I know I revealed a lot, and this replay may be exactly what you need to process what you saw today. I introduced a new concept in image editing. What happens after the edit? Now that is nothing new, after a photo is edited, we print it or share it online, BUT the new part is,
How do we know what the viewer sees in our work? And if we knew, could it make our work better?
The f.64 Image Analyst addresses both questions. I’ve been using this application on all my portfolio work, and not a single one has passed with flying colors.
Meaning… I have my work cut out for me, working on images that I thought were perfect or near-perfect!
Now it’s your turn!
This is insane Blake (in a good way)! I love that it is all based on mathematical equations and can be used at the end of the image to really see if you have hit the mark when it comes to what the viewer will see and how they will interact. Thank-you for all the time you have put in to this in order to help us create even better images and artwork 🙂
Thankyou Blake! A recent member of f64 (past year) I have used photography as a retirement project over the past 15-20 years. I have always felt that a photograph really was not complete until it was a printed and framed piece of art. Perhaps part of a publication or book. This to me, is all about Viewer experience. Of course I have to love it first. Here is an essential for me – a better way to evaluate a photograph, F64 has provided a pathway forward. “High Horse” you say – I don’t think so – photography is like golf – people spend fortunes on gear and stuff but only the very few spend anything on learning how to use it.
This is so incredible, I don’t even have the words. Thank you for the time and care you put into creating this tool, the courses, and the actions. I’m really excited to start using this to analyze my images and grow in guiding the viewer’s eye through my work.
Wow, I thought you outdid yourself on the Channels course! This looks great, Blake. I’m going to have a lot of fun playing around with this analyst tool. Without even starting the course, I loaded two of my completed images into the analyst to play with. I ended up cropping both of them and guess what? They both looked better. You are amazing Blake. A huge thank you for continuing to make great tools for us. By the way I think your longer hair looks great. 🙂
Hello Blake!
I have watched the replay, read the manual and … wow this will help more! But since I work with PS a lot when I am on the road, I am wondering… can this eventually be a plug in for photoshop? Please!?
Regards from the other side of the great pond, Chris from Cochem, GERMANY
I dont know if it can be. But I know I’m inundated with people chastizing me for not making it one. So maybe it will be sooner than later :/
This should already be in Photoshop and frankly puts adobe to shame. Real innovation which is not constrained by the limitations of photoshops plug in architecture. I would suggest a standalone executable which users can send layers to for analysis and receive back into photoshop any output. Of course why stop there this architecture could easily be extended to Capture One, DXO etc
Thank you! These companies stopped with this kind of innovation and have since moved to AI. It’s sad. I do what I can here.