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...

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...

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...

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

. Colin Smith shows you how to remove halos and improve edges on your masks. . Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

3 Ways To Refine Adobe’s Select Subject Masking Results

. Matt Kloskowski demonstrates 3 ways to refine the Select Subject masking that we get in Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw. . Learn more from Matt here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Enjoy The 2023 Camden Festival Of Poetry Online

I read at 43:30. I read at 11:11.   The 2024 Camden Festival Of Poetry Is Coming! The keynote will be Padriag O’ Tuama. It’s free and open to the public. Register here.   2023 Camden Festival Of Poetry Highlights

New Features In Photoshop 2023 That Are Easy To Overlook

. The new Photoshop 2023 non ai features are easy to overlook – but really useful! 00:00 Intro 00:20 Adjustment Presets 02:12 Making your own Adjustment Presets 04:33 Color grade with new gradients 06:15 Add point of light 06:56 New Gradients on Masks to blend...

5 Powerful Ways You Can Use Space In Your Images

Spacey Spacious Gracious Nice Fit Compact Packed Impressionist composer Claude Debussy famously remarked, “Music is the space between the notes.” Space is just as important for images as it is for music.  While the spaces are different in the final products, one is temporal, and...

4 Tools You Can Use To Control Focus And Flow When Sequencing Your Images

Viewers search for significant changes between images presented together and the significance of the changes between them. It’s continuity. Every screenwriter needs to create it. Every storyboard needs to interpret it. Every director needs to guide it. Every editor needs to refine it. If you’re...

New Photoshop Tools – Remove & Generative Fill – Which Is Better?

. Photoshop offers two new AI retouching tools – Remove and Generative Fill. Which is the best tool? Find out as Colin Smith tests both. . Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.