Podcast #88 – Talking with Jason Anderson about building your lighting kit

Kerry and Jason talk about building your first lighting kit on a budget. Everyone needs a lighting kit but many people are intimidated by the upfront costs. In this show, Kerry and Jason walk through …

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Cloning and Stamping tool Live Preview with Photoshop CS4 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.

Fluid Zoom and View Rotation in Photoshop CS4 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 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.

Lightroom Web Gallery Module

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 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 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.

Lightroom 2.0 Overview Lightroom 2.0 Overview