Using Smart Objects in Photoshop for Album Design

Smart objects in Photoshop have many benefits that i’ll cover in a post coming soon. One really huge benefit for speeding up your album design creations is the ability to replace an image and have it automatically take on the same size and effects that the previous image had. Say you had a really great [...]

An Introduction to DNG File Types

Our awesome partners over at PWD Labs (www.pwdlabs.com) created a post on their blog recently about DNG file types and were nice enough to let us repost the article here. If you have ever wondered what a DNG file is this is a great overview of the DNG file type. Introduction to DNG File Types [...]

What version of Photoshop do you have?

To help me figure out what types of articles to focus on it always helps me to know what everyone is currently using with software. With Photoshop I know there are still many people running CS3 or CS4 (or others) and it would be helpful to know what the breakdown of versions are. Please take [...]

Photoshop 5.5 available on a subscription basis

Aside from the big news yesterday that Adobe is jumping into the touch app business with 3 new touch apps for Photoshop, adobe announced a few other new things for Photoshop 5.5. One is going to be a brand new way of purchasing Photoshop and the other creative suite applications. Adobe will now be allowing [...]

Julieanne Kost – WPPI 2011 Photoshop CS5

Stylized Effects with Photoshop CS5 Continuing our coverage of the WPPI speakers that we saw this year, today I am going to go over a more technical class that Julianne Kost gave for Photoshop CS5. I think that Julianne is one of the best Photoshop teachers out there, she knows the product inside and out, [...]

Some Great Photos of Christmas Trees

Christmas, my favorite time of the year is here. And as an artist it gives us so many cool things to photograph, the decorations everywhere, the lights and Christmas trees all make for great things to capture images of. And if you are looking for some tips on how to capture those perfect photos of [...]

Digital Composites in Photoshop

With the ability that Photoshop has to have multiple layers it really opens up an unlimited amount of creative control you have. I love working in Lightroom to edit images but when I really want to create something that is a higher level of creativity i’ll open up Photoshop. With layers you can combine many [...]

How to Create a Digital Lomo Look in Photoshop

One trend that I do like but also think is pretty funny is how the “film” look of digital photography has become so popular lately. So many people use Photoshop or Lightroom to create images that look like they were shot with an old film camera like a Holga or Poloraid, there are so many [...]

Digital Composite in Photoshop CS5

Photoshop can be so powerful, with layers you have the ability to merge things together and creating artistic digital composites in Photoshop can be such a creative process. At first it can be intimidating, Photoshop has so many options and for new users can be a little bit much. But just like anything with some [...]

Digital Holga Photography – Creating holga images in photoshop

One trend that I do like but also think is pretty funny is how the “film” look of digital photography has become so popular lately. So many people use Photoshop or Lightroom to create images that look like they were shot with an old film camera like a Holga or Poloraid, there are so many [...]

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