Tutorials

What is Bokeh? Bokeh comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ) which basically means blur. Bokeh simply put, is the effect of low depth of field blurring the light that is not focused. The depth of field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects to the camera. The lower the depth of field, the [...] Continue Reading

Since the early decades of the 20th century, the commercial art scene has been home to generations of hard-working illustrators supplying newspapers and pulp publishers with fresh art for comic strips and comic books. The new millennium has seen a renaissance in sequential artwork as comic books and their loftier descendants, graphic novels, invaded and […]

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Ahh, the classic matte look. In case you don't know what it is, it's simply the effect of flattening the blacks in a photo so that shadows look flat and muted. This is how many older cameras produced photos so you could say it's somewhat of a vintage look. But don't let that fool you because it's still [...] Continue Reading

We all have those photos. The ones that would probably be a 10/10 if not for the boring sky… It’s just not fair that we can take great photos only for it to be ruined by something we have no control over. Sure, you could wait for a better day but maybe you’re working with [...] Continue Reading

The wonderful thing about Lightroom is its ability to save certain settings for use on other photos later. This opens up a wide variety of options for your workflow. Unfortunately, Adobe never really explains how to do it. So the question is, how do you create Lightroom presets? Luckily, it’s super easy. For the purpose of […]

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Lightroom is a pretty amazing piece of software. One nifty feature are presets which allow you to save settings and apply them to a different photo at a later time. You can either make your own or download the many available on the internet but the question stands... how do you install them?  Well, don't worry, in [...] Continue Reading