I was thrilled to have the opportunity to create a video tutorial for Adobe showing how to easily combine multiple photos into a panorama using Photoshop's Photomerge feature (available in Photoshop CSx as well as CC.) In the video I also give some tips for how to photograph panoramas. To access the tutorial, go to the [...]
Adobe announced today at Photoshop World a new more attractive photographer Creative Cloud offering, consisting of Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, 20 GB cloud storage, Behance ProSite membership, and access to online CC training content. This offer will be available the week of September 16 to owners of Photoshop CS3 and newer, for signup through December 31, [...]
Adobe's new version of Photoshop, Photoshop CC, is now available for download through its Creative Cloud subscription service. New features for photographers include a camera-shake-reduction filter, and improved Smart Sharpen and upsampling algorithms. Adobe announced last month that new versions of Photoshop and other Creative Suite software would only be available via a Creative Cloud subscription. [...]
Mac Retina Display Support Adobe announced this past week that within the next few months they will provide a free update to Lightroom and Photoshop (and some other programs) that will include MacBook Pro Retina Display support (i.e. high pixel density display support). Until they are redesigned in these updates, certain elements of the software interface [...]
Update 11/20/2013: Read my updated article, on reasons to subscribe to Photoshop CC. Photoshop CS6 started shipping yesterday, so I anticipate that a lot of photographers not currently using Photoshop are wondering if they should consider it. I am assuming for the sake of this article that you are already using Lightroom. (If not, you may [...]
The Adobe Photoshop team has been out doing Photoshop Sneak Peaks, suggesting that CS6 must not be too far away. From what they have shown so far, content aware move and expand are what I am looking forward to most: Liquify tool performance enhancements (no lags!!) and a much larger brush size will be huge [...]
Ever loved a photo you took, but threw it away because it was blurry due to camera shake? Well, stop doing that!! Adobe demonstrated its new Photoshop technology for removing camera-shake blur from photos at Adobe Max 2011. Will this make it into Photoshop CS6? I have absolutely no idea. They even qualify this by saying [...]
In this Lightroom and Photoshop video tutorial, I demonstrate how to copy eyes, faces or heads (or anything) from one photo into another and transform them to fit. This sweet cat of mine died a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to make a print of this image. However, the eyes were out of focus [...]
The tone curve is not the most intuitive feature of Lightroom or Photoshop. In this tutorial I will explain how to read the curve, and then how to use the basic version of it in Lightroom and Camera Raw. Note that this is a rewrite of an old post. If you are a Photoshop user, [...]
I have posted my schedule of Seattle workshops for the rest of 2010 on my website. I will continue to offer my two-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop, focused on the Library and Develop modules, where you import, rate, keyword, organize, fix and enhance your images. I am also introducing a one-and-a-half day Lightroom Review and Lab session, [...]
Curves isn’t exactly intuitive, so Adobe lately has been introducing tools to make it more accessible. As I mentioned in my “Introduction to Curves” post, the sliders available underneath the curve in Lightroom (and Camera Raw) to adjust brightness of Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows are one example of this. Another example is the targeted adjustment [...]
Curves is certainly not one of those intuitive features of Photoshop (or Lightroom), or at least that was my perspective when I tried to figure it out on my own before I got formal training. Curves is used to brighten or darken tones in your image, and at a more advanced level, to do color correction [...]
