11 Movies That Use Day For Night Plus An Inside Look At Nope’s Brilliance

 “Day for night” is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate the appearance of night while filming during the day. It’s often used when it’s too difficult or expensive to shoot at night, but it’s sometimes selected deliberately because it offers special image qualities....

10 Tips for Working in the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic

 “Julieanne walks through 10 tips for working in the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic, including shortcuts for sliders and panels, customizing the interface, unique zoom options, and more!” Find more from Julianne Kost here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

4 Movies That Showcase Zhang Yimou’s Brilliant Use Of One Color Dominance

 Looking for some color inspiration? Try Zhang Yimou’s films. This director repeatedly uses one dominant color in a movie to saturate it with emotion and symbol. Here are four of my favorites. Raise The Red Lantern (red) House Of Flying Daggers (green)  Hero...

Photoshop’s New Shareable Custom Adjustment Presets Feature

 Now, you can create shareable custom Adjustment Presets in Photoshop. Colin Smith, Matt Kloskowski, and Unmesh Dinda show you how. Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe. Watch more from Matt Kloskowski here. Discover more of Unmesh Dinda’s content here. Learn more...

7 Movies That Mix Black & White And Color Masterfully

Black-and-white and full-color palettes present such different visual realities that it’s extremely difficult to combine them in a single project. Without a reason, it’s distracting, but when it’s used symbolically, it can work wonders. Below are 6 movies that do it masterfully. The Wizard Of...

The Cheat Code To Always Get Perfect Skin Tones With Photoshop

“Discover the incredible power of color palettes to always get the perfect skin tones in Photoshop! In this tutorial, learn how to get smooth and rich skin tones using sampling and Curves. We’ll also learn how to even out skin tones and prepare our image...

Use Presets To Quickly Reveal The Extraordinary Possibilities Hidden In One Image

Rushing towards perfect, you might miss it. Previsualization (seeing with your mind) is a fine start, but I recommend you use Lightroom to go further and visualize (see with your eyes). After exploring your options fully, you can perfect those results. You can level up...

10 Best Uses Of Color In Movies Of All Time

 As this video shows, “Color is one of the most effective tools in a storyteller’s arsenal.” When you’re choosing the colors in your still images, you can find limitless inspiration from color grading in movies. This is true for single images and for series...

Turn Any Color To Any Color In Photoshop

 “Discover the Best Techniques to Change Any Color to Any Color in Photoshop! Whether you want to change blue to red, black to white, or white to anything you can think of, we will cover it all in this tutorial. Using the power and...

The Top 6 Softwares To Fix Blurry Photos Compared

 What’s the best tool to fix blurry photos? In this video, we compare the top 6 software and platforms to sharpen extremely blurry portraits and photos. From old noisy images to recovering out-of-focus areas, we will test it all. We‘ll also discuss which one...