January 13th, 2010
I have been getting a lot of questions about focus recently, and I think it’s a good topic to discuss because so many of you are new to DSLRs and focus can be a sticky issue at first (and always…
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November 6th, 2009
It’s been way too long since my last video tutorial.. the wait is now over (I can hear your collective sighs of relief ;)
This is something I just learned how to do.. select JUST the highlights of an image…
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August 28th, 2009
Here’s a little video I put together showing you how to use your DSLR’s display option to toggle to the histogram view. Histograms (with the exception of a few extreme lighting situations) are an excellent tool you can use to…
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July 10th, 2009
I felt as if I were in a post processing slump lately.. I had some good captures that I just feel like I couldn’t get to “pop” you know? Particularly the faces.. they just seemed too washed out and didn’t…
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June 5th, 2009
Yes, I am that omnipotent!
Just kidding..
But when my messageboard/flickr friend posted this picture online, I knew it would be a great subject for a tutorial on how to add a fake blue sky in your pictures that…
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May 29th, 2009
In this video tutorial I’ll show you how to use the clone stamp tool to get rid of a distracting part of your image, like the beer bottle in the picture below.
Before

After

Like magic right?
>>Click…
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May 15th, 2009
In a previous tutorial I showed you how to quick fix your exposure and color cast by setting the white and black points in a curves adjustment layer by guessing the light and dark points. I also showed…
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April 24th, 2009
You’ve heard me evangelize about Adobe Lightroom, but you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. I know I didn’t get it until I actually saw it. Actually, I didn’t get it until I saw…
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April 3rd, 2009
I say the old fashioned way because last week I showed you how to do a black and white conversion using an action. The action we used utilizes the same gradient map method that this video tutorial goes over,…
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