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How To Master The Newly Updated Gradient Tool In Adobe Photoshop

“In this video, you’ll discover tips and tricks to master the new, non-destructive Gradient tool in Photoshop, including how to make the most out of the on-screen editing controls, working with Gradient Fill layers, new options on the Properties panel, working with Layer Masks, changing gradient Types, Quick Actions, and more!”

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33 Great Quotes On The Color Green

Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color green.

Which is your favorite? Have one to add? Leave a comment!

 

“Green is the prime color of the world and that from which its loveliness arises.”
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

"It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet."
- Jane Goodall

"Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions."
– John Muir

“Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men, this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious. ”
– Wassily Kandinsky

“Green is the fresh emblem of well-founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green, it can rest.”
– Mary Webb

"Even in winter, it shall be green in my heart."
– Frederic Chopin

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
– Lois Lowry

“No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.”
— Rudyard Kipling

"Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation."
– Tae Yun Kim

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."
- Rumi

“Remember, green’s your color. You are spring.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks

"For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
– J. R. R. Tolkien

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
– Martin Luther

"Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil."
- Allan Savory

"By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green."
– Bill Nye

"No water, no life. No blue, no green."
– Sylvia Earle

“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.” – Daniel Goleman


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How Photoshop’s Blend If Sliders Help With Masking, Retouching, and Effects

“Discover the Magic of Blend If in Photoshop! Learn how “Blend If” works and explore the amazing effects you can create with it. In this video, we’ll dive deep into the mechanics of what “Blend If” controls and go through real-world applications, from masking to special effects and even retouching.”

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3 Qualities Of Light You Can Use To Make Your Images Glow

Color has three elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation. 

Luminosity describes a color’s lightness.

Hue describes a color’s temperature. (It’s the rainbow ROYGBIV.)

Saturation describes a color’s degree of neutrality.

All colors can be described as a combination of these three values.

Each of these elements offers a unique quality and type of contrast. (Think energy.)

While we see all three elements simultaneously, learning to distinguish these three elements from one another is a useful skill that will help you see more clearly and see more possibilities for enhancing your images.

Consider the transformations each element of color offers.

When highlights are lightened with luminosity, this image feels cooler and more brilliant.

When highlights are warmed with hue, the image feels hotter and more humid.

When highlights are intensified with saturation, the image feels more lush and fertile.

Each of these elements of color implies a different atmosphere, a different time of day, or perhaps even season, and, in this case, a state of plant growth. Color becomes a code for many different qualities, and so can offer you many possibilities for creative enhancement and personal expression.

The following examples will illuminate some of the possibilities and pitfalls for you.

 


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19 Great Quotes About The Color Red

Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color red.

"The ‘pure’ red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters’ caps, and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise, we would have no feeling toward red and its relations…"
– Robert Motherwell

"If one says ‘Red’ – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."
– Josef Albers

"I will never know how you see red, and you will never know how I see it."
- Anne Carson

"All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, "I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple" - they have no idea what I'm talking about."
– Diana Vreeland

"I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger, and frustration."
– Taylor Swift

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
– Lady Gaga

"Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone."
- Christian Dior


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4 Magnificent Maine Lighthouses Nearby

Maine has over 60 lighthouses.

While some lighthouses on islands take preparation to access, many are easily accessible.

Four of the most famous lighthouses are 15-45 minutes from Caponigro Arts, and they’re all quite different.

(Click on the images or titles to locate them on Google Maps.)

Rockland

Rockland Light is accessed by walking the massive one-mile-long stone breakwater. It’s magical at sunrise, sunset, and in thick fog.

Owlshead

Owlshead Light is reached by a long wooden stair, just beyond the keeper’s house, because it’s perched high on a hill overlooking the Rockland harbor (including Rockland Light) and beyond to nearby islands.

Marshall Point

Marshall Point’s light and the house are separated by a long elevated walkway over a rocky beach pointing to the surrounding islands. Made more famous by the movie Forrest Gump, it rests near Port Clyde (where you get the ferry to Monhegan Island).

Pemaquid

Pemaquid Light towers over the magnificent slabs of granite, which are constantly tossed in wild surf, but always accessible no matter what the tide. It offers 180-degree views of the open ocean, which are stunning at both sunrise and sunset.

Find a complete guide to all Maine lighthouses here.

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Crazy Easy Way To Fix Mask Edges In Lightroom & Camera Raw

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Colin Smith shows you how to remove halos and improve edges on your masks.
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3 Ways To Refine Adobe’s Select Subject Masking Results

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Matt Kloskowski demonstrates 3 ways to refine the Select Subject masking that we get in Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw.
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Glacial – The Alex Ferrone Gallery – July 15 – Aug 13

John Paul Caponigro, Antarctica XL

Glacial 

July 15 – August 13

John Paul Caponigro, Eleanor Goldstein, Ryland West

“This exhibition presents the stunning capture of Antarctica’s glacial landscapes by noted photographer John Paul Caponigro (ME); striking Arctic evening icescapes by painter Eleanor Goldstein (NY); and ephemeral portraits of Alaska’s polar masses by photographer Ryland West (NY).”

1 – Saturday, July 15 – Opening

Works will be on display in both the gallery and the barn.

2 – Saturday, July 29, 3:30 pm – Artist’s Talks

Join us for the Artist Talks to learn of the artists’ firsthand witnessing and artistic documentation of the threatening disappearance of these majestic icy masses due to climate change.

3 – Sunday, July 30, 1 pm – Reading In The Barn

John Paul Caponigro and guests will read thematically related poetry and creative nonfiction.

4 – Sunday, July 31, 9:30 am – NPR on WLIW with Gianna Volpeg 

Join us for great conversations!

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Ryland West, Knik Glacier #1

Eleanor Goldstein, Night Shadows III