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Photoshop Workbench 367: Absolutely Essential Photoshop Shortcuts
There are a handful of shortcuts in Photoshop that are simply invaluable to photographers. The seven that I’ll cover in this Photoshop Workbench are the cream of the crop. Whether you’re a beginner...
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Photoshop Workbench 368: Cinemagraphs Revisited
A year and a half ago, I recorded Photoshop Workbench 297 which explained how to create a cinemagraph using Photoshop CS5. When CS6 was released, the process became much easier. To be honest, even if...
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Photoshop Workbench 369: Creating the Popular 1970s Retro Look
Several mobile device apps, such as Instagram, are designed to convert our pristine digital images into photos that look like they were captured decades ago. Ironically, the retro characteristics that...
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Photoshop Workbench 370: Retro Look No. 2
In last week’s Photoshop Workbench, we used Photoshop’s phenomenal tools to re-create the nostalgic 1970s film look. This week, we’ll continue with this retro theme by re-creating the look of a...
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Photoshop Workbench 371: Impressionistic Photography Book Cover Composite
My dear friend and co-instructor, Charles Needle, has been hard at work creating a one-of-a-kind field guide that illustrates how to craft painterly photos using nothing but your camera. The book is...
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Photoshop Workbench 372: The Ins and Outs of Actions
Actions (or macros as they are often referred to in other programs) are huge time savers. They allow us to record a series of Photoshop steps that we intend to use again and again. Once the steps are...
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Photoshop Workbench 373: Batch Processing with an Action
In last week’s Photoshop Workbench, we learned how to record a series of steps into an action that we can play back on other images. In this week’s edition, we’ll go a step further and use Photoshop’s...
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Photoshop Workbench 374: Creating Dramatic Lighting with Blend Modes
If you’ve watched even a few of my Photoshop Workbench tutorials, you know that adjustment layers are a great way to alter mood and lighting. But what you might not know is that there is a powerful,...
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Photoshop Workbench 375: Shoot-Through Effect
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “shoot through,” it refers to shooting through a colorful foreground subject, such as a rose bush, that is extremely close to the lens using a shallow depth-of-field...
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Photoshop Workbench 376: Creating Ethereal Lighting
I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting ways to enhance or create beautiful lighting in scenes. After all, when you boil it all down, photography is really all about the light. The quality...
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Photoshop Workbench 377: Wrapping Realistic Light Around a Composited Subject
Compositing with photos is one of my all-time favorite endeavors. I relish the opportunity to exercise my creative muscles while crafting a scene with cinematic qualities that might not be possible to...
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Photoshop Workbench 378: Fusing a Foreground and Background with Atmosphere
If you enjoy photo compositing, you know that you can never have too many background resources. And sometimes, especially in the case of creative projects (such as book cover and movie poster...
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Photoshop Workbench 379: 32-Bit HDR in Camera Raw to Eliminate Haloes
Photomatix Pro and Nik HDR Efex Pro are awesome pieces of software for creating richly detailed HDR scenes, yet they both tend to produce haloes where dark edges meet bright edges. Although there are...
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Creative Breakthrough: It Takes a Village
Today, I’m going to depart from my usual format. Rather than sharing a step-by-step video tutorial, I’d like to share a personal story about giving yourself permission to listen deeply to your creative...
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Photoshop Workbench 380: A Comprehensive Look at Nik HDR Efex Pro
When Google recently purchased Nik Software and lowered the price of the entire Nik Collection from $499 to $149, hundreds of my audience members made the leap…and rightfully so…Nik makes absolutely...
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Photoshop Workbench 381: Substituting a Silhouette
In today’s Photoshop Workbench, we’re going to embark on an entertaining retouching project that requires a little creative thinking. I was recently asked by my friend, Luke Seaward, if it’s possible...
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Photoshop Workbench 382: Compositing Secrets – Controlling Perspective with...
I recently sat in on a compositing seminar with Ben Willmore and learned several clever techniques for working with perspective in a photo composite. In today’s Photoshop Workbench, I’m excited to...
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Photoshop Workbench 383: Compositing Secrets – Adding Atmospheric Distortion
In the previous Photoshop Workbench, we used Vanishing Point to add a second Taj Mahal with correct perspective further in the distance. Since recording that Workbench, I’ve added a reflection. Today,...
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Photoshop Workbench 384: Photo Composite Start to Finish – Part 1
I recently posted a photo composite to my Google+ stream that received a lot of attention…partly because of the intriguing subject matter with pop-out elements, and partly because viewers were...
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Photoshop Workbench 385: Photo Composite Start to Finish – Part 2
In last week’s Photoshop Workbench, we began building this imaginative book composite. Today, we’ll pick up where we left off and drop in a hot air balloon, dodge and burn to refine the lighting, add...
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