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27 Photoshop + Nano Banana Tricks You Never Knew!

“Master the endless possibilities with new partner models in Adobe Photoshop! Learn how to use Nano Banana in Photoshop to preview outfits, change camera angles, create realistic mockups, and a whole lot more! This Photoshop tutorial shares unique techniques to leverage generative AI and Adobe AI to achieve professional results quickly. I’m excited to show you these next-level tricks!”

00:00 – Introduction
00:29 – Change the Color of an Object
03:13 – Remove Braces
04:10 – How Nano Banana Works
04:46 – Change Facial Expressions
06:16 – Generative Fill Custom Keyboard Shortcut
06:36 – Change Facial Expression of a Dog
07:44 – Change Body Poses
08:15 – Change Text
08:42 – Mockup a Logo
09:21 – Seamless Patterns
10:30 – Create Text Effects
10:57 – Day To Night
11:23 – Summer to Winter
11:38 – Composite items into a Scene
12:29 – Try Clothes On
13:20 – Photo Restoration and Animation
14:41 – Annotate Images
15:27 – On-Image Prompting
16:25 – Change Camera Angles
17:07 – Make Someone Look Like ’80s Model
17:21 – Generate a Professional Portrait
17:29 – Flood The Scene
17:42 – Turn Someone into the Terminator
17:55 – Zoom Out an Image (Outpainting)
18:16 – Replace the Background
18:28 – Place Someone into the Hollywood Sign
18:39 – Place Someone in The Show Friends
18:57 – Turn a Photo into a comic book drawing

Find more from Jesus Ramirez’s Photoshop Training Channel.
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Adobe Just Dropped Their AI Generator Nano BANANA Into Photoshop !

Adobe just dropped Nano Banana AI Generator in Photoshop… and it’s absolutely BANANAS! 🍌 In this tutorial, Colin Smith shows you how it works, why it’s unlike anything you’ve seen before, and how you can start experimenting with it today. He also discusses what it might mean to you.

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

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The Top Three Photographs That Changed My Art

In this video, I choose three of my images that changed the ways I think about my art and talk about them.

Plus, find out which one image I’d choose to keep if I had to lose all the others.

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Learn about my top 5 influences here.

Photographer Pete Souza’s Three Personal Favorite Photographs

THREE is a new series from The Crit House where photographers reflect on three images from their own archives—images that hold deep meaning, represent major bodies of work, or define their creative journey. Whether they choose their most iconic photographs, turning points in their careers, or images tied to unforgettable stories, each episode invites viewers into a personal and thoughtful exploration of what makes an image truly matter.

Our first guest in the series is renowned photographer, Pete Souza a celebrated American photojournalist known for being the Chief Official White House Photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, and the Director of the White House Photography Office. His extensive career also includes national photojournalism for The Chicago Tribune, freelance work for National Geographic, and teaching photojournalism at Ohio University. He has published several best-selling books, including Obama: An Intimate Portrait, and was the subject of the 2020 documentary The Way I See It.

Enjoy Pete Souza’s top influences here.

Enjoy my #MyFive here.

How To Change White & Black To Any Color With Photoshop

“The best way to change white or black to color in Photoshop. Colin Smith shows you how to colorize white and colorize black and make both colors match.”

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Finding Faces in the Rocks – John Paul Caponigro & Joel Simpson

“If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.” This Aaron Siskind quote neatly sums up the deeply contemplative discussion we had with landscape photographers John Paul Caponigro and Joel Simpson in this week’s podcast.

  • 3:30: Joel Simpson describes his early landscapes as a way to re-experience being elsewhere.
  • 9:24: Pareidolia: what it means and its relationship to Joel’s photographs.
  • 13:24: John Paul’s relationship to the term pareidolia: a way to find patterns and make sense out of chaos.
  • 19:12: The influence of Gestalt psychology when interpreting abstract patterns.
  • 24:55: Differences between pre-visualization vs going in empty. Plus, getting beyond imitation.
  • 35:58: How do you know when your unique vision is ready to be released into the world?
  • 42:12: Episode Break
  • 43:24: John Paul’s approach to post-processingusing the tools as a laboratory to make multiple iterations.
  • 47:00: Joel describes the discoveries he made finessing photos of Zhangjiajie, China.
  • 50:21: How does AI factor into crafting an authentic vision, plus the mind as the original AI?
  • 1:03:18: Using photography to tap into things that haven’t yet been discovered and elicit wonder.
  • 1:06:50: Joel and John Paul talk about the places that inspire their respective photographic projects.

 

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Find more about Joel Simpson and his book Faces In The Rocks here.

 

Photographer Phil Penman On His Books – The Crit House Book Edition

Photographer Phil Penman shares many of the ins and outs of publishing photography books.

The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the ever-changing scene of New York City’s streets for more than 25 years In his career as a news and magazine photographer, with a large body of work in such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, among others, he has photographed major public figures and historical events. In particular, his reportage following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has featured on NBC’s Today show, as well as on the BBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera, and his images have been included in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s archives. His work covering the pandemic lockdown in New York City has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress, whose collection holds work by such Depression-era documentarians as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Besides showing at Leica galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and London, Penman’s signature street photography has appeared in international exhibitions as far afield as Venice, Berlin, and Sydney. He also tours the world teaching workshops on photography for Leica Akademie. He was recently named among the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers,” alongside such legends as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand. Penman’s books, “Street” published in 2019, and “New York Street Diaries” published in 2023, both became best-sellers and were featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

See Phil Penman’s Top 5 Influences here.

Enjoy my #MyFive here.

Man Ray – Photographer Or Painter? On Great Art Explained

Enjoy this tour of seminal photographer Man Ray’s life.

“Man Ray’s image, ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ helped redefine photography, at a time when it was still seen as a mechanical, documentary medium rather than a vehicle for creative expression. The image blurred the boundaries between traditional art forms like painting and sculpture, and helped to establish photography as a serious and innovative artistic discipline.”