The Content-Aware Fill technology was introduced into Photoshop CS5 and has been incrementally improved ever since. Its latest version found in Photoshop CC is absolutely amazing. The Content-Aware Fill technology can be found in a variety of Photoshop's tools, including the Spot Healing Brush, the Patch Tool as well as the Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware [...]
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Are the improvements to the Photoshop Type Tool useful for Photographers or just designers? The November 2015 update saw some improvements to the Photoshop Type Tool. Now you can quickly find the font you want, need or use regularly by taking advantage of the new filtering options with the improved Type Tool. The Photoshop Type [...]
The ability to customize the toolbar in Photoshop has been missing forever. Not anymore! You can now customize the toolbar in Photoshop CC since the November 2015 update and I am delighted. Photoshop is a huge application and I would doubt that any single person is capable of using it all, or even needs to use it [...]
If you are a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud, you may have noticed the latest Adobe Photoshop CC update. This latest update was released on 30 November 2015. This Photoshop CC update is a major overhaul and includes more than 30 updates according to Adobe. Among the many functional updates, Adobe has also taken the [...]
A lesser known tool in Photoshop CC allows you to crop and straighten photos in one go. It's called the Perspective Crop tool. The Perspective Crop tool lets you transform the perspective of an image whilst cropping it. Use the Perspective Crop tool when working with images that contain keystone distortion. Keystone distortion occurs when an object [...]
This is a retouching technique that will appeal to just about everyone who has taken a landscape image and had the look of it ruined by power lines. We will show you how to easily remove power lines with Photoshop using a combination of the Pen tool and the Spot Healing brush. To demonstrate this procedure [...]
We are often asked by people starting out with photo editing about the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing. Let me try to explain the difference in some detail. I'll describe destructive editing first then move onto non-destructive editing. Destructive Editing The term destructive editing does not mean that you actually destroy your image; in [...]
In a previous post, I introduced you to the idea of focus stacking and how it can be used with macro photography. Now I'd like to explain the method for achieving focus stacking in Photoshop. As always, there will be several different ways to carry out focus stacking in Photoshop but the method described here [...]
The technique of focus stacking allows you to overcome one of the biggest problems with macro photography; the limited depth of field. Before I explain what focus stacking is, it may be worthwhile explaining what depth of field is first. I don't want to delve into this subject in too much detail, because it demands [...]
