by Blake Rudis | Feb 14, 2019 | f64 Academy News, Intermediate, Tutorial |
Enhance Details in ACR and Lightroom This week, Adobe released an update for ACR and Lightroom. This update was a minor one that came with a major feature that much of the internet is talking about. This new feature is called Enhance Details. This is what Adobe...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 2, 2018 | Advanced, f64 Academy News, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Dodging and Burning with Blend Modes and Colors If you have spent any amount of time with me you know that I am always trying to come up with new ways of using Blend Modes. I have recently started experimenting with the Color Dodge and Color Burn Blend Modes. At...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 9, 2017 | f64 Academy News, ON1, Product Review |
ON1 Photo RAW 2018 is looking mighty fine! As many of you may know, I am a guest coach and ON1 Guru. That means I work alongside the ON1 team to bring education to their platform. They are a wonderful group of people to work with, and they have done a phenomenal job...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 15, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
The new features in the Zone System Express 4.0 (ZSE 4) Since April of this year (right before launching Palette Effects) I started working on a new Zone System Express panel. It started out as a simple patch to fix some bugs with the way some masks ran and it turned...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 9, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | May 25, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 21, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
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. Sign up here to stay up to...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 14, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
Photographing Arches National Park Blake and Hudson Henry Style Hudson and I discuss our adventure in Arches National Park for the ON1 Plus Community. You have to check out Hudson’s work, he is a phenomenal photographer that taught me so much in such a small...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 3, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
The Targeted Adjustment Tool – It’s been there forever, Blake I take a lot of pride in knowing as much as I can in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. I spend countless hours experimenting with features from the most basic to the incredibly advanced. The...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 17, 2017 | f64 Academy News |
STOP slammin’ sliders when you reduce noise It is a common theme when you reduce noise to do the random slider slam. I get it, heck I did it to. And why is that? Well, it is because the sliders have some interesting names that don’t really tell you what...
