How to Blur Faces in Photoshop

by Lina Thorne Lina Thorne Updated · Posted in Photo Editing

There are a number of reasons why you might want to blur faces in an image. Maybe you took a group photo and want to post it online, but a couple of people aren’t comfortable with you sharing a picture of them. In this kind of situation you have two options – not posting the photo at all or blurring those people’s faces.

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How to Crop in a Circle in Photoshop

by Lina Thorne Lina Thorne Updated · Posted in Photo Editing

In most cases, digital images tend to be rectangular. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t experiment with shapes. You’ve probably come across some circular images on the Internet, haven’t you? Maybe you’ve seen them on a website. It could’ve been someone’s profile picture. Have you ever wondered how you can get the same result? Well, you’re in luck! In this article you will learn how to crop an image into a circle in Photoshop.

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Resizing vs Cropping Images: What’s The Difference?

by Lina Thorne Lina Thorne Updated · Posted in Photo Editing

It may be difficult to tell the difference between resizing and cropping. But both of these tools are necessary to master for pretty much anyone who shares images on social media or their website. Why? Because you will inevitably have to use them at some point or another. These two tools are key to preparing your visual content for publishing online or printing. If you don’t know the difference, you might end up with blurry printed out photos or images that have such a big file size that they barely load on your website; even if your visitors have a fast internet connection. If you want to get better at image editing, you’ll need to learn what it means to resize an image and what it means to crop it. The better you understand this, the better results you’ll get.

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How to Do a Hard Refresh in Your Browser

by Lina Thorne Lina Thorne Updated

To make browsing faster, browsers save copies of website data as a set of files, which is commonly known as the cache. It might have gone unnoticed by you, but when you visit a website you’ve been on before, it always loads quicker than it did during your first visit. This happens because your browser stores a copy of the website in its cache. As you can imagine, this is useful for speeding up the loading process, but unfortunately, it can sometimes prevent you from seeing the updated version of the page. For example, when we fix a bug in Watermarkly, we roll out a new version of the app. But you won’t be able to use it right away. You’ll have to wait for about 24 hours for the update to get stored in your cache. Fortunately, there is an alternative, if you want to try out the new version now. You will need to do a hard refresh. A hard refresh clears your cache for a specific webpage, not for an entire website. This way, your browser is forced to throw away the outdated version and load the most recent one. Don’t worry! Performing a hard refresh isn’t difficult and takes less than a minute. Here are the instructions on how to do a hard refresh in the most popular browsers.

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