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
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
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
Adobe Capture had an update recently and one of the great additions was the ability to capture and create repeating patterns that are synchronised to the Creative Cloud Libraries, and thus available in an instant in our CC Apps. Capturing a Pattern To capture a pattern, open the Adobe Capture
I love fonts (is fontaholic a thing?) and have always wanted to create my own. The difficulty is getting what I want from paper to computer in a method and time frame that doesn’t have me wanting to scream. Luckily for me this is now reality with the help of
There are times when, at the very outset of editing, you’ll know the dimensions of the image you want to create. In this post we’ll take a look at the Workflow Options in Adobe Camera Raw that can set this out for you. What’s Wrong With Cropping? Nothing. The Crop
I recently wanted to put an image on some wood in photoshop, but wanted it to look like it had a border. I looked for Photoshop brushes and they all did a pretty good job, but what I really wanted was a technique that I could use to get various
Photoshop Mix is part of the Adobe CC mobile apps collection and allows you to make edits away from the desk. in this post I’ll be using Mix to replace a sky in an image; Opening an Image Because Photoshop Mix is part of the Creative Cloud I can access
Previously Photoshop had two strands, Photoshop and Photoshop Extended. The Extended version had added 3D and video capabilities. Photoshop CC however, by default, comes with video editing capabilities and 3D. As most new DSLRs come with video video capturing more and more photographers are looking to the tools they know
