TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Unleashing Your Superpower!
[caption id="attachment_79578" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The Passion Awakens (detail of face) The Full figure painting is 48" x 48” x 2 1/8" mixed media on three assembled cradled panels © Lisa L. Cyr, Cyr Studio LLC[/caption] Have you ever spent time in a museum just gazing at a portrait or studying the connection between the characters in a narrative painting, feeling completely captivated? I know I have. The depth of emotions that are conveyed, the subtle…
YESTERDAY’S POST
A Portrait in 5 Layers
February 18, 2025 - After my post in March on Applying Transparent Color in Photoshop, I received a number of messages, emails and threats asking for more detail on the order of layers I prefer to use. As I mentioned in that post, I often end up working in hundreds of layers so a list of this would read like a phone book of seemingly random Photoshop gibberish. And listen, I need my layers! Partly because I love the look it gives, and partly to see my computer slowly going insane. (It's a cutting edge space age device that can speak every language on the planet, can see people fixing mirrors in low earth orbit and can do math at the quantum level; yet all I have it do is look at videos of cats falling in bathtubs.) Back…
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