This week, Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV explores Photoshop’s latest AI upgrades—smarter, faster tools that boost creative workflows. New tutorials show you how to turn photos into paintings with Generative Fill, use Grady shading for depth, design 1980s-style vintage tees, master powerful masks, and change black to any color (even white). Plus: get a first look at the new Actions Panel in Photoshop Beta, and what to do if the Remove Tool fails. Don’t miss your exclusive freebie: 5 Art Nouveau-inspired backgrounds from Flourish & Form to elevate your designs. Enjoy!

New Photoshop AI Features – Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient Tools!

The latest Photoshop AI features bring a range of new tools designed to make your editing faster and more precise. You can now select people and their facial features with remarkable accuracy, eliminating the need for tedious manual masking.

Flourish & Form: 5 Free Art Nouveau-Inspired Background Designs

Introducing Flourish & Form – 5 free high-resolution Art Nouveau-inspired backgrounds designed to infuse your creative projects with elegance, flow, and vintage sophistication. 

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Transform Your Photos with These Photoshop Masks
This Photoshop tutorial introduces a simpler way to use masking than the traditional layer masks for photo editing. By exploring the Camera Raw filter found in the filter menu, users gain access to a variety of effective masking tools. These masks can help with everything from making precise spot adjustments
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Transform Black to Any Color in Photoshop, Including White: Best Method
This tutorial explains how to change black to any color in Photoshop, including white. It offers a clear and easy step-by-step method that anyone can follow, regardless of their experience level. You will learn a straightforward technique to quickly modify black areas without losing detail or quality. The process is
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Photoshop Beta: Discover the New Actions Panel
Photoshop Beta introduces a new Actions panel designed to simplify complex editing tasks. This updated feature allows users to apply advanced adjustments using simple text prompts, making it easier to achieve professional results without extensive manual work. With the new panel, tasks such as background replacement or adding stylistic effects
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Photoshop’s Remove Tool is Broken—What Now?
Photoshop’s Remove Tool has been a source of frustration for many users because it sometimes replaces objects instead of truly removing them. This can lead to less natural-looking edits and wasted time. The tool didn’t always perform as expected, which made certain tasks more difficult than they needed
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Turn Pictures Into Paintings Using Generative Fill In Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform your photos into stunning paintings using the Generative Fill tool. Starting with channel adjustments, you’ll create a partial selection and apply an oil painting style or any artistic effect with a simple text prompt. Discover how to tweak the black point
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Add Grady Shading to Enhance Your Photoshop Art
This tutorial focuses on adding grainy shading to illustrations in Photoshop, which helps bring flat artwork to life by adding depth and texture. It explains how to achieve a noisy, textured look that many artists find appealing. Throughout the guide, you will see a step-by-step process of creating a donut
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Designing 1980s Vintage Illustrated Tees in Photoshop
This tutorial shows how to create a vintage-style t-shirt design inspired by the 1980s using Photoshop. It focuses on making a graphic that honors one of metal’s most famous guitar heroes, using a Simulated Process Color Screen Print technique. The process is straightforward and easy to follow, making it suitable
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