Julieanne Kost's Blog

Here’s a short tutorial on how to add textures to photographs (both locally as well as selectively) in Photoshop.  Enjoy!

If you’ve ever needed to create flames, be sure to check out the new Flame Generator filter in Photoshop CC. This new feature is designed to render realistic flames on user-defined paths. You need to create your path first (using the pen tool or any of the shape tools), then choose  Filter > Render > Flames.

A few weeks ago I had a unique opportunity to fly over the San Francisco Bay area in a small plane with my friend Bryn. James, the pilot, was fantastic and the weather was, thankfully, very cooperative. I’d never been in a plane with the doors off, but with the safety harness secure, and a few reassuring words, off we went! Here are a few of the resulting images from the 90 minutes in the air.

If you’ve ever created a special style or “look” to apply to your images using multiple layer adjustment and blending options, then the ability to create and export Color Lookup Tables (LUTs) in Photoshop CC could potentially save you a significant amount of time.

This video demonstrates how to use the enhanced Scripted Patterns and Fills in Photoshop to add a picture frame and border to your images. Select a frame from simple strokes to flowers and vines, snowflakes and leaves, then change the margin or offset from the edge, size, thickness, colors, angle and arrangement of the frame. Of course, you can combine any number of frames to make your border unique.

In this video you’ll learn how to use the enhanced Scripted Patterns and Fills in Photoshop to define a pattern (an arrow in this example) and apply it along a path.

In the past, Photoshop Content Aware technology primarily looking at texture, not color. This video demonstrates how the new Color Tolerance setting can result in much better matches when blending colors and gradients in images.

Check out two new technologies in Photoshop that can help you to get the highest possible quality out of your image: the Preserve Details option for Resampling (in Image Size) and the Smart Sharpen Filter.

In the video below, we’re going to discover how easy it is to take multiple, bracketed exposures of the same scene and combine them into a single 32-bit HDR image that can then be edited nondestructively using Adobe Camera Raw as a Smart Filter in Photoshop CC.

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I’m pleased to announce that my book Window Seat  – The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking is now available as an eBook via the iTunes store!  First published as a soft-back book, this redesigned and revised eBook was published as a Fixed Layout EPUB directly from the newest release of InDesign CC (2014). It has been enhanced with new photographs as well as updated image processing techniques in Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop.

below (The Advantages of the DNG File Format), you’ll discover the advantages of working with (and archiving to) the DNG raw file format. You’ll also learn more about how and when it makes the most sense to convert your files as you move through your workflow.

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