Adobe RGB Default Apr 3, 2016 This is a no-brainer but it constantly trips people up. The first thing you want to do when you install Photoshop on a new computer/system is go to Edit>Color Settings and set the RGB working space fr... helpful hint of the day Read more
New Sensors Mar 31, 2016 Top camera sensors are now equal or better than camera lenses. That means all the old-world film-era gab about good lenses now applies again. But a good lens is not always about sharpness . . . . At l... helpful hint of the day Read more
Printers & Sensors . . . . Mar 29, 2016 On most Epson (and many non-espon) printers, most body sensors are “flip lever” sensors. That means that you can pretty much stick a pencil or folded piece of paper in any sensor-area of the printer t... helpful hint of the day Read more
How Warm is Warm? Mar 28, 2016 This one is from the direct observation of many “calibrated” environments . . . . We see color emitting from a modern monitor differently than color reflecting off a piece of paper. Our biological whi... helpful hint of the day Read more
L*a*b* Color Space Mar 24, 2016 Today’s hint is much shorter than yesterday’s. Nearly every CMYK and RGB color space is defined by a physical thing in real life (IRL). Adobe RGB encompasses what we deem acceptable maximum color gamu... helpful hint of the day Read more
Tonal Selection & Curves Mar 23, 2016 A tonal selection curve is always more complicated than a master (or base) curve. (The master base curve on this example image is shown above.) Use the tonal selector tool on a new curve adjustment ... helpful hint of the day Read more
Raw Scanning Workflow Mar 21, 2016 The master curve of an inverted image is (roughly) done with the following steps: Shadows, Highlights, Mid-tones, then final edit of Shadows. 1. Invert the image (Command or Control “I”) 2. Add a curv... helpful hint of the day Read more
First Rule of Scanning Mar 20, 2016 For many of you on this list, this will be repeat. But it still needs to be written down. The first rule of BW negative scanning is to scan RAW. Get the scan to be as close to the original negative as... helpful hint of the day Read more
Rendering Intents Mar 18, 2016 There's always a lot of confusion about what rendering intents are. They exist because printers (the machines) usually can't produce as much color gamut as a light-emitting monitor can. There are vari... helpful hint of the day Read more
PDFs Mar 16, 2016 This one might be more widely known than other little tricks that I’ve shown of-late but here goes. In OS X you can PDF anything that you can print. Just go File>Print and select “Save as PDF” at the ... helpful hint of the day Read more
Lightroom & Organization Mar 15, 2016 The quickest and laziest way to organize your digital life is to dump an entire external hard-drive right over an open Lightroom 6 window and then click “import.” Lightroom will scroll through the e... helpful hint of the day Read more
Iceland Piezography Feb 11, 2015 In March, Cathy Cone and I visited Iceland to photograph on the Southern tip of the island. The week’s weather looked good. We were expecting mild weather in the low to mid 30’s f. Light winds. No sno... artists featured piezography life writing Read more