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Lightroom

Dodge and Burn Secrets: Urban Landscapes

In this Lightroom tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use the old “dodge and burn” trick on urban landscape images to turn an unassuming photograph into a dramatic showstopper! If you want the files used in this tutorial to follow along step-by-step, click below. Download Tutorial Files This post has been adapted from the following YouTube tutorial. Watch the video or just follow the steps as outlined below.

November 28, 2022

Photoshop Beginner Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 1

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop. We’re going to build 4 Photoshop projects, starting with a very simple and easy composite using just one overlay and building toward more and more stunning effects with each subsequent project. Download Tutorial Files This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop, starting with a pretty simple project.

October 31, 2022

Photoshop Beginner Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 2

In Part 2 of this Photoshop tutorial, I will teach you how to use multiple overlays in Photoshop. This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. Download Tutorial Files Part 2. Using multiple overlays In the second project, we’re going to introduce multiple overlays. You can see the before and after here: See before (on the left) and after (on the right) below: Quite spectacular, right? This effect is actually really simple as well, just like the first project.

October 31, 2022

Photoshop Beginner Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 3

In Part 3 of this Photoshop tutorial, I will teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop including neural filters and displacement maps. This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. Download Tutorial Files Project 3: Using neural filters and displacement maps Project 3 is really special. You can see the before image here, which is a great photo but pretty flat: and the after image here, which has a lot of depth added by shadows and lights:

October 31, 2022

Photoshop Pro Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 4

In Part 4 of this Photoshop Tutorial, I will teach how to use advanced Photoshop overlays and what stunning effects you can create with them. This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. Download Tutorial Files Part 4. Advanced Photoshop overlays and special effects Finally, in the last project we’re going to work on adding some Photoshop special effects. You can see the before (left) and the after (right) here:

October 31, 2022

Photography

6 IMPORTANT Composition Tips for BETTER PHOTOS

In this tutorial, we’re talking about six rules of composition that I believe will drastically improve your photography. I’m Joel Grimes—a commercial advertising photographer with over 35 years of experience and will teach you today my most important composition tips for better photos! I’m also an educator and love talking about photography. You can download The Rules of Composition ebook used in this tutorial to follow along step-by-step, click below.

October 28, 2022

Photography

Posing Tips For Women

How to Pose Like a Pro: 7 Posing Tips for Women Posing is a key part to capturing a wonderful image. You can have the most beautiful subject in the world, but if you don’t pose her correctly, the photo will fall flat. Luckily, there are many effective posing tips for women that will help your photographs stand out. These posing tips for women may be helpful to both photographers or any woman who wants to accentuate her look in a picture.

October 28, 2022

Photography

How To Shoot A Portrait Photo

In this Photoshop tutorial, you are going to learn how to shoot a portrait. You can watch the video by Clicking here or simply just follow the steps outlined below. Now I will show you how to shoot a portrait photo. You can see the before image on the left and the after image on the right. Let’s start with a Natural Portrait If you want to shoot a portrait its very simple.

October 28, 2022

Retouching

How to Add and Retouch Hair in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to teach you some crazy tricks for adding, retouching, and manipulating hair in Photoshop. Some of these techniques you may already know, but I’m sure there will be some workflows tips you’ve never seen before! Watch the video or just follow the steps as outlined below. Download Tutorial Files In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to add and retouch hair in Photoshop.

October 28, 2022

Retouching

How to Use Photoshop Camera RAW

In this photoshop tutorial, I will show you the basics of the Adobe Camera Raw plugin found within Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial will cover the changes made to the new version of the Camera Raw plugin, the location of various tools, and how to use available functionalities. You can access all the files used in this tutorial if you want to follow along by clicking here. Download Tutorial Files Before we move to the tools and features of the Adobe Camera Raw plugin, let’s quickly go through the interface of the Adobe Camera Raw plugin.

October 28, 2022

Compositing

How to Create Depth in Photoshop

Hello, my name is Rikard and in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create depth in Photoshop. To follow along, download the images from here – you can also watch the video here. Download Tutorial Files How to Create Depth in Photoshop The common issue I see with composites are images posted in the Nucly Facebook group is that they lack three-dimensional depth. Creating three-dimensional depth in a two-dimensional image can be a challenge.

October 28, 2022

Compositing

How to Blend Two Images in Photoshop Creatively

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll teach you some basics of photo manipulation and compositing, and I’ll also show you my workflow to creatively blend two images in Photoshop to create dramatic composites in the style that’s popular on Instagram. If you want the files used in this tutorial to follow along step-by-step, click below. Download Tutorial Files This post has been adapted from the following YouTube tutorial. Watch the video or just follow the steps as outlined below.

October 28, 2022