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My Take on NAPP Membership

A few weeks ago I finally became a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). I decided to join for a multitude of reasons which I will not go into in much detail. But more importantly I want to give my opinion of my NAPP membership now that I have been a member [...]

Dreamy Look Tutorial

Misty commented on my photowalk images and asked about the dreamy look that I used on the photo of Allyson. So here is a quick tutorial on how to achieve the dreamy look using Lightroom 2.2.

The dreamy look has a very obvious characteristic… its a little blurry. But the key is to get some separation [...]

To Photoshop or not to Photoshop…

A recent post that Scott Kelby made on his Photoshop Insider blog discusses a quote from David Ziser about the “I’ll just fix it in Photoshop” mentality that some photographers have. Some of the comments really got me thinking on the subject…

Holy Grail of Image File Management Is Here!

I few weeks back I posted about my desire to create the holy grail of image file management work flows. You can read the original post HERE. With Adobe Lightroom 2.0 insane features for image file management, we would be dumb to not figure out the best way to use them. After making that post [...]

Shooting Tethered From Your Camera Into Lightroom (Canon Version)

On March 26th Scott Kelby posted a blog entry detailing how to shoot tethered and have the images automatically show up in Lightroom. His post shows screen shots of the Nikon Camera Control 2 software since he is a Nikon user (we won’t hold that against him) but doesn’t show any screen shots from Canon’s [...]

The Holy Grail of Image File Management

I have always known that my image file management technique sucks. For a long time I did not use “tags” or “keywords” and my file system structure was not very good either. The following is a quick description of the folder system I have been using to date…


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