New Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6 – Bryan O’Neil Hughes

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results. View more Photoshop CS6 videos here....

Masterworks In My Collection – Jerry Uelsmann, Nude, 1983

Jerry Uelsmann’s 1983 nude is a very influential photograph for me. It makes direct what is typically only implied in some ‘straight’ photographs – that mankind is not separate from nature. The transparent merger of figure and ground is poetically rich in so many ways...

10 Top Enhancements To Layers In Photoshop CS6 – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost shares the top 10 enhancements in the Layers Panel in Photoshop CS6. View more Photoshop videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

John Cleese – On Creativity

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.” – John Cleese Among the many gems John Cleese shares, he outlines “The 5 factors that you can arrange to make your lives more creative.” 1 – Space “You can’t become playful, and therefore...

Creative Sharpening – Double Pass & Hybrid

Different sharpening techniques make the world look different. A world of difference can be seen between the thin hard line of Unsharp Mask and the broad feathered line of High Pass Sharpening.Can you choose a combination of both? Yes, you can! You can choose the...

Creative Sharpening With NIK’s Viveza and ColorEfex Pro

Both NIK’s Viveza and Color Efex Pro offer useful additions to a digital artist’s set of detail enhancement tools. Viveza provides Structure while Color Efex Pro provides Tonal Contrast. Consider them both useful variations of the types of effects you can produce with Photoshop’s High...

Lecture Today at CPA – Carmel CA

I’ll be presenting a free lecture sponsored by Canon today at 2pm hosted by the The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. In this two hour event I’ll present a series of short lectures including a version of my TED talk You’re More Creative Than...

NAPP Photoshop CS6 Beta Launch Center

The Photoshop Guys at NAPP put together 20 new videos on Photoshop CS6. They’re all free! View them here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Free Lecture Tonight at BHSU South Dakota

I’ll be presenting a free lecture sponsored by Canon tonight at 7pm hosted by the Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. In this two hour event I’ll present a set of separate lectures including an extended version of my TED talk You’re More...

Recent iPhone Photographs

Smart phone photography is a great way to stimulate your creativity and explore different ways of thinking visually. On a recent road trip I collected many images during moments in between events. I consider these experiments or sketches rather than finished images but the discoveries...