Recording Actions in Photoshop
A quick tutorial about recording actions using Photoshop’s Action Window.
If you’ve ever needed to perform the same steps on more than one file at a time, this tutorial will save you a lot of time.
Our Top List of How to Photograph Fireworks
As the celebrations approach so do the fireworks displays. In this list are our favorite fireworks tutorials presented by the pros. Rather than create our own, we thought we’d highlight a variety of the best tutorials that cover a range of techniques and equipment for making great photographs from fireworks displays. The common thread through [...]
Road Trip 2010 – Day 3
Days one and two were spent in Redding for a wedding then driving across the desolate landscape that is Eastern Oregon; sage brush as far as the eye can see. We nearly ran out of gas, just landing in the town town (one building) of Riley, were we filled up. This post features a tutorial about overcoming the challenge of a scene with a high dynamic range.
Road Trip 2010 Day 00 – Planning the Trip
John & Thea Trefethen are hitting the road and all of you are welcome to come along. Throughout the duration of the trip I will be posting a series of video blogs that discuss everything from what inspired the journey to how to prepare and ultimately approach the subject of photography.
Understanding the Histogram
In this article, I will shed some light on some useful ways to read and understand the histogram attached to all of the images you make. This lesson will describe how to effectively read a histogram as well as provide several examples of how to solve difficult exposure situations.
Preparing Files for Print Ch2
In this article we continue the discussion by Lorraine Donegan. Here she reviews the feedback from the print providers and prepress technicians she surveyed and goes into further detail about how designers should prepare their files prior to print.
Preparing Files for Print
As technology in printing and publishing changes, the role and responsibility of the graphic designer also changes. Prepress and production have become part of the creative process, whether we like it or not.
How to Write an Artists’ Statement
Your artist’s statement is the basis by which your work is perceived by the viewing public. It is important that you understand the impact your words have upon these viewers and potential buyers. Ask yourself whether you want to be seen as a political artist, a craftsperson, a landscape photographer, a photojournalist, a portraitist, or [...]
Adobe Save for Web
In this quick video you will learn best practices for saving files for the web and other mobile devices using Adobe’s Save for Web & Devices dialog. ~ John Trefethen
How To Make Pictorialism
Pictorialism, a movement best known for the work of Robert Demachy, Alfred Stieglitz, George Seeley, Julia Margaret Cameron, Frank Sutcliffe, Gertrude Käsebier, Peter Henry Emerson, and Ken Rosenthal focused their gaze but not their cameras at the natural landscapes of their time. While most photographers were capturing the realism their tool so naturally recorded, the [...]
What is Connotation vs. Denotation
The capture of light, translated onto a picture plane as line, shape and form presented in a two-dimensional object, is the photograph, or the denotation of reality. What the viewer feels, understands, or reads into the picture is the connotative meaning.
