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Adobe Portfolio – Day 5 of the 10 Day Challenge
Congratulations on making it to day 5! Today we’re going to create our specialty pages (such as a Contact or Artist’s Statement) and then add our social profiles. You might want to create a different...
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Adobe Portfolio – Day 6 of the 10 Day Challenge
Welcome back to Day six of the Portfolio challenge. Hope you had a great weekend and are ready to move your Portfolio forward! Today we’re going to create two different types of links. First we will...
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Adobe Portfolio – Day 7 of the 10 Day Challenge
Welcome back. Today we’re going to learn how to embed video in a project or on a page. If you haven’t ever created a video, maybe this is a good day for you to discover how easy it is to create a...
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Adobe Portfolio – Day 8 of the 10 Day Challenge
Today I want to show you how easy it is to change the look and feel of your site by changing the layout. At this point, I’m sure that most of you are happy with the design that you are working with...
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Adobe Portfolio – Day 9 of the 10 Day Challenge
Welcome to day nine of the Portfolio challenge – we are almost to the finish line! Today we are going to take a look at how we can take advantage of Portfolio’s advanced settings. Edit Settings. In the...
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Adobe Portfolio – Day 10 of the 10 Day Challenge
Congratulations, you’ve made it to day ten of the Portfolio challenge! First we’re going to preview our portfolio to make sure that everything is working as it should be, and then we will publish it to...
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Update! Adding Adobe Slate Projects to Portfolio
Update! Update! I didn’t know that you could create your own iframe code and embed your slate projects into your Portfolio site 9one of the many drawbacks of not knowing how to code), because you can,...
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Introduction to Photo Compositing Course on Lynda.com
Even if you’re not a member of Lynda.com, a portion of each of my video courses are available for free. If you’re interested in Learning about Compositing, here are two free videos from my...
View ArticleDouble Check the Layer Mask in Photoshop
When working on intricately composited, multi-layered documents, I often find it useful to check each of the layer masks before finalizing the image. To do this, Option -click (Mac) / Alt -click (Win)...
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The Art of Photoshop Compositing Course on Lynda.com
Even if you’re not a member of Lynda.com, a portion of each of my video courses are available for free. If you’re interested in Learning about Compositing, here are four free videos from my The Art of...
View ArticlePreviewing Images Full Screen in Bridge
Tapping the spacebar displays all selected files in Bridge in Full Screen Mode with a dark grey background. This is a great way to quickly review files without having to open them in Photoshop. Tap...
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“Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution” In-Depth...
If you’re going to be attending Photoshop World, Las Vegas, I hope you will join me for an in-depth workshop – Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution. We’ll...
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Embedding Video into an Adobe Slate
For those of you who haven’t been introduced to Adobe Slate, I have to tell you that I absolutely love this simple, yet elegant storytelling app from Adobe. And now, you can embed video from either...
View ArticleVector Masks Visibility in Photoshop
Clicking on the Vector mask icon in the Layers Panel will toggle the path’s visibility. When the path is visible, drawing a path with the Pen tool (or a Shape tool with the tool mode in the Options bar...
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Passenger Seat eBook Discounted for Earth Day
The electronic version of my book Passenger Seat – Creating a photographic project from conception through execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, is featured as part of Pearson’s Earth Day sale,...
View ArticleTemporarily Disabling & Enabling Masks in Photoshop
Shift-click in the layer or vector mask thumbnail in the Layers panel to temporarily disable the mask. Click again on the layer mask thumbnail in the Layers panel to enable it. For a vector mask, you...
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Unlinking Masks from Layers in Photoshop
Click on the link icon between the layer icon and the mask icon in the Layers panel to unlink the mask from the layer (allowing either to move independently of the other).
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Pasting into a Layer Mask in Photoshop
To paste content (from the clipboard) into a Layer mask, Option -click (Mac)/ Alt -click (Win) the Layer mask icon on the Layers panel. This shortcut does two things – it targets the mask as well as...
View ArticleTargeting a Layer Mask in Photoshop
Command + \ (Mac), Control + \ (Win) targets a layer mask. Command + 2 (Mac), Control + 2 (Win) targets the layer.
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Paste Into a Selection in Photoshop
If you have an active selection in your document (marching ants) and have content on the clipboard, selecting Edit > Paste Special > Paste Into will paste the content from the clipboard onto a...
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