How To Avoid Making Viewers Squint At Your Images To See Their Highlights

Highlights are crucial to most images, with a few notable exceptions. If highlights are too dull, the whole image feels flat and suppressed. So, many people try to make them as bright as possible without losing detail. (This is a classic practice that’s part of...

Find Out How The Great Pause Gave Me The Gift Of Poetry In Lux Magazine

. LUX is Maine Media Workshops’ new magazine and I’m featured in the first issue. Find out how the pandemic’s great pause gave me the gift of poetry and how I started that journey into words in a workshop with Richard Blanco. . Read the...

How To Change Depth Of Field In Photographs With Photoshop

. Colin Smith demonstrates the most powerful way to change the depth of field or background blur in photographs using Photoshop’s depth maps, neural filters, and lens blur. . Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe. Learn more in my digital photography and...

2 Ways To Quickly Add Bokeh Flares To Your Images

in focus Photoshop's filter Lens Blur Lens Blur applied a second time selectively Bokeh flares added with an image and brushes   The word bokeh (Japanese for blur), the quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, is often used to describe...

3 Color Tweaks To Improve Image Blur’s Depth Of Field

original background color adjusted background color adjusted plus detail blurred The principles of atmospheric perspective can be used to enhance the illusion depth in two-dimensional images. The three elements of color each encode space. Some colors rise forward – light, warm, saturated. Some colors recede – dark,...

Quick & Easy Depth Of Field Effects With Photoshop’s Depth Blur

Fully focussed image Photoshop's Depth Blur filter applied One contour quickly masked Photoshop’s AI neural filter Depth Blur is designed to simulate depth of field effects quickly and easily. Here’s how to use it ... Insights Members can login to read the full article.Email: Login...

3 Ways To Blur Image Backgrounds With Photoshop From Easy To Precise

. . . Three Photoshop gurus demonstrate how to blur backgrounds, moving from simple to more precise methods. . Find more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe. Find more from Unmesh Dinda at PixImperfect. Find more from Jesus Ramirez at Photoshop Training Channel. Learn more...

How To Create More Realistic Blur Effects By Adding A Little Noise

Add noise with a separate layer.   Noise Makes Images Look More Natural Be careful not to smooth your images so much that your images begin to look synthetic like they’ve been rendered by software rather than captured by hardware. Over-smoothing can happen when you...

How To Turn On Photoshop’s Amazing Update to Select Subject

. “Compare the new cloud version of the Select Subject feature in Photoshop and see if it’s worth using over the standard one. We all know how good Select Subject is with making automatic selections with one click. However, will the cloud processing be even...

Two Generations: Paul and John Paul Caponigro – Feb 16 8pm EST Online With SFW

Receive this ebook free.       26 images – 26 quotes Buy this ebook here.       75 images – 3 essays   Wednesday, February 16 – 2022 Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with Two Generations In Conversation, an evening with father Paul Caponigro and...