Topaz Labs Webinar | Guiding Your Inner Artist
Your Inner Artist is there, you just need to coax it out! Today will mark my 19th Webinar with Topaz Labs! This is pretty exciting for me as I never imagined I would be back on after my first one. I was so nervous, I can recall that day like it was yesterday. I...
How to edit Cell Phone Pictures
Edit cell phone pictures like the Photoshop boss that you are! Every once in a while I receive a request to show my workflow editing cell phone pictures. At first I thought this would be impossible as I rarely show my cell phone pictures to anyone. Every once in a...
The sexiest Photoshop Tool: The Crop Tool
Do you really know how to use the Crop Tool? The Crop Tool may not be the sexiest tool in Photoshop. In reality it is quite boring! It doesn't do much but make your image smaller or in some cases larger right? That's not the case. The Crop Tool will not make your...
4Cs Convention| The fulfillment of goals
The 4Cs Convention “What if I told you a simple Photography process with three letters could change your life forever?” That was the first line of my presentation to the 4Cs Convention during my HDR Mastery Course. As silly, surreal, or maybe even to some, stupid as...
Dehaze Brush in ACR and Lightroom
Finally, Dehaze Brush in ACR and Lightroom It goes to show you that if enough people ask Adobe will listen. A Dehaze Brush feature has been added to ACR and Lr with the most recent update to Photoshop and Lightroom. This is great news and really opens the floor to...
Practice, Practice, HDR Insider
HDR Insider Projects and the Importance of Practice, Feedback and Competition https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvIgPjTUbnY&feature=youtu.be This epic video trailer was made by an HDR Insider member, Chris Murray. Chris also heads up the Facebook bi-weekly Challenge and...
Does the Interface in Photoshop affect the Photo?
Light Interface, Dark Interface, does it matter? I have been doing quite a bit of experimentation on this Photoshop interface topic lately. It seems most companies have evolved from a light interface to a dark interface. If you remember back to Photoshop CS 5 the...
Infrared Photography Experimentation
Infrared Photography - My Most Expensive Experiment Yet I can remember the first filter I purchased for Infrared Photography. It was a Hoya 720 nm Filter for my Olympus E-30 about 9 years ago. I put it on my camera, pointed at a tree, expected great things, saw the...
Corel’s ParticleShop Tutorial
You've seen the review... now the ParticleShop Tutorial Earlier this week I posted my review of ParticleShop and today I'll show you the ParticleShop Tutorial. While this plugin does have its limiting factors it can produce some rather interesting effects. You do...
Saturation Adjustment Layer in Photoshop
Saturation Adjustment Layer in ~ 5 minutes! The Saturation Adjustment Layer in Photoshop can be one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop if you know how to use it properly. I would go on a limb and say this is my second favorite tool in Photoshop next to the...
