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Five ways to challenge yourself as a photographer

As a photographer, do you ever start feeling like you’re in a bit of a rut? Or perhaps you feel the need to challenge yourself to improve your skills. Maybe you’re just looking for some ideas on stretching your creativity. Here are five simple ideas to challenge yourself as a

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10 quotes about being creative

Here are some of my favorite quotes about creativity – and we can all use a little help being creative, right? “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”― Pablo Picasso “Creativity takes courage.”― Henri Matisse “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”―

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Advice from models for photographers

When a photographer works with a model for the first time, what should you do? Does the model have expectations from you as the photographer? What can the photographer do to ensure a successful shoot? Rather than speculate and come up with answers that I thought might be appropriate, I

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Create a unique Instagram photograph showing love

In this video, I show you how to create a unique social media graphic that the couples you photograph can share on Instagram. While this is tailored for Valentine’s Day, it would be perfect for things like engagements and weddings, too! Using Photoshop, I walk you through how to create

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Photoshop Tip: How to use Dehaze in Photoshop

In this video tutorial Dave Cross shows how to selectively apply Dehaze in Photoshop. It can be faster and easier than using the Adjustment Brush in either Lightroom or Camera Raw. The answer lies in using the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop and a mask. For more Adobe Tips – Click

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Creativity through Photoshop Brushes

Making your own Photoshop brushes can open up lots of creative possibilities. Photoshop can create a brush out of pretty much anything, but the first thing that’s important to know is that the brush can only be one color. In other words, you could create a brush from a photograph, but when you use

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Photoshop CC 2017 Important Changes

Adobe has introduced a series of “small” but important changes in the recent new release of Photoshop CC 2017. Here are some of the changes that caught my eye: The New New Document Dialog Box When you create a new document (File>New or Command/Control-N) the overhauled New Document dialog will open. Now

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My Favorite Photoshop Add-on

People often ask me what is my most frequently used Photoshop add-on or plug-in. They are usually surprised to hear that my favorite Photoshop add-on is my camera. When I have my camera in hand I often use it as an extension to Photoshop, taking photos with the intension of working with them in Photoshop.

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Adobe Stock Contributor Portal

Submitting photos to Adobe Stock has just become a whole lot easier thanks to the new Contributor Portal. Most stock photo photographers will tell you that keywords are a very important part of their success in selling their images. Adobe Stock has just made the process even simpler in the new Contributor

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5 Ways to Make Your Photoshop Life Easier

As much as Photoshop is an amazingly powerful tool, as photographers our goal should be to spend as little time in Photoshop as possible. My motto is “Edit Faster/Shoot More” (and hopefully sell more). With that in mind, here are 5 tips that can help you spend less time in

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You know you use Photoshop a lot when…

…you make a spill your coffee and immediately think “undo” …you look at a beautiful sky and imagine cloning out the telephone wire …you look in the mirror and wish Liquify worked in real life …you try to imagine everything you look at as if they were on separate layers Your turn…

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