BETTER Foliage Color NOW! • with Selective Color in Photoshop
True yellow/green color separation for foliage is a difficult task without the proper tools. ACR and Lightroom can only get you so close! You NEED Photoshop's Selective Color Tool to go all the way. Luckily for you, I've done all the hard work 🙂 More often than not,...
Realtime Clipping Warnings IN Photoshop!
One thing we should avoid like the plague while editing in Photoshop is overly blown-out highlights and clipped shadows. If we aren't careful during editing, we could do more harm than good while working. Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom have clipping warnings built...
AMAZING Double Exposures with Blend If in Photoshop
Creating double exposures in Photoshop is a relatively simple task. Most will go straight to masking, and that is one great technique. However, there are other methods, like Blend If, that can give us a unique look for double exposures. What is double exposure? In...
The BEST Blending Technique in Photoshop
I love Blend If. That's no secret. I routinely praise it here on f.64 Academy, BUT it has problems. There are things I don't like about it. There are things I wish Adobe would do with it. There are things I wish were easier with it. I could sit here and hope that my...
RESOLVED! Delete Layer in Photoshop Error – DONG Sound Fix
There is NOTHING I dislike more in Photoshop than trying to delete a layer and getting a stupid dong sound and error message. It has driven me up the wall for centuries. BUT today, I figured out how to stop that annoying sound from happening and LIFE IS GOOD! Today we...
5 AWESOME Tips for MAGENTA Color Grading in Photoshop
PANTONE® Viva Magenta is the color of the year for 2023, and you all know how much I LOVE Magenta. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, I would like to share 5 ways you can use this amazing color in Photoshop. Tip #5 is a REAL doozy! ◄Chapters► 00:00 Intro 00:26...
Painting with RGB Color Curves in Photoshop
We often use Curves in our workflow. It's a staple in almost every genre of photography. But how often do you venture into the beautiful world of color or RGB Curves? Probably not as often as you'd care to mention. No worries, I didn't either. At least not until I...
5 Hidden Gems in Photoshop – Feels Like Cheating!
Photoshop is LITTERED with hidden gems. Play around enough in there, and you'll find two notebooks full and a day's work! Ask a handful of Ps educators what their 5 hidden gems are, and I can almost guarantee you'll hear mixed results. So how do you narrow it down to...
CURVES inside MASKS!?! What’s New in Adobe Camera Raw 15
WOW! the potential here in Adobe Camera Raw 15 is INCREDIBLE!!! this new update to ACR will knock your socks off! Such a simple thing, like a curve inside a mask, seems minuscule, but this is HUGE! Watch this video to learn about some of the new features in ACR 15...
Untold SECRETS of the HSL Range Tool
So you think you know everything about the HSL Adjustment Layer in Photoshop? Well, I have a doozy of a tutorial for you today! I will uncover the HSL Range tool and show you how powerful this feature is that you are more than likely glancing over. I get it, those two...