In today’s day and age of digital technology, everything seems to be fixable. In the world of photography, fixing an image tends to mean taking it into Photoshop and manipulating it to be “picture perfect.” However, with new tools such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture, these fixes or tweaks are no longer dependent upon [...]

Playing again with HDR and Photomatix Pro, I was able to produce the image above. It was a single shot RAW taken with a Canon 40D with a Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens. As mentioned already, processing was done in Photomatix Pro with additional tweaks such as cropping and exposure adjustments (to prevent the sky from [...]

Okay, so the name is tacky. “Portrait Paint” is perhaps the worst name I could think of, but it’s simple and describes the reason why I did this project. Once again, I have another school assignment to do some sort of image manipulation on, well, an image. The picture above is what I came up [...]

At school, I’m taking a Photoshop class and typically, lectures go a tad too slow for me. Instead of leaving the class, I just take the assignment we have and see what steps I can take to make make it even better. The result? The image above Keep reading below to see the steps I [...]