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So you bit the bullet and spent ~$100 for the stuff needed to turn your hot shoe flash into a mini portable studio lighting system. What do you with the box of stuff the UPS guy just dropped onto your dorstep? Where do you start?

That is exactly the gap we explore whenever I teach a beginner's lighting class. So today we are going to walk through a "... more

Corey has a tip on creating animated effects in Photoshop for your video clip. Pete goes more in depth on the Adobe Creative Cloud Market and demonstrates downloading and using .svg files in Photoshop.

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I have been photographing dancers for several years now as part of my affiliation with the local arts council. The results were catch-as-catch-can, mostly because of the limitations of flash recycle time, timing, and my not really knowing what to expect from them nor when to expect it.

But a little trick I tried last week changed everything.... more

Corey has a tutorial about a cool, 3D texture trick. Pete addresses the Adobe Creative Cloud Market and shows how to download and use brushes from there.

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Pete has a tip on crafting your image. Corey answers some viewer mail on creating a 3D reflection within your image and how to do it.

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Corey starts out the show by showing a cool lighting effect for your portraits or wedding photography. Pete has a tip on cleaning up the frame of your image in Photoshop.

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Corey has a nifty trick on how to make a 3d globe. Later in the show, Pete has a very informative block of instruction on the blend if sliders in Photoshop.

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For those of you following along with The Traveling Photographer series, Lynda has just posted the New York City episode.

This is a city I have visited many times, so we tried to distill this visit down to a small... more

Pete starts out the show with a tip on the new layout guides for making templates in Photoshop. Later on, Corey has a cool trick on making a 3D plate graphic.

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Pete starts out the show with some little gotcha fixes in Photoshop, ie. flow vs. opacity, number of undos, lock up fix, and thumbnail preview. He also has a quick tip adding on from last weeks episode, on creating backgrounds. Corey demonstrates how you can give your 3d graphics a light effect.

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