by Blake Rudis | Dec 9, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Auto aliging layers in Photoshop is an invaluable tool for any HDRtist. It is very common to create a tone mapped file and use elements from the original exposures to enhance local areas. Photoshop CS 5 has a very simple feature for making image alignment a breeze!...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 2, 2011 | Quick Tips |
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 21, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I just woke up to an email this past weekend from my friendly folks at Olympus. This months helpful shooting tips are about shooting the autumn leaves. One of the main focuses from this article is the Exposure Compensation button and how it can help you achieve...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 23, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I have been experimenting a lot lately with speed light macro photography and I can easily say, I am loving it! Once you get the basics down and start popping off shots, it feels like every one of them is a money maker. I am pretty excited to see the bottom of this...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 19, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips |
Many times I need to hide my layers when I am working on either an HDR image with several adjustments or making a 60+ layer composite image. I find it very painstaking and tedious to click each individual eyeball to hide the layers to see how the image is developing,...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 15, 2011 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s tutorial is a Dreamlike effect, similar to the flashback effect you see in movies. It usually occurs where someone travels into the past or lays down for a nap and starts seeing things all blurred and sepia toned. I wish I dreamed that way, but...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 24, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Have you ever taken a ton of pictures and found out you forgot to set the white balance? Have you ever taken a picture with Auto White Balance selected and not received accurate colors? Both of those questions are yes for me. More often than not, my white balance...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 10, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Noise reduction, where do I begin… There are many ways to reduce the noise in your images and I can 100% guarantee that the next guy on the net with a self help blog is going to tell you his method is the best…. he is probably right! My method has been...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 3, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I was working on the bicentennial image last weekend and came a cross yet another use for the High Pass filter. Have you ever layered an image on top of another, changed the blending mode to say Hard Light, and watched all of your contrast and detail from the image...
by Blake Rudis | May 27, 2011 | Post Processing, Tutorial Update, Video Tutorial |
I made a New Year’s Resolution that I would fix the HDR and people problem. You know the nasty gritty look people get when you HDR them? My wife says they look dirty, I even did an HDR of our newborn son and she said he looked dirty, so even the cleanest...
