Creating a creative digital composite

Today I wanted to share a video I came across about how to create a creative digital composite in Photoshop CS5. I think digital composites can be so interesting and Photoshop really is such a powerful tool in the creative process. With the ability to layer images over images and blend items together Photoshop really [...]

Editing your photos in Lightroom 3

For anyone getting started in lightroom 3 here is a really great video tutorial that Julieanne Kost put together. She covers a lot of basics on making global and local color and tonal corrections to your images and also the new noise reduction abilities of Lightroom 3 which is a pretty amazing tool compared to [...]

Adobe Photoshop CS5 top 5 new features

Adobe released CS5 a little while back now and I know a lot of you have been upgrading. How has the upgrade been so far, love it? Hate it? Let us know, we always are looking to see what your real world expieriences are with different products. We are planning on doing some articles on [...]

Photoshop cheatsheets

As photographers we have now taken a lot of the job that a lab tech used to have. We now do all of our own post production and spend countless hours in Photoshop, Lightroom and other software editing and color correcting images. I know that for every wedding we shoot here in the studio there [...]

Free Photoshop Actions

Looking for a good way to start off your monday morning? How about some free actions! Check out a list of some great free actions that I have collected. Actions can be a great way to save time in Photoshop. While I always end up still doing some additional changes to each image, having an [...]

Photoshop CS5 Masking Basics & Masking Magic

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 [...]

Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

With all of the advanced editing features that Photoshop have sometimes I think the most useful tools in editing are the Dodge and Burn tools. The light and dark areas of an image really control the viewers eye, peoples eyes right away first go to the lightest part of the image. So you always want [...]

Color correcting your photographs

Thanks everyone who filled out one of our last polls on what you use to color correct your images. It seems the huge majority out there use Adobe Lightroom to do your color correcting work (62%). Another 38% use Photoshop, and Aperture and Bridge had about 10%. These polls are really helpful to me and [...]

Free Photoshop actions

Actions can be a great way to save time in Photoshop. While I always end up still doing some additional changes to each image, having an action can get you pretty close to what you want for the end result and help to save you time. For those of you who don’t know what Photoshop [...]

Fixing underexposed images in Photoshop

Even though we all try and get the exposure perfect in camera, from time to time things happen and exposure is off. It might be one shot out of a bunch that has the perfect expression but was under or over exposed and you have to fix it. Even though it will never look as [...]

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