Immerse Yourself This Weekend in Creating Impressionistic-like Images - and save 25% off Topaz Impressions until September 30

September 19, 2014

Topaz Impression - from Topaz Labs - is a new addition to the set of plug-ins I use and recommend to my workshops students.

Save 25% off until September 30 on Total Impression using this code: SEPIMPRESSION. Here's the link.

Totally originally impressionist-like images are possible when you combine a few clicks of a mouse (on a preset) with dozens of slider adjustments.

Great fun. Cool creativity.

Plug-in help us awaken the artist within.

All the plug-ins I use are listed on my Play & Save on Plug-ins page.

Explore the light,
Rick

P.S. These Saturday and Sunday Savings are still in effect. Click here or the image below.

My Photoshop World Plug-in Presentation: Before & After Images

April 10, 2014

I am getting ready for my Awaken The Artist Within presentation at Photoshop World in Atlanta, Georgia next week.

For those of you who are attending the session, here are the photographs that I will be using, the end-result images, and the plug-ins that I used.

All the plug-ins I use are listed on my Play & Save on Plug-ins page.

Freight Train, Gallup, New Mexico

• Photoshop: Select All >Edit > Transform > Perspective and Distort
• Nik Color Efex Pro: Detail Extractor > Tonal Contrast
• Nik Silver Efex Pro
• Topaz DeNoise
• Nik Color Efex Pro: Darken/Lighten Center
* Also used Camera Raw filter in Photoshop.

Route 66, Tucumcari, NM

• Topaz Simplify > BuzSim > Edge Strength > Transparency

Camargue Horses, Provence, France

• Topaz Simplify > BuzSim > Feature Boost > Edge Strength > Transparency

Route 66, Tucumcari, NM

• Photoshop: Select All >Edit > Transform > Perspective
• Photomatix
• Nik Gradual filter

Woman on the Sand Dunes, Death Valley, CA

• onOne Perfect Photo Suite > Perfect B&W

Cathedral, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

• Topaz DeNoise

Motocross, Tampa, Florida

• Photoshop > Tight Crop
• Nik Silver Color Efex Pro > Infrared

Route 66, Tucumcari, NM

• Topaz Restyle > Street > Gray & Tail Light Red

Butterflies, Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida

• MacPhuh Focus 2

Myanmar

• Nik Color Efex Pro > Darken/Lighten Center
• MacPhun > Focus Pro 2

I also have sessions at Photoshop World on travel photography and shooting in chilly conditions. I hope to see you there, or on one of my workshops, where I teach it all.

I also save several on-line classes on KelbyOne. A great place to learn, too.

Explore the Light,
Rick

Save on Topaz Plug-ins - and awaken the artist within

March 28, 2014

I just finished my Topaz webinar: Awaken the artist within with plug-ins. If you missed it, here's the link for the one-hour presentation.

For now, you can save a few bucks (until March 30th) on these Topaz plug-ins when using my discount codes:

sammonweb6 - 30% off of all products, including the complete collection.
sammondenoise - 50% off of DeNoise only.

Use those codes upon checkout at the Topaz Web site.

During the webinar I shared some of my favorite images from my Route 66 trip. I created the opening images for this post with Topaz Black & White Effects. Below is my original image. I take you through the process in the webinar. You can see more of my Route 66 images in my Route 66 Gallery.

I teach digital imaging processing on all my workshops. I hope you can join the fun someday.

Above is a screen shot of the Topaz Black and White Effects control panel. If you want to get good at making black and white images, the first step is to learn about the effects of color filters on an image. The second step is to work with contrast.