Photoshop plugins can significantly streamline your workflow, making tasks quicker and easier. While some premium options from Topaz Labs, Filter Forge, and OnOne Software offer impressive features, they often come with a hefty price tag. Not everyone wants or needs such complex tools, especially when there are excellent free alternatives...
This collection of colorful Christmas text effects tutorials in Photoshop offers a fun way to spread holiday cheer. You can create eye-catching designs that convey your affection for family and friends with just a few simple steps. Each tutorial is laid out in a clear, step-by-step format, making it accessible...
Many software companies offer trial versions that are, for lack of a better term, crippled. These trials often have key features disabled, such as save or export functions, or they add watermarks to created content. While this approach is understandable from a business perspective, it can limit users' ability...
Article republished with permission of PSD STACK. PSD Stack is a blog dedicated to Photoshop that provides high-quality tutorials, presets and actions to all level of Photoshop users Learn how to create a trendy cyberpunk effect in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to add neon color vibes to your images...
It’s not a lie to say that Photoshop default artistic effects filters are ugly. Yes, maybe you can find some obscure effects combination that can give you some decent results, but these tools are quite limited overall. Fortunately some clever artist managed to hack Photoshop to it’s maximum...
Are you still using Photoshop with only the default filters and textures? Don’t feel bad. It’s a common mistake most Photoshop users, even the experts, often make. Photoshop is an incredible piece of software that comes with tons of features for editing and creating art. But, if you...
Color fonts are the next big thing in graphic design. They represent a key evolution in digital typography. We are talking about font sets that include multiple colors, shades, textures and transparency in both vector and bitmap format. The standard vector fonts we all know, are just vector outlines that...
Too often, we hear photographers lament about how they missed the Golden Hour, or how they wish they could have photographed a place in the middle of a blizzard. Sure, nothing beats being in the actual moment with the perfect weather condition. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’...
Filter Forge is a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters. The key features of Filter Forge include the filter editor and a free online library of user-created filters, currently containing more than 11,000 filters. All filters are adjustable, resolution-independent, support real-world HDRI...
Every good designer needs a great source of photography to use in their designs. Photography for me is a big part of my designs so having a place where I can download and use free high quality stock images is amazing! There are plenty of paid stock websites and services...
Thanks to Snapchat app, you can easily swap faces with a friend or add funny animal masks to your face in a second. Hilarious! But what about quality? Portrait retouching in Photoshop is not limited to high-end, professional retouching for magazines or photo books. You can also create some creative...
As a photographer or designer you’re always seeking for perfection. You want your images to be stunningly good looking. In fact, You probably are an expert in color enhancement, frequency separation skin retouching, subtle hdr effects, and many obscure and little-known image sharpening techniques. You enjoy that, don’t...
Your Photoshop workflow depends on several factors, including the volume of work you’re dealing with and your own mastery of the software. Lightroom and Photoshop instructor Ben Willmore has another secret for helping speed up your workflow when editing photos: Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Becoming familiar (and quick) with these...
For those of us who aren’t professional photographers, or lack the proper equipment, portrait photography is a feat that will inevitably end in an intensive, and sometimes clueless, retouching session. Luckily Photoshop has some incredible tools to make this process easier. But if you aren’t an intermediate or...
The real beauty in Photoshop is that even it is a high-end professional software, you can simply open an image and quickly apply effects or corrections to achieve beautiful results. But that can only take you so far. And I don’t mean you should go and learn complex curves...
Are you trying to turn your photograph into a dreamy watercolor painting, and feeling bitter about not being the talented artist who also happens to own a Wacom tablet? Well, we feel you, especially so as the Photoshop watercolor plugin produces results that are far from desirable (we’re being...
For any beginner photographer, grasping the basic know-how of Photoshop can seem pretty daunting – especially if you’re trying to go it alone without classes or professional instruction. These ten easy tips, however, will quickly get you acquainted with the basics of Photoshop. After these tutorials you will be on...
Changing the ISO settings of the camera is one of the tricks expert photographers use to take crisp clear photographs in low light conditions. Unfortunately, using higher levels of ISO has an annoying downside: It adds more noise to the photographs. Sure, Photoshop does have some basic filters that let...
Have you ever wondered how those professional photographers, like Trey Ratcliff, take amazing looking HDR photographs that are so rich in colors and detail? Well, they don’t. That’s right! The photos they take looks just like the ones you take. And that HDR look is all part of...
Would you like to learn a secret trick many photographers and graphic designers use to make their photos look more professional? It’s actually a simple plugin that makes your photo editing work a whole lot easier. Since Photoshop’s release in 1990, the software has evolved substantially to bring...
We all love to laugh at other people’s mistakes, especially while looking at those hilarious Photoshop Fails. But when are you going to fix your own mistakes? Even those so-called experts make mistakes sometimes. So, before you call yourself a Photoshop master, see if you make any of these...
Usually the word Premium is a reference of an expensive resource. But these great Photoshop Actions from GraphicRiver are an exception. With these inexpensive Photoshop Actions, you can create major Photoshop effects. Most of these are not just one click effects. These are professional Photoshop Actions that require input from...
This guide is designed to help you learn how to create beauty makeup and face painting effects using Photoshop. With clear instructions, you'll discover how to apply makeup digitally, utilizing techniques that professional makeup artists rely on in their work. The focus is not limited to beauty makeup...
Creating textured images in Photoshop is quite easy. Just paste a texture on a layer above your image, apply an Overaly Blending Mode and you are done! Looks ugly, doesn’t it? Sorry. That’s the way. If you don’t like it you will have to spend most of...
