If you have never seen the first version of Photoshop — Photoshop 1.0 — in action, then this video by CreativeLive of Photoshop experts and professional photographers using the original software will make you glad you aren’t editing in the original program. Photoshop was created by Thomas and John Knoll in 1988 and released in […]
Most Influential Photography News From The First Days of October
The bulk of news from the world of photography is video this week. From a photo lesson from legendary street photographer John Free to how NASA astronomers make galactic images in Photoshop, there was a whole lot of cool stuff going on. Whether you’re a news junkie, technophile, love everything photographic, or just in case […]
How NASA Uses Photoshop to See the Unseen
Ever wonder how the Hubble Telescope captures such vivid images like the one above, or how the Mars Rover creates panoramas? Well, you can probably guess it is all done in Adobe Photoshop, but how they do it is the amazing part. If you check out the the Adobe blog today you will find a […]
Most Influential Photography News of the Week
Photography Week in Review It’s Friday (yay!) and a lot has happened in the photography world this week. Whether you’re a news junkie, technophile, love everything photographic, or just want to know what you might have missed, I compiled a list of the biggest photography news from this past week. Here is the most influential […]
Real or Photoshop?
Real or Photoshop? In the early days of Photoshop it was easy to spot a heavily-manipulated image. However, Photoshop has grown over the past 25 years to become the gold standard in image-editing, and has become so robust and advanced that the editing process makes everything look seamless and believable. Some people think it’s easy […]
Turn Adobe Lightroom Into a Real Palette
Often when editing in Lightroom or Photoshop I would love to have more precise manual control over my edits. Using a Wacom tablet in the past has usually satisfied this need, but yesterday I stumbled upon a new product called Palette, a module system of buttons, sliders, and dials that links together magnetically to allow […]
One-Step Black and White Monobath Film Developer
If you have ever developed your own black and white images the multiple chemical baths and agitation needed can be a difficult process to master. Although many film photographers have years of darkroom black and white development experience, many of those who have grown up in the digital age may be put off by the […]
Does Photoshop Ruin Photography?
Editing images in Photoshop is the photographers’ tool of constructing and deconstructing our photographs until it reaches our idea of perfection. However, image editing seems to be getting a bad rap recently, and it almost seems like ‘manipulation’ has become a dirty word. I noticed this recently during the controversy at the World Press Photo […]
Free Adobe Photoshop Actions
Editing images is very time consuming, and it’s the part of the photographic process I like the least. Although it can be very technical, I love Photoshop because you can use your creative vision to make photographs exactly how you would like to see them. This tedium, I’ve found, can be eliminated in Photoshop by […]
The Original Photoshop, Developing Film in the Darkroom
A lot of the techniques we find in Photoshop are rooted in original darkroom techniques. The chemical processes and techniques were edited by dodging, burning, feathering, etc., in order to make an image look good. If you ever wondered what the actual process was like, check out Konrad Eek’s homage to the film days in […]