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 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 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 | 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...
by Blake Rudis | May 20, 2011 | Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
On Wednesday I posted the video I took while driving from Las Vegas Nevada to Platte City. If you want make the following video there are a couple things you need to know. First off, you have to know how to shoot for it and how to set it up in the car. Here is the...
by Blake Rudis | May 6, 2011 | Beginner, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I just thought I would throw together a tutorial of a combination of techniques I have shown in the past. I was busy doing my normal workflow, when I noticed I have never really shown a tutorial on how to put multiple techniques together to function cohesively in...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 15, 2011 | HDR 101: The Basics, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
A pretty cool way to use two processed HDR images to make your final product pop off the page. I was also playing around with the Gradient Map function in Photoshop when I noticed a pretty cool trick for bringing out some more drama in my HDR pictures. I call it the...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 8, 2011 | HDR 101: The Basics, Photomatix Tips, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
After many months of searching the web and seeing some horribly processed HDR images. I decided to do a more in depth Photomatix tutorial on how to make good HDR images and how to fix those damn electric clouds that happen during the tonemapping process! I may be a...
by Blake Rudis | Apr 1, 2011 | Intermediate, Post Processing, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I developed a pretty good technique for making some kick ass looking Graphic Novel-esque images. It looks spectacular on military related pictures, Helicopters, Uniforms, Guns, weirdos in gas masks… Check it out. I made myself an Action for it and cannot stop...
