VIDEO | Photoshop Info Panel Tips
Photoshop’s info panel is essential when adjusting and describing colors. In this week’s free video lesson, you’ll learn when you might want to change the settings available in the panel and see what many of the less common options are used for.
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VIDEO | Essential Color Management Choices
In this week’s free video lesson, we’re going to Learn what the Assign Profile and Convert to Profile choices do in Photoshop and when you might want to use each. These are essential when working with Color Profiles in Photoshop and allow you to better manage color between documents. Enjoy!
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Free online event: The Lightroom Virtual Summit
Today is day 1 of the Lightroom Virtual Summit and you can sign up for your FREE pass by clicking the link below. Every single training session is designed to take your Lightroom knowledge and skill to the next level – regardless of whether you’re just starting out, or have years of experience. I’ll be teaching alongside many other amazing fellow Lightroom experts and we’re excited to see you there!
VIDEO | Pass Through Blending Mode in Photoshop
This week’s free video focuses on the blending mode of layer groups in Photoshop. When you create a Group (which looks like a folder), its blending mode at the top of the Layers Panel always defaults to Pass Through. Why is that considered normal instead of Normal mode and when might I want to change it? The answer has to do with how blending modes, blending sliders, RGB checkboxes and more affect the contents of what is below the group.
Have a great week everyone!
VIDEO | Knockout Deep & Shallow
This week’s free video lesson covers a feature found inside Photoshop’s Blending Options settings within the Layer Style dialog. The Knockout Deep & Shallow settings allow you to make one layer knock a hole in underlying layers. The most basic use for it is to have text knock a hole through something. We’ll take it much further than that and show you how to use it when converting to black and white and how to gain more control over adjustment layers.
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Instructor rendezvous this week
VIDEO | Blending Options: RGB Checkboxes
In this week’s free video lesson, we’re going to learn a bunch of creative effects you can apply using three simple checkboxes. My favorite use is to light an object from three different angles and then combine the three images into a colorful result. I find that most Photoshop users don’t even know what these checkboxes do! Let’s dive in and find out.
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Join me on Instagram
I know I’m late to this party, but I have finally joined Instagram as an educator, Photoshop expert and photographer. I’m not new to the platform, as I have accounts for my vintage service station images and the yoga photo series I share with my wife. Those are very specific though. I wanted a place to share new images, tips, news and what’s going on with me in general. Connect with me there by clicking the link below.
VIDEO: Understanding Multi-Colored Histograms
This week’s free video lesson will show you how to learn more from histograms. The colors that appear in Lightroom, ACR and Photoshop’s histograms can be useful to detect color casts, determine if detail is being lost and to know more about the colors that make up an image. In the video, I start by blindly interpreting a bunch of histograms while I cannot see the image that it represents (but you can). I then explain how basic color works and how that relates to the colors that appear in the histogram. Enjoy and be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss future videos!
Live this Week: The Photoshop Virtual Summit
The Photoshop Virtual Summit is live this week and it’s free to watch! Starting today, the event will be an amazing five days of practical training by the world’s leading Photoshop experts, myself included. Click below to get your free pass, and I’ll see you there!
Video | Learn to Love: Fill Opacity
In this week’s free video, we’re going to learn about the difference between Photoshop’s Opacity and Fill Opacity settings. These two often seem to have identical functionality. That is until you see how particular blending modes and layer styles respond to the two sliders differently. Let’s dive in and see how the Fill Opacity setting can be used to your advantage.
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Free online event: The Photoshop Virtual Summit 4
Remember to sign up for your FREE pass to the Photoshop Virtual Summit, coming up next month, May 2nd through 6th. I’ll be teaching alongside many other amazing fellow Photoshop experts and we’re excited to see you there!
Video: Color Matching in Lightroom Classic
In this week’s free video lesson, we’re going to be working in Lightroom. You will learn how to take the guesswork out of matching color by using the numbers that appear below the histogram in Lightroom Classic. In this case, I’ll match two different colored bricks on a building, but you could just as easily use this for all sorts of other purposes. Enjoy!
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Free online event: The Photoshop Virtual Summit 4
Remember to sign up for your FREE pass to the Photoshop Virtual Summit, coming up next month, May 2nd through 6th. I’ll be teaching alongside many other amazing fellow Photoshop experts and we’re excited to see you there!
Join me at the Photoshop Virtual Summit 4
It’s that time again! The Photoshop Virtual Summit is just a month away and registration is FREE! I will be one of 20 world-class Photoshop experts in the line-up for an amazing 5 days of practical Photoshop training. Join us for 40 classes and 30+ hours of online learning on May 2nd through 6th. Every single training session is designed to take your Photoshop knowledge and skill to the next level – regardless of whether you’re just starting out, or have years of experience.
The classes I’ll be teaching:
Luminosity Masking 3.0
Masks that are based on the brightness of an image are often referred to as Luminosity Masks and are commonly used to enhance landscape images. This traditionally involves an archaic process of techniques that involve the creation of a multitude of alpha channels. In this session, you’ll learn to graduate to next-level thinking that uses a single channel and a Curves adjustment that is much more versatile and powerful than previous methods.
You will learn:
- How to replace the standard process of creating multiple alpha channels by replacing them with a single Curves adjustment.
- Learn to reproduce the same results as traditional actions and then go well beyond to gain true control over the process of isolating a brightness range in your image.
- Increase the control and precision of your adjustment over what was possible in the past.
Transform Shadow into Light
If you’ve ever had your subject in the shade while also attempting to retain detail in sunlit areas, then you’ve experienced dull-looking subjects. This session will show you how to make those shady areas pop and transform them so they are just as bright and exciting as the sunny areas in your scene. In the process, you’ll learn a boat-load of tips related to creating selections and applying adjustments.
- Learn to isolate the shady areas of a scene so you can target them for adjustment.
- Discover the most effective adjustments for brightening and adding contrast to dull areas.
- See how to make natural-looking transitions when applying radical adjustments.
VIDEO: HDR with Ten Lightroom Classic Masks
Hi gang! In this week’s free video lesson, we’re going to learn how to use a combination of high dynamic range and Lightroom’s powerful masking features in order to handle those scenes with tricky lighting.
Sometimes the scene you are attempting to capture contains a wider range of brightness levels than your camera can capture in a single shot. That’s when you’ll either end up with solid white in the bright areas, or solid black in the dark regardless of which exposure settings you use. Even when you are able to capture the full brightness range of the scene, you may find that after brightening the shady areas, you end up with distracting noise. That’s when you should consider bracketing your exposures to capture the full brightness range of the scene and then merge those exposures into a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image in Lightroom Classic. Even after you’ve done that, you’ll likely find that Lightroom’s basic development choices are not enough to produce a satisfactory image. It’s the combination of HDR and masking that will allow you to produce an acceptable result. Let’s dive in and learn how!
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Free online event: The Photoshop Virtual Summit 4
Remember to sign up for your FREE pass to the Photoshop Virtual Summit, coming up next month, May 2nd through 6th. I’ll be teaching alongside many other amazing fellow Photoshop experts and we’re excited to see you there!