Suffusion XXII – The Making Of The Print

I’m having a great time printing this series of images! At first glance, they look like classic black and white images. In reality, they’re full color captures of a near neutral subject, processed and printed as color images. The trace amounts of color from the original...

Creative Sharpening With HDR Software

HDR software is most typically used to render shadow and highlight detail, but it also can be used to enhance tonal separation and detail in any range of tones, even in images with extremely low contrast. The very same tools that are used to compensate for...

Using The New Video Features In Photoshop CS6 – Julianne Kost

Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use the new video features in Photoshop CS6. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Free Screensaver – Antarctica

  My new free screensaver features images and facts on Antarctica. Download it here. Antarctica is stunningly beautiful! Explorer Roald Amundsen said, “The land looks like a fairytale.” The coldest, windiest, driest, highest, most isolated continent contains 90% of earth’s ice and 70% of its...

Masterworks In My Collection – Joyce Tenneson – Kristin, Hands In The Air

Artist’s often use consistent palettes for separate bodies of work, some use a consistent palette for a lifetime. This not only makes their work more readily identifiable, it also clarifies the nature of the statements they make. When an artist does this color becomes more...

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...