Podcast #76 – Conversation with David Ziser – Choosing the right aperture
February 26, 2010 – 8:42 am | One Comment

This week I sat down with David Ziser to discuss a handful of topics including how to choose the right aperture for a particular shot, determining the depth of field for a particular shot, when …

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Cloning and Stamping tool Live Preview with Photoshop CS4
October 31, 2008 – 3:47 am | No Comment
Cloning and Stamping tool Live Preview with Photoshop CS4

Another new feature in Photoshop CS4 is the Live Preview when using the Cloning and Stamping tool. What this does for you is show you exactly what the effect of the tool is going to be while you are using it. Where you will probably find this to be the most useful is lining things up with the clone tool or making sure color tones and brightness levels match well.

Photoshop CS4 – Where did the features go?
October 29, 2008 – 8:24 pm | One Comment
Photoshop CS4 – Where did the features go?

If you have been playing around with Photoshop CS4 you may have noticed that a few features such as Extract and Web Gallery aren’t where they used to be. So where did they go? Photoshop CS4 has replaced some features and moved others to the Bridge Output module.

Fluid Zoom and View Rotation in Photoshop CS4
October 28, 2008 – 4:00 am | 3 Comments
Fluid Zoom and View Rotation in Photoshop CS4

Today we are going to take a look at a new feature in Photoshop CS4, the Fluid Zoom and View Rotation tools. The Fluid Zoom allows for smooth zooming in and out of an image with much finer control than every before. The View Rotation tool allows you to rotate the view of the image around to make working on an image easier.

Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4
October 25, 2008 – 8:24 am | 2 Comments
Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4

One of the coolest new tools in Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the Content Aware Scaling. With this new tool you can scale images and yet protect certain areas from being distorted, this is very useful for a variety of different applications. This short video clip will show you just how powerful, and how easy it is to use this new feature.

Photoshop CS4 – Indepth Guide to What’s New
October 17, 2008 – 4:13 pm | 6 Comments
Photoshop CS4 – Indepth Guide to What’s New

It seems like we just got into our groove with Photoshop CS3 and now CS4 is out and everyone is wondering if its really a signifigant upgrade or not. I just spent the day with the folks from Adobe to get a deep dive into the entire CS4 family and let me just say, one day was not nearly enough time to learn about everything. There are very cool changes in virtually every product in the entire suite. Today we are going to go deep into Photoshop CS4 and find out what some of the new features are and try to explain in layman’s terms what each of the new features can do for you.

Lightroom Web Gallery Module
September 23, 2008 – 5:00 am | No Comment

Have you been wondering how to export your images from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom? In this tutorial we go through the Web module and look at several different types of web galleries that can be created. You will see how to create a basic HTML or Flash gallery as well as exporting an Airtight Simpleviewer, AutoViewer, or Postcard Viewer slideshow.

Vignettes with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0
August 9, 2008 – 12:48 pm | 4 Comments
Vignettes with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0

Kerry shows off the new Vignette tool in Lightroom 2.0. With the new features you have far more creative control of vignetting on your images. In Lightroom 1.x, the Vignette tool was simple for lens corrections, with Lightroom 2.0 there is advanced creative control of your vignettes making it a much more powerful creative tool. In this video you will see the difference between the old post-crop vignette and the new creative vignetting in Lightroom 2.0.

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Library Module
August 7, 2008 – 7:00 am | 6 Comments
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Library Module

There are plenty of changes even in the Library module in Lightroom 2.0, but thankfully us here at Camera Dojo have been frantically learning all we can and have been making these videos for you to learn how to really take advantage of all of the new features. In this video we look at how some of the features have been moved around, we look at the new smart collections, collection sets, better keyword tagging, and view filtering among some of the biggest changes.

Adjustment Tool Overlay Tip
August 1, 2008 – 5:23 am | No Comment
Adjustment Tool Overlay Tip