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...

5 New Photoshop CS6 Demo Videos – Colin Smith

Colin Smith demos new features of Photoshop CS6 beta in these 5 videos. Plus Colin shares even more insights at Photoshop Cafe. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Public Beta – 6 Sneak Peeks – 5 Gurus' 6 Favorite Features

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Public Beta is now available as a free download. Download it here today. You can use it to get used to the new interface and features and decide whether/when to upgrade.You don’t need a lot of reasons to upgrade, you only need...

Output Sharpening

Image source, frequency of detail, subject, personal preference, output device, substrate or presentation device, and presentation size all play a role in sharpening.The art of sharpening gives you precise control over various image characteristics—contrast, saturation, contour (halo and line), texture and noise. It's best applied...

5 Photoshop Gurus Demo Their 6 Favorite CS6 Features

Plus view 19 more videos at NAPP’s Photoshop CS6 Beta Launch Center. Are these enough reasons to upgrade? You only need one, better shadow and highlight rendition during Raw conversion. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Save 10% On Dane Creek Folio Covers

Get 10% off all Dane Creek products with this code is INSIGHTS. Looking for a simple, affordable, yet elegant solution to presenting a set of your loose prints? Neil Enns of Dane Creek has a solution. “Dane Creek Folio Covers provide an elegant and inexpensive...