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Exploring the Photographic Marvels of Death Valley: An Unforgettable Workshop
Picture yourself in Death Valley, camera in hand, ready to seize the breathtaking interplay of light and shadow that defines this photographer’s paradise. Towering sand dunes, jagged salt flats, expansive badlands, and ancient rock formations await, offering endless opportunities to capture spectacular images.
Photoshop Essential Training Course Free Until September 30, 2022!
I’m excited to announce that my Photoshop Essential Training course has been selected by LinkedIn Learning as a way to help “Future-Proof Your Career”. The course, with over nine hours and 100+ videos of Photoshop instruction, is currently unlocked and can be viewed for free until September 30, 2022! Whether you’re a beginner learning a new set of skills, or an intermediate Photoshop user wanting to review essential concepts, you’ll find exactly the information that you need in this course.
How to Create a “Smoke-flake” in Photoshop
Here’s how to quickly create a “smoke-flake” by duplicating, rotating, and flipping multiple copies of a photograph of smoke: How to Create a Smoke-Flake in Photoshop. If you’re familiar with (and prefer to use) an action to create/automate this effect, I have included a link to download the action as well as a practice file below. For those of you that prefer a written step-by-step, I’ve included that as well.
Selecting and Navigating Images in Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey & People View in Lightroom Classic
Here are my favorite shortcuts for selecting and navigating images in Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey and People view in Lightroom Classic. Moving Between Views in the Library Module — to quickly move between views, use the following shortcuts: • Tap “G” for Grid,“E” for Loupe, “C” for Compare, and “N” for Survey. Note: these shortcuts work across modules! • Double-click an image thumbnail in Grid view to go to Loupe view and vice versa ( double click an image in Loupe view to return to Grid view).
25 Shortcuts and Tips for Creating Better Selections in Photoshop
Here are 25 of my favorite tips and shortcuts for creating selections in Photoshop! Add To, Subtract From, and Intersect Selections — The Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick Selection, and Object Selection tools all share the following shortcuts that can help when making complex selections: • Shift – drag with the tool to add to an existing selection. • Option -drag (Mac)| Alt -drag (Win) to subtract from the original selection.
30 Tips to Customize the Photoshop Interface: Tools, Panels, Menus, Workspaces and More!
Here are 30 of my favorite ways to streamline Photoshop’s interface including customizing tools, panels, menus, workspaces, view options, screen modes, font size, and more! Cycle Through Nested Tools — To save screen real estate, Photoshop nests similar tools together in the Toolbar. To quickly cycle through nested tools, Option -click (Mac) | Alt-click (Win) on the tool.
Julieanne Kost's Blog | 15 Tips for Working with Paths and the Pen Tool in Photoshop
Here are 15 of my favorite shortcuts that make working with Paths and the Pen Tool easier in Photoshop. The Path Selection and Direct Selection Tools — To select an entire path, use the Path Selection tool. To select segments of a path (anchor points, direction lines etc.), use the Direct Selection tool. With the Direct Selection tool selected, instead of switching to the Path Selection tool, hold Option (Mac) | Alt (Win) and clickon a path to select the entire path.
How to work with video in Lightroom Classic
Working with video in the Library module of Lightroom Classic offers some simple tools for previewing, setting poster frames, and creating stills from frames that can be exported to the Develop module. Lightroom Classic imports many common digital video files from digital still cameras. You can preview video clips in the Loupe view of the Library module, scrub videos, set poster frames, and more. To know about the supported video formats, see Supported video file formats in Lightroom Classic.
30 Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Working with Type in Photoshop
Below are 30+ of my favorite tips, tricks, and shortcuts for working with type in Photoshop.
Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign Powercombo for Design
Overview Transcripts Exercise Files View Offline Course details Explore ways to use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign as a powerhouse combination to save time, simplify workflow, and create impressive work. Discover the value and benefits of using native file formats in each application to make round-tripping easy, and learn how you can speed up production workflows using techniques involving nesting, snippets, layers, comps, and more.
Julieanne Kost's Blog | 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! 20+ Tips for Using Tools in Photoshop
In this video, you’ll learn how to quickly access, customize, and work with tools in Photoshop!
Locking the Zoom Position in Lightroom
Depending on the sequence of images that I’m viewing in the Library module, sometimes I want Lightroom to zoom to the same location in each image as I move through the shoot (comparing focus in a certain area for example), but other times I want Lightroom to pay attention to different areas that I’ve zoomed into in each image (comparing the sharpness of a bird that moved significantly between frames for example).
Increase a Photograph’s Impact: Lightroom Classic Advanced Tips and Tricks
If you weren’t able to attend Adobe MAX in person, you can still view my Lightroom Classic session “Increase a Photograph’s Impact: Lightroom Classic Advanced Tips and Tricks” on YouTube. In this session, you’ll discover how to make your photographs more powerful than ever before by mastering the tools needed to enhance, refine, and add creative effects to your images.
Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Preview Course details Photoshop is the industry standard for creative visual expression. Whether you’re an experienced creative pro or just starting on your creative journey, learning how to use Photoshop is the best investment you can make in your work. In this course, Julieanne Kost teaches you the essentials of Photoshop 2020. Discover how to open and navigate documents, customize the Photoshop interface, and start editing photos.
Photoshop Quick Tips
Watch preview Course Info Duration: 15m 38s Skill Level: Beginner Released: March 19, 2019 Viewers: 0 Learn the most in-demand business, tech and creative skills from industry experts. Start my free month Overview Transcripts View Offline Course details Transform the way you work with Photoshop. These workflow-changing tips and tricks are each less than a minute long—so you can get answers fast and get back to work.
GIMP Essential Training
Watch preview Course Info Duration: 5h 10m 9s Skill Level: Beginner + Intermediate Released: February 28, 2019 Viewers: 0 Learn the most in-demand business, tech and creative skills from industry experts. Start my free month Overview Transcripts Exercise Files View Offline Course details GIMP is a popular open-source image editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux that has evolved to become a credible option for image editing. In this course, Mike Rankin shows how to use GIMP 2.10 to work with images.
3, 2, 1, Photoshop! How to Modify the Edge of a Layer Mask in Photoshop CC
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to modify the edge of a Layer Mask or Vector Mask in Photoshop: VIDEO
Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: Design - Live on LinkedIn | Lynda.com
I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: Design course is now live on LinkedIn Learning and on Lynda.com: Adobe Photoshop is a powerful program used across many industries, from art and design to scientific imaging. This course was created specifically to help designers master this complex technology, with the goal of removing technical barriers so you can start creating as soon as possible.
Lightroom Classic Updates - Book Module, Presets & Profiles, and HEIC Support
I’m excited to announce several updates to Lightroom Classic including several enhancements to the Book module, support for importing profiles and presets as ZIP files, and HEIC support on Windows.
Telling Your Story on the Web in 60 Seconds
- Hi, my name is Rich Harrington and I'd like to welcome you to this class. This is one I've been looking forward to teaching. There's a lot of great techniques in this course and we're gonna focus on making fun, dynamic content for social media. To do this, I'm gonna rely upon using a video camera, a stills camera, and some other simple tools as well as Adobe Creative Cloud.
3, 2, 1, Photoshop! Seven Shortcuts for Working with Point Type
In this week’s episode, Julieanne demonstrates several shortcuts for using Point Type in in Photoshop CC. VIDEO
3, 2, 1, Photoshop! The Quickest Way to Custom Brush in Photoshop CC
In this week’s episode, Julieanne Kost, Photoshop and Lightroom Evangelist, shares the quickest way to create a custom brush in Photoshop. VIDEO
3, 2, 1, Photoshop! Radial Paint Symmetry in Photoshop CC
In this episode of 3, 2, 1, photoshop, Julieanne demonstrates how to unlock the Radial Paint Symmetry’s hidden features in Photoshop CC. VIDEO
15 Tips for Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop CC
I recently posted the oh-so-short 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! Five Reasons to Use Smart Objects in Photoshop video (below), but I use Smart Objects so heavily in my workflow that I thought I would gather all of my posts on Smart Objects to make them easier to find. If you’ve never used Smart Objects, they offer a non-destructive, flexible way to work with layers in Photoshop (especially when resizing, transforming, compositing, filtering, working with templates and more).
December Updates for Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw
The Auto Tone option in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw has been completely reworked to help create more pleasing adjustments with a single click. Original image Auto setting applied Depending on the image, applying Auto setting will make changes to the following sliders: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Saturation, and Vibrance.
Adobe Announces Updates for Adobe Bridge CC
I’m happy to announce that Adobe Bridge CC has a number of new features and enhancements! The completely rewritten Output module enables quick and easy creation of PDF files within Bridge CC. Select the Output workspace and chose a template as a starting point. Then, drag and drop images from the filmstrip into the Output Preview area, and drag to reorder images as needed.
Make a lot of Photographs, and Make them Often
I often hear people complain that photographers with digital cameras tend to overshoot their subjects. While that might be true if you’re taking fifty image of the same subject without changing anything, I’ve always been one to make a lot of photographs, and make them often. If you’ve seen my instagram feed, then you know that I enjoy posting triptychs – and for good reason. Posting more than one image forces me to explore my subject (rather than simply capturing the first “grab-shotâ€?
Julieanne’s 55 Favorite Photoshop CC Features
Since Adobe’s transition to Creative Cloud, Photoshop has delivered five major updates containing dozens of new tools, feature enhancements, and productivity improvements. Over the past 10 weeks, I’ve selected my top 55 features and posted about each one. Here is that list (with links to each post) in a single location.
Lightroom Mobile for Android 1.4 now available and free!
In October, Adobe released Lightroom 2.0 for iOS which made it possible to use Lightroom on iPhones and iPads without a paid subscription, and the response has been phenomenal. Today we’re excited to announce Lightroom for Android version 1.4, which adds the same free offering for Android users. The ability to use Lightroom for mobile without a paid subscription means that anyone can take advantage of the organizational, editing, and sharing abilities that Lightroom for mobile offers.
eBook Deal of the Week
Passenger Seat By Julieanne Kost Published Dec 09, 2015 by Adobe Press. Pages: 240 eBook (Watermarked) In her long career as Product Evangelist for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Julieanne Kost has taught thousands of digital photographers how to get the most out of Adobe's digital imaging software, in seminars, presentations, and blog posts ranging from nuts-and-bolts tips and tricks to inspirational tutorials on creating sophisticated artistic effects.
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