by Blake Rudis | Mar 19, 2021 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Amazing Sky and Reflection Replacement in Photoshop You DO NOT need some AI program to make a Sky and Reflection Replacement. You can do it all from the comfort of your friendly neighborhood Photoshop CC. By now, you all know I prefer Genuine Intelligence and...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 12, 2021 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
A VERY Timely Update to ACR with the 13.2 Update Have you ever heard that your Raw Workflow should follow a Top to Bottom and Left to Right path when working in ACR and Lightroom? I think I heard that about a hundred times when I first learned how to edit RAW files. ...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 12, 2021 | Beginner, Tutorial |
Finally … Simple Color Grading! I have taught so many ways to color grade a photo that I can’t even recall them all. They range from Gradients to Gradient Maps, and how many using Selective Color? Many of these techniques produce great results, but they...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 5, 2021 | Intermediate, Post Processing, Tutorial |
The Topic of Conversation During my last Live Event, I received a TON of questions about the difference between FLOW and OPACITY related to the brush in Photoshop. Do not confuse this with OPACITY and FILL in the layer palette. They are two very different topics. ...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 12, 2021 | f64 Academy News, Intermediate, Tutorial |
I am on a mission today to see if I can make a better brush than the big soft edge brush in Photoshop. You might be asking, why Blake, why can’t you leave well enough alone? My wife says the same things to me all the time. Truth is, I like the big soft brush...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 5, 2021 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Tree We can’t always have beautiful trees in fields for the best photo ops… or can we? Photoshop has a filter called Render Tree. It’s a neat little filter that while clever, very rarely can pass as a real tree. However, if you look at a photo of a...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 29, 2021 | Beginner, f64 Academy News, Intermediate, Tutorial |
Vignettes in Photoshop and ACR + Lightroom Vignettes are extremely powerful tools for grabbing your viewer’s attention. They can very quickly make an ordinary photo look incredible! But, there are some problems with traditional vignettes. 1. They can look too...
by Blake Rudis | Jan 8, 2021 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
Your Black & White Processing Needs this Intel A few months ago, I did a video that made a BOLD claim that I would take composition over color any day as the biggest contributor to viewer response. It was the topic of a lot of discussion on the f.64 Academy...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 21, 2020 | Intermediate, Tutorial |
The 50% Gray Layer for Dodging and Burning is STILL Valid Dodging and Burning, a very contentious topic among the community. Why? Because some people will outwardly chastise you for using a method that they feel is “archaic” or “dated” or...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 18, 2020 | 3 Minute Flash Tutorai, Intermediate, Tutorial |
I know what you are thinking by reading that title… Blake has lost his mind and found the HDR Kool-Aid Mix and drank too much again.. right? Not necessarily! Many of you may have followed me before 2016 when this very blog was called EverydayHDR.com, it feels...
