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Before and After View Plus Dynamic Layers in Photoshop Beta

Photoshop Beta currently includes two features that work quite differently from each other. The first adds a straightforward before-and-after comparison tool directly into the editing workspace — something that sounds simple but solves a real…

How to Remove Backgrounds in Photoshop Using Blend If and Channel Calculations

Blend If is a layer style setting that hides pixels based on brightness — and when the background is a solid color like a blue sky, it can produce cleaner edges around fine details like…

How to Blend Multiple Exposures for Car Light Trails in Photoshop

Stacking multiple exposures of a night scene lets you capture far more light trail detail than any single shot can deliver. This technique uses the Lighten blending mode to combine a bright base image with…

How to Use the Light Adjustment Layer in Photoshop to Edit Subject and Background Separately

Photoshop's Light adjustment layer replaces Brightness and Contrast with a full set of Camera Raw controls — exposure, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, and contrast — available directly in the layers panel. Combined with layer masks…

6 New Photoshop Features You Should Know About

Photoshop's latest update adds six features that cover lighting adjustments, glow effects, AI-assisted editing, and text placement — changes that affect real editing decisions. The new Light adjustment layer alone removes a common reason to…

Image Adjustments vs Adjustment Layers in Photoshop: Destructive vs Non-Destructive Editing Explained

Every tonal and color change made through the Image menu is permanent — once applied, those edits are baked into the pixels with no way to revisit individual settings. Adjustment layers solve this by keeping…

20 Photoshop and Camera Raw Features from the September 2026 Update

The September 2026 update to Photoshop and Camera Raw packs in a wide range of additions — from autofocus point display and a new glow effect to generative expand on raw files and color wheel…

How to Apply an Exact Hex Color to Any Object in Photoshop

Matching an object's color to a specific hex code is harder than it looks. Real surfaces carry highlights, shadows, and texture — meaning no single pixel represents the true color. The solution is to average…