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Colin Smith shows you how to add rim lights using ai masks in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.
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Colin Smith answers all your questions about updating to Photoshop 2024 … and shows you how to fix common problems.
00:00 Intro
00:16 Are Adobe charging for Generative Fill’s Generative credits?
02:55 Is the resolution still limited to 1024 x 1024?
04:57 Can I uninstall beta?
05:49 Is it version 25 or 2024?
06:32 Where are my Presets and Plugins etc?
07:08 Keep old version for Plugin Compatibility
07:33 How to get back an old version of Photoshop
8:14 Run the correct version
08:31 Missing Tools
9:15 Open the correct version of Photoshop from Lightroom
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Composed of two complementary color families (yellow and blue); one is light and the other dark, while one is warm and the other is cool. Together, they increase each other's intensity.
Simultaneous Contrast
You can make a color appear more lively by changing it or by changing the colors around it. Even though it remains unchanged, we see it differently. Color context can be almost as important as individual color.
These effects are part physics (measurable qualities of light), part biology (what our brains do to enhance information to better perceive the world), and part psychology (our subjective responses). While the phenomena and our responses to them are complex, we can use a few simple dynamics to produce striking effects.
The colors in the center are the same but appear different because of the colors that surround them.
A lighter surround makes a color appear darker - and vice versa.
A warmer surround makes a color appear cooler - and vice versa.
A saturated surround makes a color appear more neutral - and vice versa.
Find more on Simultaneous Contrast and Color Theory here.
3 Types Of Contrast
Luminosity, hue, and saturation, the three elements of color, offer three types of contrast to choose from.
Changes in luminosity make colors feel lighter or heavier.
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Changes in hue bring warm and cool associations with them.
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Changes in saturation increase or decrease vibrance.
Use Saturation and/or Vibrance. How To Master Saturation In Your Images
All three, either individually or collectively, can make a color appear nearer or farther away.
Atmospheric perspective enhances the illusion of depth; lighter, warmer, more saturated colors appear closer.
Sometimes, you want to select the element you change carefully to create a specific effect.
Other times, you just want separation, and any kind of contrast will do. For maximum effect, change all three elements as much as you can while still maintaining a realistic appearance.
Nearby, Adjacent, Surrounding
“Like fine wines, oysters take on the qualities of the environment in which they’re raised. Water temperature, salinity, season, the geology of the watershed, currents, tides, and growing methods work together to produce oysters that are unique to each of Maine’s farms.
While no two varieties are identical, there are some common threads that make Maine oysters a shuck above the rest. With nearly 3,500 miles of pristine, rugged coastline, Maine is the perfect place to cultivate and harvest the best oysters on Earth. Our cold, salty ocean water is rich in nutrients that oysters love, giving Maine oysters a crisp, briny, buttery, sweet flavor.
The Maine Oyster Trail is the first interactive, incentive-based oyster trail in the U.S. and features more than 80 Maine oyster businesses, each of which offers one-of-a-kind experiences. The Trail’s interactive trip planner allows you to build your own custom trail based on different types of experiences and regions you’re interested in checking out.”
Explore the Maine Oyster Trail here.
Find great selections of oysters at the following restaurants.
Rockland, Maine – North Beacon Oyster
Boothbay Harbor, Maine – Mine Oyster
Portland, Maine – Maine Oyster Company
“Photoshop 2024 is here! Colin Smith shows you the new features including Generative AI in the shipping version of Photoshop.”
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.Two Generations
Paul Caponigro & John Paul Caponigro
.Sep 15 – Nov 18
Sep 15 – 4 pm Talk
Sep 15 – 5-7 pm Opening
Sep 30 – Online Talk
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Obscura Gallery proudly presents Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists.
For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 – 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery.
At first glance, both artists seem a world apart – Paul works in straight, small-scale, analog, black-and-white gelatin silver prints, and John Paul works in composited, large-scale, digital color ink prints. Upon further reflection, you’ll find their shared sensibilities run much deeper and are far more significant than the surface differences. Both masters, with a strong dedication to their craft and a deep reverence for nature, Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, create mystical spaces with powerful atmospheres of silence that resound with spirit. In these deep moments of quiescence, both rekindle our most primal ways of being and awaken our most essential natures, reminding us that man lives not apart from nature but as a part of Nature.
Join us (in person or online) for this fascinating exploration of changes in the medium of photography and, through it, the ways we see land and ourselves.
“In this video, you’ll discover tips and tricks to master the new, non-destructive Gradient tool in Photoshop, including how to make the most out of the on-screen editing controls, working with Gradient Fill layers, new options on the Properties panel, working with Layer Masks, changing gradient Types, Quick Actions, and more!”
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Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color green.
Which is your favorite? Have one to add? Leave a comment!
“Green is the prime color of the world and that from which its loveliness arises.”
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
"It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet."
- Jane Goodall
"Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions."
– John Muir
“Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men, this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious. ”
– Wassily Kandinsky
“Green is the fresh emblem of well-founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green, it can rest.”
– Mary Webb
"Even in winter, it shall be green in my heart."
– Frederic Chopin
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
– Lois Lowry
“No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.”
— Rudyard Kipling
"Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation."
– Tae Yun Kim
"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."
- Rumi
“Remember, green’s your color. You are spring.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
"For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
– J. R. R. Tolkien
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
– Martin Luther
"Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil."
- Allan Savory
"By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green."
– Bill Nye
"No water, no life. No blue, no green."
– Sylvia Earle
“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.” – Daniel Goleman
“Discover the Magic of Blend If in Photoshop! Learn how “Blend If” works and explore the amazing effects you can create with it. In this video, we’ll dive deep into the mechanics of what “Blend If” controls and go through real-world applications, from masking to special effects and even retouching.”
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Color has three elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation.
Luminosity describes a color’s lightness.
Hue describes a color’s temperature. (It’s the rainbow ROYGBIV.)
Saturation describes a color’s degree of neutrality.
All colors can be described as a combination of these three values.
Each of these elements offers a unique quality and type of contrast. (Think energy.)
While we see all three elements simultaneously, learning to distinguish these three elements from one another is a useful skill that will help you see more clearly and see more possibilities for enhancing your images.
Consider the transformations each element of color offers.
When highlights are lightened with luminosity, this image feels cooler and more brilliant.
When highlights are warmed with hue, the image feels hotter and more humid.
When highlights are intensified with saturation, the image feels more lush and fertile.
Each of these elements of color implies a different atmosphere, a different time of day, or perhaps even season, and, in this case, a state of plant growth. Color becomes a code for many different qualities, and so can offer you many possibilities for creative enhancement and personal expression.
The following examples will illuminate some of the possibilities and pitfalls for you.
