Workflow & Shortcuts
Exporting for Web: Size, Format and Sharpening
Which format for which image, why your export looks washed out, and the resize-then-sharpen order that keeps detail crisp.
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Articles
Workflow & Shortcuts
The Photoshop Shortcuts Actually Worth Memorising
Not a list of two hundred. The two dozen that change how fast you work, grouped by when you use them.
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Workflow & Shortcuts
Smart Objects and Non-Destructive Editing
How to build a file where every decision stays changeable ā and the cost of Smart Objects, which is real but usually worth paying.
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Effects & Compositing
Realistic Compositing: Making Two Photos Look Like One
A clean cutout is the easy part. Matching perspective, light, colour, focus and grain is what decides whether anyone believes it.
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Effects & Compositing
Blend Modes Explained: The Six That Matter
Twenty-seven blend modes, six worth knowing, and the rule that explains what each group does to the image below.
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Colour & Tone
Colour Grading with Adjustment Layers
Split toning, colour lookup tables and selective colour ā how to give a set of images a consistent, deliberate look.
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Colour & Tone
How to Fix White Balance and Colour Casts
Three reliable ways to neutralise a colour cast, and how to find a true neutral in a photo that does not obviously contain one.
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Colour & Tone
Photoshop Curves Explained: One Dialog, Most of the Work
Brightness, contrast, black point, white point and colour casts ā Curves does all of it, once you can read the diagonal line.
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Retouching & Repair
Dodge and Burn: Shaping Light by Hand
The darkroom technique that still does more for a portrait than any filter ā done non-destructively, without the Dodge and Burn tools.
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Retouching & Repair
Removing Objects: Healing, Cloning and Generative Fill
Four removal tools, and a straight answer about which to reach for depending on what surrounds the thing you are deleting.
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Retouching & Repair
Frequency Separation: Retouch Skin Without the Plastic Look
Split texture from tone so you can even out blotchy colour while leaving pores intact. The setup, the workflow, and when not to use it.
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Selections & Masking
How to Cut Out Hair and Fur Without a Halo
The channel method for fine detail, plus the decontamination step that removes the tell-tale fringe of the old background.
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