Truly Missed
It is with deep sadness that today I inform you that the creator of this wonderfully educational blog is not able to "wow" you with his plethora of HDR knowledge. He is very ill, something he ate. So instead he has asked me to post something about my blog,...
High Pass Texturing Tutorial
Today I am going to show you a break through method of texturing an image with a couple of other tips and tricks of course. I call this method "Break-Through" because I have never seen it before and it has some serious potential for texturing images. From here on...
CNN Article On HDR
A simple HDR shout out on CNN. The problem is they make reference to programs that do HDR to a single photo.... Oh no! http://www.cnn.com/2011/IREPORT/03/08/hdr.photos.irpt/index.html?hpt=C2
Captured By The Light
Well, I got to page 88 in Lights, Camera, Capture before I threw in the towel, I apologize to anyone who may have bought it after my post. I could not take the horrible grammatical errors, misspellings, horrible story telling, and inaccurate picture to caption...
A Great Blog To Scope Out
Over the past several month's I have received many comments from Bibek. Bibek recently started a blog of his own and has some amazing pictures posted. Along with his pictures are occasional quick little tips on how he took the pictures. A great start to what, I am...
Oh The Places We Will Go!
My Wife and I purchased our Jeep Patriot last September, I had no idea we would see ourselves in so many different environments with this machine. The first place was pretty funny. We took Sarah's cheap "woot.com special" GPS with us to Yosemite and Mammoth Lakes....
Photoshop Tutorial: Nondestructive Retouching
One thing I have learned over the last couple of years is how important it is to retouch my images in nondestructive ways. I used to do my level adjustments from the menu bar on the top of the screen, I used to use the blur and clone stamp tools on the layer I was...
Essential HDR
This week I downloaded the free trial of Essential HDR by Imaging Luminary. I am hoping the results I received are from the fact that regardless of your initial image sizes, the free trial version dumbs your result down to 1 megabyte. While this is a great strategy...
Kelby Training Live!
Last Friday I went over to the San Jose Convention Center and caught Kelby Training Live: From Focus to Finished with Ben Willmore. If you ever find a Kelby Training Live course near your home, GO! I learned more than my brain could gather in 7 hours, but its okay!...
Photoshop: Cool Tips, Crazy Tricks Volume 1
I am all about increasing my workflow with hot keys and shortcuts in Photoshop. Today I am going to show you how to replace a background with special attention to all the hot keys and shortcuts used to get from point A to point B. You can grab the list at the end of...
