The SINGLE BEST Color Tool in Photoshop

by Blake Rudis | Nov 7, 2024 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 0 comments

In this tutorial, learn the powerful yet often overlooked capabilities of Photoshop’s Selective Color Adjustment Layer. This tool enables subtle or dramatic color grading, transforming your images with painter-like precision. We’ll explore how to intensify colors,...

This AI Art Generator Blew Me Away!

by Blake Rudis | Oct 31, 2024 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 13 comments

This week on YouTube, I compared four of today’s leading generative AI image models: Midjourney, Magnific, ChatGPT, and Adobe’s Firefly. This video uses identical prompts to discuss each model’s unique strengths, limitations, and surprising outcomes in...

Your camera is LYING to you 😡 White Balance Explained

by Blake Rudis | Sep 13, 2024 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 9 comments

Have you ever wondered what the perfect white balance is?Do you trust that your camera can ACTUALLY give it to you? The truth is there is no perfect White Balance and no matter how hard your camera tries, it can’t give it to you. That’s because our cameras...

Sharpen Your Photos Like a Pro!

by Blake Rudis | Aug 28, 2020 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 19 comments

Sharpening is not as convoluted as most people make it out to be, yet it tends to be a question I get a lot. Especially from beginner photographers who are starting to develop a workflow. You may have been told that you have to sharpen your photos at the end of your...

Photoshop Layers Not Working? PS CC 2020 (21.2 update)

by Blake Rudis | Jul 16, 2020 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 17 comments

Have your Photoshop layers been acting strange since the June 2020 update to Photoshop CC? I was subject to the odd “Legacy Compositing Photoshop Bug” and I was about to go berserk as I knew I was doing nothing wrong. As it turns out, I wasn’t doing...

Quick Sky Replacement Tips

by Blake Rudis | May 3, 2019 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 3 comments

Quick Sky Replacement Tips that Will Have Your Head Spin Sky Replacements are necessary for landscape photography.  If you have an ethical problem with replacing skies, listen to this.   I can tell you that in the last year I have been to some fantastic National...

Glow Brushes in ACR and Lightroom {Video}

by Blake Rudis | Feb 8, 2019 | Beginner, Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 27 comments

Glow Brushes in ACR and LR?  How???I have long been a fan of the Orton Effect.   So much so, that I built my variation of it for the Zone System Express called “Radiance 2.0”.  The glowing effect makes an amazing atmosphere for your photo, regardless of...

One Wicked Dodging and Burning Blend If Trick [Video]

by Blake Rudis | Jan 24, 2019 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 15 comments

One more Blend If trick for the books!I have shown many many ways to use Blend If.  So many that I made a whole Playlist for it on my YouTube channel.  Here is another one for you to add to your notes if you are keeping score, Blend If and Dodging and Burning.I have...

Advanced Color Toning in Photoshop (Video)

by Blake Rudis | Jan 4, 2019 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 64 comments

Advanced Color Toning Made Easy! Over the years I have shown many ways to color grade your photographs from split toning to solid color overlays and even some unique methods using off the wall blend modes.  While each technique has their benefits, they all require a...

The Most Epic Christmas Card Ever Made!

by Blake Rudis | Dec 7, 2018 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial | 80 comments

https://youtu.be/Qah_-IGUfTQ   It is hard to lay claim to the “Most Epic Christmas Card Ever,” but many of my friends and family are sending me text messages with those exact words in them.  I’ll take it ? Every year this Rudis Family creates a...