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Ten Tips for Working with the Painting Tools in Photoshop

In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten essential shortcuts to quickly change Photoshop’s brush size and opacity, select colors, reset brush options, paint straight lines, use precise cursors, toggle between painting and erasing while maintaining the same brush settings, increase the smoothness of a brush stroke, use Pulled String mode, and stroke a path to simulate pressure sensitivity.

Six Ways to Quickly Zoom in Photoshop

In this video, you’ll discover six little known techniques for zooming images in Photoshop including Animated and Scrubby zoom, Birds-Eye View, zooming multiple windows, and zooming to the contents of a layer. 

Discover the Updated Gradient Tool in Photoshop

In this video, you’ll discover tips and tricks to master the new, non-destructive Gradient tool in Photoshop including how to make the most out of the on-screen editing controls, working with Gradient Fill layers, new options on the Properties panel, working with Layer Masks, changing gradient Types, Quick Actions, and more!

Ten Fundamental Tips for Working with Layers in Photoshop

In this video Julieanne demonstrates ten of her favorite tips for working with layers in Photoshop including changing the background to a layer, renaming layers, creating new layers, duplicating layers, color coding layers, layer thumbnail options and more!

Tips for working with Rulers, Guides, Smart Guides, and Grids in Photoshop

In this video, Julieanne shares her favorite tips for working with Rulers, Guides, Smart Guides, and Grids in Photoshop. Learn how to quickly change the point of origin for rulers, add new guides and guide layouts, lock guides create custom grids, and use Smart guides to align and distribute objects in Photoshop.

Tips and Techniques for Cropping in Photoshop

In this video, Julieanne walks through her favorite tips and techniques for using the Crop tool in Photoshop. Discover how to crop to specific sizes, aspect ratios, show overlays, fill with content aware technology, add canvas size, as well as learn essential keyboard shortcuts to help boost your productivity.

Adobe Firefly — The New Family of Creative Generative AI Models Coming to Adobe Products

I’m excited to announce Adobe Firefly — the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. With the beta version of the first Firefly model, you can use everyday language to generate extraordinary images and text effects.

Five tips for Selecting, Merging, Combining, and Aligning Shapes in Photoshop

In this video, Julieanne walks through five tips for working with shapes in Photoshop including quick ways to select multiple shapes on different layers, merging shape layers, using path operations to combine shapes, adjusting the stacking order of shapes, and distribruting multiple shapes on a single layer.

How To Change the Shape of a Letter in Photoshop

In this video you’ll discover how easy it is to convert a type layer into a shape layer and use the Direct Selection tool to customize the shape in Photoshop.

Eight Ways to Select Colors in Photoshop

In this video, you’ll discover eight different ways to select colors in Photoshop including the eyedropper, color picker, Swatches, Color, and Libraries panels and more.

View Free Transform Values for Smart Objects with Layer Masks in Photoshop

To view the transformation values for the Smart Object (instead of the Smart Object with the Layer mask), target the thumbnail for the Smart Object in the Layers panel, click the link icon (between the Smart Object and the Layer Mask thumbnail), to unlink the Smart Object from the layer Mask. 

10 Little Known Tips for Working with Tools in Photoshop

This is a bit of a mash-up of ten tool tips and shortcuts, but I find them to be very helpful and wished that I had discovered them when first learning Photoshop!

Creating Compelling Composite Images in Photoshop

If you weren’t able to join me in-person at Adobe MAX, you can now watch the recorded version “Creating Compelling Composite Images in Photoshop” online! In this presentation, you’ll discover the tools and techniques you need to create a successful composite using layers and masking in Photoshop. During the one hour seminar, I walk through the creation of two images, demonstrating efficient ways to organize, construct, and combine multiple images in Photoshop as well as reveal my creative process and how I fabricate surreal images that enable a viewer to temporarily suspend their disbelief and enter a world inspired by thoughts and dreams.

Using the Object Selection Tool to Quickly Edit Images in Photoshop

In this video, you’ll learn discover how to use Photoshop’s Object Selection tool to quickly select objects and regions within a photograph as well as learn tips and shortcuts for customizing overlay options, choosing selection modes, using the Mask All Objects command, and setting Image Processing preferences.