Adobe Photoshop

m excited to announce that my Photoshop Essential Training course has been selected by LinkedIn Learning as a way to help “Future-Proof Your Career”. The course, with over nine hours and 100+ videos of Photoshop instruction, is currently unlocked and can be viewed for free until September 30, 2022! , or an intermediate Photoshop user wanting to review essential concepts, you’ll find exactly the information that you need in this course.

In this video, Julieanne demonstrates how she created and combined a photographs and handwritten text to create the composite “Indelible Stain” in Photoshop. Follow along as she works with shapes, textures, layer masks, clipping masks, blend modes, adjustment layers and gradient maps.

oday’s episode of The Complete Picture (How to Improve a Photograph by Adding a Complimentary Background), Julieanne demonstrates how to improve a photograph of a sand dollar by adding a background that compliments it’s texture, color, and structure.

Here are five tips for working with document profiles, color space mismatch warnings, untagged document warnings, and soft proofing in Photoshop.

this video, Julieanne demonstrates how she uses the Pen tool, Layer Masks, Blend Modes, Smart Objects, and a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer in order to create a double exposure effect in Photoshop.

In this video (Creating a Composite in Photoshop Using the Pen Tool, Shape Layers, and Layer Masks), Julieanne demonstrates how she uses the Pen tool, Shape Layers, and Layer Masks in order to create a composite portrait in Photoshop.

While I almost always have the Creative Cloud desktop app update my applications to the latest versions as soon as they’re released, there are times when (under deadline, for example), you may want to disable the Auto-update feature and instead, update your applications manually. To disable the Auto-update for one or more applications, open the Creative Cloud desktop app:

In this episode of the complete picture, we’re going to learn how to use Smart Objects in combination with Stack modes, to combine multiple frames from a video (exported as an image sequence) into a single still image – that appears to be a long exposure yet still freezes motion. 

Here’s how to quickly create a “smoke-flake” by duplicating, rotating, and flipping multiple copies of a photograph of smoke. If you’re familiar with (and prefer to use) an action to create this effect, I have included a link to download the action (as well as a practice file) below.

If you’ve ever wanted to have Photoshop open a document, convert the Background to a Layer, and rename the layer the same as the file name, then this script is for you!

Here are ten of my favorite shortcuts for the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools in Photoshop.

Here are my favorite tips to quickly align and distribute layers in Photoshop using Smart Guides, the Move tool, and the Direct and Path Selection tools in Photoshop.

One of the most powerful ways to add selective blurring to an image is using the Lens Blur filter in Photoshop. This video demonstrates how to create alpha channels to simulate an “in camera” lens blur after the fact in Photoshop.

If you’ve ever opened a raw file from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop as a Smart Object and then made changes to the Smart Object and wished that you could easily save those changes back into the original file in Lightroom Classic, then keep on reading because it’s actually a very easy thing to do — once you know how to do it.