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Updates to Adobe Stock

Adobe recently announced a raft of upgrades to Adobe Stock, the royalty-free stock images, photos, graphics, vectors and video footage service that integrates with many of the Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop an Lightroom.

Photoshop Integration

You can find Adobe Stock search in the Libraries panel inside of Photoshop and can licence images without leaving the application.

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Did You Forget About Photoshop Express

“Photoshop Express? Is that still going?” I hear you ask. Well, yes and it’s more powerful now than ever with some amazing updates.

What Photoshop Express Is Not

This isn’t Adobe’s first foray into providing Photoshop on mobile devices, some readers may remember the, frankly brilliant, Photoshop Touch before it was pieced out. Others may remember the first release of Photoshop Express and…

Scatter 3D Text By Letter in Photoshop

In this video I take the techniques from the last two videos and then ‘scatter’ the text, individually. Just for fun I also make the ground plane reflective too!

Creating a 3D Ground Plane to Match an Image in Photoshop

Create 3D Glass Text in Photoshop

Create 3D Glass Text in Photoshop

  Following on from my last post where I showed you to how to move text to an existing ground plane, in this video I make some glass effect 3D text.

I also recorded a video for Photofocus, Creating a 3D Ground Plane to Match an Image in Photoshop

Creating a 3D Ground Plane to Match an Image in Photoshop

When you’re adding a 3D element to an image its often difficult to line up the ground in the image to the ground plane for the 3D image. In this post I’ll outline how to make sure they line up perfectly, every time. In this example I’ll add some 3D text to a shelf;

Creating the 3D Text

To make things easier I’m going to change the workspace to 3D, this makes the 3D and Property panels available;

Save changesPhotoshop Conditional Actions

In this video I use Photoshop Conditional Actions to add text to images depending on their orientation.

How to Create a Vintage Look in Photoshop

In today’s retouching video, I teach you how to create a vintage look to add to your images.

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How to Create Dust Particles in Photoshop

In today’s retouching video, I teach you how to create dust particles from scratch to use in your images.

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Create realist light leaks in Photoshop

Digital photography is crisp, clean and overall much more consistent than analogue photography. This is great for the most part, but like most things digital results can quickly become too perfect. Relive the unpredictable nature of film photography and add a stylish retro effect to your shots by creating realistic light leaks in Photoshop. Here’s how it’s done…

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Adobe Creative Suite Officially Retired… But What About Lightroom?

Adobe’s decision to switch to the Cloud has been met with both cheers and jeers.  I don’t want to rehash old arguments.  But I thought important to let you know that the change appears to be permanent.  If you were hoping for an update to Adobe Creative Suite or to be able to buy a standalone version of Photoshop or Premiere Pro, you’re out of luck.

An official statement reads.

“Adobe creative…

Selective Sharpening in Lightroom for more pop without noise. #Lightroom #photography

Sharpening helps your picture have a little more punch and can allow details to pop and draw attention. If you sharpen the entire image, however, you’ll end up with visible details, called artifacts, in places where there aren’t details, like a blue sky. To avoid creating these artifacts, you can sharpen only those areas that have interesting detail and those to which you want to draw attention.…

How to Create a Cinematic Look in Photoshop

In today’s retouching video, I teach you how to create a cinematic look to add drama and gritt to your images.

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Adobe Launches New Creative Apps for ChromeBooks

The photo in the header was finished 100% in Lightroom Mobile, including selective filters, like the Radial Filter shown here.

Education is changing in big ways with new technology, and Google’s Chromebooks have been helping it along. Many schools across the world are using Chromebooks–computers that run Google’s Android operating system–which allow students to learn with an immediacy and…