Photoshop's Generative Fill arrived with significant fanfare and has settled into something more nuanced: a genuinely useful tool in specific workflows, and a genuinely limited one in others. The distinction is worth mapping. What it gets right: background extension and scene completion in images where the generated content does not need to be scrutinized at high resolution. … [Read more...] about What Photoshop’s Generative Fill Gets Right and Wrong
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How to Add Film Grain That Doesn’t Look Digital
Digital grain added in post looks different from film grain, and most photographers can feel the difference even when they cannot articulate exactly why. The reason is structural, and fixing it requires understanding what film grain actually is. Film grain is silver halide crystals that vary in size, distribution, and clumping behavior depending on film stock, ISO, and … [Read more...] about How to Add Film Grain That Doesn’t Look Digital
Luminosity Masking Without the Mysticism
Luminosity masking is one of those techniques that accumulated a mystique disproportionate to its actual complexity. Strip the jargon and the elaborate panel workflows and what remains is a straightforward idea with genuinely powerful applications. A luminosity mask is a selection based on the tonal values in the image itself. Bright areas select themselves; dark areas do not; … [Read more...] about Luminosity Masking Without the Mysticism