by Blake Rudis | Jun 23, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
*Do you struggle with color in your photography? Me too!* I accidentally stumbled upon a checks and balances layer that can help you determine a few things. Be prepared to go through your portfolio with a fine-toothed comb. After watching this, you will be able to...
by Blake Rudis | May 24, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Finally, a MAJOR Update to Photoshop that ACTUALLY helps us in our workflow in multiple ways. I WILL NOT be covering beta tools in this video as they are not in the official release. No generative AI Fill. We’ll save that for another day. We will cover the new...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 28, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Let’s face it: no matter how good you are or how many landscape photos you’ve taken, you WILL face highlight blowouts. It’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN! Ideally, we want to get everything perfect in-camera, but if we don’t, we no longer have...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 13, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Dang! This may be one of the most genius uses I’ve discovered for fixing Hot Spots in portraits and Color Grading Highlight Blowouts in landscapes. Many people reach for a Luminosity mask for these corrections, but I’ve got something that will blow any...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 17, 2023 | Guest Post, Intermediate |
True yellow/green color separation for foliage is a difficult task without the proper tools. ACR and Lightroom can only get you so close! You NEED Photoshop’s Selective Color Tool to go all the way. Luckily for you, I’ve done all the hard work 🙂 More often...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 10, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
One thing we should avoid like the plague while editing in Photoshop is overly blown-out highlights and clipped shadows. If we aren’t careful during editing, we could do more harm than good while working. Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom have clipping warnings...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 14, 2023 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Creating double exposures in Photoshop is a relatively simple task. Most will go straight to masking, and that is one great technique. However, there are other methods, like Blend If, that can give us a unique look for double exposures. What is double exposure? In...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 10, 2023 | Beginner, Intermediate, Tutorial |
I love Blend If. That’s no secret. I routinely praise it here on f.64 Academy, BUT it has problems. There are things I don’t like about it. There are things I wish Adobe would do with it. There are things I wish were easier with it. I could sit here and...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 23, 2022 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
We often use Curves in our workflow. It’s a staple in almost every genre of photography. But how often do you venture into the beautiful world of color or RGB Curves? Probably not as often as you’d care to mention. No worries, I didn’t either. At...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 4, 2022 | Intermediate, Post Processing, Tutorial |
Photoshop is LITTERED with hidden gems. Play around enough in there, and you’ll find two notebooks full and a day’s work! Ask a handful of Ps educators what their 5 hidden gems are, and I can almost guarantee you’ll hear mixed results. So how do you...