Create An Oasis of Creativity For Yourself

Try setting half an hour a day for your creative life. If you did this everyday for one year, you’d give yourself 182.5 hours, roughly the equivalent of 4.6 work weeks. As you can see, it really adds up. Many find it helps to pay...

Saturation

One of the most distinctive features of a visual artist’s use of color is their use of saturation. Many photographers are often asked, “Are you a black and white or color photographer?”  (Curiously other visual artist’s are rarely asked this question.) While many people who...

Share Experience / Share Vision

It was December 2005. We had just made the long crossing of the Drake Passage to Antarctica. On the horizon were enormous icebergs. It was our first view of big ice. We all rushed to deck and began to photograph. I found myself standing shoulder...

Using Photoshop Stacks To Remove People – Deke McClelland

Deke McClelland shows you how to use stacks to remove moving objects in a scene. This is a game changing technique I emphasize in all of my field workshops. It will open up new possibilities for you, change the way you shoot, and raise your...

Selective Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Fill – Terry White

Terry White demos ways to make Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Fill more selective. Both new miracle features usually succeed or fail epically. When either fails, try these two techniques. Find more great content from Terry White here. Learn more with my digital photography...

Color Analysis

To better see color within an image it can help to abstract it. By de-emphasizing an image’s representational qualities you can more easily direct your attention to the color relationships within it. In short, you can see them better because you’re not distracted by other...

Graphing Color

Graphing color can help you identify colors more specifically and understand relationships between color better. One way to graph color is to use the Color Sampler Tool in Photoshop in combination with the Apple color picker. To access the Apple color picker choose Photoshop: General...

Unknown Patagonia – Free eBook – Linde Waidhofer

Linde Waidhofer has released her latest book – Unknown Patagonia – available in hardcover or as a free ebook. “This book is a visual exploration of a precious and so-far unspoiled part of the world that I have fallen in love with. But Central Chilean...

The Temperature of Color – Warm or Cool

An essential quality of color is temperature. Temperature can be used to attain a color balance. Temperature can be used to enhance spatial relationships within an image. Temperature can be used to elicit psychological responses within the viewer. Understanding and exploring the dynamics of temperature...

Next Step Alumni Exhibit – Indianapolis – 5/20 – 6/24

Next Step Alumni 2011 by Daspit, Gill, Bailey, Beal, Caponigro | . Renaissance Fine Art & Design Gallery and John Paul Caponigro’s Next Step Alumni present a beautiful collection of their work May 20 – June 24, 2011. You are cordially invited to view this...