How To Break The Rules & Unlock New Creative Possibilities

Stuck? Experiment! How? Try this. List all of the rules of photography. Then break them.  Doing this will offer two profound benefits.  One, you'll develop a better understanding of and versatility with the medium. Two, you’ll deepen your understanding of your personal goals and voice...

How To Create And Use Hue Masks In Photoshop

. “Learn what are Hue Masks in Photoshop, and how can you use them for more control while color grading! In this lesson, we will start by understanding how Hue and Saturation mask work.” . Find more of Unmesh Dinda’s content here. Learn more in...

Reversal / Do The Opposite – It’s The Most Powerful Way To Innovate

Day / Night Looking for something new? Do the opposite of what you normally do. Use the power of reversal; it’s a powerful strategy used by countless creatives.  The principle of reversal is similar to the photographers’ 180-degree rule. You shoot in one direction. You’re...

How To Copy Color Grading From Paintings To Photographs Using Photoshop

. A Super Easy Trick to Copy the Color Grading from Paintings with Photoshop! In this short tutorial, we will use the Curves’ sampling technique to automatically match the colors of highlights, mid-tones, and shadows using the power of The Almighty Curves! You can use...

Every Picture Tells A Story … But How Does It Tell It?

Visual stories can be simple or complex, quiet or dramatic, short or long ... the possibilities are endless. Even in abstract images things happen, at the very least formal elements interact. Sometimes stories are told with images through their relationships with other images. Every picture...

3 Ways to Change Colors In Your Photographs With Photoshop

. In this short video tutorial, you’ll discover how to change colors in a photograph using a Solid Fill Layer, Hue/Saturation, and Curves Adjustment Layers. . Learn more on Julianne Kost’s blog. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

How To Rapidly Reorder Photographs in Lightroom Classic Collections

  . In this Quick Tip, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to quickly reorder photos by selecting multiple images rather than the time-consuming technique of dragging (and dragging and dragging!) and dropping photos into position. . Learn more on Julianne Kost’s blog. Learn more in my...

How To Use Association To Go Deeper With Your Photographs

My early curiosity about clouds displaying invisible forces at work, lead to associations of nephomancy (divination by clouds) and later clouds as divine messengers. The working title for this series, Glory (later changed to Illumination) was drawn from religious iconography in western art history. The...

13 Tips To Help You Master Curves In Photoshop

. In this short video tutorial, you’ll learn essential tips for working with the Curves panel in Photoshop, including how to customize the Auto options, add and delete points, use the Targeted Adjustment tool, and adjust color and tone. . Learn more on Julianne Kost’s...

How To Use Metaphor To Make Stronger Photographs

Zoomorphism animates and connects these images.   Photographs can often be well-crafted transcriptions of their subjects and nothing more. It’s usually that elusive ‘something more’ that makes great photographs, elevating them beyond craft to art. How can you bring more to your images? One way...