Advanced Color Toning in Photoshop (Video)

Advanced Color Toning in Photoshop (Video)

Advanced Color Toning Made Easy! Over the years I have shown many ways to color grade your photographs from split toning to solid color overlays and even some unique methods using off the wall blend modes.  While each technique has their benefits, they all...

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The Most Epic Christmas Card Ever Made!

The Most Epic Christmas Card Ever Made!

https://youtu.be/Qah_-IGUfTQ   It is hard to lay claim to the "Most Epic Christmas Card Ever," but many of my friends and family are sending me text messages with those exact words in them.  I'll take it 🙂 Every year this Rudis Family creates a Christmas Card...

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You can ALWAYS learn something new [Video]

You can ALWAYS learn something new [Video]

What I learned from Jim Welninski recently I am the type of person who loves to learn new things.  I read quite a few books every year, I spent a LOT of time on the "Google" researching things I don't know, and I embrace interaction with everyone because everyone can...

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Why Do My Photos Suck? Blake’s Video Response

Why Do My Photos Suck? Blake’s Video Response

Well, maybe that is a harsh title, but hear me out. We have all been in a place where we ask why our photos aren't what we want them to be.   Whether that is because of a certain style, or a look we are trying to achieve that we can't, or we just aren't feeling like...

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The Hard Mix Blend Mode in Photoshop (Video)

The Hard Mix Blend Mode in Photoshop (Video)

The Hard Mix Blend Mode is AMAZING! I could tell you all day long that the Hard Mix Blend Mode is the most fantastic Blend Mode in Photoshop, but you'd have to see it to believe it.  That is because the Hard Mix Blend Mode,  when applied "as-is" is trash,...

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How to Make your Fall Colors Pop! [Video]

How to Make your Fall Colors Pop! [Video]

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...

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Palette Effects 2.0 Top 5 Features

Palette Effects 2.0 Top 5 Features

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 have one strong...

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How to find and free up disk space [Video]

How to find and free up disk space [Video]

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, "Dude,...

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The Vivid Light Blend Mode [Video]

The Vivid Light Blend Mode [Video]

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 be...

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