How to Make your Fall Colors Pop! [Video]
Using Palette Effects 2 to Make Autumn Images Glow! I am a big fan of this time of year. The pumpkins, the weather, the hoodies, and the snuggles under blankets... yes you read that correctly, I am a snuggler, it is one of my love languages, so what? It...
Jim Welninski’s Workflow with Palette Effects 2.0 [Video]
A Master at Work! I think my head is going to explode... the namesake of the "Welninski Drama" button, just used the Welninski Drama Button in an original Welninski workflow. If that isn't epic, I don't know what is! Jim is a great friend of mine and has been with me...
Palette Effects 2.0 Top 5 Features
I am Biased, I did build it... but here are my favorite Palette Effects 2.0 Features It has been nearly a year and a half since I updated Palette Effects. There are several reasons for that and while many of them lead to, "I have been busy", I do have one strong...
How to find and free up disk space [Video]
Using Treesize Personal to find Heavy Files I, like many photographers, like to hoard my images. Seriously, we could probably have a reality TV show for photographers like me. That would be funny a guy shows up at my office, looks through my drives and says, "Dude,...
The Vivid Light Blend Mode [Video]
A Color Grading Companion - The Vivid Light Blend Mode There are 27 blend modes in Adobe Photoshop and if you are anything like the "me before I learned them all", you are only using three, maybe four to their maximum potential. One of those you may be...
Replacing a Sky With the Soft Light Blend Mode – Video
The Soft Light Sky Replacement Technique On my way out to Kansas City the other night, I was praying for a beautiful sunset. I would venture to say that's what most of us do when we take the time to go out with our cameras. To my surprise when I got...
Vivitar 500mm lens, too good to be true?
Does the Vivitar 500mm lens hold up to it's hefty $119 price tag? It is not very often that I need a 500mm lens. I can recall a handful of times I said it would be nice, and maybe once at Indian Beach in Oregon where I NEEDED it. Therefore, the...
Fixing Tricky Color Temperature in ACR and Lightroom – Video Tutorial
How to fix ANY mixed lighting white balance issues in ACR and Lightroom One thing I enjoy is Interior Architecture Photography. It is a very gratifying feeling when you photograph a huge church or cathedral and nail the composition. But what happens when your White...
Blake’s 3 Favorite Features of the Zone System Express 5
The Creator's Top 3 features of the Zone System Express I know, I know, I am a little biased to the Zone System Express because I created it. It feels kind of silly, like a grade school teachers whose favorite kid in the class is their own, but hey, at least they...
Raw File and Data Collection – Video Tutorial
Raw File Data Collection Here on f.64 Academy and f.64 Elite, I talk about data manipulation quite a bit. More specifically, I show you how to edit your images in Photoshop (data manipulation). I have done well over 300 tutorials on data manipulation in Photoshop,...