Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'Photoshop'
Use Camera Calibration settings to speed RAW conversion workflow
Five camera calibration settings compared (hi res available in my Flickr stream When I was making the master Highway 89 image files, I downloaded some new camera profiles that Adobe released for their Camera Raw functionality. Once I got...
Fenceline remix
Fenceline One ugly curve in Photoshop generated this effect. I see a lot my pictures this way, at least temporarily, because I use a curve adjustment layer in Photoshop to help me find any little dust spots. A quick...
Deck the Halls with some Textorizer
Lensbaby 1.0 remixed with files from Textorizer2 It's been a while since I launched the Textorizer programs, so long in fact that I had to relearn everything I once knew about it. I prevailed again. I made the original...
Grand Canyon Lodge at sunset
Sunset behind the Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim Even though the sunset didn't bounce into the Grand Canyon the day I was there, I did make the files I needed to composite this image. I knew in...
Why shoot JPG to learn to shoot RAW
A JPG and unprocessed RAW file saved on the D70 chip I was asked if I shot my digital files in RAW or JPG, and how to explain the power of RAW files to a beginner. I remember when...
Photowalking through the tulips
Impressionist-style spring flowers The next Utah Photowalk is Saturday at 5 pm. We're meeting at Thanksgiving Point to photograph the tulip festival, should the weather and blossoms cooperate. I like to assign myself a little project for each Photowalk,...
Layer magic
North Star: Spring Remix Here's a fun spring makeover - I like the cheerful colors, not at all like the cold autumn day I made the original. How I did it follows:...
Fill and opacity
Photoshop screenshot, 100% opacity, 100% fill In my discussion on the color burn/dodge and linear burn/dodge blending modes, I showed how those modes exhibited different behavior based on whether the regular opacity or fill opacity was reduced. That oddity,...
More PS blending modes: Color Burn/Dodge and Linear Burn/Dodge
Reed Thomas's Quarter Horses, Mount Pleasant, Utah In previous posts, I discussed the use of Photoshop's some blending modes for image adjustments: darken/lighten and multiply/screen. Today I am comparing four more blending modes: Color Burn vs Linear Burn and...
Understanding Darken and Lighten in Photoshop
Sky adjusted in original image using the darken blending mode to apply a second version of the same image, opened in Adobe Camera Raw with a negative exposure value. Masks and blending sliders to limit blend to sky. I...
Multiply and Screen to adjust exposure in Photoshop
Defunct neon, Van Buren Drive, Phoenix Arizona In my Photoshop workshop on Saturday for the Photowalking Utah group, I explained how to use the multiply and screen blending modes to adjust brightness in an image, but I didn't have...
Snowing, no plowing - Yellowstone NP
Watercolor effect on an image from Yellowstone (click on image to see original) Sadly, I am not writing this post from Wyoming. Try as I might on Monday, I could not find an open path into Jackson. I drove...
Attorney at Law
Neon sign R made a kaleidoscope action to use for some of his science images, and he gave it to me. Then I took it a couple steps further in PS, blending layers, masks, etc. I've been inventorying neon...
In which I prevail over the command line
A Textorizer self-portrait When I decided to really learn photography, I sat down and studied. I shot a lot of film, but also I read a lot of books. And practiced my Photoshop chops. I spent the three months...
37 days artist trading card
My illustration idea for a book of essays Ego tells me to wait, pretend it never happened, if my picture isn't chosen. It might be too different from the other concepts, they might not like the colors, the font,...
A plethora of B&W conversions
Wedding mehndi in black and white Mehndi images have been very popular in searches of my site of late, especially from google.co.uk. Here's the color version of same image. Let me tell you, the hot gold, magenta robes, and...
I met Santa in Williams Arizona
Santa cruising Route 66/US 89 I spent the better part of today making B&W conversions of some Highway 89 project photos. Usually I start by inspecting each color channel in my image for clues on how a particular image...
What color is your waterfall?
Nevada Falls Remix Remember that moment in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy opens her eyes and Oz is in color? Just magic, at least it was when I was a kid. I have apparently lost my mind, because...
Bonfires
Bonfire on Inis Meain in celbration of the feast of St. John I'm going to a bonfire tonight for the high school homecoming in Afton, Wyoming. Last bonfire I went to was in the Aran Islands, just dumb luck...
