Outliers – What They Are And How To Make Them Fit

The single ground-level image above is an outlier in this series of aerial images. Read the article to find out more. See the solution at the end.   Outliers are the images that don’t fit neatly, testing the code of a body of work. Images...

The Weight Of Color

1 Images with lighter palettes tend to be brighter and less saturated (though driving colors towards white desaturates them), while those with heavy palettes tend to be darker and more saturated (though driving colors towards black desaturates them).   2 Brighter less saturated colors seem...

Ansel Adams – Empowering Others

Ansel Adams impressed me as a boy. What impressed me was the total package: his images (He helped codify a movement and a genre.); his technical mastery (He refined and disseminated the zone system.); his educational efforts through books (They are still in print today.)...

Selective Blurring In Photoshop CS6 – 3 Videos

Photoshop CS6’s Blur Gallery offers powerful, flexible tools for controlling blur in your images. You can see it in action in these three videos. Read more about CS6’s Blur Gallery on Julianne Kost’s blog. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

How Lightroom Impacted My Antarctica Project

(This piece first appeared on Adobe Stories. Find other Adobe Stories here.) Having developed an international reputation for creating altered photographs with ecological concerns, in Antarctica I became interested in creating an editorial (relatively unaltered) body of work to compare and contrast these two modes of...

Julianne Kost’s CS6 Lookup Adjustment Test File

“The new Color Lookup Adjustment Layer in Photoshop CS 6 has several options (3DLUT File, Abstract, and Device Link) that are used to load different “looks”. These looks are achieved by remapping every color in the image to a different one using a lookup table...

Lens Aware Adjustments – R C Concepcion

NAPP Instructor RC Concepcion goes over how easy it is to correct your images with Lens Aware Adjustments in Photoshop CS6. RC will even go into making further corrections in Photoshop’s new Adaptive Wide angle filter. View more Photoshop CS6 videos here. Learn more in...

Monhegan Island Reveries

What is it about Monhegan Island that gets your creative juices flowing? Maybe it’s the how beautiful it is; ocean, cliffs, forests, gardens, island life. Maybe it’s the sense of getting away from it all; the island is 12 miles out to sea. Maybe it’s the creative community...

Monhegan Photographic Workshop – June 17-19

Lobster boats, rocky shores, cathedral woods, cape houses, blooming wildflowers, hiking trails and fairy huts.  Ocean sunrises and sunsets. It’s quintessential small town Maine life all on one tiny island 12 miles out to sea. Monhegan. Join me for a 4 night 3 day all...

Content-Aware Patch in Photoshop CS6 – Bryan O’Neil Hughes

Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch, which allows you to choose the area that Content-Aware will use to create your patch. View more Photoshop CS6 videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.