Creative Photoshop with John Reuter

They say necessity is the mother of invention..... I am recovering from shoulder reconstruction last Friday and am unable to create this week's videocast, a coherent one anyway. Photoshop's logic and menu commands take on a new reality under prescription painkillers. So this week's offering is an audiocast, which I am thinking of offering occassionally. Anyway, I thought I would take this opportunity to let you get to know me a little better and my approach to Photoshop. I would love to hear

I wish to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you who have downloaded my podcasts in the last few weeks. From the back of the pack we have risen at times to number 11 in the iTunes directory of Photoshop podcasts. I am not sure what exactly goes into these rankings but I am proud to be among such esteemed company. I have just undergone reconstructive surgery of my right shoulder and will be rather challenged to create new episodes in the immediate future. If you have any requests in the

Edge Effects Two continues our explorations of our previous episode in using a grayscale scan of a transfer image to create a border for another image. But we take it a step further in more closely replicating Image Transfer characteristics from color transitions in the edges themselves but also aspects of Image Transfers such as surface texture. We also explore replicating lift off or peeling away of dyes in the shadow areas of a transfer but in ways that offer control not possible in the

Creative Edge Effects explores ways to add your own borders and edges to your digital and scanned images. From a simple blurred transition edge we progress through a filtered edge and finally to an edge created from a scanned image. This allows the artist to create original and personalized edge effects, even mimicking non-silver processes such as Van Dyke Brown and Cyanotype.

The History Palette Part Two takes us in a very different direction than Part One.  Here we will explore ways to use Photoshop's filters and paint them into our image from history snapshots as well as the Fill Command.  We will also explore Fade opacity and the Blend Modes to achieve creative but subtle effects with filters.

The History Palette has always been a great way to track your movements in Photoshop and return to previous versions of your image when you have taken a direction that is no longer working for you. It can also be a very practical and creative tool for retouching, emphasizing certain details in your image or altering your focus and apparent depth of field. In this podcast we explore using blurred and sharpened history snapshots to emphasize the eyes in a portrait and to change the focus in our image,

Layer Styles Blending has been an integral technique in my workflow for many years. It is a great way to composite images and has many other practical uses as well. This podcast explores Layer Blend Modes as well as the "Blend If" sliders to blend image pixels.

Welcome to my new site for Creative Photoshop. I have been teaching Photoshop at workshops around the country since 1995. I have always wanted a way to bring information to prospective and current students. My existing website was able to list workshops and offer some PDF downloads but the new technology of video podcasts really makes it convenient to reach an audience with content quickly and efficiently. Creative Photoshop is a book in progress and much of the content I will offer in