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How to Turn a Photo into a Pencil Drawing in Photoshop, the new and improved Sketch effect

In the past I have made a photoshop tutorial on turning a photo into a sketch. But after many years, I have a much better way of doing it, check out the photo to Pencil…

Creative Editing with Topaz Studio Free Photoshop Plugin

Creative Editing With Topaz Studio Free Photoshop Plugin Join Hazel for some “spooky” techniques in Topaz Studio! Creative edits include Texture Effects, layers and masks, composites and much more. Hazel Meredith is involved with the photographic…

Lightroom Tethering Quick Tip

Good Monday, everybody. Here’s one from the vault — it’s a great little tip I picked up from my buddy Terry White, and it’s about having the tethering Heads up display (seen above in the…

Viewing Multiple Collections At The Same Time

This is just a quickie to take you into the weekend, but it can be a really handy one. Check it out: Above: of course you already know that when you’re in the Library module…

How to Speed up Photoshop CC + How to fix any problem in Photoshop

Tuning Photoshop for speed and fix bugs. Here are 10 Tips to make Photoshop CC lightning fast and how to fix almost any problem in Photoshop without reinstalling. Photoshop is a bit like your…

10 Tips for Grid View

It’s normal to spend a lot of time in Lightroom’s Grid view, so it pays to learn a few ways to make your time there more efficient. Here are ten ways to get you working…

Customizing Lightroom Photo Book Layouts

You guys know how big I am on Lightroom Photo Books (well, that and tethering, right?), and anyway, today we’ve got a new video from Adobe’s own Benjamin Warde on how to totally customize your…

Ultimate 1200+ Photo Backgrounds Megabundle

Ultimate 1200+ Photo Backgrounds MegaBundle – 91% Off Over 1,200 professionally photographed images, masked objects, skies and location sets, that will help you build your own virtual studio library, all without leaving the comfort of your…