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Oct12022

Use Paths and Adjustments to Clean Up Selections in Photoshop

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-10-01

Photoshop Proving Ground Photoshop really does a great job leveraging Sensei AI to recognize subjects and features in photographs. And it saves amazing amounts of time when you use that power to create selections and masks. But it’s not perfect, is it? Many times we need just a little extra oomph to really dial in selections,…

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Sep12022

Paint Mystical Digital Flames in Photoshop

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-09-01

AI generated art is beautiful, but what if you need to add something hot? Learn about creating mystical flames in Photoshop!

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Aug12022

Faster Social Media Engagement with Templates in Photoshop

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-08-01

Speed up your work flow and create consistency with easy Photoshop templates you create yourself!

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Jul12022

B&W Control Freak – Beautiful Control Over Color Conversion

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-07-01

Photoshop Proving Ground In statistical terms, there are approximately one bajillion ways to convert a color photograph to black and white. In the June issue of Photoshop Proving Ground, I show you my favorite technique. It relies on a specific layer stack that allows surgical precision over the translation from color to gray. On the…

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Jun12022

Cubism Portraits with Liquify

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-06-01

Get squared up with this challenging but fun distortion technique that makes your subjects into blockheads.

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May12022

Building Illustrations with Paths in Photoshop

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-05-01

Photoshop Proving Ground Not everything we do in Photoshop has to be a photo effect or correction. There are some great graphics and illustration tools as well! For the May column I have chosen the Pen tool (or specifically, the Curvature Pen tool) to take for a test drive with some custom brushes. Most photographers…

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Apr12022

Creating Custom Crop Overlays in Photoshop

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-04-01

Learn how to create and use persistent overlays as guides to strengthen your photographic composition.

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Mar12022

Blend Modes for Environmental Lighting

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-03-01

Make your settings glow with this speedy Photoshop trick!

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Feb12022

Stock photo of business peers treated with Cutout filter in Photoshop

Cutout Filter Tricks

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-02-01

Use this almost unknown Photoshop filter to help create trendy, colorful graphics.

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Jan12022

Stock portrait of woman with retouched hair

Tricks for Taming Hair in Photoshop (Part 2 of 2)

PSPGBy Scott Valentine2022-01-01

Use these techniques to deal with messy hair in Adobe Photoshop.

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