Photography Blogs & Tutorials



I teach very infrequently now, at most just once or twice a year. That said, without fail I attend Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai every March.

It's a great event, with quality instructors and a fantastic group (family?) of people running it. But Dubai is a long way away, to be sure.

So three years ago, we worked out a sort of "road version" of GPP. It's a compressed, wall-to-wall weekend that brings... more

CREDIT: MATT KLOSKOWSKI

Often, youll have a photo where one of the colors just doesnt stand out like it did when you took the photo. One of the benefits of a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer is that you can target specific colors with it, and not the whole photo. Plus, the ability to hide the changes with the layer mask on the adjustment layer can really help create some strong images.

STEP 1:
Open a photo where some of the colors just dont have the same... more

So, I wanted to share with you a little experiment of mine I have been playing with this week. You can see how I sketch the letters out first instead of using a font.

The music is by John Williams from the 1941 Soundtrack. Sony Music 1991

This technique largely grew out of frustration because, a while back, I was doing a project and needed a really realistic branding effect on a wood grain. Every tutorial I found just fell short of what I needed. So, I started playing around and finally got a result I was happy with. You know the old saying: If you want it done right

STEP ONE:
First, we need a cool background texture to apply the effect to, Here, I have a great aged-wood image that has some nice... more

In this season finale, Corey has a trick on animating with layer styles. Pete and Corey welcome Glyn Dewis who has a tip on retouching sports physiques. Pete closes out the show with a tip on a cool logo design.

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So many of you of course have heard about the big release of Lightroom CC yesterday and we were of all over it. Our very own Scott Kelby along with RC Concepcion did a total of 4 webinars yesterday covering all the new features and answering viewer questions along the way. Also we here at KelbyOne have put together a new comprehensive Lightroom CC Learning Center where you can get up -to-speed with... more

Pete has a tip on using a cloud brush. Kristina Sherk joins Corey on set for a tip on creating eye dimension within your retouch and she also offers a retouching preset to download from her site sharkpixel.com. Corey has a tip on creating a classic photo effect.



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

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