Camera’s View

Mark Johnson of the Radiant Vista team has launched a new website - Mark S. Johnson Photography
In my opinion Mark is one of the best Photoshop instructors around. His, The Photoshop Workbench ,series has been one of the key learning tools in my learning Photoshop. Mark approach is like having him sitting right next to [...]

Whenever I get a chance to visit the Napa Valley region of California. I try to stop at V. Sattui Winery located in St. Helena.
In addition to decent wines and a great little deli, V. Sattui Winery has a really neat stone Winery building which, to my eye, is a great photographic subject.
The first image, [...]

Adobe has made some significant enhancements with the second release of Photoshop Lightroom.
Though I haven’t had much time to try out all the new features. I am particularly impressed with the localized correction features. Due to this new feature, I expect less transferring to Photoshop to make minor localized tonal corrections.
Here is a quick example [...]

2.0
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0. Those who have followed this blog know that I use and highly recommend Lightroom for global post  processing of my images.
Scott Kelby of Photoshop Insider has a detailed blog entry on the various upgrade features. I suspect that with these new features, I will find less need to [...]

Matt Kloskowski of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Blog, posted a new preset he calls “Sin City Look”.  Basically what Matt is doing is draining all the colors out of an image and leaving just the reds.
I did something similar  to this in a previous posting but I never created or saved a [...]