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.
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.
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.
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.
For much of 2014, I have been on the road for Lynda.com, producing the series, The Traveling Photographer. The latest episode, on London, has just posted. London is an amazing city, and I think this episode is our best to date. ... more
Of all of the wonderful things that have happened since I began writing Strobist eight years ago, certainly the best is the steady parade of creative people I have met as a result. And few are more talented (or insan motivated) than London-based photographer Drew Gardner.
We grew up in the same era, both working for newspapers in our respective cities... more
Paris, the latest installment in The Traveling Photographer series, has just posted to Lynda.com. Photographed this past May, the hour-long episode includes lots of practical, real-world advice for anyone who may be considering traveling to Paris with their camera.
Such a simple idea, and not so difficult to dounless you count all of the self-inspection it will require. Iranian-born (now in Dubai) photographer Atbin Eslami's video-bio of herself first made me think, "that's really cool."
To some a foot bridge abutment, to others a studio.
I've long kept a picture file of versatile nearby locations for photographing people. This foot bridge abutment on Columbia Road about two miles from my house is a great example, and it actually gets used... more
