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AND MORE! GENERAL TIPS AND GOODIES
There’s so much power available in the mobile apps that there’s no way to cover everything in one article. But there are a few things I don’t want you to miss out on, so I’ve collected some of my favorite tidbits here for you to try out.
PHOTOSHOP MIX
Consider keeping a little stash of textures available in a CC Library. I have a dedicated Textures library that I populate
when I license the image from my Library panel, after a few moments, it’s available for update directly in Mix (if you don’t have the project open, you can tap the tex- ture layer’s icon and choose Update—this will apply the licensed stock image, removing the watermark and swap- ping the preview for a high-resolution version).
PHOTOSHOP FIX
If you’re looking for some vignette love, head over to Fix. There’s a dedicated vignette feature that lets you choose the color of the vignette along with the intensity. What’s insanely cool about it is that the vignette is applied as a layer. Seriously! When you save the file to a library or send it directly to Photoshop, you’ll get a solid color shape layer with a raster mask. Double-click on that bad boy in the Layers panel and you change the color of the vignette in the Color Picker.
Fix also features Liquify and Healing. Liquify is a destruc- tive operation, while Healing is not. When you open the file in Photoshop, you’ll get a Healing layer, but Liquify will have been applied to the base photo.
while browsing Adobe Stock. When- ever I come across something inter- esting, I’ll add it as a preview to that library. I can then place them as smart linked previews into my Photoshop Mix project. While they come in at low resolution, it’s usually fine for figuring out what texture I want.
When I find something I like, I can license it from my desktop right in Photoshop, even if I haven’t sent the Mix project to my desktop. In fact,
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