Sometimes the Road is…
Very long and very lonely. I have finally returned home after eight weeks of continuous travel. I have been to California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and Hawaii. My wife has taken my balls clean off. I now talk in a much higher voice. You know what though? All was for a greater good. A [...]
What is Thy Bidding My MASTER COLLECTION CS5 – Just the Beginning
Last week we received our copy of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 – Master Collection. I am sure that many of you already know about this software from all of the buzz Adobe has generated about its release. We decided that the Master Collection was a good choice for our office because we are starting to [...]
20 years of Photoshop
February 19th 2010 marks the 20th Anniversary of Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe is getting together with the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) to celebrate the anniversary of the software that changed the face of photography and design forever. The Photoshop 20th anniversary celebration on February 18th at 7:30 p.m. pst will be streamed LIVE [...]
Aperture 3 – a Quick Personal Comparison to Lightroom
For starters, I feel that I need to qualify this review with a little bit of my history with Apple Computers and Aperture software. I bought my first Mac over 20 years ago and have been using them exclusively as my publishing platform since. My standard saying is, “You can have my Mac when you [...]
Photoshop and Nature Photography: How Far is Too Far?
Darwin Wiggett and I have started a column swap in our blogs. Every other month we are writing our individual opinions on a common topic. Soon we will have a name for what we are doing, but for now, this month’s topic was “Photoshop and Nature Photography: How Far is Too Far? You can view [...]
Guest Columnists-Samantha Chrysanthou and Darwin Wiggett
Photoshop and Nature Photography: How Far is Too Far? by Samantha Chrysanthou and Darwin Wiggett Samantha’s website | Samantha’s blog Darwin’s Website | Darwin’s blog In the popular view, photography is more realistic than any other graphic art because the camera takes its images directly, optically from reality….However, all art is illusion…and a photograph as [...]
Jay is an internationally published and celebrated photographer and writer. His work focuses on architecture, nature, and adventure. His clients have included fortune five hundred companies, trade publications, national and international magazines and books, graphic designers, architects, builders, commercial printers, and many others.