By Matt Kloskowski If you're trying to lay out an image precisely in Photoshop, Guides are your go-to tool. In this video we'll go over all the little tips and tricks that making creating and working with guides much easier. | 00:05:27 | Feb 19, 2014 |  |
By Matt Kloskowski With the increasing power of the healing tools in Photoshop and Lightroom, questions about which tool to use in different situations have popped up. Matt Kloskowski covers a few key differences on when it's best to use each tool in this video. | 00:07:25 | Feb 12, 2014 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt takes a photo from start to finish, taking a raw file with no adjustments and showing all of the typical changes and enhancements he does to photos using the tools in Lightroom or Camera Raw. (No Photoshop!) | 00:07:44 | Jan 6, 2014 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Panoramas make a great impact, and they're easy to photograph. But sometimes we're left with some extra area in our panos that we need to crop out. With this tip, you can save a lot of that area and make your panos larger with even more impact. | 00:04:12 | Dec 25, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you like contrasty, gritty looks in your photos, you're going to love what the Clarity slider can do. This tip shows how to take the clarity slider to the next level with a little-known trick to make it even more intense. | 00:02:30 | Dec 24, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Making your type look professional is probably the single most important thing you’ll do (other than actually choosing the right words). Using this tip, you’ll be able to correct Photoshop's idiosyncrasies and make your text look more professional. | 00:02:14 | Dec 23, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you're a designer, chances are you're pulling colors from just about anywhere when designing your images. With this tip, you'll see the image doesn’t even need to be in Photoshop for you to be able to sample a color from it. | 00:01:26 | Dec 22, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Yep. I said it. The most powerful button in Lightroom. It’s simple. It’s easy. And it’s actually right in front of you. When you see what it does, you’ll never go back to not using it. | 00:01:43 | Dec 21, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The more you use the Puppet Warp tool, the more you appreciate just how many areas it can be helpful for. Once you learn this secret tip for keeping your changes non-destructive, you’ll use it even more. | 00:02:18 | Dec 20, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski You’d be amazed at how many tools and palettes use the Opacity setting in Photoshop. But with just one keyboard shortcut, you’ll see you can change it in no time flat. | 00:02:46 | Dec 19, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you’re using the brush tool in Photoshop, picking the exact size of your brush is as important as anything. Using the Heads Up display brushes makes choosing that size a very easy and visual process. | 00:01:45 | Dec 19, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you find yourself wanting to move around Lightroom faster, navigating the panels is something to get used to. But with this tip, you’ll find that you’ll get exactly to the settings you want faster than ever. | 00:02:49 | Dec 18, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt shows how to make more accurate selections when building composite images. As he demonstrates, this trick can make a big difference when pasting your selections to images with significantly different background colors than the original. | 00:03:23 | Dec 17, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt shows how Photoshop keeps track of changes in its History setting, and how you can tweak those settings to ensure it saves more states than the default. This little detail may save you a lot of time if it's ever needed. | 00:02:42 | Dec 17, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The hiding shortcut is a great one to understand. In this video, Matt gives you some tips and tricks on what the keyboard shortcut does and how to change it if it ever gets in the way. | 00:02:42 | Dec 14, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski It's easy to get caught up wondering what tool to use for cloning and healing. In this video, Matt shows you the main cloning/healing tools in Photoshop and Lightroom/Camera Raw, explaining when each one works better than another. | 00:05:14 | Dec 12, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Graduated Filter is one of the most-used tools for enhancing and correcting bright skies, but it tends to darken any tall objects in your foreground. This trick will let you keep your skies and foreground both looking great. | 00:03:26 | Dec 11, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Here's a run-down of my favorite Photoshop tips. These are little tips, tricks, and shortcuts that make working every day in Photoshop easier and faster, especially with some of the common things we do to our photos over and over again. | 00:10:21 | Dec 10, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you like shooting with wide angle lenses, you've probably come across buildings, walls or trees that look like they're leaning over. With this new Creative Cloud enhancement, Photoshop has a one-click fix that helps straighten things out automatically. | 00:05:47 | Dec 9, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you're taking photos in low light, you've inevitably run in to some noise issues. Without resorting to 3rd-party plug-ins, Photoshop CC has some of the best noise-reduction technology out there that is simple and quick to use. | 00:04:34 | Dec 6, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you're scanning multiple photos on the scanner at once, you're going to love this tip. It's basically a one-click way for you to crop and straighten all of those photos without lifting a finger. | 00:03:22 | Dec 4, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt explains how Photoshop CC added a couple of new features that help you edit your HDR photos and really take advantage of the detail that you get when shooting multiple exposures. | 00:07:28 | Nov 27, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt shows you how, with a little bit of planing in-camera along with a blending feature in Photoshop, you can take the sharpest parts of two photos and combine them together for one super-ultra sharp photo. | 00:05:11 | Nov 20, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski When we think of composites, we usually think of combining a bunch of different photos. But you'd be amazed at the killer designs you can create by getting creative and using one photo in multiple places for the same collage. | 00:07:15 | Nov 14, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photo restorations can be some of the most rewarding projects. In this video, Matt shows you some tips and tricks on figuring out which tools will help you get the job done. | 00:07:38 | Nov 8, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Patch tool has been incrementally improved over the years, with many new features added with little or no fanfare. Matt looks at some of the best features the Patch tool has to offer that you may have missed. | 00:05:08 | Oct 16, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One of the downsides of the polarizing filter is that it can often make your skies look fake. Using some quick Photoshop techniques, though, we can combine two photos and take advantage of the polarizer while still having a great-looking sky. | 00:06:03 | Oct 11, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In Photoshop CC, Adobe lets you go into Camera Raw without losing your previous adjustments. With a little trick you'll learn in this video, you can even save your settings each time so you can adjust them whenever you want. | 00:04:28 | Sep 24, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In the latest CC version of Photoshop, Adobe really ramped up the retouching tools in Camera Raw. With the new enhancements you can use them just like any other brush, which opens up a whole new world of retouching possibilities. | 00:04:51 | Sep 17, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt reverts a photo back to its original raw form and shows you the entire editing process from start to finish he uses to come up with the final portfolio image. | 00:09:21 | Sep 4, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski What happens when you create a killer template and want to reuse it for another project? A feature called Smart Objects (and some pre-planning) can have Photoshop replace multiple versions of a photo in one template with another. | 00:05:57 | Aug 27, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Lightroom fans love the Previous button. It applies whatever you just did to a photo - to the next photo. Camera Raw has a similar feature that's just as useful if you quickly want to apply changes from one photo to another. | 00:03:34 | Aug 20, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski I've always been a big believer that dodging and burning is one of those things that helps your photos dramatically. In this tutorial I'll show you one of my tricks for helping the process out and really making the dodge/burn experience much easier. | 00:05:10 | Aug 13, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt runs down his five favorite new features in Photoshop Creative Cloud specifically for photographers. | 00:10:05 | Aug 5, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Seen on a computer, it's easy to overlook small spots in images. But when we see them printed, those imperfections stand out like a sore thumb. With a little help visualizing them, you can easily get rid of them and clean up your prints in no time. | 00:04:26 | May 27, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This video shows an old trick by Dan Margulis to boost colors in your outdoor photos. With a quick color mode change and a Curves adjustment, you'll see how you can take your photos from "eh" to vibrant in just a few clicks. | 00:04:35 | May 20, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've used layers and blend modes for any amount of time, you've probably encountered the mysterious shift in appearance when you try to merge layers. Here's a quick tip that'll help you merge without losing any detail and visual changes you've made. | 00:04:15 | May 13, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski How do you best add sharpening so you know which image is web and which is print? Better yet, how do you add sharpening in a way that doesn't require two separate files. With a little creativity and smart filter layers, you'll see how. | 00:04:43 | May 9, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Actions are great, but Photoshop normally can't make a decision on what action to play if it encounters an unexpected image type. In this video you'll see that with conditional actions, new to Creative Cloud subscribers, you can do just that. | 00:04:12 | Apr 29, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The movement and motion that comes with long exposures can bring problems to your final image. Here’s a great tip to keep the parts of the photo you want still and sharp while allowing other parts of the photo to blur from the longer exposure times. | 00:06:40 | Apr 11, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt takes a look at how Liquify is now smarter and what it means to your photo editing process. | 00:05:56 | Apr 2, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The type tool is one of the most important features in Photoshop. In this video, Matt goes over 10 (ish) tips to help you get the most from it. | 00:10:25 | Feb 11, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've ever wanted to compare your color photo with a black and white version, or even another version, you'll love the Snapshots feature in Camera Raw. | 00:03:47 | Feb 4, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Word clouds are images that are simply made up of words. They're actually very cool looking by themselves, but when you add a photo and a bit of Photoshop to one, you can really create some great-looking designs. | 00:05:55 | Jan 28, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The silky water and streaky cloud effects in long exposure photography can make a photo look stunning. Matt shows how you can still get some of the same effects using Photoshop even if you didn't shoot with neutral density filters. | 00:05:55 | Jan 21, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski We typically think of using Adobe Camera Raw to adjust the exposure and color of our photos, but you can do so much more. In this video we'll take a look at some quick and basic portrait retouching that we can do with the Adjustment Brush. | 00:06:41 | Jan 14, 2013 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop has a feature called Content Aware Scale that can help image sizes match print sizes. It let's you scale the image to fit a certain size, but also lets you tell Photoshop what parts are important so it doesn't mess with those areas. | 00:06:00 | Nov 21, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Elements 11 just made a huge leap in the world of selections with it's new Refine Edge technology. If you've ever wanted to make complex selections, this tool is going to make your job infinitely easier. | 00:08:41 | Nov 19, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One of the new features in Photoshop CS6 that continues to get a lot of buzz is the Content Aware Move Tool. It builds on some already killer "content-aware" technology and gives us the ability to move things in a photo from one spot to another. | 00:06:32 | Nov 8, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski With the technology that we have today, there are some incredible things we can do with the panorama-stitching technology in Photoshop to create images that weren't possible just a few years ago. | 00:08:26 | Nov 6, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this video Matt works with a photo from start-to-finish. Starting with the original, Matt walks through all of the things he usually does in Camera Raw, then jumps into Photoshop to finish things off with retouching, sharpening and finishing effects. | 00:12:26 | Nov 2, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski New in Photoshop CS6, Field Blur is probably one of the most realistic blur filters in Photoshop. If you ever wanted to make your photo look like it was shot with one of those expensive shallow-depth-of-field lenses, Field Blur is a great way to do it. | 00:06:55 | Nov 1, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Adobe added a feature to Photoshop Elements 11 that makes it easier than ever to selectively apply sharpening to only the parts of the photo that you want to stay really sharp. This video demonstrates that new feature. | 00:06:21 | Oct 25, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you live in an area where the trees will lose their leaves, you've probably got some photos of those leaves changing colors. In this video you'll see there's a really great little recipe for enhancing those fall colors and making them really stand out. | 00:05:11 | Oct 23, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop has a feature called Snapshots that lets you create different versions of your photos and go back to a certain point without moving all of the sliders to get there. You can use it to back out multiple changes or easily try alternate settings. | 00:05:46 | Sep 26, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski When printing high ISO photos, you may need to reduce noise. Often this causes blurring, but a setting in Camera Raw lets you selectively reduce the noise in just the shadowy areas of the photo to preserve details that you need to remain crisp. | 00:04:04 | Sep 19, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The selective white balance controls in Camera Raw offer powerful ways to enhance your photos. Two sliders allow you to enhance and correct the color in your photos. As a bonus they work with both the graduated filter and the adjustment brush. | 00:06:17 | Sep 12, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The presets panel in Photoshop is your one-click way to your favorite photo recipes. Set a combination of effects you like in your photos and create a preset that remembers everything. You're then one click away from applying an effect to another photo. | 00:06:18 | Sep 6, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Adobe added the "process version" a while back in Camera Raw. Now, when each new version of Photoshop comes out, they change that process version. The latest, 2012, comes with some great new features and tools, demonstrated here, for editing your photos. | 00:06:24 | Aug 29, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've ever lost an image to a crash in Photoshop or just work with large files, you're going to love this feature. Photoshop CS6 comes with some new background save and auto save features that not only come in handy, but also save you a bunch of time. | 00:06:30 | Aug 22, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski When working with type in Photoshop, you may know that it is hard to control and change your text within many type layers. CS6 now has Type Styles, which let you define a style for a set of type layers and change that style with just a few clicks. | 00:03:42 | Aug 15, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski There’s a feature in Camera Raw 7.1 that lets you take a full 32-bit image right into ACR. So instead of tonemapping your HDR image in Photoshop, you can use the controls you’re already used to in ACR to do it. Here you can see it in action. | 00:06:21 | Aug 8, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The adjustment brush and graduated filter in Camera Raw and Photoshop CS6 have a couple of new settings that allow you to adjust the color of specific parts of the photo. Once you use these updated tools, you're not going to be able to live without 'em. | 00:04:30 | Jun 20, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In CS6 Adobe changed a few sliders in the Basic panel to not only make them easier to use, but to make them way more powerful when it comes to adjusting your photos. | 00:04:35 | Jun 13, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Camera Raw and Lightroom both have great tools for fixing perspective problems, but now Photoshop CS6 has the Adaptive Wide Angle filter. The new filter lets you draw on exactly the areas you want to correct, and it does all the work for you. | 00:03:49 | May 17, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski When working with faces and skin tones, selecting those skin tones has always been a manual process. With CS6 we now have a selection tool that'll take away the work of making the selection and free up your time to quickly make the adjustments you need. | 00:03:45 | May 15, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Lighting Effect filter has returned in Photoshop CS6. It is a great tool that lets you add, position, and control the intensity and color of lights in your images. In this video we'll take a look at the new (well, kinda new) filter and how to use it. | 00:03:55 | May 11, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Perhaps one of the biggest changes you'll see when you first open CS6 is the interface. It's dark… like, really dark! In this video we'll take a look at the new interface and some nice little changes that'll streamline your whole Photoshop experience. | 00:04:52 | May 9, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Tilt-Shift lenses are synonymous with the effect that makes images look like "miniatures" in photos. Photoshop CS6 has a new blur filter that let's you add that effect without the need for the tilt-shift lens, which we explore that filter in this video. | 00:04:03 | May 7, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've used the Liquify tool, you probably know it's never been the fastest tool out there. In CS6 it's gotten a significant speed boost as well as some enhancements that make it easier to use, as you'll see in this video. | 00:04:06 | May 4, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've used Lightroom, you'll find that the new Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6 looks familiar. But if you haven't, you'll find that cropping in CS6 is a brand new experience. We'll look at all the new features of the Photoshop CS6 Crop Tool in this video. | 00:04:44 | May 3, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski explores some of the new Blur Filters in Photoshop CS6, focusing on features found in the Field Blur and Iris Blur tools and a dramatically different method of adjusting settings within the tools. | 00:04:48 | Apr 24, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One of my favorite filters is free to download from Adobe. It's called Pixel Bender, and the specific filter in it is called Oil Paint. If you ever wanted to give your photos that "artistic painterly" look, you'll absolutely lose your mind over this one. | 00:05:21 | Apr 10, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Clone Stamp tool and Healing brush work amazingly well. However, if you've got a larger area to fix, sometimes the brushes can take a lot of time and still not give great results.This video looks at an alternative using a more unusual method. | 00:04:09 | Apr 3, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt shows you how to break a complex selection into 2 areas using Photoshop CS5's Refine Edge and Defringing features. You'll learn which settings work best for easy-clean-edged selections and which areas work best for detailed or wispy hair selections. | 00:08:28 | Mar 27, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt shows you a technique to break apart a complex selection into 2 areas using Photoshop CS5's Refine Edge feature. You'll learn which settings work best for easy-clean-edged selections and which areas work best for detailed or wispy hair selections. | 00:09:07 | Mar 20, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This time around we'll revisit and oldie but a goodie in Photoshop: a trick to create some extra light beams using a simple filter to enhance scenes with a lot of trees or windows in them. | 00:06:03 | Mar 12, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In the final part of this series on blend modes in Photoshop, Matt continues with the last 2 blend modes you'll need to enhance contrast. | 00:07:20 | Mar 5, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In the second part of this series on blend modes in Photoshop, Matt introduces the 2nd blend mode you'll use often if you want to brighten parts of your photos and images. | 00:06:38 | Feb 27, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In the first part of this new series on blend modes in Photoshop, Matt will show you that you really only need 3 (maybe 4) blend modes to accomplish just about anything you want to do. We'll start with one of the most popular. | 00:06:56 | Feb 20, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this video we'll take a look at all of the full screen options in Photoshop to make showing off your work easier, whether you're by yourself or with a group. | 00:05:13 | Jan 25, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One thing that Camera Raw doesn't have is versions. There's really no "official" way to do it in Photoshop. However, there is a feature called Snapshots that'll help out. | 00:04:36 | Jan 18, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One of the hardest things to do in natural light portraits is to make sure that people have enough light on their faces. Luckily there's a really simple way in Photoshop to help fix this after the fact. | 00:04:22 | Jan 12, 2012 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The vanishing point filter helps you put things into perspective (Photoshop things, that is). Matt Kloskowski shows how the vanishing point filter works and provides some tips for its use. | 00:04:26 | Dec 19, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski talks about why you may need to sharpen your photos - even if you are decreasing the size of your image - and then shows you how it's done in Photoshop. | 00:04:54 | Dec 15, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski shows how to minimize the impact of a subject's wrinkles in Photoshop without completely removing them using Content Aware and the Spot Healing Brush. | 00:05:38 | Dec 12, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski It's worth spending extra time on especially cool features in Photoshop. In this episode Matt Kloskowski returns to puppet warp and provides keys to making the effect really effective. Watch the podcast to see how smart objects fit in. | 00:04:02 | Dec 8, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Last time he explored Photoshop's content aware feature, Matt Kloskowski made a photo fit onto a larger canvas. This time he shows you how to resize an image for a smaller canvas without distorting key parts of your photo. | 00:04:23 | Dec 5, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski loves to provide lists of key tips for Photoshop users. In this podcast he provides 5 things you simply have to know about layer styles. Plus some bonus sub-tips. | 00:07:49 | Dec 2, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This time around we're digging in the retro vault for one of those Photoshop effects that's been around for a while but is still used all the time: a TV scanline. | 00:06:14 | Sep 22, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Since it's release in Photoshop CS5, I've grown A LOT more fond of the Puppet Warp tool. I can't say that it's my go-to tool in Photoshop, but when you see some of the potential that it has, I think you'll find yourself using it more and more. | 00:06:47 | Sep 19, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Last time I did a video based on a tutorial from my latest Photoshop book. This time around we'll talk about some changes we can make to the color and overall atmosphere of a photo that really help tie elements together to make them real. | 00:11:24 | Sep 15, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski I thought I'd celebrate my new Photoshop book's release by doing a composite using one of the techniques I use throughout the book: smart objects. They let us blend a person into the background by changing the brightness and color to match the background. | 00:09:42 | Sep 12, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Content Aware "Fill" made a big splash in Photoshop CS5. But what a lot of people didn't realize (especially if you skipped CS4 as an upgrade) is that you also got a feature called content aware scale. | 00:09:15 | Sep 5, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski One of Photoshop CS5's new features is Mini Bridge. It's a great way to access and open your photos from within a panel in Photoshop. This video explains how to use Mini Bridge and where it fits in as you're working in Photoshop's main editing window. | 00:06:10 | Jul 11, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop has plenty of undocumented features - things that don't show up anywhere when you're working with a specific tool. In this video we're going to go through the Filter menu and look at some tips and tricks that simply make using filters easier. | 00:09:32 | Jul 4, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop has more undocumented features than you can imagine - things that simply don't show up anywhere when you're working with a tool. We're going to go through the Gradient tool and look at some hidden tips and tricks that make using it a lot easier. | 00:04:08 | Jun 27, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Of all the new tools and features in Photoshop CS5, Puppet Warp has been one of the least-covered. It has a very specific use, but there are some pretty cool things you can do once you understand how it works. We'll take a basic look at it in this video. | 00:07:31 | May 16, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Previously we covered the basics of using Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop CS5. This video walks you through exactly what you'll need to finish those HDR photos and make 'em look their best. | 00:09:45 | May 9, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop's Merge to HDR Pro lets you combine several exposures of the same photo. The result is one super-photo with a ton of detail and range in both the shadows and highlights. It gives a cool look to the photo, too. This video looks at how to use it. | 00:08:30 | May 2, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Lighting can make or break a photo. With the Photoshop technique you'll learn in this week's video, you'll see how adding a simple spotlight effect to an existing light can give an extra degree of depth and dimension to your photo. | 00:05:14 | Mar 16, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've been into digital photography, chances are you've seen a lot of different ways to sharpen. In this video we'll take a look at the Lab Sharpening method in Photoshop and you'll see exactly where it can fit in to help your photos. | 00:05:13 | Mar 9, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Textures can totally change the look and feel of an image. With Photoshop, you can make it look old and weathered or give that grunge feel to a photo. | 00:05:48 | Mar 3, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski A feature that sneaked under the radar in Photoshop CS5 is the Export panel in Bridge. It let's us export photos (Raw or JPEG) into custom-sized JPEGs for photo sharing sites like Flickr, as well as creating presets for things like email and the web. | 00:04:13 | Jan 31, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This video looks at a way to make adding adjustment layers a breeze. With help from existing keyboard shortcuts (and the option to add your own), you'll have all of the power of adjustment layers using the same keystrokes that the regular adjustments use. | 00:04:26 | Jan 24, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Selections are one of Photoshop's most important features, but sometimes those little marching ants are a problem. They're hard to see and make it difficult to visualize what your selection is going to look like. Here we'll take a look at another option. | 00:04:45 | Jan 17, 2011 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This time around we'll take a look at how sharpening settings differ based on the size of the image. | 00:04:52 | Dec 20, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Smart Collections are an easy way to keep organized in Bridge CS5. By setting things up once, you're able to organize your photos and images automatically each time you add new ones to your library. | 00:05:17 | Dec 13, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Whether you're creating an interface for an iPhone, iPad or website, there are lots of tips and tricks to be learned from looking at current designs. In part 2 of this two-part series, we'll take a look at creating the stitching on our leather background. | 00:05:58 | Nov 16, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Whether you're creating an interface for an iPhone, iPad or website, there are lots of tips and tricks to be learned from looking at current designs. In this two-part series we'll take a look at creating a leather texture with both depth and dimension. | 00:07:13 | Nov 12, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski A little known feature of the Liquify tool keeps Liquify from working on specific parts of a photo. In this video you'll see where it comes in handy for a quick retouching exercise. You'll also see the negative effects and learn how to avoid them. | 00:03:54 | Oct 11, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This time around we'll look at a quick tip for creating rounded corners on your photos for print, web, or even slideshow layouts. | 00:05:12 | Oct 4, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Liquify tool rocks! But one of the hardest things about using it for retouching is that it's a bit slow and sluggish to respond. This tip will help make the tool a lot faster and easier to use. | 00:04:35 | Sep 27, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Every once in a while I do a video that's just difficult to name. This is that video. The end result is a cool wedding (or portrait) layout, but I go over a bunch of layers tips that really help speed things up when working with a multi-layered document. | 00:06:34 | Sep 20, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The new lens correction feature in Camera Raw is a lifesaver if you have perspective or distortion issues in your photos. In this video you'll see how lens correction works and how you can totally transform a photo from within the Camera Raw dialog. | 00:04:53 | Sep 13, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this 3-part series, Matt starts from scratch with a raw photo and walks you through the editing process in Adobe Camera Raw. In part 3, Matt shows you how to edit specific areas as well as do some quick retouching (yes -- retouching in Camera Raw!). | 00:07:03 | Jul 14, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this 3-part series, Matt starts from scratch with a raw photo and walks you through the editing process in Adobe Camera Raw. In Part 2, Matt talks about the Basic panel and how 80-90% of the work in Camera Raw is done right there. | 00:04:45 | Jul 7, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this 3-part series, Matt starts from scratch with a raw photo and walks you through the editing process in Adobe Camera Raw. This first part covers one of the best secrets of Camera Raw and how it's just one click away. | 00:05:13 | Jun 29, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Vignetting has become one of the most-used finishing effects in Camera Raw as a nice way to draw viewers into the center of a photo. The earlier vignetting option left a bit of a dull look on photos, but the new CS5 Styles list give much better results. | 00:04:07 | Jun 1, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Camera Raw really moved light years ahead in allowing us to remove noise from our photos. But it's also given us a way to add noise right back in. Yup, the new Grain feature in CS5 lets us recreate some traditional film effects with just a few sliders. | 00:03:13 | May 24, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Adobe has made big strides in noise reduction technology in CS5, and you'll be amazed at how quickly you can remove noise while still maintaining a good level of detail. | 00:05:58 | May 10, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In CS5 Adobe has changed the way Camera Raw reads the information in your photos. Matt explains what that means for both your new and old photos and what you might want to do to take advantage of the improvements. | 00:05:02 | May 3, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt demonstrates how to use the improved sharpen tool in CS5 to sharpen specific areas of your image. It works as a brush so you don't have to sharpen the entire image at once. | 00:02:18 | Apr 15, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Adobe improved CS5 to make using layers easier. In this video Matt runs through Paste Into Place, changing opacity on multiple layers simultaneously, dragging/dropping images from your desktop, and saving defaults for common layer styles. | 00:04:31 | Apr 14, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Photoshop can automatically fill in the background after you remove an object from your image. In this video Matt shows how to use content-aware fill using the Selection Tool as well as with the Spot Healing Brush. | 00:03:39 | Apr 13, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt explains the edge detection feature of CS5's much improved Selection Tool -- his favorite improved feature of CS5. See just how easy it is to quickly make accurate selections, even when working with wisps of hair. | 00:04:04 | Apr 12, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Camera Raw is one of the easiest places to make color changes to your photos. When shooting in the raw mode, you also have some presets similar to what's in our cameras. But if you're editing a JPEG, those presets aren't there. Here's how to get them. | 00:03:56 | Apr 2, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Among all of the cool graphics we use with those layouts, tape is really popular. In this video you'll see where you can get graphics like this, but more importantly, how to use them and how to take your layouts that one extra step toward realism. | 6:38 | Jan 27, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this week's video Matt shows a quick technique for evening out those skin tones and making people look more evenly lit. | 3:11 | Jan 14, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This question has been asked many times: What's the difference between Brightness and Exposure in Camera Raw? Matt shows us a little of what's going on behind the scenes with these two adjustments and how you can apply what you've learned to a photo. | 6:52 | Jan 8, 2010 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Even if you don't shoot a pano in the camera, you can still have a panoramic photo with Photoshop. In this video, we'll look at how to fake a panorama and how to get a feeling for what the pano will look like. | 5:52 | Dec 23, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski All of my old photos are plagued with some of the same problems. One of them is those tiny little dust specs and scratches all over the place. In this video we'll use a not-so-common filter in Photoshop to help take care of them in no time flat. | 4:19 | Dec 16, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In this video I'll help you figure out what the difference is, where you'll see that difference, and what mode is best to keep your photos in. | 7:43 | Dec 4, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski We're often drawn to symmetry in our photos, but many times what looks symmetrical in real life doesn't look that way when we take the photo. We'll look at some ways to enhance this in our photos and help make a photo look more like what we actually saw. | 5:05 | Dec 1, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Adjustment Brush inside of Camera Raw is probably one of the biggest features to hit raw editing since the raw image itself. In this video, Matt goes over the key features of the tool. | 11:01 | Nov 20, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This is part 3 of the sharpening workflow video series. In this final
video of the series, we'll take a look at some options you have when
printing photos and how you can add a little extra sharpening right
before you print. | 6:19 | Oct 14, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski In Part 2 of the Sharpening Workflow series, we'll look at how to apply some creative or selective sharpening if you have one area of a photo you really want to stand out. | 7:22 | Oct 6, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski There are many options for sharpening photos in Photoshop and Camera Raw. In this video we're going to take a look at the workflow,
specifically where your sharpening should begin. | 11:32 | Sep 25, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Whether it's caused by lack of sleep, too much work, stress, skin texture and tone or whatever, lots of people have dark circles under their eyes. Removing them requires just a tiny bit of brush work. | 5:33 | Sep 15, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Adobe added Camera Profiles to Camera Raw that automatically do a great job at making your photo look better. When coupled with a feature that lets you set default settings in the raw dialog, you've got a great combination. | 3:35 | Sep 4, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Edge vignetting has become incredibly popular. When done the right way (meaning not overdone), they really do make a photo look better. However, there are a few ways to create these edge vignettes, some of which work better then others. | 6:35 | Aug 28, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski CS4 made some pretty slick changes to the Hue/Saturation dialog that take some of the guesswork out of using it. We'll take a look at 'em (and some neat shortcuts) in this video. | 4:36 | Jun 19, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Wide angle lenses often introduce distortion into photos. Tall buildings look like they're leaning over, and, depending on how close you are to your subject, some things may look like they're bulging or curved. This tutorial will show how to fix that. | 4:53 | Jun 12, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski HDR software combines multiple images into one photograph to get the best of multiple exposures. Previously we explored how to use Photoshop's HDR software. Now we're going to look at another program called Photomatix that let's us take HDR even further. | 10:54 | Jun 10, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you need to take a few pounds off of someone quickly, the Free Transform tool in Photoshop can do it. It's the fastest diet around. | 3:32 | Jun 5, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski HDR photography is the process of taking multiple photos with different exposure settings. HDR software combines them into one photograph and gets some pretty fantastic results. Here we'll explore how to use the HDR software that comes with Photoshop. | 11:05 | Jun 3, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski The Clone Stamp tool got one of the best upgrades in CS4, because it now works the way it always should have. The Clone Stamp brush has a preview that let's you see exactly what you're about to paint with and exactly where to place the newly cloned area. | 03:31 | May 27, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Many of the really nice black and white work actually has a little color tint in it. We're going to learn how to introduce some color tint into your b&w and actually control where it goes to give you a richer, fuller photo that really stands out. | 12:34 | May 22, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski If you've ever had to scale an image in Photoshop, you've probably noticed that Photoshop squishes or stretches it. Content Aware Scaling instead inserts (or removes) bands of pixels throughout the image and keeps the image resolution totally intact. | 06:18 | May 20, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Camera Raw is great for global changes, but what happens when you make one part of the photo look good and another part starts to look bad? That's when you call in a technique called Double Processing. | 5:57 | May 18, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Trying to get the color in your photos saturated enough, but not too much (and without degrading the skin tones), is a very common problem for photographers. The new Vibrance adjustment in CS4 makes this task much easier. | 04:53 | May 14, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Image Controls simplify the process of figuring out which adjustment sliders will affect certain areas of your photos. With CS4 you just open an image adjustment and click-and-drag on it and Photoshop makes all the corresponding adjustments. | 3:12 | May 8, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski When we think of blurring we usually think of the Gaussian Blur filter. But the blur photographers get from it tends to look fake. The Lens Blur filter provides a much more realistic blur and, with some setup time, can create some very realistic results. | 6:49 | May 1, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Color balancing one part of a photo often makes another part look worse. It can be difficult to perfect all parts of a photo. Luckily the Adjustment Brush, a new tool in Photoshop CS4 Camera Raw, lets us achieve good color in multiple parts of a photo. | 4:20 | Apr 24, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski I saw an ad for a reality TV show that included the outline of a person wearing a suit – with no one actually wearing the suit. This could have been done in a number of ways, but I'll show you how to fake it in Photoshop to achieve the same effect. | 7:47 | Apr 22, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski This video shows a cool effect for backgrounds behind sports photos that can be used in everything from ads to little league and school photos. You'll see that a couple of quick gradients can add some drama and change the entire look and feel of an image. | 5:00 | Apr 17, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski There are many ways to restore old photos. Here I look at a different approach for bringing two pieces of a torn photo together. The end result looks great, and you'll see the tools that repair the photo a lot faster than if I used the traditional route. | 4:44 | Apr 10, 2009 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski shares a quick tip inside of the brand new Bridge CS4 for viewing your images at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008. | 1:45 | Sep 23, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski explains why camera raw with the adjustment brush and the new adjustments panel are two of the most compelling reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS4 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008. | 2:06 | Sep 23, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski shares a quick tip in lens vignetting using the whole new version of camera raw in Photoshop CS4 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008. | 3:13 | Sep 23, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski teaches you how to install camera profiles in Lightroom 2 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008. | 4:01 | Sep 5, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Matt Kloskowski reveals his favorite feature for managing photos in Lightroom 2 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008. | 4:01 | Sep 5, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski gives an overview of the four blend modes you will use the most in Photoshop. | 9:42 | Apr 3, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski gives an overview of the four blend modes you will use the most in Photoshop. Part 2 | 6:38 | Apr 3, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski demonstrates how to blend your photos together to create an even better image. | 8:18 | Apr 3, 2008 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Learn to fix color shifts and artifacts in images, caused by low-quality lenses or an ability to catch quality color in all three channels, using the Lens Correction filter. | 04:26 | Oct 25, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Add rough edges to your photo with a brushed border, and work faster and smarter by creating a border that can be used over and over. | 08:54 | Oct 24, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski There are many ways to include type in your designs, but unless you've got a blank area in your photo, it can be a lot harder then you think. NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to make text fit in just about any place on your image. | 1:00 | Oct 9, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use the Filter panel in Bridge CS3 as your one-stop shop for finding images and photos on your computer. | 1:00 | Oct 9, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to define a pattern in Photoshop, where Photoshop stores those patterns, and how to use a pattern once it’s been created. | 03:35 | Sep 14, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shares a cool technique that involves using two simple images and a layer to make something appear to be breaking out of its border. | 04:51 | Sep 7, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski offers a grid shortcut tip to help compose your digital photos. | 4:48 | Sep 4, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to create one of his favorite effects--the ray of light. | 05:17 | Aug 31, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to merge the best parts of two photos using Photoshop CS3's Auto Align tool. | 02:52 | Aug 24, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use the improved Curves dialog to make easy work of boosting your colors in the Lab Color space. | 04:03 | Aug 17, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to save multiple versions of an image using Photoshop’s Scripts menu and Layer comps. | 04:21 | Aug 10, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski demonstrates how to create slideshows from within Bridge. | 04:18 | Aug 3, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski explains how you can flatten your layers without actually flattening them for good and still edit them later using one simple shortcut. | 3:37 | Jul 27, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's PDF Presentation tool to include the file names of each photo used in a PDF. | 03:42 | Jul 20, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski takes Smart Filters a step further by using them together with the Shadow/Highlight tool to create some really cool results. | 04:16 | Jul 13, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use Camera Raw 4.1's Clarity slider to make any image look better. | 04:40 | Jul 6, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski takes you through his top 10 favorite new features in Lightroom 1.1. | 08:38 | Jun 29, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's Refined Edges dialog to make a selection and then view that selection on another background. | 05:49 | Jun 22, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3 to take the guesswork out of resizing tasks. | 04:21 | Jun 15, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Camera Raw Smart Objects both within the camera raw plug-in and Photoshop's main interface. | 04:15 | Jun 8, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski demonstrates how to use smart objects in Adobe Photoshop. | 00:05:03 | Jun 6, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's new Clone Source palette for "what you see is what you get" editing. | 06:02 | Jun 1, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's new Black and White adjustment as an adjustment layer. | 05:12 | May 25, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski walks you through all of the improvements made to Photoshop CS3's Curves tool. | 05:10 | May 18, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski provides techniques on using lens correction in Adobe Photoshop. | 00:05:07 | May 17, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski Author Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use the scripts events manager in Adobe Photoshop. | 00:06:41 | May 17, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to make quick work of making selections using Photoshop CS3's Quick Selection tool. | 03:41 | May 11, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to adjust the exposure of specific areas of a photo using Camera Raw 4's Recovery slider. | 04:21 | May 5, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to get a good look at the details of your images using Bridge CS3's Loupe view. | 03:52 | Apr 27, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how and when he'd typically move a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop and back again. | 7:08 | Apr 20, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to move palettes automatically out of your way in Photoshop CS3. | 3:44 | Apr 13, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski walks you through the improvements in Photoshop CS3's Vanishing Point filter. | 4:44 | Apr 6, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP Education and Curriculum Developer Matt Kloskowski shows you how to make the most of Photoshop’s power and get twice the work done in half the time. Get tips for automating workflow, batch processing, navigating Adobe Bridge, and using shortcuts. | 6:46 | Apr 5, 2007 | |
By Matt Kloskowski NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski explains how to non-destructively add filters within Photoshop using CS3's new Smart Filters. | 6:20 | Mar 30, 2007 | |
