by Blake Rudis | Jul 29, 2011 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Wow, I am really surprised I have gone 150 blog posts without covering a tutorial on how to rid your life of pesky Chromatic Abberations and Color Noise. So here you are, your free advice on how to crush two of the most painful aspects of digital...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 22, 2011 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I was playing around with this picture one day, I added a vignette, I did my noise reduction, and then I duplicated it, and set the blend mode to soft light. I would normally do that anyway before I High Pass sharpened it, but then I fell in love with the results of...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 15, 2011 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s tutorial is a Dreamlike effect, similar to the flashback effect you see in movies. It usually occurs where someone travels into the past or lays down for a nap and starts seeing things all blurred and sepia toned. I wish I dreamed that way, but...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 8, 2011 | Tutorial |
As you all know, I do many tutorials on EverydayHDR. Friday’s are my tutorial days where I feature some crazy new technique I have figured out or show you how to make awesome HDR images in one of the many HDR imaging software out there. Today, however, I would...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 1, 2011 | HDR Software Reviews, Product Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I recently reviewed Oloneo’s PhotoEngine last week. Since then, I have had more opportunities to experience it. I must say, the more I play, the more it amazes me. Oloneo has it all figured out over there and if you haven’t played around with it yet,...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 24, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Have you ever taken a ton of pictures and found out you forgot to set the white balance? Have you ever taken a picture with Auto White Balance selected and not received accurate colors? Both of those questions are yes for me. More often than not, my white balance...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 17, 2011 | Advanced, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
One thing that will really speed up your workflow is Batch Processing. I have shown you Batch Processing with Photomatix, but did you know you can also use Actions to Batch Process in Photoshop as well? So say you shot a bunch of HDR sets with relatively similar...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 10, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Noise reduction, where do I begin… There are many ways to reduce the noise in your images and I can 100% guarantee that the next guy on the net with a self help blog is going to tell you his method is the best…. he is probably right! My method has been...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 3, 2011 | Post Processing, Quick Tips, Tutorial |
I was working on the bicentennial image last weekend and came a cross yet another use for the High Pass filter. Have you ever layered an image on top of another, changed the blending mode to say Hard Light, and watched all of your contrast and detail from the image...
by Blake Rudis | May 27, 2011 | Post Processing, Tutorial Update, Video Tutorial |
I made a New Year’s Resolution that I would fix the HDR and people problem. You know the nasty gritty look people get when you HDR them? My wife says they look dirty, I even did an HDR of our newborn son and she said he looked dirty, so even the cleanest...
