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This is another tutorial in my masking series. If this is the first time you are here you will need to start out reading and learning my Masking and removing backgrounds in photoshop tutorial first and then come back here as this tutorial will be building on what you learned there. Sometimes there are images [...]

This tutorial is a continuation of the Masking and removing backgrounds in photoshop tutorial and builds on what you learned there. If you didn’t complete and internalized the techniques from there, please go and do that now or you won’t be able to follow along. In the Masking and removing backgrounds in photoshop tutorial we [...]

This is going to be a long one so get comfy and go grab a cuppa first, we are going to learn how to mask and remove backgrounds in photoshop the right way. First, lets look at some of techniques that many people use, that are usually the wrong way. I say usually, because there [...]

If you are doing product photography where things are not usually moving your masking job just got a hell of a lot easier: Difference masks. Make sure nothing in the scene with your subject moves, this goes for changing lights, moving flags or gobos etc.., the scene must be static. Shoot on a stand and [...]

If you know how to channel mask and how to create a mask from the R,G or B channels and enhancing it with curves and dodge/burn, perhaps even using calculations to mix channels combined with a blending mode, then you are ready for this one. If not, please read the following tutorials first: Masking and [...]

Bloom is a popular effect, used a lot in computer games to cover up boring areas. The effect is a simulation of bright light flooding a camera lens creating blurred washed out areas. Used well, bloom can be a very powerful effect, especially for landscape or interior photos

Here’s one for the newbies.. How to create rounded corners, hey we all started somewhere. New photoshop users are stumped by this, there’s no way to create rounded shapes, where’s the rounded corners tool? Well, there is none, this is photoshop not Corel Draw.

Ever had annoying colored edges that you wanted to get rid of? For example after doing channel masking there’s often a colored edge around transparent items like hair where the background lighting shines through. Another common annoyance is cromatic abberation where you have blue/yellow/magenta edges caused by the rgb channels not lining up correctly.

So you tried the pen tool and whenever you change directions it goes haywire on you and creates a stupid curve or loops around creating a circle and argggh, fuck it. There’s a trick to the pen tool you see.