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Customize and Create Your Own Photoshop Tools

Unlock the Power of “Tool Presets” to Create Custom Tools & Make Your Workflow Extremely Fast! Simplify your Photoshop life by learning the concepts of Tool Presets, and then, we will explore some built-in presets…

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Here Are My Quality Settings for Saving JPEGs out of Lightroom

Happy Halloween, everybody! Here’s another one I get asked a lot, and it’s an easy one to answer because I’ve been using the same settings for saving my JPEGs for 11-years now. What I look…

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How to Paint Your Face in Photoshop

Today we show you how to make a colorful and realistic face paint effect in Photoshop! Learn how to use our custom face paint brush and Adjustment Layers to create your own adorable (or spooky!)…

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Creating an Auto Preset for use in the Cloud-based Lightroom

A couple of years back Adobe released an update to the Auto settings in all of the Lightroom apps (and Camera Raw too). The new and improved Auto is powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s AI…

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How to put a logo or pattern on a shirt

  Preparation: Making a new pattern We will use a plaid (tartan) pattern.  Open your pattern 1. Choose >edit>define pattern  2. Give it a name. Thats it! It appears in the Patterns which you will…

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The Magic & Wonder That is Lightroom’s ‘Solo Mode’

Solo Mode is one of the biggest time-savers and frustration avoiders in all of Lightroom, and it has the power to speed your entire workflow — all you have to do it turn it on.…

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How to Make a realistic cast shadow in Photoshop, new way.

    A drop Shadow is when the shadow is on a surface, parallel with the object, such as a person standing in front of a wall. A Cast Shadow is when the surface is…

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A Photoshop Trick for Lightroom Users: Extending The Background

As much as Lightroom does (and it’s a bunch), there are still some things you need to jump over to Photoshop for, and this is one of them. It’s an old school Photoshop trick that…

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