Who needs laun­dry deter­gent to whiten your whites and brighten your col­ors? Adjust­ment lay­ers in Adobe Photoshop make it easy to take an image all the way from “pretty good” to “Wow! That’s incred­i­ble!” I do it all the time, and you can too. In this free les­son from his new course Photoshop CS6 Quick Start for Pho­tog­ra­phers , Tim Grey demon­strates an effi­cient and effec­tive work­flow for opti­miz­ing the over­all tone and color of a pho­to­graphic image. Your dig­i­tal images will sing with hap­pi­ness. Trust me, they will (even if you can’t hear it). [cont’d]

In honor of the offi­cial announce­ment of Adobe Cre­ative Suite 6 this week, this blog will be fea­tur­ing a free video from one of our new CS6 courses every day from now until…well, until alli­ga­tors frolic with birds. Give or take. Today, it’s a video from Tim Grey’s Photoshop CS6 Selec­tions and Layer Mask­ing Work­shop. In this one Tim explains why he never feath­ers selec­tions, even though he usu­ally wants the effect of a feath­ered selection.