I love applying targeted adjustments to my images via layer masks and adjustment layers, and quite often those targeted adjustments start with a selection. That’s why I often spend about a full day out of a typical five-day workshop teaching a variety of ways to create selections.
Of course, quite often photographers find selections […]
I’ve finally completed work on a new book, which I’m co-authoring with Deke McClelland. It was an intense project, in part because it covers an intense subject. And also because Deke is so “particular” (which in this case is a euphemism for “demanding”) when it comes to how the images are prepared. The result […]
I was checking out the latest news from Photokina (which I opted not to go to in order to finish up the latest book — you’re welcome, Deke), and ran across an item that gave me some hope.
You see, not too long ago I was testing some things out in Adobe Bridge and Adobe […]
I just got back from a cycling trip in Spain. I was there for 11 days, rode 412 miles through the mountains and plains (they’re wrong about the rain in Spain falling mainly on the plain, by the way), stayed in 5 cities or towns (and passed through many more), climbed many thousands of […]
I was teaching a workshop at the Lepp Institute last weekend, and I found myself (yet again) reminding those attending the workshop just how valuable the “magic” Alt key (Option key on Macintosh) really is when it comes to Photoshop. I often joke about how cool it is that this “secret” keystroke provides so many […]
I’m feeling a little weird right now. I was just reading about the latest (beta) version of Apple’s Safari web browser, which is now available for Windows. Before I go on, it is important that I provide a little background here. For those of you who aren’t aware, my “day job” is at Microsoft (yes, […]