Saving Changes To Your Photographs In Lightroom 3

Julieanne Kost explains how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog, how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command, as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog...

Single or Multiple Catalogs in Lightroom ?

Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost answers one of the most commonly asked questions “If should you use a single catalog for all of your photographs or if you should you use multiple catalogs?”. As a general rule, she recommends that you use as few as possible,...

LR/PS Advantages of the DNG File Format

Adobe Evangelist Julianne Kost demonstrates the advantages of working with and archiving to the DNG raw file format over proprietary raw file formats as well as choosing which tool to use to convert your files as you move through your workflow. Find more Adobe online...

Minneapolis ASMP Seminar – Fine Art of Digital Printing

Mac Holbert and I concentrate on Fine Art Workflow in our Epson sponsored seminar today (10 am – 4 pm) in Minneapolis for ASMP. Minneapolis Photo Center 2400 North Second Street $10 – ASMP Members / $20 – Non Members Free giveaways include Adobe CS5, NIK...

Exhibit – Harry Sandler and Barbara Ventura

ALLUSIONS OF REALITY “Allusions of Reality’ is clearly a seminal moment in my personal process. I have always been attracted to craft and a multitude of technical abilities, and, at the same time have always felt that I had the sensibility of an innocent. These...

Seattle ASMP Seminar – Fine Art of Digital Printing

Mac Holbert and I concentrate on Fine Art Workflow in our Epson sponsored seminar today in Seattle for ASMP. Free giveaways include Adobe CS5, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Pixel Genius Photo Kit Sharpener Pro, OnOne Plug In Suite, X-Rite Color Passport, and more. Find out...

How Many Photographs Actually Get Printed ?

300 million are photos taken each day generating over 100 billion a year. While 20 years ago 10% of photographs made were printed, today less than 1/10 of 1% are ever printed! Historically, what’s printed lasts; what’s not, doesn’t. Has this changed? Find out about...

Continuity

Continuity. Every screenwriter needs to create it. Every storyboard needs to interpret it. Every director needs to guide it. Every editor needs to refine it. If you’re a still photographer, you may be called to do all of these things. Continuity lies at the heart...

Reduce Noise With Dark Slides

Some noise is random; some noise is fixed. Hot-pixel noise is fixed. What are “hot pixels”? Photosites on digital sensors that generate brighter information faster than their neighbors. Hot pixels get brighter at higher ISOs, with longer exposures, and in warmer temperatures. You can map...

Reduce Noise With Multiple Shots

Got noise in one exposure? Make a bunch of exposures and watch the noise disappear. You can reduce noise in an image by combining multiple exposures of the same composition in Photoshop. Photoshop can search for the differences between the separate exposures and then blend...