Making Relative Versus Absolute Adjustments In Lightroom – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost demonstrates the differences between making absolute adjustments to photographs using Lightroom’s Develop module and relative adjustments using the Quick Develop panel. View more Lightroom videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Benefits of Editing Images In 16 Bit Mode

More bits of data make more shades of gray.   What’s the difference between 8-bit and 16 bit? The number of shades of gray. 256 versus 65,536 to be exact. With more shades of gray, gradation becomes smoother. How do you get at these numbers?...

Lightroom 3 Print Module Tips – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost focuses on little known features and helpful hints for making the most out of the Lightroom Print Module. Learn how to create a template for posting images to your blog using the print to JPEG option, apply custom edge effects and backgrounds using...

20 Questions With Photographer Eric Meola

Eric Meola provides quick candid answers to 20 questions. What’s the most useful photographic mantra? Never stop looking. What’s the thing you most hope to accomplish? Making someone else excited about photography. If you had to do it all over again, what would you change? I’d...

Top 5 Ways To Add Color To B&W

Colorless black-and-white images are beautiful, but sometimes it’s nice to add a little bit of tone. By adding color to your b&w photos, you can enhance their expressive qualities. These days, you can add color to your black-and-white digital images in virtually unlimited ways. Sure,...

Unsharp Mask

Precise sharpening can improve almost any image. It helps to know when to apply it, what type of sharpening to apply, how to apply it and where to apply it. Forget the filters Sharpen, Sharpen More and Sharpen Edges. They're just default settings of Unsharp...

Hipstamiticophilia – Ragnar Th Sigurdsson

While guiding me on my Iceland photography workshop, Ragnar Th Sigurdsson rediscovered iPhone photography. He got obsessed with the App Hipstamatic, which produces photographs with terrific lo-mo effects. He started seeing differently. In addition to making many images with higher end photography equipment, he produced...

Cartooning Our Way Through Iceland

We have a lot of fun in my workshops. Often, we use our iPhones to stimulate creativity. We try all sorts of creative experiments. This trip, one of the experiments I tried was creating cartoons of participants as superheroes or supervillains. It all started when...

Track Your Influences

Frequently, old ideas and feelings surface in the midst of our creative process. Tracking our own fixations and chains of association can be both revealing and rewarding. The paintings of Morris Graves made a big impression on me at an early age. Ever since, I...

New Images – Workshop Participants – Iceland 2011

We do lightning fast reviews of participant’s images in my digital photography workshops. We discuss what works and why and what doesn’t and why not. It’s wonderful to see how different the images are, made by individuals in the same situations using the same tools....