This is a little different than the videos I usually post because instead of a tutorial to teach you something it’s designed to make you think. Here’s a thoughtful discussion from Alister Benn of Expressive Photography addressing the question of Which do you prefer? Color or Black and White.
As long as were on this thinking subject, here’s a thought provoking video from Blake Rudis of f64 Academy titled
“What your photography Really needs in 2022.”
What your photography REALLY needs in 2022 – YouTube
Ok, back to instruction. I use layers a lot, and each of my layers ends up with a mask. One thing I’ve never explored is the properties tab of the mask. There is actually a slider that adjusts the mask density. Here’s Greg Benz discussing “Three ways to use layer mask density.”
Three ways to use layer mask DENSITY – YouTube
One of the things photoshop has been making easier over the past few years is selections. We have lots of new ways to do them. Here Aaron Nace of Phlearn gives us two tutorials this month. The first is using simple tools and the second is using the Advanced selection tools.
Use Simple Selection Tools to Replace a Sky in Photoshop! | Selections 01 – YouTube
Use Advanced Selection Tools to Add Graphics to a Photo in Photoshop | Selections 02 – YouTube
In so many of our images, we want to have the background blurred behind the subject. If I didn’t get it right in camera, I blurred it in photoshop with a blur filter a brush. Here’s our friend Jesus Ramirez from the Photoshop Training Channel. You’ll learn a much more powerful way to blur the background using the new Neural filters in Photoshop.
How To Blur Backgrounds in Photoshop [FAST & EASY] – YouTube
