How to Fix Blue Waterfalls – Video Tutorial

How to Fix Blue Waterfalls – Video Tutorial

Blue Waterfalls?  Yeah, they aren't supposed to be! Blue waterfalls are a side effect of white balance and your camera compensating for the colors coming into the sensor.  You may have everything dialed in perfectly, but when you edit your waterfall pictures they...

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3 Ways to better photos with Selective Color – Video

3 Ways to better photos with Selective Color – Video

Selective Color in Photoshop, is it the best-kept secret? The selective color adjustment layer is a tool that can make your images pop off the page.  Almost every week someone emails me and says, "Blake, how do you make your photos pop in Photoshop?"  I usually...

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Plotagraph Pro Can Animate Any Photograph

Plotagraph Pro Can Animate Any Photograph

Plotagraph Pro is all kinds of new and Innovative! It was about a year ago that I reached out to the Plotagraph Pro Team and asked if I might be able to review their software.  I was intrigued by the ability to make an animated image from a still photograph.   It...

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Blake’s Must Have Pieces of Camera Gear

Blake’s Must Have Pieces of Camera Gear

My Top Three Favorite Camera Accessories! For your awareness, this is not an affiliate marketing post. I am sharing what I think are the essential products for your camera, and I am not endorsing any one brand for the sake of making money on link...

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Radial Gradients Compared – Video Tutorial

Radial Gradients Compared – Video Tutorial

 Radial Gradients in Photoshop, Lightroom (ACR), and ON1 Photo RAW   Last week I did a tutorial about the radial gradient in Photoshop. It had a tremendous response which kind of shocked me.  I whipped it together the morning of the free tutorial Friday and...

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The Radial Gradient in Photoshop Video Tutorial

The Radial Gradient in Photoshop Video Tutorial

Creative Spotlights with the Radial Gradient There are all kinds of tools that you can use in creative ways in Photoshop, but one of my recent favorites is the Radial Gradient.  It can be used very subtly to direct the viewer's eye to the exact spot you want them to...

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An Advanced Look: The HSL Adjustment

An Advanced Look: The HSL Adjustment

There is much more to the HSL Adjustment Layer than you think! Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with some of the more advanced features of the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness adjustment layer in Photoshop.  If we take the adjustment for its face...

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No longer supporting CS Applications

No longer supporting CS Applications

Why I am not supporting CS5 and CS6 from now on.  It is with great discontent and heartfelt apologies for anyone running Photoshop CS5 & CS6 that I say, “I am throwing in the towel”.  For the last 2 months I have been trying to figure out how to continue creating...

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3 Step Color Correction in ACR

3 Step Color Correction in ACR

Color Correction: Quick, Simple, and Infallible! https://youtu.be/0twoVJY7_hQ One of the most common questions I receive is "Blake, how do I color correct my photos."  For the longest time, I avoided this request like the plague because color correction can be done in...

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Palette Effects Photoshop Extension

Palette Effects Photoshop Extension

Stay Tuned!  It is coming soon! My latest creation... 7 months in the making!  It will consist of 40+ video tutorials on Color Theory and Photoshop.  It will also contain a brand new Ps Extension in a class of its own. Due out May 11th. [button...

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