Ballad of Gales – Photoshop by Alex Noriega

In these tutorials, I’ll show you the post-processing behind some of my favorite images. You’ll learn techniques for creating dramatic and compelling imagery, while maintaining clean and realistic results. I’ll explain the major decisions in the process as I go along, so that you can learn how to apply these ideas in your own work. You’ll learn something new in each course, as they cover different types of scenes and light.

My workflow is designed to be non-destructive: you can usually go back and make changes to any step. Only Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Camera Raw (or Lightroom) are necessary, though I do recommend the TK7 Panel for masking. You should be comfortable with layers and masks in Photoshop to get the most out of these tutorials. A downsized PSD file will be included so that you can see how all my layers work or follow along on your own.

What is Everything Else?
Everything Else is a product category on Amazon that is meant to be a catch-all for items that don’t fit into any other categories. Over time, as the Amazon catalog has grown and more specific product categories have been added, Everything Else has become less useful and more of a junkyard for cast off and forgotten listings.

Until recently, however.

Why are items listed in Everything Else when they shouldn’t be?
The answer to this is fairly simple. Some sellers are using Everything Else as an opportunity to get around Amazon’s gated category requirements. For example, DVDs with an MSRP of over $25 are now gated Selling certain products and bran… More and require permission to list. So we’ve seen some sellers create new listings in Everything Else to get around these requirements. We’ve noticed similar “workarounds” for other gated or restricted Selling certain product categorie… More categories as well.

Amazon doesn’t like this. It just makes the catalog more of a mess than it already is and ends up creating a worse customer experience