Adding a star rating to an image is a quick way to quickly sort through your images. Each image can be given 1–5 stars, but what’s your system? How do you rate your images? Adding star ratings Adding a star rating to an image is really easy. With the image
The amazing Adobe Dimension is great for artists to make mock-up, for photographers to add object and here, to get in the Christmas spirit by making some baubles (or ornaments). I’m planning some assets for a socially distanced holiday season and this could be added to other bits and bobs.
With Neural Filters a huge part of Adobe’s recent Photoshop release, I decided to dive in and take a look for myself at what works … and what doesn’t. What’s a Neural Filter? Neural Filters have their own menu and dialog box; they’re separate from the other filters. The reason
You may have heard that there’s been an update to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, it’s always a time of excitement and wonder … well, to me it is! This update didn’t disappoint with a whole slew of great features. In this video I showcase Sky Replacement in Photoshop, alongside Adobe Bridge
In this tutorial we’re going to take a quick tour of an undocumented feature — a hidden gem of sorts — in Photoshop’s Levels and Curves. I’ll be using Levels but it’s the same in curves too. A little introduction Here I am in Photoshop. I’ve got an image from
In this video we’re going to take a look at an unsung hero of Photoshop — Content Aware Scale. You may be familiar with its sisters, Content Aware Fill and the Content Aware Move tool. If these are a mystery to you, leave a comment and if enough people are
I was recently asked to create a Powerpoint template for someone and soon realised that with a few Photoshop techniques creating, editing and creating individual assets was a breeze. To keep the whole thing as flexible as I could I used Artboards, Smart Objects and Create Assets. In this video
It used to be that, if you wanted to use Photoshop for 3D images you’d need to invest in Photoshop Extended. Now however, 3D capabilities comes as standard but that doesn’t mean it’s any easier to understand or use straight out the box. To help us 2D people Adobe have made
In this video, I take you through how to add a ground plane to a 3D image in Photoshop. This is helpful if you want to add a 3D element into an existing image. Give it a try and share your results on the Photofocus Facebook group. You can
Conditional Actions have been available in Photoshop for a few versions and can save a great deal of time. The idea is that you can create a single action that calls other actions depending on a condition. One of the most popular uses of Conditional Actions in Photoshop is
LUTs or Look Up Tables are a great way to add a constant colour theme to your footage in Premiere Pro. If you’re already familiar with Photoshop then it may be easier for you to do the colour work in Photoshop and then import it to Premiere, in this vide
A triptych is three images that share a common theme displayed as a single piece. In this video I’ll be making the simplest form of this by displaying three images in equally sized and arranged rectangles. In this video I’ll cover; Opening multiple images from Bridge Changing the units of
