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How to Build a Soft Highlight Glow Effect Manually in Photoshop

A soft light bloom adds depth and atmosphere to portraits and nature shots without making them look over-processed. This technique isolates the actual highlight information from your photo, blurs it across multiple layers, and finishes…

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5 big new features in Photoshop 2026 August update

5 New Photoshop 2026 Features You Need to Know Adobe has added a number of new features to Photoshop 2026, and some of them can make a significant difference to the way we work. There’s…

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How to Overpaint a Dress and Add Lace Overlays in Photoshop

A plain or unflattering dress doesn't have to stay that way after the shoot. By overpainting directly onto the fabric and layering lace overlays on top, you can reshape, extend, and completely restyle clothing in…

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Start Smart: Build a Strong Foundation in Lightroom Classic with Rob Sylvan

If Lightroom Classic has ever felt more complicated than it needs to be, sometimes the problem isn’t Lightroom. It’s how everything was set up in the first place. In this new class, Rob Sylvan goes…

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Calling All Photo Walk Leaders: My 18th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk is Back!

It’s that time again. My Worldwide Photo Walk is back, and this year we’re walking on Saturday, October 3! This is always one of my favorite days of the year, when photographers all over the…

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How to Build a Realistic Hoodie Mockup in Photoshop with Color Changes, Embossing, and Embroidery

Building a hoodie mockup from a plain stock photo takes more than placing a graphic on top. This tutorial covers the full workflow: isolating and cleaning the garment, recoloring it with a gradient map, placing…

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How to Use Floral Appliqué PNGs to Create Fine Art Portraits in Photoshop

High-resolution floral appliqué PNGs on transparent layers open up a straightforward path to fine art portrait compositing. By combining them with subject cutouts, blend modes, clipped adjustment layers, and foliage brushes, a standard photograph can…

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Simulate the 2000s Digicam Look in Photoshop and Camera Raw

Early 2000s point-and-shoot cameras produced a distinctive look: punchy contrast, cool color casts from on-camera flash, deep shadows, and a soft glow around bright areas. This walkthrough covers how to replicate that aesthetic non-destructively using…

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