Some Cool Composites
I post this link particularly for RMSP students who took my compositing classes this summer. Enjoy!
Adobe Labs Announces Content-Aware Healing and Fill
Want to remove telephone lines, whole buildings, or other objects from your photos? Adobe posted a video on Facebook today from Adobe Labs, demonstrating technology that they are working on for a future release of Photoshop. CS5 perhaps? Click here to go to video. Be sure to watch all the examples -- it just keeps getting [...]
I have Lightroom. Do I need Photoshop?
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic. However, I noticed today that my colleague Gene McCullagh has just written about this over on his blog, Lightroom Secrets. I agree with Gene that Lightroom will serve most photographers needs most of the time (and some photographers, all the time). My advice to serious [...]
Understanding Resolution
Two factors determine how big your image will be when displayed -- the size of your image in pixels, and how many pixels are displayed per inch, which is referred to as resolution. Both of the example images below have 6 pixels (3x2): the first is displayed at 1 pixel per inch, and the second is [...]
Adobe TV
I'll get back to making my own tutorials and videos soon, but in the meantime, check out Adobe TV. Click here for Lightroom videos, and here for Photoshop videos. (They load in two stages, so give it a little time.) Check or uncheck the Release, Skill Level and Topic checkboxes on the right to narrow [...]
Maximize Compatibility, Minimize Headaches
In addition to writing this blog, I will be contributing occasionally to O'Reilly Media's Inside Lightroom blog. Visit the blog today to read my first post, on maximizing compatibility of Photoshop files so that you can import them into Lightroom. Go to O'Reilly There are twelve writers and alot of great information, so visit often (and [...]
Chromatic Aberration
When you are working on an image for print, or any application where it will be viewed full size, it is important that you zoom in to 100%, and inspect the entire image for issues that you can’t see when it is smaller. I was working on this image today and when I zoomed [...]
Photoshop CS4: To Upgrade or Not
Here's a nice summary of Photoshop CS4 new and upgraded features that pertain to photographers, from John Nack of Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/11/cs4_for_photographers.html There are a couple new very powerful features, and then there are alot of changes that make it easier to get around in Bridge and Photoshop, and easier to do things that you could already [...]
Photoshop Scrubby Sliders
Scrubby sliders are one of Photoshop's great time saving features that you may not discover on your own. In many places in Photoshop, when you click and drag left or right on the name of a numeric setting, it adjusts the setting down or up -- with no need to go into drop down boxes or [...]
Are you clear on Clarity in Lightroom?
The clarity slider was introduced in Lightroom 1.1, and is also now in Camera Raw. A positive clarity value punches up an image, makes it look a little more three dimensional, by enhancing contrast along edges. The changes are concentrated in the midtones, and do little to highlights and shadows. Here is an example, a portion [...]
Should you upgrade to Lightroom 2?
If you are committed to Lightroom being the foundation of your digital workflow, then my answer is an unequivocal absolutely! And if you are on the fence about Lightroom being the foundation of your workflow, I also say absolutely. I expect that this release will get you off the fence and clearly on the Lightroom road. [...]
Why Use Lightroom?
These days there are two primary digital workflows for photographers: Adobe Bridge/Camera Raw/Photoshop (all packaged into the Photoshop product) and Adobe Lightroom, with Photoshop as a supplemental tool. Both routes are equally powerful, but I would say that the Lightroom route offers the potential for large efficiency gains. This of course is more important if you [...]
