by Blake Rudis | Dec 16, 2011 | Intermediate, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s tutorial is all about how to make your own custom brushes. Custom brushes can be made from all kinds of pictures, pictures that you wouldn’t consider worthy of a brush, like rust spots on the side of a dumpster! You can use these brushes that you...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 9, 2011 | Quick Tips, Tutorial |
Auto aliging layers in Photoshop is an invaluable tool for any HDRtist. It is very common to create a tone mapped file and use elements from the original exposures to enhance local areas. Photoshop CS 5 has a very simple feature for making image alignment a breeze!...
by Blake Rudis | Dec 2, 2011 | Beginner, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Today’s video tutorial shows you how to successfully dodge and burn your HDR images without destroying them with permanent modifications. It is a really simple method of making a %50 gray layer over the image you would like to dodge and burn. You then set the...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 11, 2011 | From the Author |
Due to some technical difficulties with my PC (by difficulties I mean a fried motherboard among possibly other things), I will not be posting a tutorial today, rather proposing a question. Is an HDR image a legitimate form of photography or is it a digital art form?...
by Blake Rudis | Nov 2, 2011 | Quick Tips |
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 14, 2011 | Beginner, Video Tutorial |
As I stated on Wednesday, dust on the sensor is a horrible occurrence when working with HDR images. Often times dust is very difficult to see in a single exposure, but after a series of five are bracketed the amplification of dust is unbelievable. I recently had the...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 19, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I don’t know what it is with the spiders out here, but they are huge! This one, Charlotte, likes to hang out on our patio. One afternoon she built a web, the following day it blew down, that evening she built a web, that night it rained and destroyed the web,...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 14, 2011 | Product Review |
I recently read The HDR Book by RC Concepcion and boy am I glad I did. RC has written the best HDR book to date. I have read 6 HDR books now, while the others may have been decent and sometimes good, none of them have hit the mark like RC. You want to talk Post...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 12, 2011 | f64 Academy News |
I had a blast at Photoshop World 2011, I met some awesome artists and learned a ton about flash photography. Last year I spent a lot of time in Photoshop specific classes, but this year I felt much more confident in my Photoshop skills but I really needed to learn...
by Blake Rudis | Sep 6, 2011 | From the Author |
One year ago today I started everydayHDR after going to Photoshop World 2010. This year I celebrate the 1 year anniversary of everydayHDR at Photoshop World 2011! It has been a great year with 168 posts, 53 of which were tutorials. I will continue to keep...
