You’ve seen it just about everywhere.  You’ve been seeing it for most of your life, and you didn’t even know it.  It’s called Stock Photography.  Over the years, I’ve really become aware of just how much stock imagery is all around us.  There have been times when I’ve bought an image from iStockPhoto.com used it, [...]

Let me start off by saying that I’ve been using Photoshop since 1994.  I’ve taught myself everything I know (tutorials helped), and I literally love that application.  Photoshop is always running in my task bar.  Without Photoshop, I’d have never developed the skills that aid me in all areas of production.
With that understood there are [...]

If it feels good…. PRINT IT!  Rasterbation rocks!  Don’t let the name fool you.  The Rasterbator is an amazing little app / web app that allows you to create some amazing large format artwork.
What the Rasterbator does is lets you take a regular photo / snap shot and blow it up as large as 20 [...]

OH YEAH!  Photoshop has this great feature called Actions.  Basically, you can record a series of steps, provide for some user input, and save it as a little program.  A macro if you will.  I’ve been using Actions in Photoshop for years and years.  One of my favorite uses for them is to prepare images [...]

I can’t paint.  I really can’t draw either… yet, I’m an artist.  Go figure. Over the years I’ve developed a real appreciation for artists who can either with natural media or digital media just create amazing vistas.  It just blows me a way how an artist can take a mundane photograph and turn it into [...]