This week I've created a video to explain soft-proofing for print in Capture One Pro and Photoshop, in response to a question from Chris Moore. I'd been meaning to do a video on soft-proofing in Capture One Pro for a while, so thanks for the question Chris!...
This week I share a video tutorial showing how to shoot for and create a focus stacked image in Photoshop using a focusing rail. Focus stacking can be a lot of fun, and is often the only way to get everything in focus in macro photography due to the extremely shallow...
In this week's podcast, I'm going to show you how to make an animated GIF in Photoshop from a series of photographs. This is a simple technique but seems to be somewhat hidden in the depths of Photoshop, so I hope this is useful for some of you. Here's a brief...
Today I chat with commercial photographer and the king of compositing, Josh Rossi, in a fascinating interview in which Josh shares some of his compositing skills and business acumen. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Josh really does take his photography to a whole new...
The most complete and best value Photography Bundle ever compiled! The moment this Podcast went live marked the very moment that the Complete Photography Bundle goes live on the 5DayDeal Web site. Today I'm going to walk you through some of the main details of this...
First, a little background... On July 24, 2012, I posted a controversial article about "Why I have to dump the Adobe Creative Cloud". To summarize the problem quickly here, having bought a full Master Collection license for a number of versions, I was excited by the...
Excited by the release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the prospect of instant access to new versions of the products it contains as they are released, I jumped on the Creative Cloud subscription soon after it was possible to sign-up. I own a full CS5.5 Master...
Over this last week I've had the pleasure of previewing a new product called Texture A Photo that is being launched today, on June 19, 2012. I've never added textures to my images before, but I had a lot of fun playing with the amazing textures that Bryon Lippincott...
Nik Software improved on perfection when they updated Silver Efex Pro to Silver Efex Pro 2, and today here's a video Podcast to take a look at how to use this amazing black and white conversion plugin and touch on some of the new features. You can also view the...
Last week we looked at how cropping is often used for artistic reasons, sometimes to overcome technical issues in capture or to bypass restrictions of your gear. Today I’ll go into more details on cropping for printing to a certain paper size, and automating the...
So here we go with the second part of my Digital Workflow update. If you haven’t listened to the first part in Episode 90, you might want to go back and listen to that first, but it’s not essential. Last week I covered from capture to the end of my selection process...
Having been asked by a number of people, and also meaning to do this for a while, today I’m going to start a two part Podcast to explain all the major steps in my Digital Workflow from shooting to printing or showing the images on the Web. Today I’m going to cover...