Blend Modes Part 5 | Photoshop Tutorials 101 Overview The tutorial for this week explains two blend mode groups. The Inverse group as well as the Cancelation modes looks for similarities and uses different methods to create different effects on the image. Difference The Difference blending mode takes the color with the highest brightness and subtracts from the layer with the darker color. i.e. Base Color minus Blend Color if the base color is brighter. The use of white on the blending color will create an inversion in base colors. The use of black [...]

How to Use the Smart Portrait Neural Filter | Adobe Photoshop Tutorial With the release of Adobe Photoshop 22.0 in October 2020 Adobe released the Smart Portrait beta neural filter. This filter is revolutionizing the photo-editing process in ways that some have found disconcerting. From adding teeth to years on someone’s life Sensei powered Smart Portrait has a range of powerful capabilities that we will dive into in this tutorial. How to Use Smart Portrait The Smart Portrait Neural Filter can be accessed via the following steps. 1. [...]

Style Transfer Neural Filter | Adobe Photoshop Tutorial With the release of Adobe Photoshop 22.0 in October 2020 Adobe shipped the Style Transfer neural filter. This allows you to select an image and apply that style to any image you wish. For example, let’s say you wanted your photo to be in the vein of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Now that is nothing more than a few button clicks away from reality, well kinda. How to Use Style Transfer Style Transfer can be accessed via the following steps. [...]

Blend Modes Part 4 | Photoshop Tutorials 101 Overview This week’s photoshop tutorial is all about utilizing the contrasting blend modes to get the boost in contrast that these modes give to an image. These modes can both brighten and darken certain parts of an image in order to get the effect. Overlay The ‘Overlay’ blend mode does not replace the base colors but instead mixes the blend color while reflecting the highlights and shadows of the image. Soft Light The ‘Soft Light’ blend mode [...]

What is JPEG Artifact Removal? | Adobe Photoshop Tutorial With the release of Adobe Photoshop 22.0 in October 2020 Adobe released the JPEG Artifact Removal neural filter. In order to understand what this filter does you first need to understand how JPEGs work. JPEGs use compression algorithms to remove unnecessary details to images in order to reduce the file size. The algorithm does well but does degrade over time based on how many saves away you get from the master file. This degradation shows in the form of artifacting. Artifacting makes images look fuzzy and often [...]