In this tutorial I cover why it is important to do all of your major photo manipulation tasks inside of your scaled smart objects instead of to their new native layer sizes.

In this tutorial I explain a bit more about how the histogram displays its values, and how you can utilize masks and clipping to make more accurate adjustments within your adjustment layer.

In this tutorial I cover how to use adjustment layers to speed up and unify the creation of brand assets which contain the same effects, but different colors. This tip is handy when making a family of assets quickly.

n this tutorial I cover how to place a drop shadow in your document with your cursor, so you don't have to mess around with the values and sliders to get the look you're going for.

In this tutorial I cover how to use the screen and multiply layer modes to quickly composite source materials which are on solid backgrounds. This tip works great for many things when editing photos.

In this tutorial I cover how to use the HSB color window in Illustrator (and Photoshop) to modify and generate families of colors when making an illustration. It's similar to RGB and CMYK, but many people don't know it's there or that HSB stands for Hue, Saturation, and Brightness. Though this is shown in Illustrator, the same technique works in Photoshop.

In this tutorial I cover how to use a Vibrance adjustment layer to unify colors in a document that contains many separate sources of color. This tip may not come through great in the YouTube video, so I suggest you follow along with the video and try it for yourself.

In this tutorial I cover the two different ways of creating text boxes in Illustrator to avoid always having to deal with a bounding box which is larger than your enclosed text. The same thing is true in Photoshop.

In this tutorial I cover how to use smart objects in Photoshop to quickly pop out a layer of a more complex file to make some edits before returning it to it's parent document. Knowing this functionality can save a lot of time.