So, what happens after the shutter clicks? Your photograph isn't finished yet. Taking the picture is just a small part of the overall process of communicating effectively as a photographer. Join us in the digital darkroom to see how various post-processing techniques can be used to make your images sing.
Digital Darkroom **NEW*** July 8th, 2010
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig shows you the most effective sliders in the Adobe Photoshop CS4 raw converter for changing exposure. Craig also discusses the basics of rescaling which is a potentially powerful technique for changing... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom July 1st, 2010
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at color as an element of visual design and explores some simple raw converter and Photoshop techniques for pushing color in a simple, bold and graphic direction. ... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom **NEW*** June 18th, 2010
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at the idea of personal vision and style and how we can make our finishing work serve our vision instead of the other way around.
Here is a list (partial) that we promised of visual elements... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom January 22nd, 2010
The Great Photo Finish: "How To's - Adobe Photoshop CS4" by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig shows you how to record, save, share and load actions in Adobe Photoshop CS4.... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom December 24th, 2009
Great Photo Finish: "Unlimited Depth of Field" Part 2 by Craig Tanner
In this second part of a two part episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig discusses field techniques, combined with post processing in Helicon Focus software, for creating... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom December 23rd, 2009
The Great Photo Finish: "Unlimited Depth of Field" Part 1 by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig discusses field techniques, combined with Adobe Photoshop CS 4 techniques, for creating landscape scenics with unlimited... [Read More] | |
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Digital Darkroom September 18th, 2009
The Great Photo Finish: "Blending Bracketed Exposures" by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a high contrast landscape photograph and discusses the following:
Two layer mask techniques for blending two... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom August 19th, 2009
The Great Photo Finish: Working with Kuler by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a colorful portrait and discusses the following:
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Digital Darkroom July 14th, 2009
The Great Photo Finish: "Chris from Austria (Part 2)" by Craig Tanner
In this second part of a two part episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph inside of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and discusses the following:
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Digital Darkroom July 2nd, 2009
The Great Photo Finish: "Chris from Austria" by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the a technique involving a keyboard shortcut for increasing dynamic range... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom July 2nd, 2009
"Introduction to Lightroon (Lesson 2)" by Marti Jeffers
Continuing with her series of tutorials on Introduction to Lightroom, Marti explores more Lightroom features and shortcuts in the Lightroom interface panel that will make your life so much... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom March 20th, 2009
"Introduction to Lightroom (Lesson 1, Part 2b)" by Marti Jeffers
Continuing with the First Introduction to Lightroom Lesson One, Part 2, Marti Jeffers takes the viewer through the process of importing images into Lightroom from a travel hard... [Read More] | |
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Digital Darkroom February 19th, 2009
"Introduction to Lightroon (Lesson 1, Part 2)" by Marti Jeffers
Continuing with the Introduction to Lightroom series, in Lesson 1, Part 2 Marti Jeffers takes the viewer through the process of importing images that already exist in a folder on the... [Read More] | |
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Digital Darkroom February 18th, 2009
"Introduction to Lightroon (Lesson 1, Part 1)" by Marti Jeffers
In her first lesson, Marti Jeffers introduces the beginning user of Lightroom to the process of setting up a file structure for your images, setting Lightroom preferences that have... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom December 20th, 2008
"Rescaling For Visual Unity" by Craig Tanner
In This Digital Darkroom episode Craig works with rescaling to achieve more visual unity in the image. Craig also uses the Curves Adjustment Layer to get rid of a color cast and to create more color... [Read More] |  |
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Digital Darkroom December 7th, 2008
"Simplifying A Scenic Landscape Image" by Craig Tanner
In this episode of the digital darkroom Craig discusses simplifying a scenic landscape image. First Craig uses the spot healing brush for digital gardening high contrast areas that are busy... [Read More] |  |
