by Blake Rudis | Sep 18, 2015 | 3 Minute Flash Tutorai, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Saturation Adjustment Layer in ~ 5 minutes! The Saturation Adjustment Layer in Photoshop can be one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop if you know how to use it properly. I would go on a limb and say this is my second favorite tool in Photoshop next to the...
by Blake Rudis | May 29, 2015 | Advanced, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | May 26, 2015 | f64 Academy News, Topaz Webinars |
Long Exposure Workflow with Blake Rudis | A Topaz Webinar 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 capturing the long exposure...
by Blake Rudis | May 19, 2015 | f64 Academy News |
This is a Free Webinar Event with the Photoshop and Lightroom Group >> See the Webinar Now! << Several months ago Andrew Kavanagh, the creator of the Photoshop and Lightroom Group, asked me if I’d be interested in an interview and doing a webinar...
by Blake Rudis | May 15, 2015 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | May 8, 2015 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
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...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 13, 2015 | Topaz Labs, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Interesting Backgrounds Made Easy! One of the techniques I showed in the last webinar was how to make interesting backgrounds with Topaz Impression. During the webinar I used this in a very artistic workflow. This technique is also very effective in the following...
by Blake Rudis | Mar 10, 2015 | Topaz Webinars |
Which strategy will you choose? In this webinar I will be showing you a more playful approach to photo editing. The last few I have done have been pretty intense on the technical side. While this one will not be void of technique, it will be more focused on...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 20, 2015 | Topaz Labs, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
.17 Megapixels to 35 Megapixels… WHAT?!? My wife, kids and I went to Cannon Beach, OR a few weeks ago. We had a blast, it rained the entire time, but it was still very nice to be with the family on the West Coast (or the left coast as my East Coast roots would...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 17, 2015 | f64 Academy News |
In this webinar I will place a strong focus on three areas that are the most critical to understand when you are editing photographs. They are the Curve, the Histogram, and the Luminance Values of pixels. In the beginning I will cover these topics briefly and then...
