“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten essential shortcuts for working with Layer Masks, including how to add, delete, invert, move, reposition, copy, target, disable, change the density, and add a non-destructive feather to soften the edges of a mask.”
Follow up with her fundamentals of working with layers.
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Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color gray.
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"Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey."
- Nicky Morgan
"There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white."
- Lisa Ling
"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"
- Ridley Scott
"There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white."
- Rebecca Solnit
"For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions."
- Peter Kabakci
"The color of truth is gray."
- Andre Gide
"Compromise in colors is grey."
- Edi Rama
“The color grey is a reference to ambiguity, speculation, and nebulous deconstruction without solution.”
— Philip Bachman
"Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor."
- Gerhard Richter
“Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other color has, to make the invisible visible.”
– Roma Tearne
“One must first allow the presence of gray to take root, then release it to weigh its absence before being certain about anything.”
– Reena Doss
“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates five reasons to use Smart Filters in Photoshop, including how to edit, mask, stack, move, duplicate, and change blend mode and opacity of Smart Filters in Photoshop.”
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Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color white.
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"God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when he paints in white."
- G. K. Chesterton
"Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other."
- Mary Balogh
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gorgeously, as when He paints in white.”
- G K Chesterton
"White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. For me, in fact, it is the color which in natural light, reflects and intensifies the perception of all of the shades of the rainbow, the colors which are constantly changing in nature, for the whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon."
- Richard Meier
"White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color."
Tae Yun Kim
"I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."
- Coco Chanel
"If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"When you glaze on a bright white ground it is like looking through color rather than at it – like looking through stained glass."
- Fred Machetanz
"Never use pure white; it doesn't exist in nature."
- Aldro T. Hibbard
“Nothing is black or white.”
- Nelson Mandela
"Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can."
- Jack Antonoff
"Put variety in white."
- Charles Webster Hawthorne
"Renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white."
- Ambroise Vollard
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In this video, Julieanne will walk through six benefits of working with Smart Objects in Photoshop, including transforming and distorting Smart Objects, editing and replacing the contents of Smart Objects, creating duplicated instances, and more!”
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Online Talk
Hosted by Obscura Gallery, Father Paul Caponigro and son John Paul Caponigro will share their photographs, talk about their work, and answer your questions.
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Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color black.
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"Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensation."
- Hermann von Helmhoz
"Black is always elegant. It is the most complete color in the whole world, made of all the colors in the palette."
- Ricardo Tisci
"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."
- Coco Chanel
"I fell in love with black; it contained all colors. It wasn’t a negation of color…Black is the most aristocratic color of all. You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing."
- Louise Nevelson
“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.”
— Amy Grant
"There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it."
- Georgia O’Keeffe
"I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke."
- Yves Saint Laurent
“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.” ― Norah Ephron
"Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy—but mysterious. But above all, black says this: I don’t bother you—don’t bother me."
- Yohji Yamamoto
“I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.”
— Greta Thunberg
"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'"
- John Wayne
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion—against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas."
- Johnny Cash
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
— Robert Frank
"Black is such a happy color darling."
- Morticia Addams
"It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express."
- Ann Demeulemeester
"Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world."
- Joel Sternfeld
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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.
Use Curves. How To Master Color Adjustment With Curves
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