Earlier last month, Adobe had a financial analyst meeting where they demo'd some new technology they are currently working on. Two of the demos were done by Photoshop PM John Nack and both them related to merging images into a composite scene.

Below, is a screen shot from a cool demonstration. Here, John took a series of macro photographed images with selective focus (meaning, there was an extremely shallow depth of field for each image). When all of the images were merged, a composited "in focus" image was produced. But seeing is believing (and easier to understand). So, go to about 19 minutes into the webinar to see this in action.



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Tags: panoramic, photography, photoshop, technology

For the last several years, my digital photography workflow has relied heavily upon a few Photoshop automation scripts from Fred Miranda. From unmatched sharpening to image scaling, these Photoshop automations are a must have. Both of these can be purchased from Fred's site and each cost less than US$25.00. To see samples of both, keep reading. Read More...

Tags: photography, photoshop, software

Adobe's Lightroom is my "comfort place" when it comes to managing, editing and publishing my photography. I've used many, many apps in my photo management life (some not so great) and hand's-down, Lightroom is the one for me. Of course, the first time I saw SlideShowPro from Dominey Design, well.... I really wished Lightroom would have support for it. It does now...

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Tags: photography, lightroom, software, adobe, photoshop

There's nothing like playing with shapes. And over saturating the image, mirroring it a couple of times and you get something pretty cool. Ladies and gentlemen... I present to you, Chopper Monster.



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Tags: photography, photoshop

Doing my rounds this morning reviewing some of my favorite Marketing blogs and came across this great marketing effort for the Bears in support of today’s game. Click on the picture to see a very large image. And if you think this was computer generated or Photoshopped, nope it wasn’t. Here is how they make the Chicago skyline root on the Bears.



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Tags: photography, marketing, photoshop

I have played around for several years in Photoshop trying to produce good quality black and white images. But hands down, the best way I have found to produce images that look like they were originally shot on Tri-X (or similar) film is to use a great Photoshop automation tool from Fred Miranda. Check out his Black and White Workflow Pro Plug-in. The amount of control you have over your image with this automation plugin is amazing.



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Last week, I was in San Francisco. While there, I managed to snap a few photographs. This one, as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted it to be black and white.

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I just (finally) got around to updating this Photoshop action. In addition to the Canon D30 and D60, this action now supports the following cameras:

Canon: D30, D60, 20D, 1D
Fuji: S2
Nikon: D70, D100

The old action used to also have some magic in it for correcting chromatic abberation (color shift). I had tried to correct for chromatic abberation in the action for each camera, but didn't have that much luck. At least to a point that I was able to prodiuce consistent results. Therefore, I removed that capability from the script.

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Tags: photoshop, photography, fisheye, Sigma