When it comes to using Photoshop the weakest link in your computer setup is your hard drive unless you are using a higher transfer speed solid state drive (SSD) such as a Corsair Neutron or Crucial M4 series drives. These drives are 600%+ faster at reading and writing data than your standard disk based hard drive…
With over 100 billion searches on Google per month and over 900 million unique users, getting ranked on Google’s first page for keywords that are relevant to the right people finding your website is important for your business even as a creative. This isn’t the simplest task to get done but it is also obtainable,…
I was recently needing to work on a word document with another person today in real-time. I’ve done this in the past over gChat or emailing however this is cumbersome and inefficient if you want to work together in real-time. A quick search on Google lead me to lots of information on how last year…
In September Ed McCulloch photographed portraits of the US Speed Skating Team. 74 images total and was asked to give these images a treatment and style to make them look better in the most efficient way I could. This process needed to be all done in a more less batched way but even 74 portraits…
Last month I worked on an image for photographer Alain Milotti for the Chicago based sextet, Eighth Blackbird. Alain and I had known each other for a few years now but this was the first time we had worked together. The compositing problem that needed to be solved arose because the musicians were photographed with…
The wonderful aspect about compositing is how it is possible to create files of astronomical size. However this is not without a little bit of prior planing on the photography end of things, but that is the case with all compositing. An image I am currently working on is an astonishing 200 megapixel for the…
I just installed Photoshop CS5 today. I wasn’t terribly impressed by the content aware functionality that I had seen in many videos so I didn’t get excited about even trying the new version previously but I ran across a video about the new painting engine and had to get it. Its strange to me that…