The Color Zone System
The Color Zone System I have been working like crazy these last couple months to put together the next Zone System Training Package. I first discovered the possibility of editing color similar to tone in the Digital Zone System. The results are spectacular! There...
What’s New in Adobe Camera Raw 8.5 | The Graduated Filter
What's new in Adobe Camera Raw 8.5? Among all the chaos of the Photoshop CC 2014 update did you notice that Camera Raw received some awesome new features? What changed in ACR 8.5: New RAW profiles A new Preview button that toggles the adjustments on and off in...
HDR Insider Monthly Project Winner | June 2014
This Month the members of HDR Insider were asked to process a series of brackets for the image below and make the best possible greyscale image they could. There were over 30 entries, it was very difficult to judge, but these were the 3 that stood out among the...
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 2014
As we all know by now Adobe released their latest update to Photoshop CC. I attended the very well done keynote that was thankfully streamed online. That was a very cool touch, kudos Adobe! I have since downloaded Photoshop from the creative Cloud. It took me a...
Adobe Camera Raw 7.0 Dust Removal (PS CS 6)
A few weeks ago I did a tutorial on finding and removing dust in Camera Raw 8.0. I was not aware that the techniques I was showing were specifically for CC users. I had a lot of inquiries about how to do the same in PS CS6 and ACR 7.0. So after some toying around, I...
Zone and Insider Giveaway!
Last week I launched my eBooks on Amazon for free. All 3 for free for 3 days. The results of the launch were incredible! 14,070 copies were downloaded. I am ecstatic to see that many people will be reading what I have to say about Photography and HDR. With such...
Processing Multiple Images in Adobe Camera Raw
It can be difficult to handle the HDR process, especially with so many brackets running around your hard drive. I have found the most efficient way to manage the chaos is with a very efficient filing system and the power of batch processing. Batch processing allows...
How To Fix Dust Spots on Photographs with Adobe Camera Raw
Dust spots manifest themselves as annoying circles in your photos. They may be a pain, but they are very simple to fix. If you want that professional look with your photos I highly advise that you watch at this video. The truth is, when I see an awesome photograph...
Photos Tell, Stories Sell
The following is an awesome guest post from Dan Waters: We all know the photography industry is more competitive than ever. The successful photographers are the ones who think like entrepreneurs and embrace the business side of photography. Simply creating thousands...
Full Workflow Tutorial | HDR Insider
By now you have probably seen the ad on the right directing you to HDR Insider for Workflow Tutorials and all the other goodies. That is a link to my Premium HDR Content site HDR Insider. On that site a large community has been collaborating to accomplish projects...