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If you wonder how to turn your Summer pictures into beautiful, painted Autumn scene this post is just for you.


I'm going to give you a few very short Photoshop tips. You will be able to change the colors of your pictures, add some leaves in just a few clicks with the help of quality Photoshop tools.

Summer into Fall Photoshop CC Recipe.


Changing season in Photoshop in just one click? 

Turning greens...

How beautiful is Spring! Not too long and we all can enjoy blossoming trees and meadows full of flowers. You know that we love all the floral overlays and painted effects. One more addition to our Shooting Through Overlays this month.


Shooting Through Blossom Overlayshas been created with all beautiful Spring portraits in mind. There are 50 overlays in this pack - both pink and white blossoming...

Each Summer I fell in love again with golden hour light. This warm, magical light all photographers are looking for it's hard to replicate. I love the softness of it, the glow, especially when shooting portraits.

This golden light can be found twice a day - an hour after sunrise (Blue Hour) and an hour before sunset.


In this post, I will share my personal tips for shooting at Golden Hour.



1. Know...

Whatever you are professional photographer or someone who just bought your first camera and enjoy being full time amateur, these tips should help you bring your photography skills to the next level.

1. Shoot daily. That's it. Even few pictures or only one everyday.
2. Take your camera everywhere.
3. Find the good light. Try shooting in different time of the day learn what light is the best for you. Shoot in...

If you are a fan of light effects, bokeh or prisms you will love this new Collection.

These overlays are 100% in-camera made. I used quality prisms and few glass pieces to create the best realistic effects. Hope you will enjoy this pack.
I absolutely love to apply them to portrait!

Please check few before/after photos. As always these overlays are very easy to apply. Each overlay can be easily...

Summertime means a busy time for any photographer. There are some beautiful new products in the shop to help you with editing.


This new Painted Sunflowers Overlays pack is perfect if you are shooting in a sunflower field and looking for a soft, hazy effect. Few before/after photos and our overlays in action. You will love how quick and easy you can apply them!



You might like to check our Painted...

I found this beautiful cornflower field by accident. It was huge and beautifully blue so I couldn't resist. New Cornflowers Photo Overlays and matching Digital Backgrounds is here.



There are ready to use photo overlays, design elements and 5 free digital backgrounds for you to enjoy. This is a perfect combination for any lovers of photo manipulation.

If you are not sure how to use Photo Overlays you...

In this post, I will explain what is the RAW file and why you should be shooting in this format.


Let's start with a quick definition.

RAW is an uncompressed file format that captures all data recorded by the sensor of your camera. It's like negative in film photography, the RAW file is a negative in digital photography. 

When I first started shooting in RAW, it changed dramatically the quality of my...

How to change colors of the elements in PS Templates Free Photoshop Tutorial.

 

In this post, I will try to answer a few frequently asked questions about our Painted overlays and give you a few tips which should be helpful when using them.

1. Why these overlays are called ''painted overlays''. 

When we created our first pack of painted overlays we thought that this will be the best name. Each of your overlay has been digitally painted, there are many layers of colours, some elements created either with real petals, flowers or leaves or painted in Photoshop. We had this idea of creating very easy to use tools that would help to achieve rather complicated, painted effects. We created them pixel by pixel so you can create this unique, artistic look. Each painted overlay is a mix of realistic elements, soft, delicate borders or colour tonal overlays.

You can be really creative with them and like an artist painting on the canvas you can paint new, beautiful effects using Photoshop.

2. What software do I need to be able to apply painted overlays?

All our editing tools have been created with Photoshop CC but can be easily used in any software supporting layers - PSCS+, PSE, Gimp and many more.

3. How to hide some parts of the overlays from the photo?

I like to add a new layer mask over painted overlay and simply mask off these parts I like to hide. I'm always using a very soft brush.

4. Can apply few overlays in one photo?

Yes! These are creative tools, so you can mix and match few overlays, change colours by using hue and saturation tool, change the opacity of the layer, anything goes really.

5. Can I use these overlays in my studio work photos?

If you feel that these overlays will help your photos from the studio session go for it, however, we created them mainly for the natural light, on location photos. There are Painted Meadows pack, Painted Leaf Overlays, Painted Summer Overlays to name only a few. They work best with photos with shallow depth of field, which has been clean edited and colour corrected first. So if you are planning to purchase any overlays from this collection please have these in mind.

These are just tools and what will work with some type of photos it can be good for other. You will find many before & after examples + product previews in our shop, please check them out.

In this video tutorial I will show you how to use Pastel Summer Photo Overlays and get this beautiful, soft, painted effect in seconds.

These are simply drop & drag photo overlays and you can apply them really quickly.

Pastel Summer Overlays work perfectly with colorful, summer or spring images with shallow dept of field. They should be clean edited first and some basic color correction should be made as well.

I'm attaching few examples (before & after pictures below).