by Blake Rudis | Jul 23, 2012 | Beginner, f64 Academy News, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Last week while my Mom was in town, we headed to the Kansas City Zoo. I still cannot figure out who was more excited, my mother with her 50-200 lens, me with my inferior 70-300, or my wife who continually stated. “I can’t wait to go to the zoo!” all...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 20, 2012 | Tutorial |
Do you own a Roku Player? If so, search for the Rate Rix Channel, nestled under Photo and Video, and install it into your channels. Once you have it all installed and are registered up, search for “everydayhdr”. You now have access to all...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 13, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial |
RAW vs JPEG JPEG If you are not shooting in RAW you should really consider it for several reasons. Let me first walk you through the adventurous life that a photograph travels when you shoot in JPEG. Every camera runs an image through several filters prior to...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 6, 2012 | Topaz Labs, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
photoFXlab…. how I love thee, let me count the ways! I do love this program I think it is an awesome alternative to Photoshop for those who may be intimidated by the plethora of sliders and conglomeration of tools contained within it. In this 13 minute...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 29, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
My recent submission for the HDR Concert contained self made lightning. I know I know, I should have used real lightning from a real picture, but believe it or not, it didn’t look right when I did. So I did a quick Google search and found an awesome tutorial...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 22, 2012 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Well, I have been crazy busy working on my image for HDR Concert #5 and have had no time to put together a Tutorial for the week. Don’t let that discourage you! I have a whole page full of tutorials, as a matter of fact there are 74 tutorials posted there....
by Blake Rudis | Jun 15, 2012 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have been thinking about doing a bare bones compositing tutorial for a while now, but was hesitant that I could whip something together in under 15 minutes. I say 15 minutes for 2 reason, I don’ t have the attention span to watch a 15 minute tutorial...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 8, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Straightening images in Photoshop CS 6 is slightly different than Photoshop CS 5. Actually, Adobe made it much more logical! Imagine that a company that uses logic! In the past the straighten tool was lumped into the Ruler tool, kind of weird but it worked! In...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 1, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
My newest most favorite feature of Photoshop CS 6.0, drum roll please (oh wait you probably read the title), Camera Raw 7.0! Adobe has done some serious work on Camera Raw 7.0, on the surface it looks very similar. However, they have revamped the sliders in the...
by Blake Rudis | May 25, 2012 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I recently upgraded from Photoshop CS 5 to CS 6 and I do not regret the $200 bullet one bit! I must say, I thought CS 5 was as good as it could get, but low and behold, Adobe created yet another masterpiece that rocks your world. CS6 is packed with more features,...
