Relight a Photo with the Hard Mix Blend Mode
Relight any photo with the Hard Mix Blend Mode in Photoshop! The Hard Mix blend mode has very quickly become my favorite blend mode to experiment with. Every time I use it in a unique way it seems to pull through with flying colors. It is a remarkable...
Enhance Details in ACR and Lightroom (Video)
Enhance Details in ACR and Lightroom This week, Adobe released an update for ACR and Lightroom. This update was a minor one that came with a major feature that much of the internet is talking about. This new feature is called Enhance Details. This is what Adobe...
Glow Brushes in ACR and Lightroom {Video}
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]
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...
LUT Profiles Best Practices in ACR and Lightroom [Video]
Make Your Own LUT Profiles For a few months now I have kept my techniques for making Lookup Table Profiles a secret. Well, not really a secret, but I have held off on making a tutorial about it because what I am about to share with you is invaluable. ...
Advanced Color Toning in Photoshop (Video)
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...
The Most Epic Christmas Card Ever Made!
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 Christmas Card...
You can ALWAYS learn something new [Video]
What I learned from Jim Welninski recently I am the type of person who loves to learn new things. I read quite a few books every year, I spent a LOT of time on the "Google" researching things I don't know, and I embrace interaction with everyone because everyone can...
Why Do My Photos Suck? Blake’s Video Response
Well, maybe that is a harsh title, but hear me out. We have all been in a place where we ask why our photos aren't what we want them to be. Whether that is because of a certain style, or a look we are trying to achieve that we can't, or we just aren't feeling like...
The Hard Mix Blend Mode in Photoshop (Video)
The Hard Mix Blend Mode is AMAZING! I could tell you all day long that the Hard Mix Blend Mode is the most fantastic Blend Mode in Photoshop, but you'd have to see it to believe it. That is because the Hard Mix Blend Mode, when applied "as-is" is trash,...