Opening Files in Lightroom and Photoshop – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost helps you avoid unwanted or puzzling results by answering the three most frequently asked questions around opening and round-tripping files from Lightroom to Photoshop. View more Lightroom videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

The Magic of Truth & Lies – Marco Tempest

Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

Unsharp Mask

Precise sharpening can improve almost any image. It helps to know when to apply it, what type of sharpening to apply, how to apply it and where to apply it. Forget the filters Sharpen, Sharpen More and Sharpen Edges. They're just default settings of Unsharp...

4 Reasons To Be In Midcoast Maine This Weekend

It’s high season in Maine right now. The weather is gorgeous. And there are lots of events this weekend. Most know about The Maine Lobster Festival, an event that draws over 100,000 people in 5 days. Many know about all the great art events that...

Artist's Statement Video – Charlotte Young

Charlotte Young’s YouTube video is brilliantly tongue-in-cheek. For more fun try these three artist’s statements generators. 1    The Tangential 2    10 Gallon 3    Market-O-Matic Find my ebook Artist’s Statements here. Find my conversations with photographers here.

Capture Sharpening

Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages— capture (do it during RAW conversion), creative (do it in Photoshop) and output (automate it). Capture sharpening benefits all images. It compensates for inherent deficiencies in optical and capture systems. All lenses and sensors have specific...

New X-Rite ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro

X-Rite’s new ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro make major leaps forward in color managing displays. Technologically Advanced Hardware Both ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro devices feature an advanced, high-end, optical system with custom-designed filters that provide a near perfect match to the color perception of...

What To Do With Photoshop’s Color Management Dialogs

Knowing what to do with the color management dialog boxes you encounter while you’re editing your digital images in Photoshop is the key to making sure that the rich, saturated, wide-gamut color you choose to master your files in stays wide-gamut and doesn’t change –...

Simultaneous Contrast

How red is red? That depends in part on its context. We see colors in relationship to other colors in our field of vision. The appearance of any one color is modified by the presence of other colors. (This is a perceptual effect, not a...

Saturation

One of the most distinctive features of a visual artist’s use of color is their use of saturation. Many photographers are often asked, “Are you a black and white or color photographer?”  (Curiously other visual artist’s are rarely asked this question.) While many people who...