The Photographers High
There are many reasons each of us choose to pick up a camera and take photos. Today everyone is a photographer with cameras practically attached to our body in one way or another. Give it a few more years and they will be physically attached to all of us. Yet why we...
How To Customize Your Photoshop Workspace by Sean Bagshaw
In the video tutorial below (email subscribers can click the title link to view the video on the web) I take you through a feature of Photoshop that is super helpful and pretty simple, but also something that can be a little confusing for a lot of...
A Lexicon of Post-Processing Terms in Landscape Photography Today
Landscape photographers are increasingly turning toward more interpretive modes of presentation in order to express their own ideas about the scenes that they encounter. New techniques in field work and related digital processing have fueled this development,...
The Histogram – One of the Most Useful Tools in Photography
by Zack Schnepf I think the histogram is one of the most important and useful tools in all of photography. It’s a tool I rely on throughout my entire workflow, but I notice it’s a concept that many students have a hard time fully understanding. It can be confusing at...
Using The New Select and Mask Feature in Photoshop CC 2015.5
I have to say that getting regular Photoshop updates and new features through my Creative Cloud subscription has been great. In the most recent update to CC Adobe gave the Refine Selection/Refine Mask features a big overhaul and combined them into a single new task...
How To Use The Radial Tool In Post Processing To Maximize Impact
One of the my favorite tools to use when post processing is the Radial Tool which can be found in either Adobe Camera Raw 7.0 and higher or Adobe Lightroom 6. The purpose of the Radial tool is direct attention to a certain focal point or subject by using a vignette...
The Two Essential Strategies of Effective Post-Processing
Knowing how to use post-processing software is important for any creative photographer, but it is equally important to know what to do with that knowledge. No matter how proficient we are with our development tools, we still need to decide which direction to take an...
Needle In The Haystack – Finding Imperfections On Large Prints
Note: Don’t scroll down right away if you want to “test” yourself on this post with the first set of images before looking over the second set. Recently I had over a dozen different photos printed for a project I am working on, many of them what I would...
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