10% Photoshop, 100% Stunning – Less Is Actually More
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 […]
Luminance – Hue and Saturation’s Step Brother
There has been a lot of talk about the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance (HSL for your cool types) panel lately, so I though I would take you through an example of how I use the lesser known Luminance (L) control to solve issues that oftentimes I see folks attack with the Hue, Saturation, Exposure, or […]
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 […]
Lightroom Preset – Polaroid 669
Wayyyyyy back in February 2008, Polaroid announced it would cease production of all instant film. The New York Times recently published a piece on the legacy of the Polaroid – and it was with this that the reality of the situation took hold. And … unfortunately, our favorite Polaroid instant film of ALLLLL TIME – […]
Lightroom Preset – City Scapes
This month’s preset is inspired by the Chicago “L” Trains and the city-scape environments I like to shoot near the Halsted and West Lake Street line. I am always blown away by the edgy and oftentimes neglected parts of the line where many of these structures have stood for over 100 years. I’m constantly inspired […]
Lightroom Preset – Morning Blue
This little gem comes from a recent trip to I took to New York and the beautiful mornings I spent there shooting around the Madison Square Garden area in mid-town. I love the blue hue that casts over the shadows in the morning light. So I’m bringing this mood to you for use in your […]
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 […]
Post-Cropping Vignettes are Genius!
This something I read about wayyyyyyy back when Lightroom Beta 2.0 came out – the ability to maintain your vignette edges even when cropping images. Back in pre-2.0 versions of Lightroom the basic vignette adjustment panel would only apply its effect to the 4 corners of the original image (pre-crop). This forced me to export […]
Lightroom Preset – Summer Holiday
Our newest preset takes all the things we love about summer holidays, wraps them up into a nice green package, and delivers that mid-day summertime holiday feel to your images. We have this old-school sprinkler that, to me, is the one true symbol of summer that has so many great memories attached to it. That […]