For those who came in late: I’ve been shooting professionally for over two years now, and am extremely fortunate to have great clients to work with and to have had my work published in a number of publications. I’ve also worked with professional photographers to understand the business of photography, so I believe I’ve a more […]
Three things prompted to write this post: my growing collection of photographs in various formats, and subsequently multiple hard drives the need to be able to find any photo quickly my experience of using Spotlight to find files quickly on a Mac – and my desire to replicate that functionality in Windows. I believe I’ve […]
I recently found that my copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 was acting up — crashing soon after loading or while applying actions to images. If this happens to you, it’s probably because of a corrupt settings file that Photoshop creates to save your preferences in. Windows: Launch Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (before/while the […]
Easy-peasy: In the Layers palette, copy a layer mask by holding Alt+Ctrl/Cmd, clicking the desired layer mask and dragging it to the destination layer. Move a layer mask by simply dragging it off the present layer onto the desired layer in the Layers palette. To invert the layer mask (to darken a background instead of lighting […]
Being your own toughest critic Of all the skills that one may acquire as a photographer this is among the more crucial. There are a few articles online about this but they seem to dwell on the act of picking out the cream of the crop of your finished photos. I’d like to extend this […]
