Posts Tagged ‘creative cloud’
Friday Freebie
Spiral bound template
Why is it that the photos that look easy to shoot actually take the most time? This Friday freebie image is a perfect example. It looks like it should have been a quick thing to do but in reality it took the best part of half a...
Friday Freebie
Heavy Painted Border
Here’s another amazing border from my recent painting session. This time I’ve gone for a border that surrounds your photo with a wide painted edge. Full download instructions are below but you can also Click Here To...
Friday Freebie
White Painted Border
This was fun to make and not just because things got a bit too messy! This Friday Freebie was lovingly hand crafted from nothing but the finest kids paints, most of which seemed to end up on my desk and not the paper. There is ...
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Faking into a sweat
So you want your model to look they’ve done a workout but you don’t have a gym in your studio. What do you do? Well you could send them out for a run or turn the heating up to max, both would work but neither is ide...
Friday Freebie
Eroded Edge Texture
This weeks Friday Freebie is an eroded texture which is simple to use and gives amazing results. It’s a black and white texture that has a dark mottled centre, fading to a lighter edge. Full download instructions are belo...
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Split Tone Mono – Creative Lightroom Episode 7
This weeks episode of Creative Lightroom is all about going mono with a twist. Black and white is great but sometimes you want to add a bit of general colour and toning the image. Sepia and blue tone are popular choices. Split ...
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Rounded Corner Border – Creative Lightroom Episode 6
This weeks episode of Creative Lightroom has a super quick but very smart looking border effect. Rounded rectangle borders like this look amazing not only on vintage and retro photos but are just great with any photo. Back when...
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Two Curves Tricks – Creative Lightroom Episode 4
In the fourth episode of Creative Lightroom, I have not one but two creative techniques and both of them involve using Curves. You can still catch the first three episodes here episode 1, Light leak effect episode 2, Painted bo...
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Bringing back Photoshop’s missing filters
When Adobe moved from Photoshop CS5 to Photoshop CS6 they gave the interface a long overdue facelift. The most obvious change is the new default dark interface but to make that happen the Photoshop engineers had to remake 1000’...
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Light Leak Effect – Creative Lightroom Episode 1
In the first episode of Creative Lightroom, my new 10 week series, I have a great light leak technique which looks amazing on vintage and retro styled images. Light leaks were origianlly a problem that affected film cameras and...