The idea from this tutorial came from a member of our local photo club who asked for help with one of his images. The aircraft in his photo looks great, but the sky has been blown out to white. What do you do when there is simply no available detail to recover? Well, pretty much your only solution is to drop in a new sky. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of adding a Layer Mask in Photoshop Elements 9 to do just that. We’ll also use one of the features of an extension called Elements Pl...
After taking a bit of a break from the podcast to redesign ;fadedandblurred.com , we're back with a brand new episode of Q&A@F&B. This is episode number 11, for those of you keeping track, and this time we're sitting down with charismatic Austin-based
Andrew S. Gibson is a freelance writer and the technical editor for the UK's EOS Magazine. Oh, and he's also a photographer...check that, he's also an amazing fine art photographer. As you can see by the image above, Andrew has a passion for black and white photography. He is one of the growing list of amazing writers-slash-photographers on David duChemin's Craft & Vision label. So far, C&V has released three eBooks by Andrew, all part of a series called The Magic of Black & White.Later this y...
Stuart Sipahigil's journey as a photographer began with a gift from his grandparents at the age of six. Now, more than forty years later, he still happily refers to himself as an amateur photographer "in the traditional sense of the word". ;
I'm a big fan of Aperture. I've tried every version of Lightroom, and though it keeps getting better, I still keep coming back to Aperture. The interface, the tools, the overall workflow just makes sense to me. It feels more intuitive than Adobe's offering. That being said, there are several areas where there is room for improvement. One of those areas is the integration with Flickr. Aperture has a Flickr exporter built in, but it's implementation is very basic and doesn't offer much beyond th...
Smart Shooter is a great tethering app for both Mac OS X and Windows. It's much more full-featured than either Lightroom or Aperture as far as a tethering solution goes. It offers camera control and Live View among other features.
This is a quick overview of setting up tethering in both Lightroom and Aperture.
This is a quick demo of one of the coolest new features in onOne Software's Perfect Photo Suite 5.5. Now you can use four of the six plug-ins as standalone apps!
In Episode 8 of Q&A@F&B, we sit down with a man of many talents, Corwin Hiebert. Corwin is a personal as well as a project manager, with names such as Dave Delnea and David duChemin on both his friends list as well as his client list. In addition, Corwin, along with David duChemin, is one of the founders of Craft & Vision, a publisher of eBooks for photographers and creative professionals looking to improve their craft. He is also the author of the Craft & Vision eBook, Growing the Vision Mong...
One of the keys to mastering Photoshop is to establish an efficient workflow that enables you to move about the interface quickly. In this video tutorial, I'll show you 10 quick tips and shortcuts that can help you save time and make your Photoshop workflow more efficient, especially when dealing with a lot of images.