You are Irish for the day - from the Irishman at SML !

Happy St Pats Day !

I saw this on Scott Kelby’s site and what a great tool when you are trying to select the right font for a photograph, marketing piece, etc.

Here is the link

Just type your text on the top of the link and then scroll down and select the font you like the best.

Thanks

Ron

Dave is totally cool and is an amazing photographer, instructor and a good person.

Here is workshop at the ranch for March - link 

Great Tuesday to you all !

Wikopedia defines Dodging and burning.

Dodging and burning are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image’s exposure. Dodging decreases (darkens) the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while burning increases (lightens) the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.

There are always 10 ways to do anything in Photoshop BUT I like the ability to undo a photo correction.  If you dodge and burn an image on the original layer you can’t undo it.  I am going to load a video this week but in short it involves about 2 layers and the original image.

Here is a quick screen capture for this weeks video.  The idea is we create a layer to darken (dodge) and we create a second layer to lighten (burn).  We then invert both masks (CMD I, Control I -PC.  We then grab a white brush and we paint where we want to darken and where we want to lighten.  All non destructive to the image as it is on layers and we can edited it since it is on layers.  Learn layers and masks - they are the best !

Have a rockin’ Monday.

A relative sent me this video that you must see.  The data is very interesting !  Turn on your speakers !

Here is the link

Have a great Tuesday !

Scott  K and Matt K announced today that they launched a new weekly show for Nikon DSLR shooters called “D-Town TV”

Here is the link 

Have a great weekend.

A GOOD way to direct the eye of a reader is to use depth of field. While this effect is traditionally created while shooting, you can also mimic it with Photoshop by using Lens Blur in conjunction with channels. In this example we added selective focus the image.

1. With the image open, select the Channels palette and click on the New Channel icon in the palette.

2. Press G to choose the Gradient tool and make sure it’s set to Linear, and Foreground to Background. Press D to reset the foreground and background colors. The gradient preview area in the Options Bar should be showing a black to white gradient. Press X if necessary to swap the colors. Click and drag vertically in the image window to create a gradient.

3. Click on RGB in the Channels palette to display the channels. Then click on the Layers palette and choose Filter > Blur > Lens Blur. Choose Alpha1 from the drop-down Source menu. Now for the fun part. Simply drag the Blur Focal Distance slider to control the part of the image that’s in focus, then click on OK when you’re done. In the example above we set the sharpest point on the front chess piece.

Have a great Thursday !!!!

I was on the web yesterday and saw this cool photo website of the New York times. Here is the link, enjoy !

I love the store a few images tell- it a lesson to all photographers to tell a story - black and white images - coooool !

Have a great Tuesday !

Here is our cool photographer site of the week.

Link 

Have a great weekend.

I have seen this photographers work alot.  He is amazing and he is in Rangefinder magazine this month.

Check him out. - link