Archive for the ‘Photoshop’ Category
Online Nature Photography Workshops Start Wednesday, September 1
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, September 1, 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.
Roxio Releases Creator 11 Multimedia Software
New Version of Roxio’s Creator Add’s 3D To Photo’s and Video
We’re photographers, but we’re also computer users. Many of us have collections of photo’s and video’s. With the advent of HD video in many of our digital cameras, we’re also video editors and producers. We have digital post-processing nailed with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, but what do we use for our digital video? Personally, I’ve been using Roxio for a few years, just for burning DVD’s and for some quick video editing. Roxio’s lastest version of Roxio Creator now adds 3D capabilities to our video’s and our photos.
Photoshop CS5 Is Here
Just When You Thought You Had Your Current Version Of Photoshop Understood…
Adobe has been pretty regular with their updates to their Creative Suite of software. In our case as photographers, Photoshop. Photoshop CS5 announced last month is shipping. We thought it to be a good idea to hit the highlights with you. After all, we’ve been testing this for quite a while, and am really enjoying some of the new features the photographer may be interested in.
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.
Top 40 DPD Photography Gizmo’s Updated
DPD’s Top 40 Digital Photography Gizmo’s
Take a gander at our updated DPD Top 40 (DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY DAILY’s top digital photography products). Still on top, the Canon EOS 7D. Still think its the best APS-C class digital camera out there. You could actually make most of these products #1 in the Top 40, but that’s according to taste. They’re all good, and you probably own a few already too!
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Preview Video’s
A Couple of YouTube Video’s Regarding CS5
Hi all, hope you had a great week! We’re linking to some video’s that will provide sneak peaks of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5. These are starting to make the rounds, so I thought I’d link to them from YouTube.com.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Is On It’s Way
Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Creative Suite CS5 Launch April 12, 2010
Adobe announced today it’s launch date for Photoshop CS5 and the rest of the Creative Suite CS5. There isn’t a lot of info out there on the Web yet, and I can attest to the point that the software isn’t being burned to CD’s yet either as various beta programs are just getting wrapped up.
You can sign up for Adobe’s online event at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ JANAD2W98WDM 3DV6VHS34B8J
Spring Means Flower Photography
10 Tips For Spring Flower Photography
In many parts north of the equator, it’s still cold outside. Springtime is here, and that means it’s getting time to start thinking about flower photography. If you hadn’t noticed, the stores are starting to stock more flowers, getting ready for springtime business. As the flowers are getting ready to start blooming in the next few months, we need to start thinking in terms of photographing them.
Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Free Download
Adobe has announced version 2 of its Lightroom 3 beta available for free download. This is an update to the download version featured in our earlier article. The beta is operational on your computer until June 30th, 2010. The new beta offers better performance, enhanced noise reduction, new slideshows with audio, better online photo sharing which has been growing in popularity the past few years, plus updated import file handling.
You can download the latest beta at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/
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.
Oscar Rivera Photographs New York City
Photographer Spotlight
Oscar Rivera’s Extraordinary Photography From The Streets of New York
I came across New York City photographer Oscar Rivera’s photographic work while trading forum emails with him about Nikon lenses. I followed a link to his website, and was thoroughly amazed as what I discovered next.
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.
Ready To Move Up To A Graphics Tablet?
The Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet
If you’re a Photoshop user, you’re more familiar with the problems of editing than others. For graphic artists, the mouse as a pointing device just doesn’t suffice. Its just too crude of a pointing, tracing or drawing tool. If you’re using the touch pad on a laptop, its even more of crude process.
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.
Happy 20th Anniversary Photoshop
Adobe is celebrating Photoshop’s 20th anniversary with a cool web page on their site. A nice visit to the past to see how far they’ve gone in helping revolutionize the industry, and you and I as artists. Visit http://www.photoshop20anniversary.com. And by the way, thank you Adobe!
Discover High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging
An Excerpt from Improve Your Photography: 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
HDR represents a major development in the past few years for new techniques for digital photographers. I rate this pretty high, up there with the advent of RAW image file formats, full frame digital SLRs, Lightroom and Aperture.
Get Photoshop CS4 for $200
Did you ever want to use a licensed version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended but didn’t want to shell out the $899 for it? We can understand that. You could pick up a Canon Digital Rebel T1I for about that price, or put a down payment on a car.
