One of the neglected, and often violated element in photography is the mood. Sitting in your living room on a bright sunny day look around and notice how dark the interior looks compared to the bright outside. Our visual system, being extremely adaptable to brightness, allows us to enjoy the bright … [Read more...]
Quad HD (QHD) Displays and Photoshop
Addendum July 19,2015: For a moment I thought this patch stopped working, then I discovered that in order for it to work you must tweak your display settings in "Change the size of all items" under "Personalize/Display" in Windows 8. I chose medium size although it works with the larger end but does … [Read more...]
On Actions and Presets
From the early days of computing saving keystrokes, and being able to repeat certain tasks with ease have been very popular. In those days software programs would offer simple "macro" capabilities which later became almost a programming language in their own right, look at Excel which now uses a … [Read more...]
Recently
Last couple of months I have been quite busy. Gearing up for the Collaborations event on October 5, 2014 and the event itself kept me busy for a while. Here are a few photographs from the hanging of the Ballet Off Stage exhibit at Festival Ballet Providence studios where Jim and Greg did the … [Read more...]
MOO, No, Not That One!
Some companies know how to offer good customer service, period! MOO is an Internet-based printing company that offers a variety of products with high quality printing on hefty stock. Last year I made a set of business cards that featured a couple of photographs from my Orchis collection, and later … [Read more...]
Cape Cod 2014
(The opening photograph above shows what I perceive as the typical texture of Cape Cod, pine needles and twigs) Last July I received an invitation from Cape Cod Vievfinders Camera Club (CCVFCC) in Harwich to make a presentation to their members. After a few e-mail exchanges with Joe Hintz the … [Read more...]
Creative Censor (CC)
I have been using various versions of Photoshop and other products in Adobe's Creative Suite, beginning with the original CS and the last version of CS6. As you probably know, Adobe recently moved to a subscription model and called it the Creative Cloud (CC). Individual products in the CC are … [Read more...]
Yet Another Photoshop Sharpening Method: Edge Mask
After the series of posts related to sharpening in Photoshop, one reader commented and asked whether split sharpening or edge-mask sharpening would be a better approach. I indicated in my reply that edge-mask is just that, a mask created from the edge information in the image applied to a sharpened … [Read more...]
Split Sharpening: Better Sharpening in Photoshop, 3
In this final post about split sharpening I will provide a method of sharpening lighten and darken components of the Unsharp Mask in a way that will allow for changing all the parameters even after multiple saves, edits, etc. (Part 1 and Part 2) Of course, in most instances sharpening will be the … [Read more...]
Split Sharpening: Better Sharpening in Photoshop, 2
In the previous post in this series, I have shown how to separate a sharpened layer into separate lighten and darken components and adjust the opacity and masking each separately. This would allow greater control than keeping the sharpened layer as a unit. In this post, I will show you even a better … [Read more...]