Powerful Vignette in Photoshop!
A wicked vignette in Photoshop in under 3 minutes? I am game 🙂 Vignettes are a tricky beast to tame. At first they appear so docile and easy to manage. They make your photo feel warm and fuzzy, but they have a tendency to steal the thunder of a good photo by...
Chromatic Aberration Reduction in under 3 Minutes!
Chromatic Aberration | A Major Pet Peeve! Chromatic Aberration is no fault of your own in the lovely world of photography. It is a natural occurrence in lenses where the wavelengths of light are not captured correctly. The result is a green/purple or magenta/cyan...
The Most Important Photography Lessons!
These are possibly the most important Photography lessons you will ever learn! I recently had my first ever Seminar event in Kansas City last month. It was a phenomenal experience and I was awe-struck that over 50 people wanted to spend the day listening to me talk...
How to Fake Neutral Density in Photoshop!
No Neutral Density filter? No problem! Fake Neutral Density! Let's face it, long exposures are awesome but they require expensive Neutral Density Filters, time, and patience... lots of patience! I really enjoy using a 10 Stop ND filter to get those long sweeping...
Topaz Long Exposure Workflow
Long Exposure Workflow with Blake Rudis | A Topaz Webinar https://youtu.be/_xCemxQQcSs In this webinar I will be showing you how I use Topaz for my Long Exposure Workflow. Long Exposure Photography can create some awe inspiring results in your images. However, just...
Insane Black and White Conversion Control!
Tell your friends you are a Black and White Conversion Boss after watching this tutorial! Coming up in the next 24 hours or so I have a webinar with the Photoshop and Lightroom Group for their Adobe Connect Event. I will be showing how to Master Tone and Color in...
Tone & Color Mastery!
This is a Free Webinar Event with the Photoshop and Lightroom Group Several months ago Andrew Kavanagh, the creator of the Photoshop...
How To Use the Path Blur in Photoshop CC
Sometimes subtle blur is best. I was in Alabama for several days a few weeks ago. Every day I would pass this AC-47, the first Gunship in the Air Force inventory. It was stagnant and lonely, a once guns blazing wicked machine bred for intimidation and mayhem was now...
Cannon Beach Oregon Photo Trip – October 2015
I want a rematch! Who is with me? In February my family and I took a little trip to Cannon Beach. It was for two purposes really: To relax as a family Record a Long Exposure Course We did a lot of relaxing and a little bit of recording. I didn't get as much as I'd...
Merge to HDR in Adobe Camera Raw 9
HDR in Camera Raw Rocks! Lightroom received a lot of hype and hoopla over the awaited merge to HDR in Lightroom without going into Photoshop, which is a great feature. However, Lightroom is not the only Adobe product that received a makeover a few weeks ago. As many...
