Austin Kleon's Sheds Light On The Creative Process

Austin Kleon offers a collection of pearls of wisdom drawn from his books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work. View more Austin Kleon videos here. Learn more about Austin Kleon here. View more Creativity Videos here. Learn more in my Creativity workshops.

15 Colorful Things To Look For During Maine’s Fall Season

Maine is beautiful! And it’s never more beautiful than in the autumn during harvest season. The air is crisp and the place comes alive with color. It’s extraordinarily picturesque. Here are a few highlights to look for this fall. Mountains of color Color on the...

Photoshop Does The Work For You With Magic Wand & Quick Selection Tools

 Get sophisticated selections quickly. Photoshop offers two great selection tools that use pattern recognition to make the process easier and faster – the Magic Wand tool and the Quick Selection tool. They get complex jobs done quickly and the results they generate can be quite sophisticated. But...

Photoshop’s Need To Know Lasso Selection Tools

The Lasso tool is best for defining highly irregular selections manually. The Polygonal Lasso tool is best for defining rectilinear shapes. The Magnetic Lasso tool uses pattern recognition to define existing contours. Photoshop’s Lassos (Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, and Magnetic Lasso) are go to tools for drawing irregular...

Two Powerful Keys That Will Help You Combine Photoshop’s Selection Tools

A simple Rectangular Marquee selection. A second selection is added using the Shift key. A second selection is subtracted using the Option key. The intersection of two selections is created using both Option and Shift keys. There are so many times when you make a selection in Photoshop and...

Photoshop’s Marquee Tools Make Surprisingly Useful Geometric Selections

Photoshop offers two Marquee tools (Rectangular or Elliptical) for making simple geometric selections. They’re easy to use. Click hold and drag to define a selection. Hold the Option key to draw from the center of the shape. Hold the Shift key to constrain the shape...

The Difference Between Painters’ and Photographers’ Color Wheels

The photographers’ color wheel rendered by Apple. The painters’ color wheel painted by Johannes Itten.   In color theory, one of the primary uses of color wheels is to plot complementary colors. Painters and photographers use this information to create neutral colors. Painters mix complementary...

The Care & Feeding Of Your Authentic Vision

I create and curate a lot of content on creativity, art, and photography. Here I’ve collected some invaluable resources for finding, energizing, and deepening your creative vision. You’ll get a great taste for the content on creativity we offer in our Digital Photo Destinations Workshops. Seth Resnick @...

Easily Refine Any Photoshop Mask With A Brush

You can refine any mask in Photoshop with a brush. How? Choose any Brush tool and paint on it. The Brush, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Eraser, Gradient, Blur, Smudge, Dodge and Burn tools all have their uses. Whether simple or complex, layer masks are just...

How To Choose Which Photoshop Mask Color To Start With

Image before selective adjustment. Image after selective adjustment (dodging). It takes fewer white strokes than black strokes to make this mask. So, instead of starting with a white mask, start with a black mask. The layer stack. When you’re making masks in Photoshop, you can get...