I was so excited awhile back when collages.net called me wanting to do an interview about me and my photography. When you put all of your heart into your work it feels so good to have it recognized by other people in your industry, although it does still feel a little bit strange. Over the last few years I have been featured on a few different industry vendors websites, have had images of mine used in their marketing and promo material and it’s always so exciting but still surreal. I remember last year the company that we do our slideshows through wanted to use a recent slideshow of ours as a demo. They also used a few photos from that on their postcards and marketing material. They did a huge marketing blitz and for a few months I kept seeing my photos every few days in emails or mailers, it was strange but definitely awesome. Photography has been a love and passion of mine since I was a child and although I shoot for myself, it still is nice when other people acknowledge your work. Check out the interview and get to know me a little bit more.

So I was pretty stoked when collages.net called up and wanted to do a little feature of me on their blog. They wanted to know a little bit about my background and how I got started in photography, go and check out the full interview from their website at: http://blog.collages.net/?p=6700

Masking has always been a great way in Photoshop to select parts of an image and combine your selections to make a photo compositions. With basic images masking has always been pretty easy but for more complex images (little fly away hairs used to be the hardest thing to mask). But with Photoshop CS5 there are some new tools in the mask section that are pretty amazing. These new tools can save you a ton of time if you do a lot of detailed retouching or multi-photo compositions. Check out this video below to get a good walk through of the new features in the mask tool.

Photoshop CS5 is looking like a pretty decent upgrade, depending on the type of photography you do it might be a worthwhile investment. Have you upgraded yet? Love it/hate it? Let us know in the comments.

Do you have some great photoshop compositions to share? Leave a link in the comments below.

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