All Entries in the "Working with Photoshop" Category

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom vs. The Adobe Bridge

This article is a follow-up to a recent post on how Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom differ. This time, we will explore the differences between the Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Lightroom vs. Photoshop

Do I need to buy both Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS4? Digital photographers ask me this question all the time. It’s a good question and one that deserves more than just a simple yes or no answer. Each program has it’s own strengths, and although the two programs share some common features, they are not competitors.

Content-Aware Scaling with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Demo

This is a “behind-the scenes” video which demonstrates how I turned my original raw capture into a nice polished photograph using features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS4. In this movie, I use Graduated filters in Lightroom’s Develop Module, and I use Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4 to create a beautiful eye-catching image.

Book Review – Luminescent World: The Stories (and Secrets) Behind Twenty-Five of My Favorite Photographs by Mark S. Johnson

My good friend and colleague Mark S. Johnson has just released his latest eBook, Luminescent World: The Stories (and Secrets) Behind Twenty-Five of My Favorite Photographs. For those of you who don’t know him, Mark is an incredible photographer and artist, and an even more incredible human being.

Check out this post for a brief review of the book as well as a link to purchase or download a free excerpt.

Using Photoshop Actions as Droplets in Lightroom

This article describes how to access Photoshop Actions from the Export Dialog of Lightroom. Photoshop Actions allow you to perform complicated or repetitive tasks on an image or groups of images with little to no user intervention. Wouldn’t it be great if you could run these actions from Lightroom? Well…you can. Using Droplets and Lightroom’s Export Actions folder, you can harness the power of Photoshop Actions on your Lightroom images.

Read on to find out how.

Photoshop CS4 Feature Wrap-Up

As I’ve mentioned a few times, Adobe has officially announced the release of their new Creative Suite 4 which includes Photoshop CS4.

Check out this post for a list of some of the new features and a number of video examples of a few of those new features.