If you’d like to join me and hundreds of other creatives in our Discord community, and submit your work for a chance to have it reviewed, or potentially even worked on live on YouTube...
Cheeky before/after comparison for my recent Oblivion Remastered inspired artwork. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions about tools or techniques in Photoshop 👇
This is one of the projects from my new Photoshop Master Class. What if Big Ben wasn’t just a clocktower, but a crashed starship from another world? This was such a fun concept to create — a blend of sci-fi, post-apocalyptic vibes, and cinematic lighting, all built from scratch in Photoshop.
✂️ Cutting out hair in Photoshop? Try these quick tips:
• Use Select Subject to get started fast. • Jump into Select and Mask for better control. • Set the View Mode to “On Black” or “On White” – which can help you spot stray edges. • Use the Refine Edge Brush Tool around hair – especially wispy strands. • Try the Refine Hair option – this can be especially good for animal fur! • Carefully use the Shift Edge slider with a negative value to remove fringing around the edges. • Don’t forget to decontaminate colours if there’s colour fringing from the background. • Output to a New Layer with Layer Mask so you can tweak it later.
🧠 Want to master selections, retouching and drawing hair?
Do you want to composite like a pro and perfect your artwork in Photoshop? 🔥
Here’s the process I use (and teach) that will bring your edits up to a professional standard...
1. Start simple: Cut out your images and build your scene. No effects, no blending modes yet — just composition.
2. Exposure first: Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer on top and desaturate everything. Then, use Curves and/or Levels to balance light and dark areas across all the images so they match. You’re creating a level playing field here.
3. Then colour: Remove the desaturation layer and use Curves or Colour Balance to match the colour across your scene.
4. Add lighting and shadows: Use Curves or Exposure adjustment layers to brush in shadows based on your lighting. Make sure your light source and direction is consistent — flip or swap images if it’s not.
5. Now highlights: Same deal, but brushing in highlights instead.
6. Make it pop: For stronger highlights, add a Hue/Saturation adjustment, enable Colorize, pick a hue that fits your light source, boost the saturation/lightness, and softly brush in glow using 0% hardness and a 5–20% value for the Flow.
7. Edge highlights: Duplicate the previous step, increase Flow (50–100%) and brush in brighter edges where light hits reflective surfaces (e.g. metal). Optional: change blending mode to Color Dodge or Linear Dodge (Add).
8. Only after this should you move on to adding extra lighting effects, particles, brushes, etc.
These fundamental steps are the most important (and transformative) part of the process, and where most beginners go wrong! If your lighting, colour and exposure aren’t aligned — no amount of fancy effects will save the design ✌️
I'll be over on Envato's channel today at 3pm BST for over 50 minutes of typographic logo design - tricks, tips and creating a custom logotype from scratch!
Early-bird pricing for my new Photoshop and Illustrator Master Classes ends tonight in less than 12 hours! 🔥 👉 go.dansky.com/courses
This is your chance to:
• Master the professional techniques I use to create designs that stand out. • Unlock advanced tools and shortcuts to work faster and smarter. • Elevate your design skills to a highly-polished, and professional level. • Learn the best of what I can teach, this is it - how I do what I do! 🤫
The final snake design from this week's streams! If you'd like to learn the secrets behind creating high-level photo manipulations, my new Photoshop Master Class is launching on 15th March 🥳
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If you’d like to join me and hundreds of other creatives in our Discord community, and submit your work for a chance to have it reviewed, or potentially even worked on live on YouTube...
...here’s a link to join free 👉 academy.dansky.com/community?community=280425%20Jo…
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Cheeky before/after comparison for my recent Oblivion Remastered inspired artwork. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions about tools or techniques in Photoshop 👇
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This is one of the projects from my new Photoshop Master Class. What if Big Ben wasn’t just a clocktower, but a crashed starship from another world? This was such a fun concept to create — a blend of sci-fi, post-apocalyptic vibes, and cinematic lighting, all built from scratch in Photoshop.
👉 Want to master Adobe Photoshop and design like a pro? If so, click here academy.dansky.com/photoshop-master-class?communit…
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✂️ Cutting out hair in Photoshop? Try these quick tips:
• Use Select Subject to get started fast.
• Jump into Select and Mask for better control.
• Set the View Mode to “On Black” or “On White” – which can help you spot stray edges.
• Use the Refine Edge Brush Tool around hair – especially wispy strands.
• Try the Refine Hair option – this can be especially good for animal fur!
• Carefully use the Shift Edge slider with a negative value to remove fringing around the edges.
• Don’t forget to decontaminate colours if there’s colour fringing from the background.
• Output to a New Layer with Layer Mask so you can tweak it later.
🧠 Want to master selections, retouching and drawing hair?
Check out my Photoshop Master Class here 👉 academy.dansky.com/photoshop-master-class?communit…
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Do you want to composite like a pro and perfect your artwork in Photoshop? 🔥
Here’s the process I use (and teach) that will bring your edits up to a professional standard...
1. Start simple: Cut out your images and build your scene. No effects, no blending modes yet — just composition.
2. Exposure first: Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer on top and desaturate everything. Then, use Curves and/or Levels to balance light and dark areas across all the images so they match. You’re creating a level playing field here.
3. Then colour: Remove the desaturation layer and use Curves or Colour Balance to match the colour across your scene.
4. Add lighting and shadows: Use Curves or Exposure adjustment layers to brush in shadows based on your lighting. Make sure your light source and direction is consistent — flip or swap images if it’s not.
5. Now highlights: Same deal, but brushing in highlights instead.
6. Make it pop: For stronger highlights, add a Hue/Saturation adjustment, enable Colorize, pick a hue that fits your light source, boost the saturation/lightness, and softly brush in glow using 0% hardness and a 5–20% value for the Flow.
7. Edge highlights: Duplicate the previous step, increase Flow (50–100%) and brush in brighter edges where light hits reflective surfaces (e.g. metal). Optional: change blending mode to Color Dodge or Linear Dodge (Add).
8. Only after this should you move on to adding extra lighting effects, particles, brushes, etc.
These fundamental steps are the most important (and transformative) part of the process, and where most beginners go wrong! If your lighting, colour and exposure aren’t aligned — no amount of fancy effects will save the design ✌️
Want more actionable tips like this?
Join my free email list here: academy.dansky.com/30-days?community=190425%20Phot…
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I'll be over on Envato's channel today at 3pm BST for over 50 minutes of typographic logo design - tricks, tips and creating a custom logotype from scratch!
Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o387Q...
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Here's a peek at one of the designs from my new upcoming Photoshop Master Class! 🔥
Find out more 👉 go.dansky.com/photoshop-master-class
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Early-bird pricing for my new Photoshop and Illustrator Master Classes ends tonight in less than 12 hours! 🔥
👉 go.dansky.com/courses
This is your chance to:
• Master the professional techniques I use to create designs that stand out.
• Unlock advanced tools and shortcuts to work faster and smarter.
• Elevate your design skills to a highly-polished, and professional level.
• Learn the best of what I can teach, this is it - how I do what I do! 🤫
See you inside!
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New UI design competition starts today! All the details and how to enter, can be found in our Discord community, join here 👉 go.dansky.com/community
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The final snake design from this week's streams! If you'd like to learn the secrets behind creating high-level photo manipulations, my new Photoshop Master Class is launching on 15th March 🥳
Pre-order here 👉 go.dansky.com/photoshop-master-class
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