video, Photoshop Principal Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes demonstrates selective editing using dodging, burning and sharpening in Photoshop CC.

You can use dodge and burn tools to only affect shadows, mid-tones or highlights, which make these tools much more effective than they used to be. Likewise, Smart Sharpen is a more powerful tool than it had previously been.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: Learn, Photoshop, tips, tutorial

How to Hold a Camera – Beginner Tips from Karl Taylor

May 10, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Pro photographer Karl Taylor is back with another tutorial video. This time around, he’s covering basic techniques for holding a camera in standing, sitting and prone positions. These are fundamental tips for getting consistently sharp images and reducing camera shake blur. If you are new to photography or just need a brush up, the video above is worth your time to watch.

For further reading on the topic, check out my article 4 Principles of Photography Marksmanship from a few years ago.

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: Learn, photography, tips, tutorial

Getting Started with HDR Images in Photoshop

April 26, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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Photoshop CC allows you to merge multiple images at different exposure values and create an HDR image using Camera Raw. Watch this video for a short tutorial on how to get started processing HDR images in Photoshop.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: camera raw, hdr, how to, Photoshop, Photoshop CC, tutorial

4 Lighting Tutorial Videos from Karl Taylor

April 21, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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Karl Taylor has been working on a multi-part series of lighting tutorials for Broncolor. He just published the fourth video in the series on YouTube.

In the fourth video, he shows off some expert dual flash techniques by using a long exposure in a dark studio to fire strobes at different times while removing modifiers in the dark. Really smart stuff.

You can see part one above and the next three in the series are below.  [Read more…]

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Watch This Tutorial Showing How to Deconstruct the ‘Look’ of Any Photo Using Curves in Photoshop

March 17, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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Do you see photos and wonder how they get that ‘look’ in their post processing work flow? The above video will show you how to evaluate a photo and match its look to your own using a series of curves adjustment laters in Photoshop. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: curves, Learn, look, Photoshop, tip, trick, tutorial

How to Add & Remove Lens Flare in Photoshop

March 9, 2014 By Eric Reagan

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In this video, Photoshop Principal Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes explains how to add and remove lens flare from an image.

Removing lens flare from an image is accomplished by using Content Aware tools in Photoshop CC. Hughes also shows how to non-destructively add lens flare to an image using layer blend modes with the lens flare filter.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: Learn, lens flare, Photoshop, tip, tutorial

5 Ways to Use Layer Groups in Photoshop

July 20, 2013 By Eric Reagan

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Do you use layer groups in Photoshop just for organizing your layers?

In this quick 10-minute video, Julieanne Kost demonstrates 5 ways to make use of layer groups in Photoshop that go well beyond organization. All of these techniques can be used in Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC.

Here’s a quick summary of the 5 ways to use layer groups.

  1. Blending modes apply to group of layers to make the effect appear as if the layers have been merged.
  2. Styles for layers (e.g., drop shadows, etc.) in groups are applied as if the layers have been merged.
  3. The ability to restrict how the layers interact within the group versus the layers in the rest of the document. For example, a black and white adjustment layer can be restricted to layers within group.
  4. The ability to clip a texture or another color to a group by using a clipping mask.
  5. Mask multiple layers within a group with a single mask.

Watch the video to see how to make these work in the Photoshop interface.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: groups, how to, layers, Photoshop, tutorial, video

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