Monday, September 29, 2008

Camera Raw 5.0 - Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/29- 09:05 PM

Learn how to process RAW photos using Photoshop CS4

Richard Harrington shows you how to develop your camera raw files with Camera Raw 5.0 and CS4.

Monday, September 29, 2008

I Decide: Anatomy of a No-Budget HD Spot

Art Adams | 09/29- 02:35 PM

Wherein a great group of people come together for a good cause

This was the first project shot for California’s No on Prop 8 campaign. In an attempt to reach out to young voters I recruited my cousin Catherine, and her best friend Austin, to record an appeal for youth to get up and vote down Prop 8. They’re both politically active and immediately said “yes” to the project.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Why “Exposing to the Right” Works on the RED

Art Adams | 09/27- 09:14 AM

This white paper from Adobe explains it all without making my eyes bleed.

There’s been a lot of talk about “exposing to the right” in the RED community: instead of relying solely on your meter, the idea is to watch the RED’s histograms and use whatever room is available on the right side. If your meter says to shoot at 2.8, and there’s nothing hitting the right side of the histogram, open up the stop and move all the values over until something clips or you run out of stop.

I did this on my last two RED shoots and it worked great. Using REDSpace as my color and gamma preset allowed me to see more-or-less exactly how the image would be seen once processed using those settings in post, and by setting the zebras to come on at their maximum of 103 (I assume that’s 103 ire on a scale of 0-109) I could use them the same way I would on any other HD camera. Processing the footage through RedRushes using the REDSpace preset resulted in images that were very close to what I saw on location while still offering me all the grading latitude that I’d expect from RED raw footage.

This white paper on Adobe’s web site explains what “expose to the right” is and why it works. I highly recommend it.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Auto-Blend – Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/27- 05:41 AM

Learn how to combine multiple scans or exposures automatically for seamless images.

Richard Harrington shows you how to use auto-blend to combine multiple exposures or layers in Photoshop CS4 .

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Masks Panel – Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/27- 05:35 AM

New Flexibility for Masks and Alpha Channels

Richard Harrington shows you what’s new with masks in Photoshop CS4 and how to use them to non-destructivly add transparency to an image.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Avid Hidden Gems 4

Steve Hullfish | 09/25- 11:03 AM

Power User Tips and Hidden Gems from the Very Fine Manual

OK, so you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
 
While the previous installments of Avid Hidden Gems have all been from memory – basically just some cool power user tips – today, I actually dove into the manual itself to:
 
1) find things that are completely new to me
2) rediscover things that I’d forgotten
3) remind myself about things that I use all the time, but others might not have discovered.
 

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