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Create an artistic paint lettering in Photoshop

In this Photohshop tutorial you are going to learn how to create an acrylic paint effect on a lettering within Adobe Photoshop! This is by no means the ONLY way to do this, I can…

Five More Useful Things in the Cloud-based Lightroom Mobile App

My post from last week generated a few questions, so I thought I’d follow up with some answers and some more tips. Exposure Lock When faced with a tricky exposure situation and you want to…

How to Remove Shadows from a Photoshop in Photoshop

Sometimes you get the perfect photo, but there are unwanted shadows on it. This picture was sent to me by one of our members: Richard Pilcher. He asked… “I have a NEF file of elephants drinking…

Enhanced Skin Softening Technique in Lightroom

I’m just back from Photoshop World (it was incredible — I’ll share some pics and stories in a few days), but today I’m sharing a skin softening technique I picked at the conference from one…

10 Tips to Master Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Are you a designer or illustrator? You need to master Photoshop brushes. In this course, you’ll learn everything from how to install Photoshop brushes through to mastering the use of hard and soft brushes. Using…

Freewell Magnetic Filter System: Magnetic Quick Swap System review

When I was contacted by Freewill recently and they told me they were sending me something new and that I couldn’t talk about it until August 20st, I knew it must be interesting. It turns…

How to remove a person from a photo in Photoshop (Complex Background)

2 Scenarios: The first is when you are the photographer. In this case, I always get the shot and then have the model leave the scene and shoot a clean background plate. In this case,…