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Photoshop Blend Modes Explained: Color vs. Luminosity

Photoshop Blend Modes Explained: Color vs. Luminosity

The blend modes in Photoshop can be confusing. If you go on Adobe’s help site for Photoshop, it gives you a list of all the blend modes and what they do, but it can be a bit hard to get your head around. In this video, Blake Rudis for f64 Academy explains how to use […]

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Topaz Detail: Tack-Sharp Photos by Enhancing True Image Detail

Topaz Detail: Tack-Sharp Photos by Enhancing True Image Detail

Topaz Detail is now available within Topaz Studio. Designed to create tack-sharp and highly detailed photos by enhancing natural sharpness and taking full control over image detail. Detail breaks down an image into three levels of internal detail separation and three levels of tone separation and allows you to selectively enhance or remove detail throughout your image […]

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Choosing a Lens for Portrait Photography

Choosing a Lens for Portrait Photography

A good lens can bring the out the best of the moment and the model. If you’ve been wondering which lens to buy for portrait photography, this video by Mark Wallace is probably what you’ve been waiting for: Though the decision making process is difficult, you can break it down in a scientific way to […]

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7 Things I’ve Learned from Photographing Children

7 Things I’ve Learned from Photographing Children

Photographing children always charges me up with positive energy. I’ve been doing it for years now, and not only do I believe they can be great teachers, but also that I’ve become a better photographer by learning from them. In no particular order, here are seven ways photographing children has improved my photography. 1. Perspective […]

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What to Do With Your Music Festival Photos

What to Do With Your Music Festival Photos

Well, if you have survived a music festival in one piece, and all your gear is intact, that’s a big achievement in itself. But you can’t put your feet up and take the next few days off. There’s a lot of work to do and very little time to do it. Post-processing is a heavy […]

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DIY Leather Camera Harness

DIY Leather Camera Harness

A leather harness is an excellent accessory for photographers who prefer to use two camera bodies. As you can imagine, unless you’re in a studio environment, you can only use what you can carry. A leather harness that allows you to sling two cameras is a perfect solution: Leather harnesses are expensive. A good quality […]

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How to Get the Most Out of a Photo Walk: 7 Commandments

How to Get the Most Out of a Photo Walk: 7 Commandments

Photo walks need not be too complicated or too gear heavy. You can do a lot with just one lens and a little bit of intuition. Micael Widell presents seven commandments for photo walk that will absolutely transform your imagery: 1. You shall snap the first photo immediately Just as upon entering a shop you […]

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How Photographers Can Get Out of a Creative Slump

How Photographers Can Get Out of a Creative Slump

Professional photographer and filmmaker Sean Tucker has produced editorials for established corporate clients. He has accrued thousands of followers on platforms like Youtube and Instagram. He even creates tutorials for fellow photographers learning the ropes. Yet, he still experiences doubts and insecurity despite the success that he’s found as an artist. Doubt is something that virtually […]

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How to Process Black & White Photos in Lightroom

How to Process Black & White Photos in Lightroom

Processing images in black and white can be done in countless ways and with many different programs. But for this tutorial, Aaron Nace from Phlearn has chosen to use Lightroom. Let’s delve deeper into Nace’s workflow: Virtual Copies At the start of the development process Nace makes virtual copies of the original image. Virtual copies […]

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7 Photoshop Tricks Hiding in Plain Sight

7 Photoshop Tricks Hiding in Plain Sight

Most users never quite get to use the full range of tools that Photoshop has to offer. Some of these tools are, however, extremely useful for the purpose speeding up your workflow. This video from photoshopCAFE elaborates: 1. Read the Fine Print Ever wondered about the tiny bits of information on top of the image […]

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