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Photoshop HDR Tutorial completely updated.
Learn what HDR really is and isn’t. It’s all explained in this free tutorial. I have just completely updated the free tutorial on HDR and Photoshop. It covers shooting, merging and tone mapping. Also...
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Enhancing landscape photographs with Photoshop CS6 and Shadow Highlight
In this lesson, Colin Smith demonstrates one of his workflows used to enhance a beautiful landscape photograph of the ocean. This is one of the many techniques from the 10 hour Photoshop For Digital...
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Reflections on the Route CS6 tour so far and some pictures.
I just returned from a whirlwind tour of the East Coast. I had a fantastic time. it was great to visit Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Washington DC, Miami, Boston and New York City. I have been teaching...
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Route CS6 Photoshop Seminar Tour with Colin Smith
(update) The tour is is full swing!! See the page here So, I’m heading out on the road this summer. I’m excited about the upcoming tour. It’s a Route 66 themed event. There will be full day seminars...
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Colin’s 10 Principles for Better Type Design
This isn’t a comprehensive article on the art of typography, it’s more of a “quick tips for better type design” kind of thing. I don’t like to use the word “rules”, because it makes people think they...
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Digital Darkroom at the Annenberg Space for Photography
Today I had the honor to attend the VIP advance preview of the Digital Darkroom exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Russell Brown, senior creative director at Adobe, is the curatorial...
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RAW or JPG? Beginner’s guide to file formats
This is a question that surprisingly I still hear thrown around. In this post I discuss each of the camera formats in Plain English. I also talk about tools used to decode RAW file and some suggested...
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Shooting Drag racing from the air with a drone
An exciting evening at the Drag Races, shooting motorsports with a drone By Colin Smith What can be more exciting than the smell of burning rubber and the ground shaking, body moving sound of highly...
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A conversation with the directors of the Angry Birds movie
Recently, I had the opportunity to go to an advance screening of The Angry Birds Movie at Sony Pictures in LA. I also attended a press interview with the 2 directors, Fergal Reilly (Spider-Man 2, The...
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