Tutorial: Custom BW, HSL and Split Tone in Lightroom

Today in the “lab portion” of my beginning photography class at CCSF, we discussed and practiced editing photographs in Lightroom using custom tools such as the Black and White mixer, Hue, Saturation, Luminance mixer and Split Tone option.  The class is now hard at work practicing it themselves and completing their exercises to help work [...]

Tutorial: HDR Photography from Realistic to Fantastic

In this hour-long webinar, photographer and technical expert Joe Brady explains how to control exposure, use a handheld light meter, and process files with popular software programs to create high-dynamic-range images with a variety of styles. HDR Photography from Realistic to Fantastic, posted with vodpod

Tutorial: Julieanne Kost – Should I use Lightroom or Bridge?

In this episode of the Complete Picture on AdobeTV, Julieanne Kost helps you decide which application is right for your workflow by explaining the differences between Lightroom and Bridge for managing images and assets. The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost – Shou…, posted with vodpod

Photography Portfolio Template Websites

Tonight, I had the pleasure of talking to CCSF photography students in the class Editorial Photography (PH93) regarding online portfolios. During our time together – we sized images in Lightroom and Photoshop, talked about sharpening (ouch) and looked at a lot of “templated” portfolio website options geared toward photographers. In class, we took a look [...]

Tutorial: Adobe Lightroom 3 Be Organized

Adobe TV: “Discover the most efficient method for downloading images into Lightroom and organizing them. Quickly import and manage your photo collection in a library that makes organizing, finding and editing your photos easy.” Adobe Lightroom 3 Be Organized from Adobe TV, posted with vodpod

D&D Tutorial: Non-destructive Retouching Layer

In this D&D (down dirty) tutorial we have opened a RAW image into Photoshop as a Smart Object. We have finalized our RAW edits using Lightroom or ACR and decided to continue in our work-flow to retouch small unwanted distractions from the image such as dust  using the healing brush and clone stamp tools on [...]