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A Wide-Open Book With Cig Harvey & John Paul Caponigro – Dec 4 @ 6 PM EST

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Online Dec 4 at 6 pm EST, join fine-art photographers Cig Harvey and John Paul Caponigro. In this special hour of inspiration, Cig and John Paul celebrate their deep passions for color, share how they develop projects, discuss the many ways synergy can be struck between photographs and words, and finally, find a unique kind of fulfillment in the form of the book.

Cig will also offer a sneak peek of her newest book, Emerald Drifters, coming in 2025!

“Through prose, poetry, recipes, and lush imagery, Harvey’s work is a fierce reminder that there is a joy to be found in the small details surrounding us; blink, and you will miss them,” says Gunslei Yalcinkaya of Aesthetica Magazine.

Cig and John Paul end their conversation with a lively Q & A session with the webinar audience. If you can’t make the live event, a recording will be available for everyone registered.

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Find out more about Cig Harvey here.

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Photoshop 2025 Top 7 New Features & Updates Explained!

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“Dive into everything new in Photoshop 2025 and Photoshop Beta 26.1. Discover the upgraded Remove Tool, which instantly clears distractions like wires, cables, and people. Plus, explore the new Generative Workspace for batch generation and the Substance 3D Viewer, which brings 3D object integration back into Photoshop!”

00:00 – 01 – The Remove Tool Update
01:20 – 02 – Generate Similar
02:06 – 03 – Generate Background
05:29 – 04 – Firefly Image Model 4
07:15 – Photoshop Beta
07:37 – 05 – Reference Image
10:37 – 06 – Generative Workspace
13:42 – 07 – Substance 3D Viewer

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Photoshop 2025 Is Here! View The Top New Features in Major Update

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Photoshop has just received a major update. Colin Smith shows you how to use the most important new features.

00:00 Intro
00:42 Auto remove people
02:49 Auto Remove Wires and Cables
04:17 Firefly 3 in Generative Fill
05:07 Firefly 3 in Generative Expand
06:00 Remove Background, Generate Background
06:49 Batch Generate, Generative Workspace
11:03 What’s to come from me

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Why Desaturating Is The Worst Color To Black & White Conversion Method

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1 – Full color

2 – Vibrance -100

3 – Saturation -100

4 – B&W Mixer with custom settings

 

Why is desaturating the worst color-to-black-and-white conversion method?

In short, it makes mud.

Here’s why.

When set to -100, Saturation changes different hues to similar neutral values; it loses tonal separation.

Vibrance is a worse choice; when set to -100, it retains some color.

Tools like Lightroom and Camera Raw’s B&W Mixer or Photoshop’s Black & White adjustment layer are much better because they allow you to retain tonal separation and adjust which hues become light or dark. They work very well for basic color to black-and-white conversions.

Photoshop offers even more control, first by allowing color to be adjusted before conversion and second by adding the ability to make local conversions so that the same color in different areas of an image can be converted differently.

So, when you’re making color to black-and-white conversions, stay away from Saturation and Vibrance and choose Lightroom/Camera Raw for basic global conversions, or when you need more, use Photoshop for the ultimate preview of possibilities and the most control.

Read more about B&W here.

Learn more in my workshop B&W Mastery.

Remove Shadow with This Easy Photoshop Trick

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“Learn how to remove hard, extreme, and complex shadows with a super simple technique in Photoshop! Without creating complex masks, in this lesson, we’ll learn how to entirely erase the shadow, even out the skin, and fix the color in the shadow area. With the power of Blend If, Curves, and some amazing Photoshop filters, we’ll discover how the new tools tackle the most complex shadows like the ones on faces.”

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