You can hardly open your facebook or instagram today that you are not blasted with the AI generated images. Some are pretty good; some are just ridiculous and hardly worth a glance as you scroll past. I personally was adamantly against anything that even hinted of AI generation when the…
Today with all the AI applications available to create digital art, and the commercial actions for sale, you often wonder what you are looking at on Facebook and Instagram. Did the artist paint something or make decisions about the art? Or did they just type some text or push a…
I often see new Photoshop users apply the Hue and Saturation adjustment tool to their work and they automatically begin sliding the global sliders on the top bar to make color adjustments. While this is fine if GLOBAL color adjustment is what you are after, like to warm or cool…
I recently returned from a week at “Texas School” for Photography in Dallas Texas where about 1000 photographers assemble for a week long training. This event happens once a year in April and includes training in photo capture, lighting, photography business, post processing and also digital painting. I took a…
I was cleaning up my desk today and ran across a check list that I compiled to help me remember all the things I want to check on my final composites and paintings for print competition. It’s certainly not a final, just a list of my current thoughts that I…
I’m working on a composite and I really want to add some molten lava to the scene. I’ve reviewed several videos on YouTube but the results are just not realistic… So, I decided to experiment and build it myself. The nice thing about photoshop is that there are no limits. …
I’ve had the Topaz Impressions software for quit sometime, both as a plug-in and then in Studio and now Studio 2. I use it once in awhile in the beginning steps of my Photoshop painting process to de-pixelate the photograph and give me a nice base image to begin my…
A few weeks ago I attended a conference in Dallas with the Texas PPA. I arrived a day early so that I could go to the Fort Worth zoo. While there, I spent a bit of time at the Gorilla exhibit. The mature female there is absolutely hilarious. She has…
For those who attended the Texas Professional Photographers Association iHeart Conference this weekend and attended Shannon Squire’s classes, I have a little something here for you to download. With Shannon’s permission, I have turned a couple of her techniques into actions or presets so you can enjoy trying these without…
I started a new composite yesterday. I found some cool 3D elf images on one of my stock sites and a dragon so I decided to put together a composite of one of my favorite series, the Lord of the Rings! This one is about Rivendell, the throne of the…