Photographic Training & Tools for Success
Texas School is my biggest week-long workshop of the year where a limited number of photographers spend the entire week with me learning my system, everything from lighting, to digital workflow, to business. I want to thank WHCC – White House Read More …
Turning a beautifully lit and un-retouched studio portrait into a gorgeous snow scene can be done quickly with some specific Photoshop tricks. Learn some fast Photoshop extraction techniques, see how I use the lens filter gallery to create a great Read More …
As a notice to those still on the older OSX Snow Leopard 10.6, the upcoming major Adobe CC updates (for Photoshop and the other applications you may have in the CC suite), will require OSX 10.7 or higher. The much Read More …
Adobe has just released some new features for Photoshop CC. These are major updates, so make sure you run your updater. One new big feature is Perspective Warp. It allows you to create a 3D mesh around objects in a Read More …
Photoshop CC offers you the ability to remove the blur created specifically by camera shake. See how I’ve used it on both a scenic image and a portrait.
Photoshop CC has just been updated through your Creative Cloud updater to include the following: Perspective Warp makes it easy to manipulate multiple perspectives in your image while keeping the rest of the image intact. Linked Smart Objects allow you Read More …
For you all on the upper west coast, I’m coming to speak in Tacoma, Washington on March 30th, 2014. It’s a multi-day convention and I’ll be speaking all day! I will be jam-packing in that entire day with my entire system. Read More …
Sometimes you have a rainy day, but you need to accentuate the rain in the image because it won’t photograph they way you think it will. See how I create rain from scratch and blend it into an image so Read More …
Sometimes when I speak, I show my company Christmas card that I send out to my clients. For the last few years they’ve all been group portraits of me, but in the studio. My idea is that it’s a funny Read More …
In a previous post, I showed some images along with an article on how I created these images. But the question has been, “How much Photoshop did you do?” The answer is not much at all. Because of my system Read More …
I teach how to mix the creative and the technical while at a shoot. That means nailing the lighting and the posing while keeping the image fresh and “un-posed.” When you do what I was taught hands-on in Texas, you’ll Read More …
Here’s a fun video I made with footage from my last weeklong workshop. It’s to promote the event coming up in Canada that draws photographers from all over the US and Canada, called Image Explorations. It will be my last Read More …