Photography Tips–Merging Two Exposures in Photoshop
On a recent trip to the desert southwest of Utah I photographed an amazing sunrise as a winter storm front approached my location. For landscape photographs such as this one, I prefer to use a graduated neutral density filter in the field to balance out my scene’s High Dynamic Range, but the composition that I [...]
Photoshop CS5 – Spot Healing Brush Tool – Welcome Back from the Darkside
Continuing my exploration of Adobe’s new CS5 Master Collection from a recent first post of ours, I have discovered a newly reinvented friend in Photoshop CS5. The Spot Healing Brush Tool has, up until now, never been my favorite tool to fix and remove dust, branches, etc. from an image. It just never seemed to get [...]
An Intense Learning Experience
I spent last week confined to my office staring at my computer monitor, miscellaneous papers, and books. My goal was a self-inflicted intense week of learning. I have been gathering tons of information on Photoshop techniques, flash techniques, and HDR techniques over the course of the past few months, and it was time to finally [...]
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