As a digital painter, I wanted to find a way to make the brush stroke look real. When you paint with oil or acrylic and you really load the brush with paint, you get the 3D effect of the thick paint on the canvas. Trying to recreate that effect in…
As I continue to experiment with the symmetry tool, I also wanted to build a gradient with a very specific color palette. If I’m going to prepare a design with a native American Indian theme, then I want a color palette to match. The good news is there are several…
I recently updated my Photoshop to the 2019 version… yes.. I know… it’s been out for months now. But I like to let them work the bugs out and get a few releases into the new product before I install it.. unless there is something in the release that I…
I’ve been testing out some watercolor techniques over the past couple of days, but I also like to do oil or acrylic painting. I use a clone painting technique with the mixer brush. If you are interested in my technique, I have a couple of examples on my Behance account…
Sometimes we capture an image with sunlight hitting a particular part of the image and after basic adjustments in Lightroom you want the sunlight to “pop” a little more than it does. You could always us the brush and lighten areas by hand, but this is very labor intensive and…
This article is the third technique in the series of turning day-to-night. In this technique, we are going to touch on a few more complicated concepts of using smart filters, loading a luminosity mask from the channel panels and making adjustment to a curve adjustment mask in addition to a…
The second technique we will cover in the series on turning day to night will use the color lookup tables or LUTs that also come with Photoshop. LUTs are used in the video industry but are starting to gain popularity with photography editing as well. With recent changes to Lightroom…
The second series in my compositing tutorials was planned to be lighting techniques. But as I started documenting the various topics, I realized that the first thing we need to do is make sure the everyone knows a process for converting their images from day to night. Most compositors that make…
This will be the final article in this series on Perspective. Before we leave the topic, I wanted to give you a quick example of how this same technique can be used to do a perspective clone within an image. There are other tools in Photoshop such as the clone…
This is the fourth article in the series on compositing with perspective. We have covered the basic concepts of perspective, examined how to find the vanishing point and horizon in an image and discussed why the horizon is important. In this lesson we will demonstrate how to test whether the horizon…