……someone asked me last week how I edit.. I realised he was after a ‘prescription’ for getting images to look’ like they do…. And of course, there isn’t one. Honestly, it made me stop and think… what am I doing? Why do I make the choices I make… There are two ways I create impressionistic Read More
Analogous colours are basically colours next to each other on the colour wheel. If you’re not sure where to find the colour wheel – check out Adobe’s colour wheel (click here). The way I understood it best was this – analogous colours are like friends that share the same traits… blending naturally when put together… Read More
Hello, I just read on Camversation that many of the wonderful brushes on the creative cloud are now no longer there… So I thought I’d start making and sharing… Here’s todays effort. If you have one that you need and love or have a special request give me a shout and I’ll see if I Read More
In this tutorial I share one technique to create soft dreamy light on your image capturing just one area of the image not all of it… a brilliant technique for creative photographic art editing…
Maybe it’s a bit of a strange title for a blog about photoshop editing but, the truth is, it’s taken me a while to realise that editing and photography is, for me, more than capturing an image – it’s about the feeling, the essence of the moment. When I’m editing I’m not manipulating pixels, fixing Read More
How do I stack and blend layers in Ps with Ps doing the work…. I don’t want to use masks I just want it to blend three shots (you can do more or less!) When I would do this… It was a beautiful morning this morning and I wanted to capture a line of trees Read More
Where do I start? That’s a question several folks have asked me this week… How to Start… Without Photoshop I would say… Start in your body and mind… FEEL. And I say “feel” for a reason. When I first started, I spent so much time focusing on being technical—thinking about composition, light, shadows, style… but Read More
Groups are so much more than just a way of keeping your layers tidy in Photoshop. When you group layers together they now ACT TOGETHER – so if you group two images together they now move together are resized together with the transform tool and so on… You could apply an adjustment layer to the Read More
High pass filters grab hold of the sharpness already in the image and sharpen it… Imagine you’ve got a picture of a street in the City, it’ll grab all the edges of the buildings and any other shape edges and sharpen them but leave the rest… Whereas a smart sharpen sharpens everything. I love to Read More
What is a stamp layer and why use it… Stamp layers are a gathering together of all the information on all the layers currently visible (eyeball turned on) – basically you’re merging all the layers without flattening them into one… you end up with the merged layer but all the layers that formed it remain Read More
