The following lesson is an excerpt from Adobe Photoshop A Complete Course & Compendium by Steve Laskevitch. You can download the files you’ll need to follow along with this lessons here. A quick project to illustrate several of the major…
The following is an excerpt from Adobe InDesign A Complete Course & Compendium of Features by Steve Laskevitch. To follow along with this lesson, download the files here. In the following lessons, we will learn the basics of creating a…
This excerpt is from the book The Photoshop Toolbox by Glyn Dewis. In this chapter we’re going to step things up and go through a complete portrait retouch from start to finish so that we can see how techniques work…
The following excerpt is from Photograph Like A Thief by Glyn Dewis. If you ask anyone who knows me who I would most like to photograph, they’ll tell you it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened just yet, but I’m…
The following is an excerpt from Alan Hess’s Make Great Photos. Join us tomorrow for a free webinar with Alan! See the details here. A properly exposed image will have the right amount of light—meaning the main subject will…
An excerpt from The Heart of the Photograph by David duChemin. Sometimes what we respond to in a photograph isn’t as much a matter of artifice as we would like to think. A photograph of Marilyn Monroe may not be well-composed or…
An excerpt from David duChemin’s A Beautiful Anarchy. There are no guarantees as we head into the unknown. There can’t be. If you want to create something new, whether that’s a novel or an unconventional life, there is no getting…
The following is an excerpt from David duChemin’s The Soul of the Camera. Regarding the creative struggle, Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez has given some of the best advice I’ve ever heard: “Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when…
The following is an excerpt from David duChemin’s book Within The Frame, 10th Anniversary Edition. Photography has changed so much since I first took up the craft. With the advent of digital imaging and the incredible pace of its progress,…
David duChemin is a world and humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and international workshop leader whose nomadic and adventurous life fuels his fire to create and share. Now based on Vancouver Island, Canada, his life is spent chasing…