Since Adobe Lightroom 6 CC introduced the "Dehaze" slider, there is a new dehaze-craze. The slider has gained the status of Merlin's wand to cure many ailments. Like all the other adjustment tools, "it is a tool" and not a particularly new one. A … [Read more...] about Haze – Dehaze 1
Photoshop
Quad HD (QHD) Displays and Photoshop Follow Up
A while back, I wrote a post that explained how to make Photoshop CS6 or below to honor the changed screen size elements. Since then I have discovered a critical setting, this is to update the earlier post. On high-resolution laptop, and even some … [Read more...] about Quad HD (QHD) Displays and Photoshop Follow Up
Your Photo Editing Workspace
During some of my presentations, I get asked about the work environment for editing digital photographs. I also get individual inquiries about the subject. In this post, I will address those questions with some workspace examples including my … [Read more...] about Your Photo Editing Workspace
Preserving Mood in Photographs
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 … [Read more...] about Preserving Mood in Photographs
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 … [Read more...] about Quad HD (QHD) Displays and Photoshop
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 … [Read more...] about On Actions and Presets
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 … [Read more...] about Recently