Walking our way through the photographic world
I am usually content to create simple pano images using a series of 5 or so overlapping shots all in a straight line. I have always had confidence that the Photomerge function in Photoshop would do a pretty good job of pulling everything together into one seamless image (at least since CS3). But as I was standing [...]
When it comes to creating HDR images, most folks know that Photomatix renders much better results than Photoshop when it comes to tonemapping. So if that’s the case, why would anyone need to use Photoshop as part of the process? The simple fact is that, while Photoshop is pretty lame when it comes to any [...]
So often I get carried away with new features and filters in Photoshop that I sometimes forget about some of the oldies but goodies. This weekend I got reacquainted with one of my favorites, the Dust and Scratches Filter. This past Friday, a friend gave me a file and asked if I could clean it [...]
So what do I mean by this? Well let me try and explain. This weekend I was doing some research at one of my favorite places, my local Borders book store. As per my norm, I started at the Photoshop section and then on to the Photography section. I was looking for books that dealt [...]
After my post the other day on using the Lightroom Export function to speed up image prep, I received some comments from readers who told me that they also like to use Droplets for quick image prepping. Droplets don’t get a lot of love being mixed in with all the other juicy Photoshop tools but [...]
