You can hardly open your facebook or instagram today that you are not blasted with the AI generated images. Some are pretty good; some are just ridiculous and hardly worth a glance as you scroll past. I personally was adamantly against anything that even hinted of AI generation when the…
To download the photoshop actions from the iHeart Advance Photoshop class click here. THIS ACTION FILE HAS A ‘TXT file extender tacked on the end of the file to allow it to be uploaded to the website. ONCE DOWNLOADED, ERASE THE .TXT from the file BEFORE LOADING IT TO…
Today with all the AI applications available to create digital art, and the commercial actions for sale, you often wonder what you are looking at on Facebook and Instagram. Did the artist paint something or make decisions about the art? Or did they just type some text or push a…
If you are a fan of the sky replacement tool in Photoshop, you have the option to download several libraries of really cool sky replacements from the Adobe CC cloud and import them to your desktop. The little gear “Get More Skies” is not really easy to find so here…
I often see new Photoshop users apply the Hue and Saturation adjustment tool to their work and they automatically begin sliding the global sliders on the top bar to make color adjustments. While this is fine if GLOBAL color adjustment is what you are after, like to warm or cool…
I recently returned from a week at “Texas School” for Photography in Dallas Texas where about 1000 photographers assemble for a week long training. This event happens once a year in April and includes training in photo capture, lighting, photography business, post processing and also digital painting. I took a…
I was cleaning up my desk today and ran across a check list that I compiled to help me remember all the things I want to check on my final composites and paintings for print competition. It’s certainly not a final, just a list of my current thoughts that I…
I’m working on a composite and I really want to add some molten lava to the scene. I’ve reviewed several videos on YouTube but the results are just not realistic… So, I decided to experiment and build it myself. The nice thing about photoshop is that there are no limits. …
I glanced at the weather app on Tuesday and realized that it was the last day on the 10 day forecast where the weather was warm enough for a nice photo day outside. So I grabbed the camera and headed the hour drive to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch outside…
I’ve had the Topaz Impressions software for quit sometime, both as a plug-in and then in Studio and now Studio 2. I use it once in awhile in the beginning steps of my Photoshop painting process to de-pixelate the photograph and give me a nice base image to begin my…