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Tutorial: Photoshop – Non destructive lens flare
As a photographer, I spend a good deal of time in various editing programs manipulating images to suit my needs or creative plan. Some photos need nothing more than a quick touch up, and some I want to do artistic/dramatic changes with. As much as I enjoy this work, there’s nothing wrong with speeding up my workflow where I can, and to that end I’ve created a lot of actions over the years to assist. Lens flares have seem to come into vogue lately, and while they are easy to apply I don’t do them often so love having a one click option to jog my memory of how to…
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Review – Kelbytraining.com
I recently purchased a year membership to Kelbytraining.com – an online video based training site started by Scott Kelby. The site covers photography techniques, as well as the full range of Adobe Creative Suite products. Scott Kelby is a well known photographer, who is also President of the NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), as well as editor of Photoshop User magazine. He’s written a slew of best selling technical books on a variety of photography techniques and photo editing software tutorials (several of which I own). So there’s a good background to support that the content on the site is of a good quality, with solid information – which…