Mode Studio

If you scan photographs to work with digitally, you might enjoy my interview on the Inside Digital Photo radio show and podcast, hosted by Scott Sheppard. I talk about scanning work as DNG files so that they can be used in Camera Raw or Lightroom as RAW image files, working with the images non-destructively and getting […]

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Getty Images, the worlds largest stock photography agency, has been bought today by the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, according to the NY Times.
Getty has suffered in recent years from the burgeoning competition levied by low cost (or no cost, as in the Creative Commons license) photography web sites. Getty photographers, including myself, have […]

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Re: my Luminosity Sharpening Action, available from my sharpening tutorial at the Photoshop User web site; in response to the question, “Once downloaded, how do I use the action?”:
Actually you can Load it from anywhere on your computer once downloaded, though the best place to keep an action may be in the Photoshop program […]

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By way of Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel (InDesign and Illustrator trainer), there is an informative forum at InDesignSecrets (see below) on recertification exams, and a helpful page over at Adobe with a list of the new certification/recertification exams for Adobe Applications. Link here for the exam info, where there are links to sample questions […]

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I’m very happy to announce that I’ve begun writing tutorials for the Photoshop User web site, the educational and informational web site of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). The first tutorial, currently featured on Photoshop User’s home page, is for my recommended technique for sharpening photographs, using Smart Sharpening in Luminosity mode in […]

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