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 | Jan 19, 2023 | Beginner, Tutorial |
There is NOTHING I dislike more in Photoshop than trying to delete a layer and getting a stupid dong sound and error message. It has driven me up the wall for centuries. BUT today, I figured out how to stop that annoying sound from happening and LIFE IS GOOD! Today we...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 30, 2022 | Beginner, Tutorial |
PANTONE® Viva Magenta is the color of the year for 2023, and you all know how much I LOVE Magenta. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, I would like to share 5 ways you can use this amazing color in Photoshop. Tip #5 is a REAL doozy! ◄Chapters► 00:00 Intro 00:26...
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...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 21, 2022 | Tutorial |
WOW! the potential here in Adobe Camera Raw 15 is INCREDIBLE!!! this new update to ACR will knock your socks off! Such a simple thing, like a curve inside a mask, seems minuscule, but this is HUGE! Watch this video to learn about some of the new features in ACR 15...
