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Smart Is As Smart Does – Photoshop Smart Objects

Have you ever been working up an image in Lightroom, and open it in Photoshop for final editing? Furthermore have you ever invested time in retouching said image in Photoshop only to realize that you should have processed the RAW image differently to begin with? A lot of people would just close out the image [...]

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Connecting the Dots – DPI Tips that Matter

Output resolution is one of the most misunderstood topics in digital photography. What is the correct DPI or PPI to export an image to produce beautiful prints or display on a screen just right? Unfortunately there is no simple answer; resolution, DPI and PPI are all different terms, and although inter-related are each distinct concepts [...]

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Fixing Perspective in Photoshop – It’s Easy!

This workflow is by far the shortest and easiest path to fixing the Leaning Tower of Pisa effect that often happens when shooting architectural photos without fancy equipment like a View Camera or a Tilt Shift Lens. Let’s start out by by looking at our final image: Check out those nice sweet STRAIGHT lines! But [...]

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We don’t need no stinking Photoshop – Retouching 101

I’m constantly on the search for the smoothest and quickest way to process images. That’s it, nothing fancy about it. I like speed, accuracy, and quality. Can they all be wrapped into one workflow that can take care of the majority of my shoots? – I certainly think so! This little gem of a workflow [...]

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Bokeh – The Art of Blur

I’m a big fan of shooting with a shallow depth of field, and as a result of this, I’m also a fan of the resulting bokeh. What is Bokeh you may ask … ? Wikipedia defines Bokeh as: Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke, meaning “blurred or fuzzy”) is a photographic term referring to [...]

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10% Photoshop

I love Photoshop, it’s an amazing program with no peer. With it you can make the impossible possible and the unreal real. Photoshop is the uncontested champion in the world of photo. However, with all this power, Photoshop is also rather complicated – intimidating even. In the same vein, Photoshop can also be the slowest [...]

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Presets and Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) – A match made in Heaven

Options are good, especially when said options are free. Lightroom users have the option to use a multitude of presets to enhance their images – and most Lightroom users also have the option to use Photoshop and its native RAW processor, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). However, not many Lightroom users are aware that they can [...]

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Soft Focus – Hocus Pocus

Sticking to my promise to expose more complete details on my workflow for select projects, we’re going to look at a detailed workflow leveraging Lightroom’s localized correction toolset. This post roots itself in my previous tutorial on faking depth of field in your images. The one caveat to that technique is the round trip journey [...]

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He’s a faker! – Depth of field that is …

If you love a soft fuzzy depth of field in your images I’m going to show you a quick and easy technique to enhance or otherwise introduce depth of field into any image of your choosing. I have been using and teaching this technique to photographers for 10+ years and I am starting to see [...]

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Removing the Night

When you’ve got yourself a tired subject, one thing that creeps into your shots can be those dark baggy eyes that often come from late nights at the club or too many Mimosas! I know I don’t always have a makeup artist in tow. That being said, I have a very quick and effective technique [...]

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