Free Photoshop Tutorials!
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Beginner Post Processing Tutorials
Designed for those who are just starting out with photo post processing. However, even the seasoned pro can learn something new here.
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The Texture Slider in ACR and LR [Video]
Dynamic Contrast with the Texture Slider in ACR and LRThe new Texture Slider in ACR and LR is really making an impact it seems as it should! Anytime Adobe adds a slider to either program it means they felt it was necessary to be in there. Otherwise, they...
Glow Brushes in ACR and Lightroom {Video}
Glow Brushes in ACR and LR? How???I have long been a fan of the Orton Effect. So much so, that I built my variation of it for the Zone System Express called "Radiance 2.0". The glowing effect makes an amazing atmosphere for your photo, regardless of...
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How to find and free up disk space [Video]
Using Treesize Personal to find Heavy Files I, like many photographers, like to hoard my images. Seriously, we could probably have a reality TV show for photographers like me. That would be funny a guy shows up at my office, looks through my drives and says, "Dude,...
The Perspective Crop Tool in Photoshop – Video
Perspective Correction has Never been so easy- The Perspective Crop Tool With all interior architecture images, there is a need to fix the perspective as many perspective altering variables come into play. What lens are you using, are you tilting your camera up or...
The Color Picker in Photoshop
Let's get to some basics, the color picker Photoshop is such a massive program it can be very easy to get lost in all of its intricacies. With so many features and bells and whistles, it is very easy for us to get used to one tool and know it very well. All the while...
What’s New in Adobe Camera Raw 10.3.0.933
Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom went out for a mani/pedi Adobe Camera Raw updates usually entail camera raw profiles and minor tweaks. This week, however, ACR and it's sister Lightroom went out for a manicure and pedicure and had one too many mimosas. They came back...
Snapshots in Adobe Camera Raw
Snapshots - A great way to test different looks Adobe Camera Raw is a powerful editing tool with many features we often overlook. With its ability to transform a RAW image it is easy to gloss over the techy things that we can do with our pictures. One of those...
The Auto Button in ACR and Lightroom
Is there really a discussion about going Auto in ACR and LR? The answer is yes! Adobe recently updated the entire Lightroom Ecosystem as well as Adobe Camera Raw. Among the usual camera model updates, Adobe added a new algorithm for the Auto...
Content-Aware Crop in Photoshop CC
Content-Aware Crop... Like Magic? Or just Photoshop? The jury is still out. If you have ever opened the crop tool, you may have noticed the Content-Aware checkbox in the menu bar. It is a pretty incredible feature that automates a lot of stuff I used to do when I...
How to Cull Your Photos in Adobe Camera Raw
Edit Before You Cull Your Photos with Adobe Camera Raw I usually cull my photos rather fast and delete them before they have a chance to see the light of day. Why? Because 42 Megapixel images take up a lot of space and if the shot was bad, there is no sense keeping...
How to Fix Blue Waterfalls – Video Tutorial
Blue Waterfalls? Yeah, they aren't supposed to be! Blue waterfalls are a side effect of white balance and your camera compensating for the colors coming into the sensor. You may have everything dialed in perfectly, but when you edit your waterfall pictures they...
3 Ways to better photos with Selective Color – Video
Selective Color in Photoshop, is it the best-kept secret? The selective color adjustment layer is a tool that can make your images pop off the page. Almost every week someone emails me and says, "Blake, how do you make your photos pop in Photoshop?" I usually...
Plotagraph Pro Can Animate Any Photograph
Plotagraph Pro is all kinds of new and Innovative! It was about a year ago that I reached out to the Plotagraph Pro Team and asked if I might be able to review their software. I was intrigued by the ability to make an animated image from a still photograph. It...
Radial Gradients Compared – Video Tutorial
Radial Gradients in Photoshop, Lightroom (ACR), and ON1 Photo RAW Last week I did a tutorial about the radial gradient in Photoshop. It had a tremendous response which kind of shocked me. I whipped it together the morning of the free tutorial Friday and...
3 Step Color Correction in ACR
Color Correction: Quick, Simple, and Infallible! https://youtu.be/0twoVJY7_hQ One of the most common questions I receive is "Blake, how do I color correct my photos." For the longest time, I avoided this request like the plague because color correction can be done in...
The HDR Look in ON1 Effects 10
One powerful filter: The HDR Look httpv://youtu.be/KLspU49vqV4 Ever since I started using the Sony a7Rii I have found myself bracketing...
Intermediate Post Processing Tutorials
For those who already know a trick or two in Photoshop and want to learn a bit more.
3 QUICK Tips for BETTER Fall Color
Fall Color Photography is fun, excellent, in fact! There is nothing better than getting out there with your camera and showcasing the glory of all that yellow, orange, and red goodness in the tapestry of trees. What could be better, right? The problems with Fall...
Not ANOTHER Luminosity Masking Panel…
Not all Photoshop Panels are created equal and all of them could have a place in your workflow. However, when I set out to make my Panel for Photoshop, I knew I wanted it to be different. I wanted it to be a Workflow Solution and not another tool for Photoshop....
Time Blending Landscape Images with One Blend Mode
Time Blending is a technique in Photography where you blend multiple exposures taken at various times into one image. Here is the easy way to do it!
The *AMAZING* Reflected Gradient in Photoshop
The reflected Gradient is one of my favorite, most versatile tools in Photoshop. I use it on almost every photo I edit, today you’ll see why!
Smart Objects Why I DO and DONT Like Them
The Smart Object is an interesting feature in Photoshop. You can do all kinds of things in Photoshop with Smart Objects from opening a RAW file and then going back into the ACR settings to resizing layers and building templates. But... these Smart Objects come with...
5 PRACTICAL Uses for Calibration in ACR and Lr
The Color Tool No One Uses... Except for maybe f.64 Academy readers, because you know better, right? Today I want to show you five efficient uses for the Color Calibration Tool in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. This is quickly becoming my favorite place to get more...
The Battle of the Color Tools in Photoshop
Thinking about which Color Adjustment Layer is better than the other just may make you go cross-eyed unless you break them down. In this video, we are going to discuss which is better for color modification, Hue and Saturation, or Selective Color? We will discuss...
Recompose ANY Photo in Photoshop!
How many times do you wish you could go back to a location to recompose the shot because the exposures you did get were off by just a little? That has happened to me COUNTLESS times. Sometimes I am shooting Landscape and wish I were in Portrait. Other times my horizon...
HIDDEN BW Workflow Trick in ACR
LUT Profiles, the Secret Sauce for GREAT BW images! In today's lesson, I am going to show you how to hack Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw into thinking you are working on a Black and White Photo, but you are really working in Color for Black and White. Sounds pretty...
Precision Color Grading with Blend If
Complete Selection Control with Blend If I showed you how to easily color grade a photo a few weeks ago. It brought out a LOT of questions about split toning, luminosity masks, and more advanced thoughts. I figured I would follow up that Color Grading video with a...
Sky + Reflection Replacement
Amazing Sky and Reflection Replacement in Photoshop You DO NOT need some AI program to make a Sky and Reflection Replacement. You can do it all from the comfort of your friendly neighborhood Photoshop CC. By now, you all know I prefer Genuine Intelligence and...
HIDDEN Raw Workflow No One Is Talking About
A VERY Timely Update to ACR with the 13.2 Update Have you ever heard that your Raw Workflow should follow a Top to Bottom and Left to Right path when working in ACR and Lightroom? I think I heard that about a hundred times when I first learned how to edit RAW files. ...
Brush Flow vs Opacity in Photoshop
The Topic of Conversation During my last Live Event, I received a TON of questions about the difference between FLOW and OPACITY related to the brush in Photoshop. Do not confuse this with OPACITY and FILL in the layer palette. They are two very different topics. ...
How To Make a Blender Brush
I am on a mission today to see if I can make a better brush than the big soft edge brush in Photoshop. You might be asking, why Blake, why can't you leave well enough alone? My wife says the same things to me all the time. Truth is, I like the big soft brush that is...
How to Render a Tree in Photoshop
Tree We can't always have beautiful trees in fields for the best photo ops... or can we? Photoshop has a filter called Render Tree. It's a neat little filter that while clever, very rarely can pass as a real tree. However, if you look at a photo of a real tree in a...
A Different Look at Vignettes
Vignettes in Photoshop and ACR + Lightroom Vignettes are extremely powerful tools for grabbing your viewer's attention. They can very quickly make an ordinary photo look incredible! But, there are some problems with traditional vignettes. 1. They can look too...
Advanced Post Processing Tutorials
While the title says “Advanced”, this category is for anyone who wants advance themselves further in photo post processing. While these tutorials are not for the Faint of Heart, they are taught to a level anyone who is willing can understand.
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