4 Levels of Background Blur in Photoshop – Beginner to Pro

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

“4 levels of Background Blur in Photoshop, from beginner to expert. Colin Smith shows 4 ways to blur the background of a photo in Photoshop in this Photoshop tutorial, from beginner to advanced. Do you think levels 2 and 3 should be switched?
Written steps and the photo I used here.“

00:00 Intro
00:34 Level 1 Beginner
01:43 Level 2 Intermediate
05:52 Level 3 Advanced
07:20 Level 4 Pro

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Remove Or Transfer Reflections With Photoshop’s New AI Powered Tool

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

“Photoshop just introduced a powerful new AI feature that lets you remove reflections from your photos! You can also extract the reflection and add it to a new image! In this video, I’ll walk you through how to:

  • Access the Remove Reflections feature
  • Use the Reflection Feature for best results
  • Clean up leftover reflections using Photoshop layers
  • Extract a realistic reflection from your photo and add it to a new image for creative compositing

.
This tool opens up exciting possibilities, whether you’re retouching or looking to add believable reflections to your edits!”

Find more from Jesus Ramirez’s Photoshop Training Channel.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Top New Features In Photoshop 2025

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

Colin Smith details his 7 favorite new features in Photoshop 2025.

00:00 Intro
00:18 Landscape Selection
02:46 Reflection removal Improvements
04:00 Adjust Colors
05:25 Advanced Adjust Colors
07:38 Select details
09:23 Improved Object selection
10:52 AI Remove tool improvements
11:53 New Actions Panel

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Photoshop Adds A New Feature To Hue/Saturation

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

Photoshop’s go-to color adjustment tool Hue/Saturation has been updated!

“Learn everything you need to know about the new Hue/Saturation Layer in the latest Photoshop Beta.”

00:00 – Introduction to the new Hue Saturation Adjustment
02:43 – Example 01 – Change the Color of a Shirt
07:03 – Example 02 – Colorize Feature
09:10 – Example 03 – Hue/Saturation Flip Trick
11:34 – Image Menu Hue Saturation Adjustment

“Colin Smith explains this new tool and shows the best way to change colors in Photoshop that works on all images.”

00:00 Intro, how to get access
00:39 Big Picture overview of Adjust Color and Hue Saturation
02:48 How to Enable “normal” mode
03:18 6 primary colors
04:28 What is HSL Hue, Saturation, Lightness (luminance), and why does it matter?
05:22 Colorize option and role of Lightness
07:06 Adjusting the Color Range, fine-tune.

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

New Photoshop Auto Masks … the part no one is talking about

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

See the improvements to AI auto masks in Photoshop work. Colin Smith compares old and new selections.

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Photoshop Solved Impossible Selections! (One-Click)

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

“In this video, we’ll explore how this new Selection and Masking technology makes it effortless to select complex objects like hair, fur, bicycle spokes, nets, and more. We’ll compare it to the old version, discuss the improvements, and see how the new Select Subject (Cloud) and Remove Background features handle selections that were impossible before! We’ll also go over the pros, cons, and potential concerns with this feature and test it across various subjects on both flat and busy backgrounds.”

00:00 Intro – Select Subject
01:30 How to Get This Feature?
02:06 Complex Object – Example 1
03:56 Complex Object – Example 2
05:24 Selecting Hair
07:14 Select Subject – Device vs Cloud
08:53 Concerns – Will Adobe Charge Extra For This?

Find more of Unmesh Dinda’s content here.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Single-image Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution Technical Preview in Adobe Camera Raw

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates the new non-destructive, re-editable, single-image Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution technical preview in Adobe Camera Raw!”

View more from Julianne Kost here.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

How To Find The Missing Tools In Adobe Camera RAW

Video - Adobe Photoshop  Comment
0 Likes

How to make all the tool in ACR Adobe Camera RAW available. Where is the missing crop tool? Colin Smith shows launching ACR from Photoshop with full feature set.

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.