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Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow

& Adobe Training Resources with Jan Kabili

It's old home week for this episode as host Seán Duggan welcomes back Jan Kabili, the original founding host of TheFIX. Jan brings us up to date on what she's been up to since she joined Adobe Systems to create tutorial content on Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe's mobile photography apps for Adobe.com. Jan also shows something that a lot of people are unaware of...the amazing amount of free, quality tutorial content for Adobe products that can be found at Adobe.com (it can even be accessed right from the Photoshop start screen!). In the demo segment, Jan shares some beginner tips for a basic Lightroom to Photoshop workflow.

About This Week's Guest

Jan Kabili is a photographer, author, educator, and the founding host of TheFIX on the TWiP network. Since 2001, she has authored numerous books, articles, and videos on how to use Adobe software and she has authored 42 Photoshop and Lightroom courses on the popular training website Lynda.com. Jan currently works for Adobe Systems, where she is in charge of creating tutorials on Photoshop, Lightroom, and the Adobe mobile photography apps for the Adobe website, Adobe.com. Her latest book is the Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for Photographers Classroom in a Book (Adobe Press 2014). She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from University of Colorado at Boulder, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

Jan's Online Courses at Lynda.com

Lightroom & Digital Photography, June 13 – 17, 2016, Anderson Ranch Workshops, Colorado

Jan's Lightroom-to-Photoshop tutorials on Adobe.com

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Where's Seán?

Lynda.com recently published Seán's two new Photoshop Compositing Project courses: Product Photography Compositing, and Adding a Person to a Group Photo.  Two new Lynda.com courses will be released soon! Check out Seán's website to learn more about his photography, workshops, and all of his Lynda.com courses

* Join Seán this summer at the Maine Media Workshops for

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Exploring the Creative Composite with Fran Forman

In this episode of TheFIX, noted digital composite artist Fran Forman joins host Seán Duggan for a conversation on the inspiration and creative process behind her beautifully surreal and dreamlike photo composites. Fran shares how her background in graphic design, art history and psychology have all contributed to her compositing style, as well as the stories that she tells with her enigmatic images. We delve into where her ideas come from and then discuss the creative metamorphosis and serendipity that transforms those initial seeds of an idea into a finished composite. Fran shares several of her composites and talks about the concepts behind them and the different source photos that were used, as well as deconstructing a couple of composites to show how they evolved as she was working on them.

About This Week's Guest

Photo-montage artist Fran Forman s gorgeous images can be seen in prestigious galleries and major museums, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a testament to the many significant awards and prizes she has earned over her 20-year career. Her book Escape Artist was chosen by Elizabeth Avedon as one of the Best Photography Books in 2014.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

Fran's website   |  Escape Artist, the Art of Fran Forman

Connect with Fran on    Facebook     |     Instagram

 

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Fashion & Beauty Retouching with Carrie Beene

In this episode of TheFIX, we talk with Carrie Beene,  a professional retoucher based in New York City who provides digital retouching for fashion, beauty, and product photography that is destined for high-end reproduction. Carrie tells us how she got started and shares examples of some of the type of work she is regularly hired to do. She also deconstructs one of her layered files and explains the different steps, and the reasoning behind them, used to create the final result. Along the way, she shares some useful Photoshop tips for retouching fashion and beauty images.

About This Week's Guest

Carrie Beene has been a retouching artist for over fifteen years. Based in New York City, she specializes in high-end work for fashion, beauty, commercial, editorial, and product photography. Her work appears regularly in magazines, advertisements, back-lit retail displays, billboards, and other large scale reproductions. She is the author of Real Retouching: A Professional Step-by-Step Guide, and she teaches workshops and speaks at industry conventions and trade shows.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

Carrie's website   |     Carries' NYC Beauty Retouching Workshop, April 2 & 3

Carrie's Book: Real Retouching: A Professional Step-by-Step Guide

Connect with Carrie on...   Facebook     |     Instagram     |     Twitter

Facebook Retouching Group     |     Carrie's Retouching Tutorials

Retouching by Carrie Beene:

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Photoshop 3D Planet Creation with Stephen Burns

In this episode of TheFIX, we talk with digital artist, author, instructor and 3D expert Stephen Burns, who shares some techniques from his new book 3D Photoshop for Creative Professionals: An Interactive Guide for Creating 3D Art.  In the demo he shows how to use Photoshop's 3D features to create a planet from a photograph of a marble texture, add rings to the planet (including accurate shadows from the rings and the planet), use a bump map to add a textured surface to the planet, and finally, use compositing techniques, including layer masks, to add the planet into a landscape photograph. If you're interested in ways you might use Photoshop's 3D features in your own compositing projects, this is definitely an episode for you.

About This Week's Guest

Stephen Burns is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe ACP (Adobe Community Professional) and Adobe Freelancer and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is also the president of The San Diego Photoshop Users Group which is currently the largest Photoshop user group in the United States, as well as a founder of the Facebook Photoshop Users group. He teaches digital workshops online and privately.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

Stephen's website: ChromeAllusion.com     |      Book: 3D Photoshop for Creative Professionals

Learn more about Photoshop 3D in Stephen's Sept 2015 Appearance on TheFIX

San Diego Photoshop User's Group     |      Facebook Photoshop Users Group

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Where's Seán?

Lynda.com recently published Seán's two new Photoshop Compositing Project courses: Product Photography Compositing, and 

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Mirrorless to iOS Processing, Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, & More!

Dan Burkholder joins host Seán Duggan for a conversation on alternative digital workflows for processing and printmaking. We start with Dan’s work with creating digital negatives in the early 1990s, his innovative printmaking techniques combining inkjet pigment with traditional platinum printing, and even mixing inkjet with platinum and gold leaf. Dan shares some of his workflow for using wifi to transfer images from his mirrorless camera to an iOS device for processing, delves into iOS HDR processing with Pro HDR X, and a fine overview of final seasoning with Snapseed. In addition to app-specific techniques, we also discuss app workflow issues that touch on when you would apply a certain effect, such as blurring or textures. We also discuss the different ways one might use this approach…for creating rough drafts or proof of concept pieces that you would later process on a computer, to treating the iOS edits as the finished work (apart from final finessing in Photoshop).

About This Week's Guest

Dan Burkholder has a long history of looking over the photographic horizon to explore, exhibit, and teach, new and innovative ways to interpret your images. He was one of the first fine art photographers to champion digital technology by creating the digital negative in 1992. He continues to explore new areas of photography, preaching the fine art potential of the Apple iPhone and the smaller micro 4/3 mirrorless cameras. Burkholder has taught digital imaging workshops at venues worldwide including The Royal Photographic Society (Spain), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). He is the author of Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, iPhone Artistry, and The Color of Loss, an HDR exploration of ravaged interiors in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

DanBurkholder.com     |     Dan Burkholder Travel Workshops

Pro HDR X    |     Snapseed -Android    |     Snapseed-iOS

Photo Toaster     |     ViewEXIF     |     Photo Trash Talk Podcast

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Photo S.O.S: The Importance of Having a Lightroom Stunt Catalog

In this episode of TheFIX we take a look at some questions in the Photo S.O.S file and shine a light on preventing the Apple Photos app from trying to hijack your images every time you attach a memory card to your computer; show how you can be sure which Lightroom catalog you're working with; synchronizing folders to find missing images; and the importance of creating and maintaining a Lightroom "stunt catalog".

Reminder: Rocky Nook Book Giveaway

There are still a few days left to enter to win The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography by Glenn Randall. To enter to win the book, all you have to do is head over to the page for last week's episode (052) and leave a comment there telling us what topics you would like to see on future episodes of TheFIX, or what guests you would like to see interviewed or profiled. The winner will be chosen randomly from all the comments on that page at the end of day (PST) on 2/18/16. We look forward to hearing your ideas for what you would like to see on TheFIX!

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Where's Seán?

Lynda.com recently published Seán's two new Photoshop Compositing Project courses: Product Photography Compositing, and Adding a Person to a Group Photo.  Check out Seán's website to learn more about his photography, workshops, and all of his Lynda.com courses

* Join Seán at the Maine Media Workshops for

"Creative Seeing: Refining Your Photographic Vision", Aug. 7 – 13, 2016

* Connect with Seán on social media:  Facebook   |   Twitter   |   Google+  |   Instagram

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Boundary Warp for Panoramas

In this episode, host Seán Duggan does some tire-kicking on the new Boundary Warp feature for panoramas in the latest Lightroom and Camera Raw update, and talks about the return of the book giveaway from Rocky Nook Press.

On January 27th Adobe released the Lightroom CC 2015.4 and Camera Raw 9.4 update. Along with the usual support for new cameras and lens profiles, as well as improvements and bug fixes, this update also came with a brand new feature called Boundary Warp, that will be of great interest for anyone who shoots panoramas. Stitched panoramas rarely have clean rectangular edges. Depending on how the source images where shot, there is often a significant irregular edge. In the past this had to be fixed by either cropping the irregular edge off, which sometimes resulted in too much of the image being cropped away.  Some images frequently required more involved Photoshop retouching using Content-Aware Fill, patch layers, the Healing Brush and sometimes the Clone Stamp tool. Boundary Warp works with the panorama merging feature that is a part of Camera Raw and Lightroom CC. It analyses the boundary edges of the stitched image and warps the edges so that they will fit into a rectangular frame.

Rocky Nook Book Giveaway

This episode also marks the return of the book giveaway sponsored by Rocky Nook Press! Since panoramas are often used for landscape photography, this week we're giving away The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography by Glenn Randall. To enter to win the book, all you have to do is leave a comment below telling us what topics you would like to see on future episodes of TheFIX, or what guests you would like to see interviewed or profiled. The winner will be chosen randomly from all the comments below on 2/17/16. We look forward to hearing your ideas for what you would like to see on TheFIX!

Breaking NEWS: Bridge CC Updated

Right before this episode was published, Adobe announced the Bridge CC 6.2 Update.  This is very welcome news, as Bridge has languished for a long time. The improvements detailed in the announcement include automated cache management and on-demand thumbnail generation, which should greatly improve the overall performance of the program. There is also an import from device option for Mac, the reinstatement of the Autostack Panorama/HDR feature, and significant updates to the core technology components, which creates a more solid foundation for future development and modernization of Bridge. We'll take a look at the Bridge update in a future episode of TheFIX.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

Details on the Camera Raw 9.4 Update    |    Russell Brown Overview Video on Boundary Warp

Advanced Boundary Warp Pano Tips by Russell Brown

The Photoshop Compositing Project: Product Photography

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Nature & Wildlife Photography with Lewis Kemper

In this episode of TheFIX, photographer, author, and workshop leader Lewis Kemper joins host Seán Duggan to talk about the joys and challenges of photographing Alaskan coastal brown bears, and a personal project based on a stretch of the American River in northern California that is just a short walk from his home. Along the way Lewis shares some Lightroom post-processing tips for "flipping the light" to transform original captures so they they are a more accurate reflection of the moment he experienced. For those interested in learning more from Lewis about nature and wildlife photography, he also shares details about his upcoming April workshop to photograph tigers in India, and another trip to visit the coastal grizzlies in Alaska in August 2016.

About Our Guest

Lewis Kemper is widely recognized as a nature and wildlife photographer, writer, and instructor, lecturing and teaching throughout the United States. He was the photographer for, Ancient Ancestors of the Southwest, published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing. Kemper’s monograph, Capturing the Light won the People’s Choice Awards in Fine Art in the 2009 Photography Book Now competition. His latest publication Photographing Yosemite Digital Field Guide was voted in the top 20 field guides. Lewis’ latest project My Stretch of the River: A Photographer’s Journal, features a years worth of photography and journal entries on the American River in Sacramento, CA .

Links Mentioned in this Episode

LewisKemper.com    |    India: Land of the Tigers workshop, April 2016

Alaskan Brown Bear Photo Tour, Aug 2016    |     My Stretch of the River: A Photographer's Journey

Connect with Lewis on Facebook, Twitter,  &  Instagram

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Lightroom Export Essentials

In this episode of TheFIX, host Seán Duggan provides a tour of the essentials of the Lightroom Export dialog, including how to create a custom file name template, how to work with the Watermark Editor dialog, and how to create Export Presets to streamline that part of your Lightroom workflow. This rundown of the settings in the Export dialog is a follow-up to a show two weeks ago where guest Erika Thornes offered suggestions for implementing some simple Lightroom workflow changes so that important family photos could be quickly exported as JPEGs so that your family can easily access them after you're gone. One of those suggestion was creating an Export Preset for this purpose. Since we didn't have time to cover it in that episode, we're revisiting the Lightroom Export dialog this week.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

TheFIX 048: Your Digital Photo Afterlife - Preserving Family Photos, with Erika Thornes

Creative Seeing: Refining Your Photographic Vision, Aug. 7 – 13, 2016, at the Maine Media Workshops

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You can enjoy this and every episode of TheFIX in its video or audio version. Click the video at the top of this page to watch the video version or use the audio player on this page to listen to the show. To enjoy the audio version when you’re on the go, subscribe to TheFIX in iTunes or your favorite RSS player.

Where's Seán?

Seán's latest online courses Photoshop Compositing Project: Replacing a Sky,  Landscape Photography: Iceland, and iPhone & iPad Photography with iOS 9 were recently published at Lynda.com. Check out his website to learn more about his photography, workshops, and his other Lynda.com courses

* Connect with Seán on social media:  Facebook   |   Twitter   |   Google+  |   Instagram

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Digital Black & White with Vincent Versace

In digital photography, a good black and white image starts with a good color image. In this episode of TheFIX, photographer and author Vincent Versace joins host Seán Duggan and provides a conceptual deep dive into understanding the essentials of crafting a black and white conversion that gives you full control over the color and tonal information recorded in the original capture.

About Our Guest

Vincent Versace is an internationally recognized pioneer in the art and science of digital photography. He is one of Nikon’s founding Nikon Ambassadors and his work has been highlighted in American Photo, Popular Photography, The New York Times, Shutterbug, Outdoor Photographer, Pro Digital Imaging, PDN, and many other publications. He is the author of the best selling books From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black & White Technique Known to Mankind and Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

versacephotography.com     |     The Master Black & White Print, Feb 29 – Mar 4, 2016

Vincent's Cuba Workshop, March 18 – 26, 2016

 

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Where's Seán?

Seán's latest online courses Photoshop Compositing Project: Replacing a Sky,  Landscape Photography: Iceland, and iPhone & iPad Photography with iOS 9 were recently published at Lynda.com. Check out his