Fast & Easy Ways To Blur Image Backgrounds in Photoshop

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“In this easy-to-follow tutorial, you will learn how to blur backgrounds in Photoshop! You will learn about selections, Layer Masks, Content-Aware Fill, Smart Objects, and the Depth Blur Neural Filter to blur your photo’s background. This Photoshop tutorial will cover everything you need to know about creating a shallow depth of field effect.”
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Photoshop’s Amazing Colorize Filter Offers Many More Features

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Colin Smith shows often overlooked additional controls in the Photoshop Neural Filter Colorize. Convert black and white photos to color instantly and then learn these tools to perfect results.

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

How To Make Advanced Masks in Adobe Camera RAW & Lightroom

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Masks in Camera Raw and Lightroom are new. Colin Smith shows you beyond the basics, how to combine masks for more complex selections, such as selecting the foreground, adding, subtracting, and intersecting masks. Learn how to use combination and complex masks.
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How To Hack Photoshop’s AI To Get Astonishing Color Grading In Your Images

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Add spectacular color to photographs using this amazing trick Colin Smith discovered by hacking Color transfer in Photoshop 2022. This quick tip will help you color grade photos like a pro, but its so easy and quick. Every photographer will love this.
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What’s New in Lightroom Classic 11 For Photographers – Plus More On New Easy Masking Features

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Adobe released the October 2021 Update to Lightroom Classic. This video will walk you through what’s new.

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Plus, take a deep dive into Lightroom’s new masking features.
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Don’t Freak Out
3:00 Mask Basics
4:46 Brush and Gradient Masks
6:35 Subtract with Select Sky
8:32 Brush and Gradient Presets
9:38 Using the Linear Gradient
11:41 Luminance Range Masking
14:41 Color Range Masking
16:40 Select Subject
19:12 Select Sky
20:38 Advanced Portrait Example
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The New Masking Tools In Lightroom & Camera Raw

 

 

“Discover how easy it is to make local adjustments to your photographs using Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw’s new Masking panel and tools including: Select Subject, Select Sky, Radial and Linear Gradients, Brush, Color and Luminance Range Masking and more!”

View more on Julianne Kost’s blog.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

What’s New in Photoshop 2022 For Photographers

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Matt Koslowski gives us a tour of Photoshop 2022’s new features for photographers.
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Adobe Photoshop 2022 Top New Features in 9 Minutes!

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“This video will cover the top 5 new features and updates in Photoshop version 23.0.0! In this video, we will look at some of the most significant new features like the Object Finder, Neural Filters, Mask All Objects, and so much more!”
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00:00 – Introduction
00:20 – Object Finder
02:10 – Mask All Objects
02:45 – Harmonization Neural Filter
05:12 – Landscape Mixer Neural Filter
05:48 – Commenting on Cloud Documents
07:14 – Paste Vectors from Adobe Illustrator
08:45 – In-App Tutorials 09:72 – Final Thoughts
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Photoshop 2022 – 9 New Features with Pros & Cons

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Unmesh Dinda takes us on an in-depth look at what Photoshop version 23.0.0 has to offer, going through all the new features and updates.
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00:00 Harmonization
02:17 Auto-Selections on Hover
03:10 Gradient Interpolation Options
04:42 Content Credentials
06:53 Improved Interoperability with Illustrator
08:35 Share for Commenting
09:53 Landscape Mixer
11:58 Improved Colorize
12:59 Color Transfer
13:56 Question to You!
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Photoshop 2022 Top New Features

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“Learn all the best new features of Photoshop 2022, learn the tips and tricks and how to use the new features in Photoshop. New Select subject, a range of new Neural filters, including Harmonize, Color Match and Landscape mixer. New Illustrator integration ACR masking and more.”
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