11 Ways To Give And Get Useful Feedback

 . Ask For It Do you want more than polite conversation when you share your images? Ask for the kind of feedback you’re looking for. When you share images without a request for feedback, the number of responses you get goes down, and the content...

The Problems With Calling Them B&W Photographs

You may not think there’s a problem. You may think you know the difference. It’s obvious right? But is it? Do you? After a lifetime spent in the arts, I find photographers’ ability to describe color woefully limited, and this is never truer than when...

Why Black & White And Color Images Don’t Mix

  Can you effectively present a project or body of work that contains both black-and-white and color images? It rarely works, but in rare cases it can. The problem is that color and black-and-white images appear to be from different times or even different worlds...

How To Write About Your Images

Writing an artist’s statement is something I initially resisted. For years I’d heard all of the excuses from many great artists, “Pictures should be seen and not heard.””If I could say with words what I want to say with images, I’d have become a writer.””Those...

Enjoy These Images From Greenland's Sublime Scoresbysund

Enjoy this selection of images from Scoresbysund, Greenland. These images are selected from three ongoing series – Revelation, Constellation, and Contrail. View more images from Greenland here. Find out more about my Greenland workshops here.

Photoshop Does The Work For You With Magic Wand & Quick Selection Tools

 Get sophisticated selections quickly. Photoshop offers two great selection tools that use pattern recognition to make the process easier and faster – the Magic Wand tool and the Quick Selection tool. They get complex jobs done quickly and the results they generate can be quite sophisticated. But...

The Difference Between Painters’ and Photographers’ Color Wheels

The photographers’ color wheel rendered by Apple. The painters’ color wheel painted by Johannes Itten.   In color theory, one of the primary uses of color wheels is to plot complementary colors. Painters and photographers use this information to create neutral colors. Painters mix complementary...

8 Useful Tips For Brushing Masks In Photoshop

Some tools in Photoshop make the marks for you, like the Gradient Tool and Paths. When it comes to masking, there’s no reason to fear drawing in Photoshop. Often, it amounts to little more than tracing. Plus, the History palette gives you an unlimited number of...

Painting The Simplest & Most Useful Masks In Photoshop

So often, it’s the simplest things that are the most often used and so the most useful. You may find that you use this very simple three-step technique for a majority of the masks you make in Photoshop. (I do.) 1 In the Layers palette,...

Austin Kleon Collected – Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work, How To Keep Going

Steal Like An Artist Show Your Work How To Keep Going Austin Kleon shares his accumulated wisdom from his three books Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work, and How To Keep Going. View more Creativity Videos here.