For both Photoshop Elements and Lightroom a new way of looking at collecting images and saving was introduced called Catalogs. For a long time looking at images was just going to a folder and seeing what was inside. However as we started to collect more and more images it was decided by the powers that [...]
With Photoshop Elements we are given a very powerful tools for handling images and making it handy for keeping our lives in order. Some a automatic and some do require just a little effort from us. Let’s talk about the automatic ones first.
Tagging our images
Elements tend to handle images differently than just a normal file [...]
A few months back (Gee were we ever that young?) I posted on how to make copies of images in different formats in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (PSE). This was one of my favorite tools called the Image Processor.
This tool worked pretty much the same for both but in the newly released PSE 8 [...]
There is a new Photoshop User Group starting in Fort Collins Colorado at The Center for Fine Art Photography. For those who have never been in an user group before this is a loose knit group of Photoshop fans who get together to talk and share tips, tricks, links, and mostly talk about everything Photoshop. [...]
I love layers, it is great that I can do so much to an image that if necessary (mostly from clients) something needs to changed I just go to that layer and rework it. Here is quick tip for creating a Merged Layer with all the work layers intact. We call it the Left Hand [...]
When you start with Photoshop you learn by clicking on tools and using them. Need another tool just go to the tool bar and click on it. Simple but what a lot people don’t know is that with many of the tools if you hold down the Alt (Ok you Mac users the Option) key [...]
One of the great things about Photoshop is that there is always about a dozen ways to do something. The thing that drives me crazy about Photoshop is that always seems to be about dozen ways to do something.
I do not like in camera conversions to Black and White because there is no one setting [...]
Windows users are use to getting beat up by Mac users on style and coolness. We are like the AV club, sure we know a lot of stuff but we get no respect.
Well there is a cool thing that only the cool kids with a two button mouse and scroll wheel can do that the [...]
In the modern world of Digital Cameras one thing that comes up in conversations with other photographers is White Balance. This is code for color because today’s cameras see color differently than film cameras. In the old darkroom ages we would purchase film that color balanced as to what we were shooting. If we were [...]
Since the advent of the darkroom we have had burning and dodging when making prints. This is the process of darkening or lighten up parts of an image to add contrast or even drama. In the darkroom we would hold our hands under the light to hold back exposure or lighten the image or make [...]