The Importance of Critique – Part 2
Following last week’s post and the celebration of 10 years of f.64 Elite, I am opening 6 of the 12 critique sessions conducted in the community this week. Above you will see a slider of six videos, uncut, for you to see how feedback is given every month on...
The Vision Sessions
What Are the Vision Sessions? Have you ever finished editing a photo and thought, “It’s close… but it still doesn’t feel like what I experienced?” I think every photographer has been there. We know what we felt when we pressed the...
The Importance of Critique Part 1
Following last week’s post and the celebration of 10 years of f.64 Elite, I am opening 6 of the 12 critique sessions conducted in the community this week. Above you will see a slider of six videos, uncut, for you to see how feedback is given every...
Contrast Compared
Where’ve you been, Blake? That is an email I get from quite a few people. The truth is, right here 🙂 I’m still making videos; I’m just doing them less on YouTube and more for f.64 Elite members. Every year, it gets harder and harder for me to...
Why Your Glows Look Fake (Fix It With Channels)
In this video, I’m using Photoshop’s new Clarity and Dehaze controls to create a controllable “hazy atmosphere” effect that blends naturally. The problem with Clarity/Dehaze inside Photoshop is that they can feel like a hammer, so I’ll mask them using the Green...
New in PS 2026 Clarity, Dehaze, and Grain
Adobe has a habit of taking features out of Photoshop and adding them to ACR and Lightroom. However, in the recent Photoshop 27.3 update, we received some features from the RAW processors in the form of adjustment layers. On the surface, that might not seem like a...
High ISO? Who Cares!
For years, I was scared to raise my ISO. Anything over 400 or 800 felt like I was ruining my photo on purpose. I used to think high ISO meant the whole image would be covered in ugly noise, and the moment I tried to fix it, everything would turn soft and muddy. But...
GOODBYE Adobe Color!
In this video, I talk about why I’ve stopped using the default Adobe Color profile in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. I show how it added too much contrast and some odd color shifts in certain images, especially in high-contrast scenes like one I shot at the Mildred...
SECRET Tone Sliders in ACR & Lightroom
Turns out, there are secret tone sliders hiding in the Color Grading panel in Adobe Camera Raw. I’ve been using ACR for a long time, to include the Color Grading section, but I never really pieced two and two together.These sliders aren’t about color like you’d...
