What life is like on a movie set through the eyes of a production assistant

John Aldred

On set, Production Assistants have a vital, yet often thankless role to play.  In this video from RocketJump Film School, we see a day in the life of a production assistant through the eyes of Colin West McDonald. The tasks may be somewhat different for a production assistant on a movie, but there are many parallels to those […]

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Photoshop: The Make Better key

Dave Cross

Many years ago I taught a student who had decided to come up with her own names for Photoshop tools – somehow that helped her remember what the tools did. One of her more interesting ideas was calling the Option key (PC: Alt key) the “make better” key. When asked why she simply said, “every time I hold down Option…

This is the world’s smallest and most portable photo office

John Aldred

I sometimes worry that I’m moving from being a photographer into simply being a collector of photography equipment.  You just accumulate so much stuff over the years.  A good deal on a camera here, a lens there, or you bid on a complete outfit on eBay because the final price is worth the one item […]

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Do clients buy our photography or our retouching?

Jake Hicks

Hi my name is Jake Hicks, as someone who does both the photography and the retouching for my shoots, (learn my flow here), I got wondering if clients buy our photography or our retouching? As technology becomes more and more accessible our clients are becoming increasingly more aware of what is possible with image retouching software […]

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Content-Aware Crop is Coming to Photoshop

Eric Reagan

Photoshop’s content-aware tools have been pretty magical in a lot of ways since they were first introduced over six years ago. In the next Photoshop CC release just around the corner, we will have the ability to use content-aware cropping, which will save some space on the corners of our images as we level out […]