How To Master Saturation In Your Images

Saturation Is An Essential Key To The Success Of Your Images One of the most distinctive features of a visual artist’s use of color is their use of saturation. When you think of Ansel Adams’ photographs, you think of neutral images rather than highly saturated...

How To Preserve Lively Shadows In Your Prints

One of the keys to making a great print is great shadow detail. Shadow detail is something to be mindful of during exposure, processing, and printing. Curiously, even if you see shadow detail in your file on a calibrated monitor you may not see all...

Top Photographers Celebrate The Power Of The Print

John Paul Caponigro Jeremy Cowart Gregory Crewdson Lois Greenfield Steve McCurry Gerd Ludwig Mark Seliger John Sexton Tim Tadder Amy Toensing Steven Wilkes Top photographers celebrate printing and talk about what drew them to photography, the inspiration that drives their work, the stories behind their most...

The Caponigros – Two Generations Of Photographers

. In this video my father and I share insights into our creative lives and our passion for printing. View photographs here. Find quotes here. Read Q&A here. Find conversations here. Learn more in my digital printing workshops.

How Does Lightroom’s New Texture Slider Compare To Clarity and Sharpness ?

Maximum Dehaze Maximum Clarity Maximum Texture Maximum Sharpening Negative Texture Negative Clarity Think of Adobe Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw’s new Texture slider as producing an effect that lies somewhere between the Clarity and Sharpness sliders. It’s closer to Sharpness so when you apply it, rather than looking...

What In The World Is Color Psychology ?

Color psychology is the study of how color affects human behavior. It’s a long-standing, field used in art, design, marketing, sports, medicine, and much more. Despite its long history and widespread use, there’s a lot more to discover about how color affects people scientifically. Here’s...

All The Symbols The Rainbow Contains

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see color? Chances are you’re not alone. Color associations come from many sources universal, cultural, regional, communal, and individual. These all change over time, with changes happening faster at the individual level than the global...

How To Make Color Psychology Your Own

Studying color psychology will make you a more able and aware communicator. After you familiarize yourself with the ways other people relate to colors it’s time to make it personal. You have specific and unique relationships with color. This relationship has many layers. It’s a...

3 Great Books On Color Psychology

Looking for great reading on color psychology? Start with these three very different books. The Color Box Lori Reid A simple approachable survey that’s lushly illustrated. The Art of Color Johannes Itten The expanded version of a true classic The Elements Of Color includes personal exercises and...

How To Master Color Adjustment With Curves

After Before   Curves does what other color adjustment tools can’t, precisely adjusting two out of three elements of color (luminosity and hue but not saturation) based on lightness. No other color adjustment tool is as powerful or precise as Curves. Surprisingly, many people don’t...