President’s Day has afforded many of us the pleasures of a long weekend. I took advantage of the opportunity by catching up on some over-needed Z’s, visiting with family, and making strides on the back car-port-turned-screened-in-porch. So, it’s now Monday…
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Another Wednesday Walk around the Web
I mentioned it in the latest video podcast, but it also bears mentioning that Popular Photography’s annual Photo Wizard contest is now underway. Visit the contest page here for all the info and to download the images for compositing. Good…
Selective Color, Part III
The Tuesday tutorial for this week is the final installment in making selections based on a specific color, or range of colors. The first demonstrated how to use the Magic Wand and Lasso tools to copy an item onto it’s…
Weekend Wrapup (a.k.a. Monda Morning Minutia)
So, over the weekend, I usually step away from the computer and pick up the camera. Well, this past weekend, I confess, I did not step away from the computer as much as I had planned, and did not pick…
Weekly Web Walk
As promised, here’s my weekly walk around the web…although I must admit the tune “Window on the World” as sung by Jimmy Buffet is running through my head now. Anyway, to get things started, the PMA show for 2008 was…
Big Blue Bowl – Selective Color, Part 2
The tutorial for this week is the second in what will hopefully be a three-part series showing the various ways that you can approach selective coloring in Photoshop. Last week, I went over the technique of using the lasso and…
Missed Mondays
Egads, I am such a slacker – never posted yesterday. I was still feeling the effects of a rather tedious weekend spent on some home renovations and Super Bowl side effects. Suffice to say, I hit the sack at 8pm…
Printing your pictures online
I know it’s unusual for me to make posts on the weekends, but I felt this subject warranted an extra post. One of the things that’s always a hassle to deal with is taking your prints from not only the…
Selective Coloring: Method #1
The task of selecting a single object in an image to highlight by means of leaving that color intact while altering the surrounding elements is nothing new to photography…and there are several ways to do this, with varying levels of…
Walking Wounded on Wednesday
Well, it seems my wife’s illness was a little more contagious than anticipated. Suffice to say the bug bit me and with this lethargy the already belated Tuesday tutorial will have to wait another day. In the meantime, the usual…