Brush and Text Effects

Here is a fun little exercise on getting creative with text. With Photoshop able to define almost any image as a brush, it is often overlooked that you can create a brush using text as well. Here you will see how one letter can become an interesting design element by getting creative with how it…

NAPP Image of the Week 5.24.2013

  This week Pete & Larry judged and it was really strong with a large volume of solid portrait work and a bunch of great composite/portraits from a great working artist, Mike Campau. (This guy deserves his own week here.) As you can see, one of Mike’s collaborations with photographer Paul Mobley, called Cheech &…

Using the Pen Tool to Help with Cloning

In this video, RC gives you a quick trick for helping you clone a portion of an image without spilling into another.  Paths and The Pen tool offer the sharpest way to control an edge, and they are easy to turn into a selection.

Greg Agee: Guru Award winner

My name is Greg Agee and I get to live in the paradise of Ft. Myers, Florida with my wife of 15 years, son of 11 years and puppy of 1.5 years.

I own and run Pixelogy Arts, a creative high-end post-production studio that provides image compositing and retouching services for photographers, ad agencies, design firms and creative professionals. I officially launched Pixelogy Arts in December of 2012 and am currently in the joyful process of marketing and finding work, which all creatives know is the best part of being an artist! Yes, that’s sarcasm.

Photoshop Fun Contest 5 Winners

Ok, so I am back from Chicago and love the different entries. It is sometimes harder to decide what to do when you have more elements, so I am always curious to see what folks choose out of the bunch to work with . I was torn between a couple of images for the winner,…

Star Trek Text Effect

Hi everyone! So this tutorial was supposed to go up Friday to coincide with the release of the new Star Trek movie but unforeseen technical problems forced me to wait and post today. It is a really cool text effect based on the trailer of the new movie. It is a quick and easy way…

NAPP Image of the Week 5.17.2013

If you follow the image of the week posts each week, you might be interested in knowing a little behind-the-scenes info, so I thought I’d share. First, I know a cute kit has been the image of the week two weeks in a row. Just letting you know this is not necessarily a trend on…

Post Process This Image!

Hey everyone! RC here – sitting in a hotel in Milwaukee, WI before a Kelby Training tour stop. I’ve spent the last couple of days out meeting a lot of NAPP members out here and making some pictures. As I was playing with some of these shots, I couldn’t help but think back to how…