PS 2020

Photoshop/Adobe Camera Raw/Bridge – The Best of all Worlds.  If you shoot Raw and have a lot of images to process, but you don’t want to lose individual image control? This is how I do it. Great for projects like Audio Visual.  Download the Video Here.  

Photoshop/Adobe Camera Raw – Make it Snappy – Expose to the Right. A subject we have done before, but here is a short video that shows exactly why this technique is worth your attention Download the Video Here.  

Photoshop – The right tools for the right job. Here the Color Mixer in Adobe Camera Raw met most of our needs.  Download the Video Here.  

Photoshop – Red Graffiti. Photography is an art and it’s never been easier to be creative than it is today.  Download the Video Here.  

Photoshop’s NEW Replacement Sky Tool. A new option made available in the 2021 Photoshop upgrade, released in Oct 2020 Download the Video Here.  

The Colour of Infrared – Using The New Photoshop Neural Colorize Filters. Colour Black and White images quickly and easily with Artificial Intelligence and the Photoshop 2021 upgrade Download the Video Here.  

Building a Computer for Photoshop & Photography. We can upgrade our computers from time to time, but there usually comes a time when the whole thing really needs to be brought up to date with a new build. What do we choose, how and why? Download the Video Here.  

Wacom Graphics Tablets – Are they all they are cracked up to be? The answer is yes, every day of the week and twice at weekends. If your serious about image editing then as modern speak often says. This is a no brainer.  Download the Video Here.  

Photoshop & ACR Image Editing Techniques –  The Auto Masking in ACR option referred to in this video can be found below. Download the Video Here.  

Defeating Noise –  As the text says below, defeating noise starts with good technique in camera and end with help from our software. Download the Video Here.

How to Make a Video Tutorial – This is a lengthy video, but if you expect to produce good video tutorials that viewers want to watch, you’re not going to achieve that in 5 minutes. All the secrets revealed to making great video tutorials, both the screen recording and production. 

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Photoshop/ACR – Sat-Nav for your Image Editing – The Histogram is a topic that is well worth the time you may spend on it. Here, it’s only 13 minutes and if you don’t have that time for a fundamental part of your photography, then there’s no hope 🙂  Download the Video Here   Check out our other video on this subject Here 

Photoshop/ACR – Presets – Have some Camera Raw settings applied automatically when you view your thumbnails in Bridge. It’s quick and easy to set up and one its of those things that is more valuable to us than we first appreciate.   Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop/ACR – Infrared manipulation is easier than you think – However, the same standards apply no matter what we are processing in ACR and Photoshop  Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop/ACR – Own your Mistakes (Loch Lomand) – We all make photographic mistakes and in those circumstances, if we have the ability to make the most of the image in Photoshop, then why not?   Download the Video HERE 

Adobes Bridge – My 5 Top Options – I think Bridge is under-estimated and it has far more to offer than many think.   Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop – Colonial Wars – A double filter effect created with the filters that come with Photoshop   Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop – Bring out that Atmosphere – Atmosphere almost always adds something to our photography. Here we enhance that as much as we can.   Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop – Fixing Mistakes – The Tiger – A lack of critical sharpness on the eyes and a various other distractions need to be put right.  Download the Video HERE 

Photoshop – Adobe Camera Raw – Photographers cannot always be in the right place at the right time. What do we do if we cannot make it back when the light is better. Hope for some inspiration in Photoshop ? Download the Video HERE –  Check out our Galleries HereCheck out our Forum Here

Photoshop – ACR – Auto Masking – Adobe continue to impress me with the improvements they come up with. This is an important and useful option  Download the Video HERE –  Check out our Galleries HereCheck out our Forum Here

ACR+Photoshop  Image editing requires us to know what our images require, so we can create consistently good results.  Download the Video HERE  

Photoshop & Lightroom – Optics. Image editing, no matter what software you’re using is a series of small steps. The Optics in ACR and Lens Corrections in Lightroom are identical and should be way up there with the first edits we make with our images.  Download the Video HERE  

Photoshop & Lightroom – The Color Mixer (HSL). Where do these 8 Colors and 3 options (Hue-Saturation-Luminance) fit into our image editing?. Download the Video HERE  

Photoshop – Image Editing in Camera Raw. Adobe Camera Raw is the place to get the best from your images and re-create what you saw at the time you pressed the shutter button. Download the Video HERE  

Photoshop – Jpg’s as Smart Objects in ACR. Adobe Camera Raw is the place to manipulate your Jpg’s as well as your Raw images. Download the Video HERE  

Photoshop – Creative Alien Skin Filters. These days we have enormous latitude and the ability to be creative via Smart Objects & Smart Filters. Download the Video HERE  

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View our short demo of Alien Skin example images Here

Photoshop & Exposure – A Necessary Partnership. Especially if you’re looking to get the best possible image quality from your camera. Don’t capture images that look great on the camera’s LCD. Capture images that are best suited to high quality manipulation.. Download the Video HERE

Text using Photoshop for PTE AV Studio . When we combine the power of Photoshop with PTE AV Studio, really the sky’s the limit. Download the Video HERE

Creating Cut-out Text in Photoshop for PTE AV Studio When we combine the power of Photoshop with PTE AV Studio, really the sky’s the limit. Download the Video HERE

A Hard Days Night – Recreating the album artwork in high resolution – I recently had the need to make a large print for a 50th Anniversary. Using the original low resolution album cover, we can use that cover in Photoshop to replicate the colours and proportions of the original artwork. Download the Video Here

Download the artwork we created while making this video here

Amazing Photoshop Power – How can PS stitch together 4 images that were never shot with that intention at all. Well, it can and we demonstrate some great techniques here as well as show off what Photoshop is capable of. Download the Video Here

Time Travel with Photoshop and how to grow Trees – One of the more rewarding things you can do with your images, is from time to time look back a few years at older images. See if you can spot potential in images you missed when you first evaluated them.  Given that we all have time on our hands through this Coronavirus problem, this is well worth your effort. It never fails to work for me and this manipulation is a result of that. Download the Video Here

Photoshop for Photographers – Creative Image Editing in ACR and Photoshop (2020)  – For consistently good images we need three skills. Technical camera skills to capture a great exposure, plus Editing skills via Adobe Camera Raw in this case.  However, we also need to know what makes a good image, because without that, how do we know what route to take in our image editor? Download the Video to keep from Here

EXPOSE TO THE RIGHT  – This is a technique that is part of my standard operating procedure, even when the lighting conditions appear good. It’s a technique for those who wish to squeeze every last ounce of quality, colour and impact from their Raw images Download our Video Here

MAVIC DRONE – PHOTOSHOP RAW – PANORAMA  – A lot of ground is covered in this video as suggested by the title. Although shot with a drone, the techniques are relevant to much of our photography when we are pursuing the WoW value ! Download our Video Here

MAKING A MONTAGE (32 mins) One of the most creative aspects of Photoshop is our ability to create a montage.  The success of a montage is due to  the placement of the content and the colour balance and composition. Its down to us! Download our Video Here

THE RED ROADSTER (35 mins) A Photoshop image from 2015, but the age doesn’t date it at all, because its the techniques which are important.  You can use these techniques in any version of Photoshop. Download our Video Here

TOPAZ IMPRESSION FILTERS (43 mins) There’s a lot more to adding filter effects than most photographers appreciate. Do you want your images to look like everyone else’s? Of course not. In that case, we need to add some TLC. Download our Video Here

CUTTING OUT A HOT AIR BALLOON (32 mins) This question was asked a short while ago and its an interesting question. Why do I use a 20 year old method when we have all these new ways to make selections? Red Balloons   – Download our Video Here

GO WHERE THE IMAGE TAKES YOU  (25 mins) Every image is unique, in content, colour, contrast, and exposure. So, they won’t all require the same approach. A similar one, but not the same. Download our Video Here

NEW TEXTURE SLIDER IN ACR  (20 mins) This new tool introduced in May 2019 looks to be pretty good. Lets take a quick look and see what it can do. Download our Video from Here 

DOWNLOAD BASIC TEXT IN PHOTOSHOP (22 mins) Great for our image editing, artwork and particularly if you are a PicturesToExe slideshow enthusiast.

Download – The Histogram (24 mins) is a vital part of your photography, both before and after the shutter button is pressed. This is a subject worth your time.

Download – Preparing Images for a Canvas Wrap  (32 mins) We do need to give the wrap part of the print some thought in relation to Composition

Download – Lightroom or Photoshop ? (13 mins) Here is a question that I’ve been asked lots of times. What image editor is right for me. This video may help a little

Download – Photoshop for Beginners (13 mins) Where do we start and how do we make the learning as easy as possible. Here are some tips to help.

Download – Image Quality (12 mins) There is little that is more important than image quality.  There are some images where it’s not vital, but for the majority it is.