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Print Competition Results for April 2025

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Print Night competition. Judge: Assigned Topic: Anything Railroad General Monochrome Assigned Topic

Print Competition Results for March 2025

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Print Night competition. Judge: Assigned Topic: Close Up General Monochrome Assigned Topic

Print Competition Results for February 2025

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Print Night competition. Judge: Assigned Topic: Odd Couples General Monochrome Assigned Topic

Digital Competition Results for April 2025

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Digital Image Night competition. ** Judge: Thomas Robinson **** Assigned Topic: Something Starting with the Letter “P” ** COMPETITION REPLAY

Photoshop Roadmap Weekly #14

This week, Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV explores Photoshop’s latest AI upgrades—smarter, faster tools that boost creative workflows. New tutorials show you how to turn photos into paintings with Generative Fill, use Grady shading…

Turn Pictures Into Paintings Using Generative Fill In Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn how to transform your photos into stunning paintings using the Generative Fill tool. Starting with channel adjustments, you'll create a partial selection and apply an oil painting style or…

Add Grady Shading to Enhance Your Photoshop Art

This tutorial focuses on adding grainy shading to illustrations in Photoshop, which helps bring flat artwork to life by adding depth and texture. It explains how to achieve a noisy, textured look that many artists…

Designing 1980s Vintage Illustrated Tees in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create a vintage-style t-shirt design inspired by the 1980s using Photoshop. It focuses on making a graphic that honors one of metal's most famous guitar heroes, using a Simulated Process…