Julieanne Kost's Blog

Discover fifteen tips for working with Layer Masks Tips in Photoshop.

Here are my favorite tips and shortcuts for working more effectively with Layer Groups in Photoshop.

I’m super excited to announce that my aerial photography is being featured on CNN travel today: “Beauty of the Everyday – Photos of Earth from a Window Seat”. : )

In this project-oriented course, Julieanne takes five images from start to finish, beginning in Lightroom and ending in Photoshop, helping you to understand which image editing techniques you’d apply to your photos in Lightroom Classic, and when you’d want to switch to Photoshop to make further changes.

In this course, learn how to automate repetitive tasks in Photoshop, so that you can accomplish more in less time.

Did you know that if you subscribe to the Creative Cloud for Photography program or Creative Cloud, you can access the photographs that you synchronize form Lightroom CC on the desktop or Lightroom mobile from any device from within a browser? This means that you’re no longer tied to a specific device – log on to lightroom.adobe.com and sign in using your adobe ID to upload, view, edit, and share your images from anywhere.

One of my favorite things to do it make photographs of things that are invisible to the naked eye. Whether it’s capturing a split-second, or compressing multiple seconds into a single photograph, the camera can help us to see what, under normal circumstances, we can not observe.

While I expect that many of you already know the shortcuts to fill with the Foreground and background colors, did you also know that your can fill with History, fill non-transparent areas, and a combination of both?

Project creep gets me every time.
1) I broke a pot that had a succulent in it.
2) I went to the nursery to replace the pot.
3) I ended up buying 12 more succulents (I mean seriously, how do you decide on just one, when they’re all so unique!)

Learn fundamental Layers Panel tips and techniques including how to best work with the background layer, adding and deleting layers, changing opacity and blend modes, renaming, linking and more!

I often hear people complain that photographers with digital cameras tend to overshoot their subjects. While that might be true if you’re taking fifty image of the same subject without changing anything, I’ve always been one to make a lot of photographs, and make them often.

The Blur Gallery filters (Field Blur, Iris, Tilt-Shift, Path, and Spin) are incredibly powerful features that can help selectively blur a photograph in order to remove distracting elements, help direct the viewers eye through an image, or just add creative effects! To apply these filters in a nondestructive manner, I would recommend that you first convert the layer(s) to Smart Objects before applying the filter so that you can:

I have finally embraced the fact that I’m an introvert. Not only do I like spending time alone, I need to spend time alone. If you surround me with people day after day, eventually, I will run out of “nice”. I enjoy nature. And silence. Put the two together and that’s when I do my best creative work. So, when I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon driving through a national park by myself, I packed my camera gear, jumped in the car, and off I went.

Here are 10 of my favorite tips, techniques and shortcuts  for working with filters in Photoshop CC.