Photoshop – Bart Van de Wiele

New video: Advanced blending using Photoshop Smart Objects

Bart Van de Wiele — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 06:41:25 +0000

I finally found the time and energy to record a new Photoshop video for the friendly folks at CreativePro.com. Photoshop seems to be my preferred weapon of choice these days and so I decided to share another great tip on using Smart Objects for layer blending. Intriguing right?

Become a Smart Object

I already did multiple videos on using Smart Objects the smart way and this last installment fits in nicely with the rest of them. The video is available for viewing on the CreativePro website (along with a lot more interesting stuff), or here:

And as you know I’d love to hear back from you guys so be free to post a comment on the CP site or here on the blog. Enjoy!

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New Adobe Photoshop videos on using Smart Objects

Bart Van de Wiele — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:49:07 +0000

This month and last month CreativePro released two of my new Adobe Photoshop videos on using Smart Objects. Even though this news isn’t as recent as it should be, I suddenly realized I didn’t announce this on my blog yet. If you’re into Photoshop and want to discover more about Smart Objects you can click on the images below to learn more!

Mastering Photoshop Smart Objects: Layer Comps

Mastering Photoshop Smart Objects: Applying and Editing Layer Filters

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Photoshop video tutorial: create Star Wars intro using Smart Objects

Bart Van de Wiele — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:53:54 +0000

During the next few months I’ll be producing several short Photoshop video tutorials for CreativePro, focusing specifically on Smart Objects. Many people only associate Smart Objects in Photoshop only with copying and pasting over artwork from Adobe Illustrator. But you’ll soon discover that Smart Objects can do a lot more than that. To kick off the video series I decided to show you how to recreate the famous Star Wars intro, just using Smart Objects.

Photoshop Video#1: Star Wars crawl

Now it’s easy to recreate this famous introduction, only using native Photoshop tools. Click here to visit CreativePro and learn more about this fun technique.

Why Smart Objects?

Especially since the Oct 2014 update of Creative Cloud, Smart Objects have become my favourite Photoshop feature. They allow you to do things that were impossible to accomplish before. They offer you flexibility, save you time and allow you to work non-destructively.

These videos for CreativePro will each focus on specific aspects of working with Smart Objects, just to get you started. With these videos I’m hoping to get you both excited and inspired the next time you launch Adobe Photoshop.

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New video: create flexible grayscale images

Bart Van de Wiele — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:26:30 +0000

I just released my fourth video tutorial on YouTube. This time I’m using Adobe Photoshop to create a “flexible grayscale” image. This means I’m converting a colour image to a grayscale version, but I’m doing it in a non-destructive way that would still print using only one printing plate. You actually need a trick to make this work!

You can watch the video here:

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Reduce the total ink in CMYK images using Photoshop

Bart Van de Wiele — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:18:08 +0000

CreativePro just published a step-by-step tutorial I wrote that describes how to reduce the total amount of ink in your CMYK images. Having too much total ink in your CMYK document is a pretty common problem. Sure, there is a total ink limit option embedded in your CMYK ICC profile but that doesn’t stop you from boosting the colours a bit more in Photoshop after a conversion to CMYK.

You can read the full article here on the CreativePro website.

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