by Blake Rudis | Mar 31, 2017 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Wait… What… Snapshots? Photoshop is not a camera! There is nothing more annoying than downloading a new Action for Photoshop and realizing that it is downright destructive! It flattens your image, throws out all that hard work, and runs its course...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 17, 2017 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
White Balance 101: Fixing Color Temperatures in Adobe Camera Raw Color Balance, Color Temperature, White Balance, they all go hand in hand. Every photo should get some love in the color department, but how do you know what needs what where? Before you just dive into...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 13, 2017 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Color Grading Never Looked So Easy! One of our primary jobs as photographers is to evoke emotion in our viewer when they look at our images. Sometimes the subject matter speaks for itself and does most of the work, but there are other instances where the...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 2, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Custom Luminosity Masks with Color Range in Photoshop Luminosity Masks are all the rage these days it seems and rightfully so, they are extremely powerful. A Luminosity Mask is nothing more than a selection of the luminance range in your image. Think of it like...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 18, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
The texturizer doesn’t just work on clouds! A few weeks ago I showed you a technique for fixing blown out highlights in clouds. Shortly after its release a friend and fellow Elite member, Don Chesnut, asked if the technique could work on waterfalls. I was...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 4, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I once thought blown out clouds were a deal breaker… not anymore! There have been many landscape photos that have found their way to my trash can on my computer because I pushed the histogram a bit too far to the highlights and ruined the picture. It can be...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 16, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Dynamic Contrast in Photoshop made easy! One of my favorite features in ON1 Effects 10 and Topaz Clarity is Dynamic Contrast. Both Plugins allow you to increase the contrast in your images in ways you could only dream of in Photoshop. Or is there a way in achieve...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 9, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
A game-changer in the world of cloning- the Patch Tool You may be familiar with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop, but did you know there is a distant cousin just a few tools above? The Patch Tool is not too far away from the Clone Stamp tool and in many cases, it...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 26, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Color Grading in Photoshop using Adobe Color ThemesOne of my favorite tools in Photoshop is Adobe Color Themes. It is a neat little extension that helps you build color palettes around a central color that you have in mind. It can be very helpful in any sort of...
by Blake Rudis | Aug 19, 2016 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Ugh…. the Freakin’ Pen Tool! By far the most requested tutorial on f.64 Academy is “How to use the Pen Tool in Photoshop?” For the longest time I kept saying, “ughhh, gosh, the freakin’ Pen Tool, not another request for...
