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How To Color Grade Images With Gradient Maps In Photoshop

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Colin Smith shows you how to use gradient maps to add stunning color effects to your photos instantly and where to find the hidden treasure of gradients that ship with Photoshop.

0:00 Using the Gradient Map

1:22 What a Gradient Map does

2:03 How to make the Gradient Map look great

2:56 Accessing Photoshop’s Gradients

4:34 Creating photographic effects

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The World's Top Photographs Of 2020

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Enjoy viewing 20 of 2020’s top photography collections!
Events
Time’s Top 10 Photos
Time’s Top 200 Photos
New York Times
The New Yorker
The Washington Post
Reuters
Bloomberg
The Guardian
World Press Photo
Aljazeera
The Insider
Yahoo
My Modern MET
Travel
National Geographic – Travel
CNN – Travel
Nature
Audubon Awards
National Geographic – Wildlife
Guardian Nature Photographer Of The Year
National Geographic – Science
Nature – Science
Atlantic – Landscape
 
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The Best Of The Content I Consumed In 2020

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People who really know me know I keep a lot of lists. I constantly track what I do. It’s a mindfulness practice that lets me thoroughly review and reflect on how I’m living my life … and how to live it in a more fulfilling way moving forward.

If this sounds like a lot of work, it’s not … because to make the lists I steal ten seconds here and rarely more than thirty seconds there. I make these lists in Notes on my iPhone, because it’s always with me and I can quickly access the notes on any of my computers too. At the end of the year I spend a little more time making notes on each list

Because I made my lists, at a glance I can see the kinds of activity and content that are bringing me the greatest value … and the ones that aren’t. I can identify my preferences, tendencies, patterns and changes in them.

I date everything for many reasons – to track the amount of activity plus sequences and patterns within it. Comparing lists shows me the influence of one area of my life on another. Sometimes the numbers help me set goals and stretch to equal them in the future, but I don’t put too much pressure on this – just enough to make me feel good about it. It’s a way of helping me do more of the things I really want to do … and do less of the things I don’t want to do.

At the end of the year I review them, record my observations, reflect (sometimes with writing) on areas that are most meaningful to me. Then I make a quick final list from the other lists. This is that list.

It was a true pleasure to reflect on the high moments of this year.

How good was each? I rank each with a number from lowest 1 – 10 highest.

Here’s are my top picks from 2020.

(You might enjoy some of them too!)

Art Book – Via Celmins – To Fix The Image In Memory (7)

Music – Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting (8)

Piano Piece Learned – Satie – Gnossienne #4 (9)

Movie – Documentary – My Octopus Teacher (10)

Movie – Comedy – Fisherman’s Friends (8)

TV Series – The Durell’s In Corfu (8)

Master Class – Malcolm Gladwell – Writing (7)

Non-Fiction – Jack Grapes Method Writing (9)

Fiction – Madeline Miller – Circe (8)

Poetry – Richard Blanco – How To Love A Country (9)

Workshop – Richard Blanco – Poetry Chapbook Intensive (9)

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