Category Archives: Photoshop

Creating Non-destuctive Grain in Photoshop It’s often desirable to add grain to an image when working in Photoshop. Typically this will be a stylistic choice to achieve a certain look but grain can also be employed during more technical processes. There are number of ways to add grain effects in Photoshop but, by default, these […]

Here’s a quick tip for taming saturation when adjusting contrast in Photoshop. In the example below I’ve added a Curves Adjustment layer and made an edit at the quarter tones – your typical contrast ‘S’ bend. The left side is masked to show the original uncorrected. Whilst the contrast in the image has improved we’ve […]

BASIC HIGHLIGHT AND SHADOW CONTROL IN PHOTOSHOP This week, in the first of a two part series, I’m going to run through setting up basic Luminosity Masks for shadows and highlights. Luminosity (or luminance) masking is a method for creating selections based on luminance values. Put simply, the mask is based on how light (or […]

Using Photoshop generally means using a brush at some point, and not just for painting. Several tools within Photoshop  also use a brush – Eraser, Dodge, Burn, etc. Here are some useful shortcuts when using a tool that uses brushes… CONSTRAINING BRUSHES Click, let go and shift – click elsewhere in your document and you […]

Adobe have introduced a brand new feature within Photoshop Creative Cloud, called the Perspective Warp tool. When looking at your images, you will notice that some things look out of proportion, or different to how it does in real life. This is due to perspective distortion, depending on the lens used, camera, and from which […]