TWiP TheFIX

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In this show @Frederick Van Johnson @Steve Brazill and @PhotoJoseph briefly discuss TWiP’s hiatus, then tear into GoPro and the failure of their Karma Drone. Then we’ll discuss low-light photography tips and finally we’ll round things out with a panel discussion around their favorite cameras.

TWiP welcomes Renee Robyn to the TWiP family. She will be taking the reigns of TheFIX and turning the ship in an entirely new direction!

In this episode of TheFIX we complete the compositing project from Episode 081, taking the steampunk radio composite and using it to explore video compositing in Photoshop. Host Seán Duggan shows how to use common Photoshop compositing skills such as layers, layer masks, smart objects, and blending modes to combine stills and video clips to create a video composite. The post TheFIX 084: Photoshop Video Compositing appeared first on This Week in Photo.

In this episode of TheFIX photographer, teacher, and author Rob Sylvan joins host Seán Duggan for a discussion about some of the things that can go wrong with a Lightroom catalog, and ways you can prevent common problems from occurring and tame your photo library in Lightroom. The post TheFIX 083: Tame Your Lightroom Library with Rob Sylvan appeared first on This Week in Photo.

In this episode of TheFIX, commercial photographer Jeff Shaffer provides an in-depth look at Apocalyptech, a personal project featuring a series of intricate and detailed Photoshop composites. We look at several aspects of creating the series, including concept and storyboard sketches, creating the background plate composites, photographing models in the studio to match the background plates, and putting it all together in Photoshop. The post TheFIX 082: Personal Project Profile:...

In this project-based episode of TheFIX, host Seán Duggan uses elements from four photos to create a simple composite of a steampunk radio. There are a lot of essential Photoshop skills covered in this show, including retouching, image mirroring, transformations, selections, working with shape tools to create paths for selections, layers, layer masks, smart objects, and layer styles. The post TheFIX 081: Photoshop Compositing – Steampunk Radio appeared first on This Week in Photo.

In this episode of TheFIX, host Seán Duggan shares some tips and techniques for creating color toning and tinting (i.e., "hand coloring") effects for black & white images. Beyond those key topics, this show also features useful tips on adjustment layers, layer masks, blending modes, and alternate ways of applying color tinting. The post TheFIX 080: Photoshop Toning & Color Tinting appeared first on This Week in Photo.

On this episode of TheFIX, Alan Hess provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to photograph concerts and other high-profile live events, shows some of his favorite concert images, and shares some cool Lightroom and Photoshop processing tips. The post TheFIX 079: Concert Photography with Alan Hess appeared first on This Week in Photo.

On this episode of TheFIX, photographer and photo educator Dan Hughes joins host Seán Duggan to talk about processing black & white images using Macphun's Tonality Pro plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop. Tonality is available for the Mac OS individually, or as part of the Creative Kit of 6 photo editing apps. The post TheFIX 078: Black & White with Tonality Pro appeared first on This Week in Photo.

On this episode of TheFIX Seán Duggan concludes his series of talks from the recent Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Julieanne Kost talks about image sequencing and the Adobe Portfolio site that is available to all Creative Cloud members; Glyn Dewis shares some of his inspiration sources for the innovative images and composites he creates; and Josh Haftel talks about some of the misconceptions that many people still have about mobile photography and how he uses Lightroom Mobile in his own...

Host Seán Duggan takes TheFIX on the road to Photoshop World in Las Vegas for some short audio interviews with some of the instructors and industry insiders at the conference. In this episode we talk mobile workflow and possibilities with Adobe's Bryan O'Neil Hughes, and photographer Levi Sim from Photofocus.com shares gear and masking tips. The post TheFIX 076: Photoshop World Talks I appeared first on This Week in Photo.

On the 75th episode of TheFIX photographer Erika Thornes joins Seán Duggan for a conversation about her beautiful and dreamlike underwater images, as well as tips for photographing portraits and models underwater, and the Lightroom processing techniques she uses to color correct, improve and enhance her underwater photography. The post TheFIX 075: Erika Thornes – Underwater Photography appeared first on This Week in Photo.

In this episode of TheFIX, Seán Duggan shows some of the essentials for working with keywords in Lightroom so you can locate images more easily. We start with applying keywords on import and then look at ways to apply and edit keywords after the photos have been imported, with a look at keywording concepts and strategy. Stops on our journey include the Keywording and Keyword Lists panel, working with suggested keywords and creating keyword sets. The post TheFIX 074: Lightroom Keywords 101...

New to the iPhone? Or, just need some tips working with the iOS Photos app? On this episode of TheFIX, Seán Duggan shows some of the essentials for working with the iOS Photos app on your iPhone or iPad. We cover the Camera Roll, the date and location-based organization offered by Moments, Collections and Years, as well as the Smart Albums created by iOS, and albums that you create.We also look at the Maps and Search features to find images based on where and when they where...

Last week Adobe released the new Photoshop CC 2015.5 , and in this episode of TheFIX we kick the tires and take it for a spin to check out the new features of most interest to photographers: Content-Aware Crop, the new Select & Mask task space, which represents a significant upgrade to what used to be the Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialogs; and the new Face-Aware panel in the Liquify filter. The post TheFIX 072: Photoshop CC 2015.5 – Kicking the Tires appeared first on This Week in Photo.

This week on TheFIX, host Seán Duggan takes a look at an essential layer technique in Photoshop: the use of layer clipping masks and clipping groups. A clipping mask allows you to take advantage of "masking without a mask", using an underlying layer's transparency as a virtual mask. The post TheFIX 071: Photoshop Clipping Masks appeared first on This Week in Photo.

This week on TheFIX, host Seán Duggan covers the recent 2015.6/6.6. Lightroom update and in a multi-image test drive he explores the new Guided Upright feature in Lightroom CC for correcting perspective distortions. Reminder: You still have a week to enter the current Rocky Nook book giveaway. The post TheFIX 070: Lightroom CC – Guided Upright appeared first on This Week in Photo.

In this episode of TheFIX, photographer Jim Goldstein joins host Seán Duggan for a conversation about chasing moonbows in Yosemite and backup strategies for keeping your images safe from hard drive failure or other catastrophes. The post TheFIX 069: Backup Strategies with Jim Goldstein appeared first on This Week in Photo.