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A space to spark ideas, explore new techniques, and elevate your creative journey with Photoshop and other creative tools.
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Creating Mood with Colours
Making colour choices is essential in Photoshop because it allows you to create a desired mood, tone, and overall aesthetic in your images. It is an essential aspect of the creative process in digital art and photography.
The Magic of Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop is a powerful tool for digital artists, photographers, and designers alike. One of the most essential components of Photoshop is its brush tool. Photoshop brushes can be used to create everything from basic illustrations to complex designs, making them a vital part of the creative process.
The Power of Self-Expression
When it comes to creating images, people have different reasons for engaging in this activity. Let’s explore the benefits of creating images for oneself and using tools like Photoshop to enhance our skills and creativity.
How to use Photoshop Smudge Tool - Video
How to use the Smudge Tool and why it is helpful for composite imagery.
How and why use the Transform Tool - Video
Learn how the Transform Tool in Photoshop and why it one of the essential tools.
How to use the Stamp Visible Layer
Why use a Stamp Visible and what does it do?
How to use Colour Average in Photoshop
One of those techniques that can help your colour grading for creative images or photos.
Tips to design a Creative Space
“No matter how big or small your space or desk is, create that place that inspires your imagination. “
Colourful Words for Colourful Minds
Quotes about Colour to give you inspiration and use your for images
Quotes to spark your creativity
Creativity quotes to get you inspired. My favourite quote comes from Pablo Picasso: “Everything you can imagine is real”
Understanding Colour Theory with Photography
There are many ways to get creative with colour. It is all about thoughtful choices and training your eye to see in colour, as well as subject and composition.
Essential Skills for Composite Imagery
Creative freedom is one of the benefits of composite imagery. Combining elements from old photos that will normally not see the light of day, is possible with composite imagery.
Break the creative slump
Do you find the desire and creativeness comes together, then nothing, that feeling goes "missing in action" and you struggle for ideas. Tips to beat that creative slump.
The Song That Shifted My Creative Mood
Learn how listening to a song gave me inspiration to create a series of images.
Choosing Colour with purpose
What happens when you are creating a composite image made up of several elements, photographed in different light or time of day or you used a mixed media – photographs and digital art? How do you tie all your elements together to work in harmony and look like they blend?
The Power of Colour
Photographers have a lot of tools available : compositional rules, lighting knowledge, the exposure triangle, and so on. While it can be an intimidating element to a photographer, knowing and understanding colour — the way painters, designers, and artists do — a photographer can utilise colour to their benefit.
Are you Showing Up as a Creative? ~ Blog
We make and break habits all the time. The goal is to have positive habits to be part of our daily routines. As “creatives” we can have a burning desire to create. Sometimes the fire is burning full, while other times it is cool, just waiting to be fed fuel.
Tips for Creating Composites
Firstly, there is the “creative mood” which strikes at any time, and you want to create a composite image OR the “mojo” is missing and “you are not feeling it”. What can you do? I have a few strategies I have learnt that still keeps my mind in the game, I’m still productive and doing the groundwork for when that “creative mood” strikes. It is like “housekeeping duties” for the creative.
Transform your images with Textures
This image and colour palette was inspired by the Old Master Painters, see how I created it using Digital Textures
What is the difference between a Photo and Digital Texture?
Digital Textures are a texture that enhances your photo or compliments it, both in texture and colour. It doesn’t dominate. Find out the difference between the two.