Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
I love finding shortcuts for working with software like Photoshop, Premiere and the like. Anything that saves me time and mouse-clicks is a big win in my book. Check out the above short video for a quick tip on setting up auto-select for the targeted adjustment tool across several adjustment layers in Photoshop. All those clicks add up over time.
The curves tool is a powerful way to manipulate the color and contrast of images inside Photoshop. There are tons of options within the curves tool and it can be a bit daunting at first. Check out the above video 13 quick tips for working inside the curves tool.
With the Fourth of July celebrations right around the corner, here’s my annual PSA for camera settings when shooting fireworks. If you’ve never successfully shot fireworks before and would like a starting point, check out my prior article: Camera Settings for Shooting Fireworks.
Have a safe and happy Fourth of July to all of you celebrating here in the US.
In this video from Peter McKinnon, we get a look at a pretty basic workflow of creating a cinematic look in Adobe Premiere Pro. Across the series of color grading tutorials in this video, he pretty much lives in the Basic Correction panel of Premiere Pro instead of getting into the three-way color wheels, which we commonly see used for emphasizing color in highlights and shadows.
While not the most complex grading method, I think it’s a great starting point for dipping your toes into color grading and getting good results. Of course, it all starts with good footage, which you need to get in-camera first.
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Here’s a quick tip on using keyword sets in Lightroom, along with the reason why keyword sets are limited to 9 keywords. This was a new one for me!
In this Photoshop tutorial from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to create shadows in composited images. Because of the complexity of shadows, it is importable to use multiple layers with your gradients to give them a more realistic appearance. Check out the full video above.
In this new tutorial from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to use content-aware scale tool in Photoshop to create an ad. He also works in some tips with the warp tool to get his composition just right. Check out the video above.
In this new video from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to create light rays through clouds inside Photoshop.
He does this buy using the radial blur filter as a smart filter, along with some simple strokes from the brush tool. Pretty cool results. Check it out above.
As the well-known advertising jingle says, the holidays are coming. A time when families get together, eat, drink, be merry and generally have a whale of a time. So there’s no better time to whip out the phone and start capturing images of the frivolity.
If you want to get great pictures though, there are a couple of things you should think about first – just because your camera is a phone, doesn’t mean it can’t capture great images – far from it, you just need to start treating it like a camera. So here are six tips to take your phone pictures from bluegh to wow! [Read more…]
Here’s a quick video in which I walk through a very simple technique for correcting too much red in faces using just Lightroom.
I picked this tip up from Aaron Nace’s tutorial on a similar technique in Photoshop. I generally try to avoid going to Photoshop if it is something I can deal with in Lightroom. It’s just faster and a preferred piece of software for me.
If you need to do this in Photoshop, check out this Phlearn video for an explanation of how to accomplish this inside Photoshop, where you’ll have much more control in isolating colors.