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Creating a Retro Comic Book Effect in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to turn any photo into a comic book style image very easily. You can use these skills to add some extra character to your photo albums, or to turn a sequence of photos...
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Let Your Work Flow With Flow!
Computers and software have come a long way in terms of making features and functions user-friendly using the keyboard and mouse. But there are still actions that are time-consuming and awkward,...
View ArticleTips for Shooting and Editing in Camera Raw
Why Shoot in Raw Format? Whether you realize it or not, if you are using a DSLR camera you already are shooting in RAW. When you shoot in JPEG the camera is just processing the RAW file for you and...
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How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces with Photoshop
This tutorial is intended for intermediate Photoshop users, or really patient, focused, and keen beginners. For the purposes of this tutorial I’ve selected a photo of a nebula as a texture and the...
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Choosing Which Graphic Design Program to Use
One of the things a lot of graphic designer struggle with is what tool to use in a specific situation. Too often, folks rely on their default program of choice (usually Adobe Photoshop), although this...
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Mastering Photoshop Smart Objects: Layer Comps
If you need to develop several versions of a composition in Photoshop, Layer Comps are the perfect tool to use. They allow you to experiment with multiple versions of a design in one Photoshop file, by...
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Adobe Releases Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC
This week (April 21, 2015) Adobe Released Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC 2015, providing both a standalone version of Lightroom and one available to Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers. This has been a...
View ArticleShould You Use Photoshop CC, Elements, or Lightroom?
It can be a bit intimidating trying to decide which image-editing software you need if you’re unfamiliar with them and don’t know what each one has to offer. If you browse through the internet or...
View ArticleHow to Move Photos Between Lightroom and Photoshop
When it comes to working with photos, Adobe gives you two powerhouse pro tools, Lightroom and Photoshop. If you’re not sure which one to use for your kind of work, check out Roberto Blake’s article,...
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Scanning Around With Gene: The Old Way of Photo Retouching
Originally posted March 16, 2012 I’ve never been much of an artist, though I did, early in my career, have several opportunities to do some basic black and white photo retouching — mostly taking out a...
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Scanning Around With Gene: Painting With Air
Originally published December 29, 2011 When I came across a 1947 edition of “Painting With Air” (published by the Paasche Airbrush Company and written by Frank J. Knaus), I assumed the airbrush had...
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Review: Astropad
Walk into a graphic design or photography studio and you’ll probably see a graphics tablet on the desk. With an app called Astropad you can use an iPad or iPhone as a graphics tablet for a Mac. The...
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7 Ways to Improve Your Photography
Whether you’re a new shooter or someone who has more experience, there is always a chance that you can improve the quality of your photography. For some folks, this means refining their technique, for...
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Review: Photoshop Fix
Photoshop Fix is Adobe’s latest venture into mobile image manipulation. Available only for iPhone and iPad at present, it’s an unusual and at times revolutionary editing tool—and, of course, it’s...
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The Photoshop Conference 2015 Wrap-Up
The expected blizzard fizzled, but the inaugural Photoshop Conference for Designers—co-located with The InDesign Conference 2015 — took Denver by storm this past week. Over 400 attendees—plus an...
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Fixing Slideshow Projection Problems With Photoshop
The church of St Andrew, Holborn, in the heart of London, was built by Christopher Wren in the 17th century and is notable for housing not only a magnificent organ installed by the composer George...
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A Film Technique for Your Digital Photography
Before Picture Elements (“pixels” for short) were a gleam in some IBM engineer’s eye, image capture involved gelatin-coated film, darkrooms and an array of messy, smelly chemicals of varying degrees of...
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A Review of the Adobe Post Mobile App
Recently Adobe released a new mobile application for iOS (iPhone), Adobe Post. Like many other Adobe mobile apps Adobe Post is completely free, but unlike the other apps, this one is targeted at...
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Getting Started with CC Libraries
If you’re like most folks, you probably picture the content of Adobe’s Creative Cloud as akin to the old Creative Suite, a collection of desktop applications for creating professional quality print and...
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Adobe’s Mobile Creative Apps
A good majority of Adobe users have moved to the subscription-based Creative Cloud versions of their favorite software. In my experience, many people migrated because they had to and some did so...
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