September 20th, 2011
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 10 are scheduled to be released October 3rd. I point this out because I think Adobe Photoshop Elements is becoming the Photoshop of choice for beginning real estate photographers. While I dearly love my Photoshop CS5 ($670 USD) and Lightroom ($210 USD) and there are many wonderful benefits of both, [...]
September 13th, 2011
I had a request last week to help an up and coming real estate photographer in the Seattle area learn how to make sure the views look great in his interior photos. He was lamenting that he had the opportunity to shoot homes with great views but he couldn’t pull the windows with his lighting [...]
September 11th, 2011
I’ve been working on a set of YouTube video tutorials that I’m going to use to go along with the new edition of my Photography For Real Estate eBook. This weekend as I was working a Lens Distortion Tutorial when someone submitted a Master Bath shot with barrel distortion and the verticals off. Since the contest contestants [...]
August 30th, 2011
If you have Photoshop CS5 and do real estate photography you should know about how to use the puppet warp feature to straighten walls in architectural photos. Thanks to Jeff for sending me this video! I’d never paid much attention to puppet warp but it is a really cool feature. Note that this feature was [...]
August 29th, 2011
Mike Kelley sent me this tutorial video that illustrates his compositing technique for adding extra drama to twilight shots. Mike describes his technique as follows: The technique is pretty simple but gives great results. I have my camera set up on a tripod with a remote, and Pocketwizards connecting the camera to the flash in [...]
June 13th, 2011
Like Scott Hargis says, there are a gazillion ways to replace a sky. For real estate photography you want something fast and easy. Scott’s video tutorial is just that, quick and easy. You don’t even have to have a library of skies for this one! You just change the color of the clouds from grey [...]
May 23rd, 2011
Thanks to Jonathan Calvert of Houston, TX for passing along his tutorial for a quick and easy way to replace skies. Jonathan says, “I know there has been a hundred tutorials on sky replacement, but they all seem too “intricate” for fast turn around real estate pictures, especially if you have multiple outdoor shots on [...]
April 26th, 2011
In real estate photography the front exterior shot is THE most important shot. Why? Because a thumbnail of the front exterior shot needs to have the visual power to grab the attention of the home buyer scanning through lists of listings on real estate sites and entice them to look at the listing further. On most [...]
April 25th, 2011
Now that real estate photographers can straighten verticals and remove barrel distortion in Lightroom 3 the only reason they need Photoshop or Photoshop Elements any more is to mask windows or replace skys right? If they had layers in Lightroom and Aperture then they wouldn’t need Photoshop! This is onOne Software’s line of thinking. So [...]
April 12th, 2011
Doing quick Photoshop masks for sky replacement or window replacement on interior shots is a frequent need that real estate photographers have. I created this video a number of years ago but have had several situations recently that people wanted to mask interior windows. The crux of creating such masks is that the mask edges [...]
