Paint Mystical Digital Flames in Photoshop
AI generated art is beautiful, but what if you need to add something hot? Learn about creating mystical flames in Photoshop!
Cubism Portraits with Liquify
Get squared up with this challenging but fun distortion technique that makes your subjects into blockheads.
Blend Modes for Environmental Lighting
Make your settings glow with this speedy Photoshop trick!
Adding Lens Blur Bokeh
Photoshop Proving Ground Sometimes you want just a little extra dash of magic in photos that have already been captured. Fortunately, we have Photoshop for just such emergencies! Bokeh – the quality of blur effects in out-of-focus areas of an image – can be incredibly difficult to recreate. Simple Gaussian blur doesn’t quite cut it…
Mixer Brush Painting with Stencils
Photoshop Proving Ground The more I use the Mixer Brush, the more I enjoy working with it. I’m not a trained painter or even a traditionally educated artist – like many people I’ve learned on the fly, on the job, and on a lot of caffeine. Anyway, the June issue of PSPG takes you through…
Dodge & Burn for Landscapes
Photoshop Proving Ground There are approximately three articles on Dodge and Burn for every licensed copy of Photoshop out there. I have several of my own. Of course the topic is extremely important to virtually anyone who works on their photos beyond applying a filter (many of which apply AI-based dodge and burn… ironic, no?).…
Path Blur
Photoshop Proving Ground The March installment of Photoshop Proving Ground shows off some tricks with Path Blur to add dynamic motion to your images. In the dancer image to the right, I also treated the background to some blur love that creates a unique, directional texture, reinforcing the sense of movement. This technique is pretty…
