Cubism Portraits with Liquify
Get squared up with this challenging but fun distortion technique that makes your subjects into blockheads.
Building Illustrations with Paths in Photoshop
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…
Creating Custom Crop Overlays in Photoshop
Learn how to create and use persistent overlays as guides to strengthen your photographic composition.
Blend Modes for Environmental Lighting
Make your settings glow with this speedy Photoshop trick!
Cutout Filter Tricks
Use this almost unknown Photoshop filter to help create trendy, colorful graphics.
Tricks for Taming Hair in Photoshop (Part 2 of 2)
Use these techniques to deal with messy hair in Adobe Photoshop.
Tricks for Taming Hair in Photoshop (Part 1 of 2)
Brute force methods for dealing with fly-away hair don’t have to be inelegant!
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…