How to Make your Fall Colors Pop! [Video]

by Blake Rudis | Sep 22, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial | 4 comments

Using Palette Effects 2 to Make Autumn Images Glow! I am a big fan of this time of year.  The pumpkins, the weather, the hoodies, and the snuggles under blankets… yes you read that correctly, I am a snuggler, it is one of my love languages,  so what? It is also...

Palette Effects 2.0 Top 5 Features

by Blake Rudis | Sep 20, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial | 6 comments

I am Biased, I did build it…  but here are my favorite Palette Effects 2.0 Features  It has been nearly a year and a half since I updated Palette Effects.  There are several reasons for that and while many of them lead to,  “I have been busy”,  I do...

How to find and free up disk space [Video]

by Blake Rudis | Aug 30, 2018 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 18 comments

Using Treesize Personal to find Heavy Files I, like many photographers, like to hoard my images.  Seriously, we could probably have a reality TV show for photographers like me.  That would be funny a guy shows up at my office, looks through my drives and says,...

The Vivid Light Blend Mode [Video]

by Blake Rudis | Aug 17, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 27 comments

A Color Grading Companion – The Vivid Light Blend Mode There are 27 blend modes in Adobe Photoshop and if you are anything like the “me before I learned them all”, you are only using three, maybe four to their maximum potential.  One of those you may...

Replacing a Sky With the Soft Light Blend Mode – Video

by Blake Rudis | Aug 3, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial | 19 comments

The Soft Light Sky Replacement Technique On my way out to Kansas City the other night, I was praying for a beautiful sunset.  I would venture to say that’s what most of us do when we take the time to go out with our cameras.   To my surprise when I got there I...

Vivitar 500mm lens, too good to be true?

by Blake Rudis | Jul 20, 2018 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 10 comments

Does the Vivitar 500mm lens hold up to it’s hefty $119 price tag? It is not very often that I need a 500mm lens.  I can recall a handful of times I said it would be nice, and maybe once at Indian Beach in Oregon where I NEEDED it.  Therefore, the likelihood of...

Fixing Tricky Color Temperature in ACR and Lightroom – Video Tutorial

by Blake Rudis | Jun 29, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial | 17 comments

How to fix ANY mixed lighting white balance issues in ACR and Lightroom One thing I enjoy is Interior Architecture Photography.   It is a very gratifying feeling when you photograph a huge church or cathedral and nail the composition.  But what happens when your White...

Blake’s 3 Favorite Features of the Zone System Express 5

by Blake Rudis | Jun 14, 2018 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 11 comments

The Creator’s Top 3 features of the Zone System Express I know, I know, I am a little biased to the Zone System Express because I created it.  It feels kind of silly, like a grade school teachers whose favorite kid in the class is their own, but hey, at least...

Raw File and Data Collection – Video Tutorial

by Blake Rudis | Jun 8, 2018 | Intermediate, Tutorial | 19 comments

Raw File Data Collection Here on f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite, I talk about data manipulation quite a bit.   More specifically, I show you how to edit your images in Photoshop (data manipulation).  I have done well over 300 tutorials on data manipulation in Photoshop,...

The Perspective Crop Tool in Photoshop – Video

by Blake Rudis | May 18, 2018 | Beginner, Tutorial | 8 comments

Perspective Correction has Never been so easy- The Perspective Crop Tool With all interior architecture images, there is a need to fix the perspective as many perspective altering variables come into play.  What lens are you using, are you tilting your camera up or...