by Blake Rudis | Jul 11, 2012 | Product Review |
ChromaLuxe Aluminum Prints: The HDR Printing Gold Standard I have a plethora of HDR prints that would look great printed, just ask my wife (she reminds me plenty). I have about 10,000 or so archived of which I would consider printing and hanging about 10 or so. My...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 4, 2012 | Product Review |
Happy Fourth of July everyone! What a great way to spend the day off, reflecting on the Independence of America and experimenting with one more awesome new product from Topaz Labs. Topaz recently re-released photoFXlab, a one stop shop for all of your installed...
by Blake Rudis | May 16, 2012 | Product Review |
Photomatix, by HDR Soft, has recently updated their show-stopping HDR software from 4.1.4 to 4.2.1 and I must say, they added some very nice features. Photomatix creates impeccable HDR results in almost any tone mapping circumstance; I would expect nothing less from...
by Blake Rudis | May 2, 2012 | Product Review |
Last year at Photoshop World 2011 in Vegas I met an amazing photographer, Nicole Young. She and I talked briefly about her book, new at the time, Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Ironically the following night I won a raffle for the book we...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 11, 2012 | Product Review |
When it comes to HDR tone mapping, noise can be your worst enemy and many times can separate a good shot from a great shot. However, there are a plethora of options on the market for noise reduction. If you are anything like me, you like to attack the noise after...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 4, 2012 | Product Review |
I was recently contacted by Unified Color to do a product review of HDR Expose 2. It seems it is still in it’s developmental stages but has plenty or room to adapt to the HDR world due to it’s many positive attributes. While it will not produce...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 20, 2012 | Product Review |
The creators of Machinery HDR Effects 2 recently contacted me requesting a review of their new HDR tone mapping software. I am really glad they did as this is one powerful tone mapping program. Machinery adds many exemplary features to the world of HDR tone mapping....
by Blake Rudis | Feb 15, 2012 | Product Review |
When I renewed my NAPP Membership I was offered the The Photoshop CS 5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby at no additional cost, of course I took them up on it! You may be thinking, “Blake, why would you need an intro to Photoshop book, don’t...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 8, 2012 | Product Review |
I recently added a new product to the Everyday HDR Store, it is a very simple texture package. Applying textures to a photo is pretty simple and there are several websites on the internet to buy stock textures. My texture package differs in many ways! These...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 1, 2012 | Product Review |
The folks at Topaz Labs are at it again, continually making great post processing products for the creative photographer. Their newest release is Topaz Star Effects. Star Effects mimics that star like pattern that lights emit at narrow shutter speeds. Shoot a lamp...
