Video Tutorials
Build a Repeating Lightning Bolt Background in Photoshop (The Step-and-Repeat Method)
There’s a specific kind of panic that hits when a client asks for “something more interesting” in the background of a portrait shot that’s already been edited, color-graded, and basically signed off. You don’t want to blow up the existing work. You just need to add a layer of visual energy without rebuilding the whole thing from scratch. This is exactly the situation Aaron Nace tackles in this PHLEARN tutorial, and the approach he takes is genuinely clever.