Category: Tutorials

Motion tracking in After Effects with Mocha for perfect tracks every time

John Aldred

Once limited to the realms of Hollywood, motion tracking has become easily easily accessible today. Adobe After Effects comes with three trackers. There’s the original 2D tracker that AE has had for a long time and also the 3D camera tracker introduced in CS6, which analyses your footage to recreate your camera’s movement. After Effects, however, also comes bundled with […]

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The most powerful 10 second toning tip you’ve never heard of!

Joseph Parry

Here’s a colour toning tip I picked up from Barrington Russell last year and I still use it to this day! What if I told you that within just 10 seconds of your time you could create complementary / harmonious colours on any image? Depending on how much darkness, contrast, light etc is in your […]

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How to create dramatic short-light boudoir with just a single speedlight (NSFW)

John Aldred

When you think of the popular boudoir photographers out there at the moment, Lindsay Adler’s name is one of those that immediately springs to mind, and for good reason. Her work’s fantastic. In this video, Lindsay goes through her thought process when lighting a boudoir set in the studio, and demonstrates that you really don’t need […]

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Three tools to rule them all: How to fix anything in Photoshop with three basic tools

Stefan Kohler

I know – that title sounds a little bit like clickbaiting. This time it’s not. You don’t need a lot of fancy tools and techniques to fix the common problems in digital images (it will not help you with your taxes or wife, so the title indeed was a bit to general) Let me tell […]

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9 essential things you need to know about using gimbals

John Aldred

Whether simply to give your iPhone or GoPro footage a little more polish or to film your next masterpiece, gimbal camera stabilisers have become a pretty common item in our kit bags lately. But with great 3 axis control comes great responsibility. In this pair of videos from Aputure’s 4 Minute Film School, we’re told of […]

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