Halos & Lines In Your Photographs – How To Avoid Or Quickly Fix Them

halo and line on horizon Nothing screams digital artifacts more than halos and lines. Bright and dark lines around the edges of objects make straight photographs look altered, and altered photographs look poorly crafted. Rarely, if ever, a good thing, their insensitivity to both contours...

John Macintosh’s New Book – Tell Us, What Have You Seen?

. And What Is Art?         And what is Art whereto we pressThrough paint and prose and rhymeWhen Nature in her nakednessDefeats us every time?  Rudyard Kipling . The most gratifying thing about being a teacher is seeing your students grow. One of the pinnacles of my...

How To Use The Future Of Photoshop Filters Now

New in Photoshop 2024 Beta, Parametric filters, the ultimate guide. Colin Smith shows you all the different new filters in Photoshop and provides tips on how to make them the most useful. 00:00 Introduction 00:06 How to Get Photoshop beta 00:14 How to Use the...

How To Get Perfect Results With Adobe Lightroom & ACR’s Lens Blur

 Colin Smith shows how to use the new Lens Blur in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW, including refining the blur and adding bokeh. 00:00 Intro 00:15 How to apply Lens Blur in Lightroom and Camera RAW 00:50 Lens Blur Settings 01:16 Focal Range, change...

Lightroom & Adobe Camera RAW 16 New Features in Photoshop 2024

 Adobe Camera RAW 16 is here. Colin Smith shows the new features in Lightroom & ACR for Photoshop 2024. 00:00 Intro 00:12 Where didi the crop tool go in Camera RAW? 00:46 Targeted color enhancement with Point Color 03:33 Adding background Blur to a...

How To Create The Best Color To Black And White Conversion Previews

The fully saturated image light on dark pieces of paper - a combination that can only be made by localizing different conversions dark on light pieces of paper - a combination that can only be made by localizing different conversions – To find the best...

The Best Way To Convert Your Images From Color To B&W Using Photoshop

Full-color image Global B&W conversion B&W conversion locally optimized for foreground The color transformation necessary to produce the results   With so much power available during Raw processing (with Lightroom or Camera Raw) when converting color to black-and-white, you’re right to ask, “Why use Photoshop?”...

10 Tips To Help You Master Layer Masks In Adobe Photoshop

 “In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten essential shortcuts for working with Layer Masks, including how to add, delete, invert, move, reposition, copy, target, disable, change the density, and add a non-destructive feather to soften the edges of a mask.” Follow up with her fundamentals...

5 Reasons to use Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop

 “In this video, Julieanne demonstrates five reasons to use Smart Filters in Photoshop, including how to edit, mask, stack, move, duplicate, and change blend mode and opacity of Smart Filters in Photoshop.” View more of Julieanne’s videos. Learn more in my digital photography and...

6 Benefits Of Using Smart Objects In Adobe Photoshop

” In this video, Julieanne will walk through six benefits of working with Smart Objects in Photoshop, including transforming and distorting Smart Objects, editing and replacing the contents of Smart Objects, creating duplicated instances, and more!” View more of Julieanne’s videos. Learn more in my...