New This Week in Photoshop Roadmap — Feb 11, 2026

This week’s Photoshop Roadmap roundup focuses on creative control and polished edits. You’ll learn how to check your Generative Fill credit balance, create realistic depth blur effects, and build dark, moody wildlife edits with stronger atmosphere and contrast.

There’s also practical color and compositing training, including three professional ways to fix white balance, a full cinematic photo compositing workflow, and a guide to designing high-converting YouTube thumbnails with AI and Photoshop. On the finishing side, explore how Clarity and Dehaze shape natural depth and how to add realistic film grain using the new adjustment layer.

This week’s downloads include the 18-in-1 Old Photo Effects Bundle, Patina Veil – 8 free painterly backgrounds, Velvet Ruins gothic grunge stamp brushes, plus Urban Noise graffiti textures and Denim Jeans stamp brushes. A solid mix of practical tutorials and ready-to-use creative assets.

Editor’s Picks: Photoshop Tutorials

How to Check Your Generative Fill Credit Balance in Photoshop

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How to Create Realistic Depth Blur Effects in Photoshop

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Creating Dark Moody Wildlife Photo Edits in Photoshop

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Editor’s Picks: Creative Assets

18 in 1 Old Photo Effects Bundle

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Patina Veil - 8 Free Painterly Backgrounds 

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Velvet Ruins: Gothic Grunge Stamp Free Photoshop Brushes

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Featured Posts This Week

Three Professional Methods to Fix White Balance in Photoshop

Color casts can ruin even the best photographs, making whites appear yellow, blue, or green instead of neutral. Poor white balance destroys the natural look of your images and creates an unprofessional appearance that’s immediately noticeable to viewers. These three techniques provide increasingly precise control over white balance correction, from

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How to Create Professional Photo Composites in Photoshop

Creating compelling photo composites requires more than simply placing images together. This comprehensive tutorial demonstrates how to blend multiple elements seamlessly, from matching lighting and color to painting realistic shadows and highlights. The project showcases a dramatic scene inspired by Stranger Things, combining buildings, characters, and atmospheric effects with precise

Photoshop RoadmapNour Art

How to Create High-Converting YouTube Thumbnails with AI and Photoshop

YouTube thumbnails serve as the first handshake between your content and potential viewers. A well-crafted thumbnail can mean the difference between a scroll-past and a click, directly impacting your video’s success regardless of content quality. This comprehensive workflow combines AI image generation with traditional design principles to create thumbnails that

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Using Clarity and Dehaze for Natural Depth in Images

Photoshop’s new Clarity and Dehaze adjustment layers offer precise control over image depth, but they’re often misused to create harsh, over-processed effects. Understanding how these tools work at different frequency levels helps you enhance natural atmospheric perspective instead of destroying it. Clarity affects microcontrast in small details, while Dehaze works

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Add Realistic Film Grain in Photoshop Using the New Adjustment Layer

Film grain adds authentic character to digital images, recreating the organic texture that made analog photography compelling. The new grain adjustment layer in Photoshop 27.3 brings this classic effect directly into your workflow, eliminating the need to work in Camera Raw. Understanding how grain actually worked in film photography

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Urban Noise: 3 Free Graffiti Paint Textures Backgrounds

Urban Noise: 3 Free Graffiti Paint Textures Backgrounds is a small sample pack featuring three high-resolution graffiti wall textures taken from the full Urban Noise 20 Graffiti Paint Texture Backgrounds collection. This free pack gives you a clear preview of the visual style, color depth, and surface detail found in

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Denim Jeans Photoshop Brushes

The Denim Jeans Photoshop Stamp Brushes set includes 30 high-resolution stamp brushes created from denim textures and details. These brushes are designed to help you add fabric-based elements to your designs quickly, without having to build denim textures from scratch. Each brush is sized at 2500 pixels, making them suitable

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