Season’s Greetings to all of you, and thanks for following “Notes From a Creative Soul”. I look forward to a year of growth, creativity and adventures. Hope to see you at an upcoming Meetup, presentation or workshop! If enough of you would like to know how this greeting card was made using Photoshop, comment below and I’ll schedule it as an upcoming post.
As the year is drawing to a close, I am taking a poll to learn what blog post topics, techniques or any content that interests you most.
Recently, I received a little gift— a chance to slow down, reflect on my favorite creative Photoshop techniques and recall how my artistic style emerged from grade-school experiments.
This collaboration began with an email from artist/author/instructor Seán Duggan. We had met a few summers ago while both teaching Photography and Photoshop at Maine Media Workshops, and revealed that we admired each others’ work. In his email, he asked if I would like to contribute to “Photoshop Masking and Compositing”, a new Photoshop book he was co-writing with digital artists Katrin Eismann and James Porto.
I’m presenting to the Seattle Area Photoshop User Group on Tuesday, February 21st at Adobe’s Seattle Headquarters. The title of my presentation is: “Creative Photoshop: Montages & Lighting with Layers and Masks” We have 250 RSVPs. It will still be the largest turnout ever for any Photoshop-related Meetup. Read more about it here.
“Making a Photoshop collage is a defined yet flexible process.” One can approach this with complete spontaneity, like a child with a crayon, or with a methodical approach as seen here. For client work, I first create a sketch, then once approved, I begin to create or search for my existing visual elements. This technique is called ‘Pre-Visualization’, because one must first think of what one wants to create. It’s a … more >>
“Creative Photography with Any Camera” MARCH 14 – 17 : Santa Fe, NM “Join me to capture the beauty, history, and nature in and around Santa Fe!” No matter what your photography experience is, this workshop will inspire and give you hands-on instruction to master camera settings, use intuition to capture the best moments, artfully compose shots, edit and organize images and create slide shows, prints and web galleries. You’ll … more >>
Welcome to “Notes From a Creative Soul”. I share my travels, tips, creativity and my expertise. I’ll post stories, images, techniques, tutorials and information about my group and individual photography workshops. I invite you to subscribe to this blog (or use the orange RSS link at top), and please share it freely so that others will enjoy and hopefully contribute. I can promise you will enjoy the show for months to come. As a bonus, … more >>
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