Archive for the ‘Elements’ Category
Photoshop Elements 10 Now Available
Adobe Comes Through With Its Yearly Update to the Ever-Improving Best Selling Image Editor: Photoshop Elements
Once again we come to the time of year where Adobe always comes through with its latest version of Photoshop Elements. Personally, I teach Photoshop Elements and therefore use it on a daily basis. What I’m so impressed with is the bang for the buck with Elements. For under $100 U.S., it completely negates other image editors in price performance. For the amateur and enthusiast photographer, its absolutely the best software package around. It operates like the big brother Photoshop but it also has a nack of including new features that Photoshop just doesn’t have. Lets look at what Adobe has to say…. Kevin Moss, Publisher
Fall Color Photography
It’s Fall Color Time for Nature Photographers
10 Tips for Great Fall Color Photography
Autumn. A favorite time of year for many nature photographers. For those lucky enough to live in areas where you have 4 seasons, right now, early October is a special time. In the northern latitudes, colors are at peak or just past. In many areas, fall color is just starting to appear, and that means its time for nature photographers to get out their digital cameras, tripods and a circular polarizer and get out and photograph fall color.
10 Recent Photography Trends
Whats New For Digital Photographers In Photography Gear and Digital Techniques
We’re often techies. OK, we are techies and electronics geeks. We read, we buy, we play. Digital photographers are techie junkies at times and I am no different. Because of the nature of my personal photographic work and being an instructor of students all over the world, I do keep up with current trends for digital photographers. These are exciting times for us, and the available tools for our passion are getting larger, more complex and most of all, fun! Lets talk about 10 technology trends that are here or forthcoming. I’ll be breaking these down in detail over the next 10 articles, here is my introductory summary.
Recent Photography Trend #1: The Apple iPad
Greatest Artist and Photographers Tool Since Photoshop?
When was the last time you stepped into a Starbucks and didn’t see someone doodline on an iPad? Lets face it, they’re all over the place. Yuppies, professionals and regular folks likes us playing with their iPads. How does cool new tool help the photographer? Think of the future, cloud computing. Its coming, and its the next-step of the web. The iPad is more than a glorified iPhone with a few apps.
Recent Photography Trend #4: Digital Photography Workflow Software
Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom Mature Into Essential Tools for the Digital Photographer
One of the trends that has been growing for advanced and enthusiast photographers is the use of image editing workflow software. The market is dominated by Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. The first out of the gate a few years ago was Aperture, however dominating the space now is Adobe with its recent release of Adobe Lightroom 3. Both are top notch. Apple based professional photographers tend to favor Aperture as it is strictly for the Mac and integrates well with iPhoto. The rest of the world favors Adobe Lightroom. Which is better?
Recent Photography Trend #7: Digital Infrared
Convert That Old Digital Camera to Infrared
Back in the film days, or BF (before digital cameras) a small breed of photographers would load up their 35mm cameras with infrared film (in the dark I may add!), attach special filters in front of their lenses, and pursue a true art of infrared black and white photography. It was difficult to work with at best. The photographer would have to store the film in cold temperatures, and never knew what type of results they would get from the film, you see, we didn’t have immediate feedback like we do know with LCD’s on our cameras.
Recent Photography Trend #10: The Return of Black and White
Black and White Photography Is A Whole Lot Easier and Safer Now
Black and white photography never really did go away, there is still a legion of fine art black and white photographers out there practicing their art. What digital photography has given us however is a greatly increased interest in photography as a whole, and with that increase a whole new slew of black and white photographers. What digital gives us what we really didn’t have in the film days is an easy workflow… shoot everything in color, and convert to black and white later.
Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 9
Yearly Photoshop Elements Upgrade for 2011: Keeps Getting Better
Another year, another version of Photoshop Elements. Just announced, Adobe is rolling out Photoshop Elements 9. Adobe does come up with an upgrade approximately every year and always includes new features for the photographer. For Photoshop Elements 9, Adobe had added a neat feature borrowed from Photoshop CS5, content aware fill. Think of it as the healing brush on Steroids. Unfortunately Adobe doesn’t offer upgrade pricing for owners of previous versions of Elements, but at approximately $79 U.S., its still worth the price to upgrade.
Online Nature Photography Workshops Start Wednesday, October 6
Take an Online Workshop with Kevin Moss: Elements for Nature Photographers or Photoshop for Nature Photographers
Hello everyone, hope you had a wonderful September!
I have 2 workshops starting Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Both are on the subject of nature photography with one workshop concentrating on Photoshop Elements, and the other workshop for Photoshop users. The workshops are taught online at BetterPhoto. I’ve been an instructor there for over 3 years and have been teaching these two web-based workshops for some time. I’ve had students from 60 countries and at all ages and levels of expertise, doing a lot of one-on-one during the month-long online course.
Blur as an Element of Composition
A large part of my personal portfolio, the use of blur in my personal photographic work is ever expanding. I’m not condoning sloppy technique that result in a soft image, I’m talking about introducing blur into certain images in order to elicit a desired effect; an abstract study of color and blur. I’ve been working on a portfolio of such images for about 5 years now (hmm, another book idea!).
Improve Your Photography Available in Print
Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Tips and Techniques Available In Print
We have had a lot of requests for a printed version of our eBook, Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques. It is now available for order from my publisher (and soon to be on Amazon) at https://www.createspace.com/3435093. I received my final proof earlier this week, and the book is looking great in print. If you don’t want to waste a set of inkjet cartridges and want a printed copy, it’s ready for purchase. By many copies and send them to your friends!
Color As An Element of Photographic Composition
Using Color As The Main Subject Matter
You’ll discover that most photographers, regardless of their level of expertise will typically like to shoot a small number of subjects. There is a large army of nature photographers around the world. There are many that are primarily portrait photographers. Some concentrate their photographic efforts on travel (I call them the “lucky ones”). Others photograph a number of different subjects, that’s the category that you should be encouraged to explore.
Search Your Old Digital Camera Files For Treasure
Rescue Lost Treasures
Shooting digital for 10 years yet? That’s when the digital revolution started to take hold. When was the last time you went back to your image library and reviewed the images you had taken years ago? If you’re like a lot of photographers, there are probably hundreds or more digital images that were pretty good, but you never bothered doing anything with.
Free Dreamy Photo Photoshop Filter from Auto FX Software
A Nice Freebie Photoshop Filter or Standalone Application
Auto FX Software has a number of special effect Photoshop plug-ins that I’ve used over the years. One filter in particular,is the Dreamy Photo filter that is part of their Dreamsuite Series product line. I really like the effect of this simple filter, and have used it from time to time with good success. I like the filter to add a colorful glow to certain images, an effect that is difficult to duplicate with consistency in Photoshop (though all the capability is there, this filter is just very convenient!)
Free eBook – Improve Your Photography
Improve Your Photography: 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
A Free Offering From Digital Photography Daily and Author Kevin L. Moss
For subscribers to Digital Photography Daily, we’re offering a free eBook version of Improve Your Photography: 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques by Kevin L. Moss.
Photoshop Lightroom 3 BETA Available for Free Download
You know, while we’re at celebrating the 20th anniversary of Photoshop with Adobe, we should mention that they do have a trial download of Lightroom 3 Beta. This is a nice opportunity to test out the next coming version of Lightroom, or getting your feet wet before you decide to move up to Lightroom as part of your overall digital darkroom solution.
Abstracts With The Photoshop Liquify Tool
In the article Blur as an Element of Composition, I showed you how to use the Motion Blur tool in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to take simple uninteresting (or interesting, you choose!) images and transform them into abstract art.
The Thin Black Line
This is a quick lesson that I picked up through the Epson Print Academy about 5 years ago. Real simple. If you want to add elegance to your images that you display on the web, in print, or even on a digital projector, add a thin border, either white or black, depends on the background.
Rebate on Photoshop Elements 8
Adobe is offering a $20 rebate on Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements until 10/31/2010. With the rebate, we’ve seen the price of Elements down below $60 U.S., which is an absolute steal for this software. As a price watcher, we’ve never seen Photoshop Elements go for such a low price.
Ten Things To Love About Photoshop
The tool of choice for serious digital photographers has always been Adobe Photoshop. We’re now into version 11, now called CS4, and the versions keep coming every few years. Upgrading every two years may not be necessary for the casual user, for the professional, its often desired.
