Camera Raw — either in Bridge or Photoshop — is my favorite RAW processor. If it only had virtual copies to explore effects as Lightroom Classic does. Well, there are Camera Raw snapshots. What are they? Every adjustment made in Camera Raw can be captured with individual snapshots. This makes
Embrace the lights. Something we photographers do quite often. A few years back, I was tasked to photograph various large-scale art installations for ArtPrize Project 1. Historically, ArtPrize has been the organizer of the world’s largest public art competition, taking place in my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. This year
While there has yet to be a true “dump” of snow in West Michigan, I went back and looked at some older photos recently, pulling up this photograph from Fallasburg Bridge in Lowell, MI. Utilizing a NiSi 10-stop neutral density filter (B&H | Amazon), I was able to get a
When it comes to delivering photos fast, nothing’s greater than automating part of the process. But how do you attain quickness through such an intensive program like Adobe Photoshop? With a free month’s Viewbug subscription exclusive to Photofocus readers, you can check out classes like “Up and Running with Automation,”
A while back, I saw a photo my friend Gary Alan Brink posted of the Fallasburg Bridge in Lowell, MI. It featured a car driving through the covered bridge, creating for quite the night scene. I had long been a fan of the bridge but had only ever photographed it
Want to open almost any image in Camera Raw? It turns out that you can! You can, in fact, open TIFF and JPEG files using the Camera Raw plug-in. Here’s how… In Photoshop, choose File > Browse in Bridge to switch to Adobe Bridge. Select the desired files. Choose select File > Open
Autumn and Spring are great seasons for making cityscapes. The weather is cool but not cold, and the sun sets early so you can make nighttime pictures at a reasonable hour and there will still be plenty of traffic on the roads for making light trails. Shooting long exposure cityscapes
I’ve become a fan of Platypod Ultra. It’s got all the best features of the original Pro and the larger Max, and it fits in my back pocket. It goes everywhere I go from road trips to long hikes. I use it in airports, cities, and other places tripods just
Submitting photos to Adobe Stock has just become a whole lot easier thanks to the new Contributor Portal. Most stock photo photographers will tell you that keywords are a very important part of their success in selling their images. Adobe Stock has just made the process even simpler in the new Contributor
A triptych is three images that share a common theme displayed as a single piece. In this video I’ll be making the simplest form of this by displaying three images in equally sized and arranged rectangles. In this video I’ll cover; Opening multiple images from Bridge Changing the units of
There are times when, at the very outset of editing, you’ll know the dimensions of the image you want to create. In this post we’ll take a look at the Workflow Options in Adobe Camera Raw that can set this out for you. What’s Wrong With Cropping? Nothing. The Crop
