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Adobe Fresco

The new painting application for your iPad

Adobe Fresco was released last week.  Adobe Fresco is the new painting application for your iPad. I can put my imagination to work from anywhere.  I have a thousand brushes available under my fingertips, and I can put my imagination to work fro anywhere. The best part is that I can combine pixel, live, and vector brushes in the same project! 

Usually, I am starting my project using the simple Pencil (from pixel brushes set) to outline my subject. I can continue working on my project using watercolor and oil brushes (from live brushes set). Finally, I can apply a few extra details using vector brushes. 

If you want to paint without relearning how to paint digitally or you want to experience the “traditional method of painting” digitally, the Live brushes are for you. The live brushes set includes watercolor and oil brushes. Using these brushes, you can create your next masterpiece. Adobe Fresco blends watercolor brushes in real-time (yes, exactly like watercolor brushes from our childhood!). You can even control how much you like your colors blended.

All your colors will stay wet even if you close your project or application. 

You can start working on your project today and come back at any time to continue working on it, and you still can mix and blend all colors. 

Oil brushes are for creating a masterpiece in Leonardo da Vinci, Van Goh, or any other oil painting style. 

Adobe Fresco works with Adobe Photoshop (yay!! You all know how much I love Photoshop!). You can use both applications working on the same files back and forth. If you want to bring your brushes from Photoshop to Adobe Fresco, you can do it as well. 

You can create and export projects in different sizes and different formats. And the best part, because Adobe Fresco is a part of Creative Cloud you have access to all your brushes, files, colors from anywhere! 

I love this application, and I know you will enjoy working with this app.

Introduction to Adobe Fresco

Vector Brushes in Adobe Fresco

Halloween Art in Adobe Fresco

Speed Painting in Adobe Fresco 

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Art for support

Hello guys,

 

I need your help. I started my new project that I have been thinking about for some time, “Art for support.”  The purpose of this project is to bring positive emotions to child cancer patients. I will draw our favorite Disney’s characters and super heroes. But they will not be the “usual”look for these characters. All characters will have a bald head. I have been talking to many cancer patients and ALL of them were talking about how important it is to have positive energy and how important it is to understand and to feel that losing hair or any other visual signs of cancer  is just a step to fight the illness. It’s the sign of your strength. If you ask me why the bald head? The loss of hair is the most common side effect of chemo therapy and of the cancer  patient’s frustrations. Having our Disney and super heroes characters being bald means BEAUTY, POWER OF FIGHTING THE ILLNESS and HOPE.

Each character will be painted in my favorite applications: Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Photoshop Sketch, Adobe Illustrator Draw and I will be using Wacom tablets, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. I am an artist, I believe in art, and I believe that art has a power of healing.

I will send the painted character to the child (who is beating cancer) with the child’s name on it ABSOLUTELY FREE.  Also if any child want a specific character with his/her name on it, I will paint that character for that child. Again: THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE.

I need your help. I am asking you to share this project and spread the word. Without your help, the children and their parents will never know about it.

Thank you!

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Fan Art Painting in Adobe Photoshop CC

My Black Panther fan art painted in Adobe Photoshop CC with Wacom Cintiq

 

 

101 Photoshop Hidden Gems and Tips & Tricks: A collection of 101 hidden features and short tips that will help make you a Photoshop ninja 

Digital Painting for Photographers

The Adobe Mobile Apps Book: Your Complete Guide to Adobe’s Creative Mobile Apps

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My New Online Training Site

I’m very please to announce my NEW online training site! “Everything Digital” 

About my training site: my main goal is inspire you and make your digital workflow more enjoyable. All of my tutorials are recorded in a conversational manner. No “robotic” talking head tutorials. I want to have a conversation with YOU. I want to make the learning experience more enjoyable. Here you will find different tutorials: from beginner to advanced level. I believe that the learning experience is suppose to be enjoyable and a two-way conversation.  

In my All Digital course you will be able to access all of my courses for one monthly payment of $15.00 

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How to Create a Winter Scene in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to create a winter scene in Adobe Photoshop CC using Adobe Stock images and a 3D object from PixelSquid.com

 

 

SantaIn this tutorial I will show you how you can create a winter scene in Adobe Photoshop CC using images from Adobe Stock and 3D object from PixelSquid 

Adobe Stock images I downloaded for this tutorial:
FILE #:  45012599
FILE #:  94046505

3D object I downloaded from PixelSquid

 

First of all I downloaded two images from Adobe Stock website. I downloaded those files as preview files and after I tried them out I licensed them directly within Adobe Photoshop CC:

Right Click on a image in your library panel you want to license > License Image

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Double click on your licensed image (in the library panel)

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To bring another file into your document from your library panel > Click on the image > Drag into your document

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Using the Quick Selection Tool select Santa Claus and the reindeer? (don’t worry if your selection is not perfect. You will be able to fix it later on)

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Select > Select and Mask

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Change the View Mode to Onion Skin and Moon Transparency Slider all way to the right 100%. This way you will be able to see the background layer and make all the necessary corrections toyour initial selection right away.

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Zoom In your document

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Using the Brush Tool correct your selection (switch between “+” and “-” if needed to correct the selection)

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After you are happy with your selection switch to the Refine Edge Brush Tool

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Switch View Mode to Black and White

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Using the Refine Edge Brush Tool clean up the edges of your selection.

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After you are happy with your final selection change the Output Setting to New Layer with Layer Mask

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Click OK

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Click on the Mask Icon (Santa Layer) > Gradient Tool with Black color

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Correct the part between snow under the reindeer and background snow line (simply paint it out using gradient tool)

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Previously I downloaded a 3D object from PixelSquid.com and now I will simply click on this object (snow) and object will be added to my document

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Now I will rotate my 3D object, also will Switch to High Resolution and remove the Shadow

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Resize your 3D object using the Free Transform  tool

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Delete the Hidden Layer from Layer Panel

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Window > Adjustments

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Color Lookup Adjustment

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Choose Soft_Warming.look

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Adjustments > Curves

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Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast

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Make 3D object layer’s opacity = 67%

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Now your  image is ready

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My Books on Amazon

Digital Painting for Photographers in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Adobe Mobile Apps Book

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How to create a custom font in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to create a custom font in Adobe Photoshop CC.

As a graphic designer I was waiting for the ability to be able to create a custom font for a long time. Using Fontself Maker you can create any custom font you want. You can create vector or color font in no time. Now we as designers have no limitations with our font creativty. Just create a font and use it!

 

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Three helpful tips for your mobile workflow

Three helpful tips for your mobile workflow

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More and more people are using mobile apps to do real work. Mobile apps on our mobile devices give us the freedom of creativity on the go. These three tips will help you to bring your creativity to the next level.

1:  Bring your project created in another Adobe Mobile app as an image layer to your current Adobe Mobile App. This will help you to jump between Adobe Mobile Apps when working on the same project.

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2: In Adobe Comp CC you can select a few objects to apply same effect at the same time Shift (tap and hold) + Tap. Applying the same effect at the same time  to multiple objects will guarantee identical effects will be applied to  multiple objects and plus it will speed up your workflow.

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3: In Adobe Lightroom mobile use DNG raw when you shoot using the Lightroom camera. Shooting DNG gives you an uncompressed file. DNG file = raw file

 

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My Books on Amazon

The Adobe Mobile Apps 

Digital Painting for Photographers in Adobe Photoshop CC

 

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My New Book – The Adobe Mobile Apps Book

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Now you can preorder my new book – The Adobe Mobile Apps Book: Your Complete Guide to Adobe’s Creative Mobile Apps

 

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Adobe is pushing the creative envelope with what can be done on mobile devices. In this book you will see how to use Adobe’s complete offering of FREE mobile Apps to do everything from photo editing, to layout, video editing, story telling, social media posts and full blown page layout. Whether you plan to just start the creation process on your mobile device and finish on the desktop or do your entire project on your mobile device, this book will show you what’s possible in each app and best of all provide you with the knowledge of how to use the apps.

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How to add a sunset effect in Photoshop

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How to add a sunset effect in  Adobe Photoshop with only in one step

I took this picture few year ago in NYC using my iPhone‘s camera.

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The above image was taken in the evening through a glass window with  MANY PEOPLE around me so I did not have time to adjust my camera settings. Thanks  to Adobe Photoshop I can  improve my image (because I know how warm and beautiful the sunset looked and I want to make my photo looks as close to original condition as possible).

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Color Lookup > FallColors.look
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You can change the layer’s opacity (if needed)

 

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Adobe Photoshop Painting vs. Adobe Photoshop Sketch Drawing

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Adobe Photoshop painting vs. Adobe Photoshop Sketch Drawing

Created in Adobe Photoshop Sketch using iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

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Many of you who know me know that a huge part of my digital imaging belongs to digital painting using Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Photoshop Sketch on iPad. I have different techniques in Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Sketch, even a digital painting technique for photographers (and no, you don’t need to be a professional painter to be able to use this technique).

Many times I am asked what I prefer most to draw in: Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Photoshop Sketch. Now I will answer that question:

Adobe Photoshop

is my digital heart. I am using Photoshop with EVERYTHING (photo retouching after my photography sessions, photo restoration, photo manipulation, graphic/web design, painting, 3D, animation, and much more). For me nothing is impossible in Photoshop.
For digital painting in Photoshop I have three techniques:
Painting for photographers – where the primary tool is the Mixer Brush Tool and you don’t need to have any painting experience.
Painting – where you need to have painting experience or you are willing to learn.
A Combination of Oil Paint filter (yay! we got this filter back!) and the Mixer Brush Tool.
I am using a Wacom tablet for all my digital needs on the desktop and especially with my digital painting  workflow

 

Adobe Photoshop Sketch

The Adobe Photoshop Sketch experience or “traditional” method of painting/sketching  using an iPad is like you are using a “real” canvas of paper to sketch or draw. You don’t need to be in front of your desktop or laptop to start working on your project. You can start and finish your project using your iPad or you can start your project using your iPad and finish your project in your desktop app such as Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Illustrator CC.

 

 

 

Now the “vs” part:

Adobe Photoshop CC: I can create any image in Adobe Photoshop starting from an empty document such as photo manipulation or 3D and after that I can start my painting process in Photoshop (we can’t do that in Adobe Photoshop Sketch). Also I can start my painting process using my photo as a based layer or just a clear canvas / from scratch. I can start my painting in Adobe Photoshop and finish in Adobe Photoshop Sketch. I need to have a Wacom tablet or the Astropad app installed on my iPad Pro to be able paint in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Sketch: I can start my painting project from scratch or use any images as a base layer (to trace it for example). In Adobe Photoshop Sketch we have AMAZING watercolor paintbrushes (we don’t have these brushes/live effects in Adobe Photoshop ). With the combination of Adobe Photoshop Sketch and Apple Pencil you have an absolutely amazing SKETCHING ability (before Apple Pencil and iPad Pro we were able to have this ability ONLY using the “traditional” method of sketching). Using Adobe Photoshop Sketch you can draw/sketch from ANYWHERE using your iPad.

Question: which do I prefer most? BOTH. I am using Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Photoshop Sketch every day. I can’t choose which is most important to me (like choosing which limb is most important to me). Both applications are different and both are very important to me. See my Adobe Photoshop work on Behance.net.