Dodging and Burning: The Essentials
Dodging and Burning: The Essentials I have been teaching Photoshop for several years and one thing I have learned over time is that everyone dodges and burns their images in a slightly different way. After all, the basics of dodging and burning is simply making an area of the photo lighter or darker. While it…
Textures & Overlays 2: Advanced Blending
Going the next step in Texture Blending It’s time to take texture blending to a whole new level. The basic concept of combing a texture with an image is simple and can be achieved in many ways. In the past, we have looked at basic techniques like Blend If, Blend Modes, and Opacity, but there is…
Composition Comprehension – Cropping
As I reflect on everything I have learned about photography from 1999 until now, I am amazed that I have never had a complete course on composition, and more importantly cropping. I guess it is a topic that seems so simple, yet is commonly overlooked as an integral part of our workflow. That is…
Day To Night
Day To Night Whoever said taking a photograph at 2 in the afternoon under a pale blue sky was a bad idea? Okay, maybe I have said that a couple times. However, that is until I got a little creative with some daytime long exposure and some nighttime post processing! It is possible to…
Textures and Overlays
Textures & Overlays In this course, we will cover everything Textures and Overlays. There are many uses for textures that you may not be aware of. I use them in my images a lot, but more often than not you don not actually “see” them. That is because I treat Textures like I treat vignettes,…
