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Adobe Portfolio Is Now Free for 1 Year for 2020 College Graduates

If you graduated in 2020, you are now eligible for one free year of Adobe Portfolio! Use Adobe Portfolio to build your website, stand out online, and show the world who you are beyond your resume with beautiful, customizable layouts. Click here for more information and click here to read the FAQ.

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The Libraries Panel in Photoshop

In this video (3, 2, 1, Photoshop! Three Reasons to use Libraries in Photoshop), you’ll discover three ways to improve your workflow using the Libraries panel in Photoshop! 

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3, 2, 1, Photoshop!  Ten Tips for Working with Layer Styles

Learn how to improve your layer effects and styles with these 10 Photoshop tips from Julieanne Kost!

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How to use Clipping Masks in Photoshop

In this episode of 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! Three ways to use Clipping Masks, you’ll learn how and why to use Clipping Masks in Photoshop to enhance your editing process.

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Preset Panel Behaviors in Photoshop 2020 v21

Photoshop 2020 (v21) added three new panels for organizing and applying Gradients, Patterns, and Shapes, and updated the Swatches and Styles panels. Presets can be applied by clicking on the preset in the panel, dragging and dropping the preset from the panel onto the desired layer in the Layer’s panel and/or dragging and dropping the preset from the panel onto the layer content in the canvas area.The contents of the layer (bitmap, vector, type etc.) will determine how the preset is applied: as a property of the layer, as an adjustment layer or, as a Layer Style/Effect.

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Fill and Adjustment Layer Shortcuts in Photoshop

In this post, I’ve gathered all of my favorite shortcuts for working with Fill and Adjustment Layers in Photoshop.

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3, 2, 1, Photoshop!  Five Reasons to Use Fill and Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

In this video you’ll learn discover five reasons to use non-destructive Fill and Adjustment layers to your images in Photoshop.

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Happy Birthday Photoshop! 

Happy Birthday Photoshop! I thought it might be fun to post this short videos demonstrating how Use several elements to build my composite images in Photoshop.

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Photoshop on iPad – Object Select and Type Settings

Today’s update to Photoshop on the iPad takes a huge leap forward with the addition of the Object Selection tool and enhanced Typographic settings.

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Improvements to Content Aware Fill, Lens Blur, and more in Photoshop v21.1!

This release of Photoshop (v21.1) includes improvements to the Content Aware Fill workspace, Lens Blur, Performance, and Dark Mode on Mac OS. 

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How to Create Custom Raw Defaults in Adobe Camera Raw (v12.2) 

Adobe Camera Raw’s new Raw Defaults Settings panel provides a much easier and more intuitive way to assign and manage the default rendering of your raw files across multiple camera models. For example, you may want to change the default rendering setting (such as apply a custom camera profile, change the amount of sharpening, or enable lens profile corrections), on all of the images that you import from one camera model but not from another instead of first importing your photos and then having to changing the settings.

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Updates to Lightroom for Mac, Win, Android, iOS, iPadOS, & ChromeOS (2-2020)

I’m excited to announce several updates and enhancements to Lightroom for Mac and Windows including improvements to Import, Export, PhotoMerge, and Shared Albums as well as improvements made to Learn and Discover content on iOS and Android, direct import of presets and profiles on Android, and support for Split Screen on iPadOS.

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"The Creative Composite" Photoshop Course at the Santa Fe Workshops (6-28 – 7-3, 2020)

Santa Fe Workshops officially announced that my Photoshop class “The Creative Composite” (which will run June 28 – July 3, 2020), is now open for enrollment. It will be a great week filled with creativity, imagery, and Photoshop wizardry.

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Ten Shortcuts for Working with Vector Masks in Photoshop

Discover ten shortcuts for working with Vector Masks in Photoshop.

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