Woman sues Chipotle for using her photo without a release, asking $2.2 billion

Dunja Djudjic

Dear photographers, please always have people sign model releases if you plan to sell photos of them. Let this recent lawsuit against Chipotle Mexican Grill can be a reminder for you. Leah Caldwell was enjoying her meal at a Chipotle restaurant in 2006 when a photographer Steve Adams took a photo of her. She didn’t know […]

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The Q & A Show | Photofocus Podcast January 7th, 2017

Rod Harlan

Scott Bourne answers viewers photography questions. Q&A Podcast Questions #1 From Grae in Reedley, CA What tricks, or otherwise do you have for shooting in low and mixed outdoor lighting? Specifically in the area of photographing active fires (think firemen, not camping.) On the side I shoot active scenes with local fire departments and am…

This photographer creates surrealistic images without Photoshop manipulation

Dunja Djudjic

The battle between those who support photo manipulation and those who don’t is probably never-ending. I believe both are right, and I think photo-manipulation is an art for itself. But Slovak photographer Michal Zahornacky brings these two worlds together in a way. He creates dreamy, surrealistic photos – but free from digital manipulation. Michal says […]

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Lightroom Live: Dive Into Adobe Stock with Terry White

Levi Sim

You gotta join us live for our next Lightroom Live, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…

Does size matter? DPI (dots per inch) for printing explained

Dunja Djudjic

There are plenty of misconceptions about the number of pixels, resolution, image size and so on, which can make us quite confused sometimes. To make things worse, the terms DPI (dots per inch) and PPI (pixels per inch) are often used interchangeably, which makes the understanding even more difficult. Essentially, DPI is important for printers. […]

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Change Select and Mask back to Refine Edge in CC 2017

Clinton lofthouse

Many things have troubled me this past year. Global warming, war, consumerism, my beard that seems to grow ginger past a certain length…..but right above those, at the top of the list is Adobes new Select and Mask feature. Why? Because it just doesn’t work! No matter how many times I try, how many sliders […]

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It’s Easy To Make Money Online – Making a Living Is Hard

JP Danko

If you’re a creative professional, chances are you have a number of hard skills that should make it ridiculously easy for you to make money online. But there’s a catch…it is very difficult to make enough money for long enough to truly earn a living based solely on online revenue sources. In this article, I […]

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Photographer of the Day: Tomas Salinka

Vanelli

Category: Children Photograph: “Eimi ( First shot in 2017)” by Tomas Salinka Tomas did a great job at balancing the light when he captured his three years old little daughter. By keeping the shutter speed at 1/160th of a second he was able to make the background stay dark. The choice to convert the image to…

Quick tip: How Lightroom Survey Mode helps you choose your best images in a flash

Dunja Djudjic

When you need to select the best images to edit and send to the client, it can be quite a boring task. When you get home from a photo shoot and have hundreds of images to choose from, it really takes up a lot of your time. This is when Lightroom’s Survey Mode comes to […]

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