Category Archives: Software

Photoshop Sharpening Power Workshop videos

My latest video training title is now available! This one is "Photoshop Sharpening Power Workshop", once again produced by the fine folks at video2brain. This title features about 2.5 hours of video tutorials to help you truly understand sharpening so … Continue reading

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EasyRelease for iPhone

If you take photographs of people (or property owned by other peopl), and if you have an iPhone, iPad, or Android device, you’ll want to check out EasyRelease. And if you’re on Twitter, you could win a free copy of … Continue reading

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Model Release Contest Winner

I’m happy to announce that Craig Ingram of Craig Ingram Nature Photography in Australia (www.craigingramphoto.com.au) has won my most recent photo contest. For this particular contest the only requirement was that the photo submitted be a portrait of a person.Craig … Continue reading

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Extract Gets Extracted

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 … Continue reading

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Photoshop = Typing

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 … Continue reading

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Hope and Metadata

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, … Continue reading

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Bridge to Nowhere…

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 … Continue reading

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Alt Key Madness

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. … Continue reading

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The Windows Safari

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 … Continue reading

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