As it has been snowing here during the past week, so I dared to step away from my computer, put on my snow boots and ventured outside. I wandered around my little village taking snaps of the waterfront, picturesque country lanes and the garden. I have a few textures that I have taken and thought that I would share them with you. I’m not sure if they will be of any use to anyone but here they are any way!

Here’s a collection of some of the latest Photoshop actions created by the talented artists over at DeviantArt. A Photoshop action is a recording of a sequence of commands and operations that you can save and access later on.

As always, I encourage you to take the time to view the artists galleries and if you have the time leave a comment behind. A comment can be encouraging and motivating!

Freepik is the first metasearch engine for free photos and vectors.
Freepik’s aim is to gather all free, high quality graphics on the Internet and make accessing them quick and easy so you don’t have to waste your time searching manually through hundreds of websites.
How does it work?
The Freepik robots visit hundreds of web pages every day where they browse the free resources and select only the best ones for your use. Once they have selected …

Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography.
Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced. Here’s …

Here’s a collection of some great Photoshop tutorials that will help you to retouch your photographs, giving professional results for both yourself and your model.

Master a Professional Photo Retouching Workflow
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Using Curves in Photoshop
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Healing
Complete Portrait Retouching
Vibrant and Glamorous Retouching
Using Liquify Filter and Photo Retouching Photoshop Tutorial