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How To Create A Montage With Adobe Photoshop

October 5, 2009
Hidden Falls - a montage created with Adobe Photoshop.

Creating a montage with Photoshop has always been one of my favorite creative outlets. It gives me an opportunity to set my mind free and see my photography from a totally different perspective. It also enables me to use photos that are flawed, or that I might not be able to use otherwise, for whatever [...]

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How To Get One Good Shot Out Of Two Bad Ones With Photoshop CS4

August 7, 2009
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You’ve probably been there. You’re shooting an event, running around all over, trying to capture anyone and everyone, taking advantage of any impromptu group poses when you happen upon them, not really sure what you have or don’t have. Everything happens in a whirlwind, and you’re observing it all through this tiny portal on the [...]

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One Big Reason To Upgrade To Photoshop CS4

April 4, 2009

With every new release of Adobe Photoshop, there’s a period where people sit on the fence pondering whether or not they should upgrade.
“Is it worth the money?” “Are the new features really that good?” Sound familiar?
The past few releases have brought revolutionary features that have changed the landscape of how people do digital photography and [...]

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Getting The Focus You Want Using Photoshop CS4

April 3, 2009

When I’m shooting florals, my weapon of choice is my old Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D macro lens (now superceded by the 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR).
Whenever possible, I like to shoot them wide open to accentuate the flower by creating as much bokeh as possible, blurring the background to minimize distractions in the frame.
This works well [...]

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Photoshop.com – Where Photography Meets Social Media

March 26, 2009

Photoshop.com from Adobe Systems is an online solution for photo editing and sharing that also gives you the ability to sync your photos with social media accounts, such as Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket or Picasa.
Sure, you could upload directly to those accounts, but the value-add of Photoshop.com is that it gives you the ability to manage [...]

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Blended Hibiscus

March 17, 2009

One of the challenges in getting a good macro shot of a flower like a hibiscus is achieving enough depth of field to get the whole flower in focus while still getting as much bokeh as possible.
I decided to try experimenting with the new “Auto Align Layers” and “Auto Blend Layers” in Photoshop CS4 with [...]

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Evolving

October 17, 2008

I was brought up old school in photography. You take the picture, but you make the photograph. It starts in the camera by using every ounce of skill you can muster to get the very best shot you can from an exposure and composition standpoint, so that you do only the work required in post [...]

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A Room With A View

September 3, 2008

I don’t come to Vegas often. In fact, I think I’ve been here maybe three times in my whole life, and one of those was an hour-long layover on the way to somewhere else.
I was here for Photoshop World in 2005, and I’m here for the same reason again. I’ve been keeping up, [...]

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