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…
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’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…
I started a new composite yesterday. I found some cool 3D elf images on one of my stock sites and a dragon so I decided to put together a composite of one of my favorite series, the Lord of the Rings! This one is about Rivendell, the throne of the…
For those who have been reading my blog for awhile, you probably remember several articles in the past that I wrote on perspective in compositing. Today, I decided to do a quick video to demonstrate the technique in a real example of a composite that I am currently working on…
For those just beginning their journey into the compositing art world, the task of blending your cutouts into the scene is one of the first and most important challenges. Nothing screams “amateur” like a cutout with hard unblended edges. After failure to color balance to match the scene, not blending…
Yesterday we built a background image with the mixer brush from an single image. Here’ are a few additional ones I built with just a few hours playing with the mixer brushes. Some are very vivid and bright and I probably wouldn’t use them directly, but, they have loads of…
Today, another video on how to turn an image into a beautiful textured background that you can use in your compositing. This demonstration will use the mixer brush. The video is about 5 minutes long.
As promised, a quick video on how to build that magic mixer layer that will allow you to paint with the mixer brush without turning on “sample all layers.” This allows you to work quickly without brush lag and for those with older and slow machines, this will greatly improve…