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Photoshop Masterclass Training
Layers & Masks
Learn Photoshop from a professional! This course features easy-to-follow videos that walk you through layers and masking for photographers using Photoshop CC. Go here to learn more about this in-depth Photoshop course. (Great for Beginner/Intermediate-level users.)
- The course begins with a detailed walkthrough of the basic fundamentals to help you understand and learn about the concepts in Photoshop.
- Each fundamental is also demonstrated with examples to help you fully understand each concept.
- Then, you get to use the included practice files to follow along with hands-on projects.
Articles and Training
Blog posts and video training on Adobe® Photoshop®.
Adding a Painted Edge in Photoshop
In this video, I show you how I use a hand-painted overlay and apply it to a photo in Photoshop to give the image [...]
How to Add Bokeh Using Photoshop
Beautiful, soft, and layered bokeh makes for a magical backdrop. The problem is, unless you are photographing a person in front of a Christmas tree, [...]
How to Customize Your Snapchat Code Using Photoshop
Snapchat is picking up in popularity, especially for brands and entrepreneurs. It's a unique platform that requires authenticity and real-time posting, and its "Stories" are [...]
New Partner Announcement: Adobe
I have been using Adobe products for about as long as I can remember being a photographer. As a teenager, I got my first taste of [...]
How to use Photoshop to Remove Tourists from Photographs
If you have traveled to anywhere considered "touristy", then you probably already understand the woes of being a photographer who has too many people in [...]
Adding Shallow Depth of Field in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add a shallow depth of field effect to a landscape photograph using the Tilt-Shift Blur [...]
Processing an Infrared Image using Lightroom and Photoshop
I recently had the opportunity to play with an infrared-converted camera, thanks to the folks over at LensRentals.com, and had a lot of fun photographing my dog at an expansive dog park just outside of Portland, Oregon...
Processing HDR using Lightroom and Photoshop
I do a lot of landscape photography, and with that, I also do use HDR to make some of my images. I do my best to keep the processing as minimal as possible, without "nuking" or over-saturating the end result. It can be easy to be heavy-handed with HDR processing, ...
My Top 20 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
When it comes to post-processing a photograph, I like to work efficiently. I am definitely a fan-girl of the "work smarter, not harder" belief, and one way to do this inside of Photoshop is through the use of keyboard shortcuts...
Two Minute Tip: Merge & Copy Visible Layers
In this Photoshop tutorial I demonstrate how to create a brand-new merged and copied layer of all visible layers without flattening the existing layers in [...]