Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

In advance of our workshop on Hollywood Lighting in Los Angeles, on May 13th & 14th, 2017,  I am posting this detailed tutorial on B&W portrait technique in Photoshop. This is the post processing part of our workshop exploring George Hurrell style lighting...
Old-School Posterize Effect in Photoshop

Old-School Posterize Effect in Photoshop

Here is a technique for re-creating a printing effect popular in the psychedelic 60’s – a posterize effect that was used frequently for Rock concert posters. This step-by-step video tutorial utilizes the Threshold adjustment, layers and layer masks, advanced...
Aerial Perspective in Photoshop

Aerial Perspective in Photoshop

Very often we encounter a scene where everything works well except for a distracting background. Sometimes retouching out distracting elements can work, but sometimes we don’t want to resort to retouching, or we want to preserve some sense of the original...
Death Valley Adventure – 3

Death Valley Adventure – 3

Using Puppet Warp to un-distort panoramas Well… my Death Valley adventure has inspired many discoveries and I thought I’d share one of them for part 3. This takes advantage of the distortion capabilities in Puppet Warp to correct for some common...
Lightroom 4 and the Digital Zone System

Lightroom 4 and the Digital Zone System

While Lightroom 4 is still in beta, it is clear that there have been major changes to this preeminent photographers tool, especially with regards to RAW processing. This has serious implications for my digital zone system. Fortunately this doesn’t require...