Photoshop Fun Winners: coming soon

I am in Chicago for the WPPI On the Road Tour until Wednesday, I will write up the winners of the contest then. Thank you for your patience.

Star Trek Text Effect

Hi everyone! So this tutorial was supposed to go up Friday to coincide with the release of the new Star Trek movie but unforeseen technical problems forced me to wait and post today. It is a really cool text effect based on the trailer of the new movie. It is a quick and easy way…

NAPP Image of the Week 5.17.2013

If you follow the image of the week posts each week, you might be interested in knowing a little behind-the-scenes info, so I thought I’d share. First, I know a cute kit has been the image of the week two weeks in a row. Just letting you know this is not necessarily a trend on…

Post Process This Image!

Hey everyone! RC here – sitting in a hotel in Milwaukee, WI before a Kelby Training tour stop. I’ve spent the last couple of days out meeting a lot of NAPP members out here and making some pictures. As I was playing with some of these shots, I couldn’t help but think back to how…

WPPI on the Road: Chicago

WPPI is taking their great wedding and portrait conference on the road.
The First stop is Chicago May 20-21 with a new city each month.
RC Concepcion and Pete Collins will be there teaching Portrait retouching and post-production workflows that will help you take your work to the next level. Napp members make sure to take advantage of the NAPP discount and join us On the Road.

WPPI Road Show
NAPP is proud to sponsor WPPI’s On The Road 2013. Join us, WPPI, PDN PhotoPlus Expo, and ASMP for a new series of 2-day photography workshops where new talent will emerge and pros will be re-inspired. You’ll experience all the fun, excitement, education and inspiration of the photo industry’s best events in person, all in a city near you. This is your opportunity to learn from awesome, established educators who will share their paths to success and help you strengthen everything from your creative shooting techniques and post-production skills to how to be successful in your business and marketing practices.

The next 2-day workshop is coming to Chicago, IL May 20-21.
Other dates include:
Atlantic City: June 3 – 4
Los Angeles: July 15 – 16
Las Vegas: August 5 -6

Class tracks will include:
• Wedding & Portrait Photography
• Commercial & Editorial Photography

Subjects will include:
• Lighting & Posing
• Business & Marketing
• Post-production and workflow techniques
• Small group hands-on experiences

In addition, you’ll also receive:
• One-on-one Portfolio Reviews; have your work critiqued and gain valuable feedback
• Exhibits and demos by the industry’s best vendors to help you with the latest products and services
• Meet and greet with the mentors; a rare opportunity to see world-class photographers in person
• Network with other photographers; make personal and professional connections
• Lunch and daily refreshments included

Jason Feiler: Guru Award Winner

Digital artist and editor located in Cleveland, Ohio. I love to create images! Doesn’t matter what the media is as long as its fun. With a background in graphic design, and a fear of fonts, I concentrated on photography and photo manipulation. I use Photoshop because it gives me the tools to create any image…

Creating Realistic Composites with 3D

Hi folks! Corey Barker here with some cool techniques using 3D in Photoshop. In addition to being able to create 3D from scratch in Photoshop you can still import models created in other 3D applications. There are a lot of them that can be found on the web for free. One site I like is…

New Cintiq 22HD Touch walkthrough

Well I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an early one of these to play around with and I am loving it, so instead of just doing an unboxing, I thought I would use this video to show how to hook up and get started using a Cintiq. From cables to touch capabilities I give you a little quick start guide to get you up and running with this great piece of hardware faster.