Bringing Out the “Awesome” with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

One of my favorite parts of Creative Cloud is that it gives you everything you need to be creative. Whether you are into photography, video, illustration, print design, web design, or just dabble in creativity, Creative Cloud has everything that you need. I’ve been doing a lot of photography lately. My main tools for retouching […]

Video: GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters & Creative Cloud

Last week I had the opportunity to present an incredibly fun topic to the DC/MD/VA Creative Professionals user group… GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters, and Adobe Creative Cloud.  Thanks to everyone who attended.  This topic is a personal interest of mine, and I had a great time.  There were great questions and great conversations all around. For […]

Amazing Panoramas in 10 Easy Steps with Adobe Photoshop CC

Here’s a quick video I put together showing how to create incredible panorama images in ten easy steps, using Adobe Photoshop CC.  I captured this one on Monday in a sunrise session in Richmond, VA with a DJI Phantom and GoPro. …and the ten steps are: Go get some awesome shots! – Just be sure that […]

Creative Cloud Helps Me Fulfill My Creative Vision

In my last post, I proclaimed my love for Adobe Creative Cloud. This post will show you the reason why. I was playing around with some of the aerial footage I captured last week in San Francisco. Just for fun, I wanted to create a HUD (heads up display) to add to the first-person experience […]

Photoshop Zoomify in HTML, powered by Leaflet

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Photoshop recently… Whether it has been retouching video or images, creating panoramas, or working with my aerial photos, it has been a lot of fun. One thing that I’ve been doing is exporting really large images to the web. So far this has been a very manual […]

Review: Beholder Lite Gimbal For DJI Phantom Quadcopter

I recently purchased a Beholder Lite camera gimbal for my DJI Phantom quadcopter, and I am very pleased with it. Bottom line for those that don’t want to read this entire post… The Beholder Lite is hard to beat for the price, as long as you have some time to tune the gimbal.  Output video […]

“Preserve Details” in Photoshop Image Resizing is Seriously Awesome

Adobe has introduced a bunch of new features in the Photoshop CC releases over the course of the year. One feature that I knew about, but hadn’t used much myself was the new “preserve details” upsampling algorithm when resizing images, which was introduced in the spring.  Well, I was just looking into resizing one of […]

Photoshop Friday: Sky Aquariums

I’m testing out something new… I’m calling it “Photoshop Friday”, where every Friday, optimistically assuming that I don’t have deadlines looming, I’m going to try and do something fun with Photoshop. Whatever I can think of… Two weeks ago I did some “crystal ball” compositions, and today I’ve put together what I’m calling Sky Aquariums. […]

Recap: Russell Brown’s Top Gun Flight Training at Photoshop World

Last week I had the opportunity to feed my obsession with aerial photography and participate in Russell Brown’s Top Gun Flight Training workshop at Photoshop World, and it was an awesome experience! Many thanks to Russell for putting together this incredible workshop. There’s nothing like a giant room full of RC photography enthusiasts, with multiple copters […]

Fun With Photoshop

Some days you are just meant to be creative… I think yesterday was that day for me. I saw that Erik Johansson released a new composition, and it sparked a wave of creativity within me. I discovered Erik’s work via Adobe Max this year – his presentation was awesome and very inspiring. Seriously, do yourself […]