Groups –  Why Groups are SO powerful…

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

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High Pass Filters

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 in Photoshop and how to create one…

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

Tip to match colours precisely

Extract Colour From An Image and How To Use it… Copy the image you are working on and save it as JPEG then open up Adobe Colour Wheel and choose Extract Colour You’ll get information like mine below….  You can drag the little circles on the image around if you don’t like the colours it’s Read More