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#CreativeFriday – Controlling dry down/darkening of prints from Lightroom or Photoshop CC

If you have ever made a print, either by inkjet or an alternative process (like Van Dyke, Platinum, Cyanotype) then you may have noticed that the image comes out a little bit darker than how it was displayed on the … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Starting out with painting in Photoshop CC with Stratasys Creative Colours

Last week we started to look setting up the painting environment within Photoshop CC for working with the Stratasys Creative Colours, see the post here. In the post, we introduced the concept of a new colour gamut for some of the … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Getting ready to paint with Stratasys Creative Colours and Photoshop for the Connex3

You may have seen last week that Stratasys released the Stratasys Creative Colours painting system with the Stratasys Connex3 printer inside of Photoshop CC. I wanted to get you up and running with this exciting technology in small steps, over … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Getting ready to paint with Stratasys Creative Colours and Photoshop for the Connex3

You may have seen last week that Stratasys released the Stratasys Creative Colours painting system with the Stratasys Connex3 printer inside of Photoshop CC. I wanted to get you up and running with this exciting technology in small steps, over … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Adding a Photoshop Group to a Creative Cloud Library

I was working on a demo this week, and found a much better way of applying a standard set of Photoshop Adjustment layers to an image. I’ve been working for a while on a certain look to my images that I … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Adobe’s theatre schedule at the UK Photography show

Adobe is once again extremely excited to be running the Adobe Theatre at the Photography Show this year. We’re delighted to have the opportunity to showcase what the modern day Photographer needs to know, covering all aspects of a photographic journey. … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Configuring Scratch Disks in Photoshop CC for Better Performance

Recently my system has become crammed with a lot of files and not a lot of free disk space, leaving me with little headroom for Photoshop CC to work efficiently. In this case, especially on some big render jobs (3D, Video … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Sync Lightroom edits across Creative Cloud to other collaborators

Creative Cloud is very useful for many things. In a recent blog post i wrote about how i’ve been using it to transfer my negative scans to my Lightroom main machine and use two computers in tandem, without having to setup … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Levels in Curves (Photoshop CC)

Most image editors will work with Levels and Curves on an image to :- Levels – Set the white and black point Curves – Decrease the values of black and increase the value of white Both of these in combination … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Using Adobe Stock and Smart Objects

Sometimes when working on composites, either for creative ideas during the creative process or for including in the final version, getting the right image can be challenging and also time consuming. Adobe Stock could be the answer, and I wanted … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Making your images supersized with Photoshop CC

I’ve been asked a few times over the past few weeks about how to make images really big. Luckily Photoshop CC had a feature enhancement a while ago now which is perfect for this job. Let us take this example, … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Photoshop – Place Linked vs Place Embed

One operation that is used a lot in Photoshop, especially for photo compositors or matt painters is the Place command. A while ago in an update to Photoshop CC, this command was split into two. Splitting the Place command into … Continue reading

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