October 21st, 2008
When you are shooting a home with a view, there’s nothing more important to the home owners and listing agent than seeing stunning view through the windows. You want to make the windows look like someone took out the glass!
From a photo editing standpoint what you’d like is have complete control of the interior and [...]
October 20th, 2008
I quit my Photoshop 12 step program and have been using Photoshop CS4 since last Wed (10/15). This version Adobe has a download distribution so PS addicts don’t have to wait for the mail system to get our updates.
The big question is CS4 worth $199 to update? Well as I see it, there aren’t many [...]
September 23rd, 2008
Seems like I just bought and upgrade to Photoshop. Yea, I looked it up and it was just 19 months ago that I bought PS CS3. It’s probably not worth paying $199 to upgrade every 18 months but I have something to admit: I’m hooked. I can’t live without the latest and greatest version of [...]
July 11th, 2008
I ran across a wonderful little video about Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor who is doing research on how to algorithms for detecting altered photos. Hany is working with Adobe to make his algorithms for fake photo detection widely available.
It’s amazing to me how much photo modification is goes on in advertising but even more [...]
July 6th, 2008
If you are a Real Estate Photographer that uses Lightroom or Aperture what you need is an little application that interfaces with these two applications that will fix lens barrel distortion and converging verticals and doesn’t cost a bundle. PTlens has been close to filling this need for a long time. But the latest version [...]
June 24th, 2008
Ever been forced by circumstances to shoot a real estate front shot with a vehicle sitting in the drive way? I have; I see cars in the driveway of real estate front shots all too much. They distract from the purpose of the photo. But I also understand that you can be forced to choose [...]
June 10th, 2008
Doing quick Photoshop masks for sky replacement or window replacement on interior shots is a frequent need that real estate photographers have.
The crux of creating such masks is that the mask edges are never clean and simple. Like the image in my demonstration video, the mask between the sky and the foreground can be complicated [...]
June 8th, 2008
I learned about lynda.com about a year ago when I chose the one month subscription to lynda.com as the Adobe thank you gift for registering my updgade to Photoshop CS3. I’ve been using it off and on ever since then and I’ve grown to love it as a way to keep up-to-speed on new software.
There [...]
June 2nd, 2008
I’ve been hearing good things about Viveza, a Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Aperture Plugin, by Nik Software. So decided I’d try out the free 15 day trial package.
In short Viveza is a plugin that allows you to quickly and easily make selective adjustments to an image much like you would by using masking adjustments in [...]
May 26th, 2008
If you haven’t noticed lately, there is a major “horse race” going on between Lightroom and Aperture. Many beginning real estate photographers are trying to decide which application to buy. Ian Wood wrote a detailed comparison of Lightroom/Aperture Pros and Cons over at O’Reilly DigitalMedia blog that is well worth a read if you are [...]
May 19th, 2008
Recently I was listening to the TWIP podcast where Alex Lindsay (a plug in developer), Fred Johnson (Lightroom product manager) and Richard Harrington (author of Aperture 2.0 Apple Pro: Training Series) were discussing the new plug-in architecture in Aperture 2.0 and how the design philosophy of Aperture is different than Lightroom. The discussion turned [...]
April 10th, 2008
eSiteTours.com is a full service tour company in Bellevue, WA that launched at the end of 2007. I did a post on eSiteTours.com when they launched. eSiteTours specializes in HDR images for both their 360s and still shots.
Matt Edington is one of the eSiteTours founders and currently does all their HDR processing. Recently Matt was [...]
April 9th, 2008
This Beta version is it seems to me unusually “uncooked” to me. Even though Lightroom product managers say not, I think Adobe rushed out this Beta to reveal the cool things they have in the pipeline and counter Apple’s recent release of Aperture.
Michael Clark over at Inside Lightroom has a good summary of the [...]
March 30th, 2008
I need to confess. I’ve committed grievous sins. I’ve used Photoshop to modify the physical appearance of the exterior of a home we are going to put on the market this week. Not just once but twice. The evidence is in the comparison photo to the right.
This all started when my wife Levi [...]
March 28th, 2008
Over at photoshopinsider Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski made the above video introducing Adobe’s new, free photo editor online photo sharing site. Wall Street Journal also has an article on the new product.I finally got to use Photoshop Express. Turns out the site doesn’t seem to work quite right when I use Firefox on my [...]
