Embarrassing confession time: I took way, way too long to get comfortable with graphics tablets. The first time I used one was at my first paid Photoshop-intensive job. I learned a lot at that job, but the work was, shall we say, not exactly high-end. A tablet wasn’t seen as a necessity for the work [...]
Tags: graphics tablet, retouching, technique, tools
Recently, Adobe previewed an upcoming feature called Content-Aware Fill. It was so immediately obvious how cool this feature was that it received coverage all over the internet, even on sites that don’t make a point of talking about Photoshop. If you somehow missed it, take a look now:
For an even freakier peek into Photoshop’s possible [...]
Tags: Adobe, content-aware fill, future, history, Photoshop, retouching
There’s a strange thing that happens to you when you start getting serious about photo retouching. You start to see Photoshop everywhere, in every commercial image. The texture-free skin, the hair blowing in the wind but without a single hair going too far astray, the overly soft or overly defined edges, the unnatural intensity of [...]
Tags: commercial, Photoshop, retouching
