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Food For Digital Thought: Harmony
Although it would be nice if everyone lived in harmony with one another, that concept will most probably have to wait. Until then I would like to talk about something that can happen right now, and that would be to seek out and use colors that are in harmony with one...
Using Keywords in Lightroom
Have you found the power of keywords in Lightroom? If you haven't, I would highly recommend using them to organize your images quickly and easily. If you would like to learn more about this great program, sign up for the upcoming Lightroom Quick Start or Lightroom...
Food For digital Thought: The Road Less Traveled
I Invariably have the same conversation in both my online class I teach with the BPSOP, and I now have it down to occasionally in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct around our planet…why so you ask? Because in my workshops a lot of my fellow...
My Favorite Tool for Capturing Balanced Exposures
Lightroom is a very intuitive program and is well suited for both beginning and advanced photo editing. Once you have the basics down in Lightroom and learn to see in your photo editing, it's time to branch out and use some tools that will take your photography to the...
Lensbaby Sweet 80!
I am so excited to share the announcement of a new Lensbaby, the Composer Pro II with Sweet 80 Optic! This new 80mm optic is the third in the Sweet series of tilting selective focus optics, joining the Sweet 35 and Sweet 50 optics with a sweet spot of sharp focus...
My Favorite Quotes: Henri Matisse
I’ve enjoyed writing for this category for some time, the first one going back three years. As my fellow photographers that follow my blog know, I don’t limit these quotes to just photographers. Artists of all types and genres are my sources, and as long as their...
Simple Watermarking – Add Awesome Text to Your Photos in Seconds
Do you wonder how to create a simple watermark on your Smartphone? Watermarking should be part of your work flow if you are posting images online, and here's a really simple way to add text and watermarks to your images using one of the apps I talk about in my...
Life Before Photoshop: GATX
I can tell you from lots of experience that the glory days of advertising yielded some pretty far-fetched campaigns; some of them made me laugh out loud when I was sent a rough layout of what the art director wanted me to shoot. The process of getting the final...