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Changing the temperature of a photo in Photoshop

November 14, 2022October 27, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Changing a photo temperature can be a fun way to create a mood or experiment with lighting in a photo.  First, open your photo (File Open). Next, in the adjustments …

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Creating gifs in Photoshop

November 11, 2022October 26, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Creating gifs in Photoshop can be a fun way to spice up everything from social media to your presentations or portfolio. Let’s go through the steps you will use. First, …

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Photography / Photoshop

Using Neural filters and Sky Replacement in Photoshop

February 9, 2022June 1, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Editing photos for editorial or artistic outputs with ease using the neural filters and replace sky. Each workflow helps you to protect your pixels by creating new layers with the …

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Graphic Design / Illustrator / Photoshop

Working with Illustrator layers in Photoshop

January 19, 2022June 1, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Opening Illustrator work inside Photoshop is as easy as copy/paste. Start by opening your work in Illustrator. Make sure you have already created named layers inside of Illustrator.  Next, select …

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Graphic Design / Photoshop

Photoshop share, comment and edit on the web

January 19, 2022June 1, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Photoshop has made collaborating and editing even easier! You can now share a Photoshop document, allow stakeholders to add pinned comments. These comments appear inside Photoshop, so you can stay …

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Graphic Design / Photoshop

Photoshop Hover Select

January 19, 2022June 1, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Photoshop’s latest update has made selecting content so easy. To make an automatic selection on hover with the Object Selection tool, do the following: Access the Object Selection tool from …

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Photoshop

Workshop: Building banners for social media

May 26, 2021January 20, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

This workshop introduces you to two different styles you can use to create trendy social media banners. You will also get an overview of many of Photoshop’s most useful aspects. …

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Apps / Illustrator / InDesign / Photoshop / Premiere / Video / Web / XD

Workshop: Get to Know Creative Cloud

April 22, 2020November 1, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

If you have CC questions, email Heather or pop them into the comments.

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Graphic Design / Photoshop

Object Selection

November 26, 2019January 19, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

In the 2020 updates, Photoshop released the object selection tool. Overall, this tool is user friendly and does an excellent job of making selections even quicker and easier.  As background, …

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Graphic Design / Photography / Photoshop

Cropping Images in Photoshop

July 25, 2019July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Cropping images allows you to size images for specific purpose and resolutions. This step is not necessary to work in InDesign. Table of Contents: 00:25 – Scale impacts effective ppi …

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Graphic Design / Photoshop

Checking your Links Part 2 (Changing Resolution and Color Mode in Photoshop)

July 22, 2019December 13, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

How to prepare your images for use in print or digital by jumping from InDesign to Photoshop. Watch part 1 of our video.  Table of Contents: 00:10 – Opening link …

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Graphic Design / Photography / Photoshop

Creating Cutout, Dropout or COB images

July 18, 2019July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

There are several ways to create a cob image, begin with creating a good basic selection area, experimenting with some of these tools: Using various selection tools inside Photoshop Table …

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Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Layers

April 23, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Gaining an understanding of how to manipulate layers in Photoshop is a great early step in creating compositions and building your own designs. Table of Contents: 00:16 – Windows – …

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Photography / Photoshop

Select and Mask : Quick and Accurate Cut Outs

April 17, 2019January 20, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Creating a detailed selection area from a photo can be difficult, but using a combination of the select subject and select and mask tools can help you be more detailed. …

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Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Selections

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Learning to make precision selections is one of the great skills to master quickly. There are a variety of tools to be used all with specific advantages and use scenarios. …

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Graphic Design / Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Updates – Oct. 2018

October 17, 2018January 20, 2022 - by Heather Lawrenz

Adobe released some exciting updates to Photoshop at Max this week. Read about the full set of updates, I am super excited about the new content aware fill workspace. If …

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Photography / Photoshop

HDR toning

September 21, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Table of Contents: 00:12 – How to start the HDR process in camera 00:29 – Adjusting exposure after a shoot 00:42 – Selecting multiple photos and loading into HDR pro …

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Cool Photoshop Lighting Effects

September 18, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Using Photoshop Lighting effects is a quick and easy way to highlight content. Table of Contents: 00:26 – Step 1 Create a Smart Object from Layer 00:46 – Step 2 …

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Tinting a photo

September 18, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Tinting a photo can help stylize an image or bring a fresh look to portraits. Table of Contents: 00:17 – Step 1 Copy background layer 00:46 – Legacy Adjustments vs …

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Photography / Photoshop

Overlaying Textures in Photoshop

September 17, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Overlaying Textures can add warmth to otherwise stale graphics. Table of Contents: 00:28 – Examples of textured artwork 01:00 – Texture images 01:10 – How photos become textures 01:32 – …

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Photoshop – Creating blur effect and using masks

September 17, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Using photoshop to create blur effects and editing them with masks allows you to imply motion and take your still images into photo illustrations. Table of Contents: 00:25 – Step …

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Photo Illustrations
Photography / Photoshop

Photo Illustrations – Layer Modes and Layer Panel Overview

September 17, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Photo Illustrations Basic photo illustrations can be achieved in a few steps with use of layer modes and knowledge of the panel. Table of Contents: 00:16 – Using Bridge to …

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Basic Photoshop Workspace – how to navigate

September 17, 2015July 23, 2021 - by Heather Lawrenz

Photoshop Workspace Table of Contents: 00:10 – Setting a Default Workspace 00:34 – Contextual Control Bar 01:01 – Menu 01:37 – Panels 02:03 – Creating your own workspace 02:41 – …

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