The Sledge Hammer of Color Correction

Curves, Color Balance, and Selective Color adjustment layers are all outstanding tools for making subtle or moderate changes to the color of a subject. But when you’re ready to get really serious about color change, you need to turn to the “Sledge Hammer of Color Correction” (a.k.a. a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer). When a blue car…

Experiment with Photoshop Extended Stacking Modes

5 Tips For Camera Raw

The Classic Grunge Treatment

Grunge began as a subgenre of alternative rock music. The grunge sound features heavily distorted electric guitars, divergent song dynamics, and angst-filled lyrics. Today, the emotion of grunge music has found its way into art and photography. Photographs that exhibit the grunge look tend to possess one or more of the following characteristics: high contrast,…

Vector Smart Objects

Making a Torn Edge Brush

Escher and the Droste Effect

Mimic the widely know ‘Escher and the Droste Effect’ in Photoshop CS4 using the new (beta) Pixel Bender Plug-in. Step One: Download Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS4 Go to the following link and download the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS4 to your desktop (Plug-in file .mxp is located at the very bottom of…

Text Graphic Effect