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"Traditional brush tool within Photoshop, and then I'm able to use this layer mask here within Photoshop on my camera raw filter, right? Because I used my smart object workflow. Okay, so I've still got access to all of my traditional tools. There's still available to us at any time. And I can use those in conjunction with the additional tools that I've got available to us now with our recent releases. That is crazy, man. I mean, all the power because there is a power and I've got us both back on screen now. So all the power of all the effort that you spent learning the Bezier tool and selections and magic wand and all that stuff. You're not losing that, right? Now you're getting a head start on letting AI in the computer started off for you, then you can go in and use your superpowers that you've built up since 89 or whatever to go with to tweak this election, right? A 100%. You know, it's like a modern oven. It's like, yes, you could bake a cake over a fire. There are probably people out there doing that. But it's going to be a lot easier in a modern oven. So the fire is still available for you if you want to live that rustic lifestyle. You could do it. You could do a wood burning stove even. You could do a lot of different things. But the old tools are not gone. It's just going to be a little bit easier by the new tools. And maybe you want to bake your cake mostly in an oven, and then maybe toast some citrus on a fire and put those on the top for like a nice zesty fire roasted taste to top your cake off. So you can use them in conjunction with each other if you wanted to. I love that. Yeah, yeah. There's so much possibility there. So let's end on this one. So the controversy of all this stuff, right? There's always going to be people that are purists or like in photography. Even before photography, but in photography specifically, there was the transition from film to digital and then megapixels this and that and then canon versus Nikon versus Sony versus Fuji, than this. You're not a real photographer if you crop, or if you edit, the latest thing has been sky replacement and those sorts of technologies, right? It's cheating because it's undetectable now. So because it's so good, it's now considered cheating if you replace the sky in one of your images. Like where do you fall? I know where you fall in that. You're a compositing artist, but articulated. What do you think about that argument? And someone says, Aaron, this shot is fantastic. Is this guy real? I think when people say that, I feel like that's kind of offensive, right? It's like, I don't know, what do you think? I think it depends on how we define ourselves to ourselves and how we define ourselves to others as well. If we say like my goal is to create art and I'm okay replacing skies and that's what I want to do, you know, and you're okay with it for yourself and you're okay to speak it out loud to everyone else. I think you're in the right, you know? I think the only real controversy comes in those who are not willing to accept new technology as it comes along. But in that case, I feel like those people are really only denying themselves the opportunity to learn something new. And I feel like as long as we're all being transparent. Now if I were to come out and say this is a straight out of camera shot, you know, going back to these Photoshop where I just did a sky replacement. If I were to say this is straight out, the camera, I didn't edit it. I didn't do a sky replacement, and then someone later filed something that I did, therein lies a problem. But if I come out and say, yeah, I took a shot. I edited in Photoshop, I replaced the sky, I brightened my subject up and I'm happy with how this looks in the end because my end goal is to create artwork and Photoshop, a camera, lightroom, Adobe camera raw, sky replacement, these are all just tools at my disposal that I'm going to use to create my artwork to express myself, I feel like if we come to our artwork with that point of view, then we're just doing, we're using these tools to create the things that we want to create. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Yeah, yeah, it's like you cheated because you used a drill. How dare you use a drill to make a hole? You're supposed to use a dowel or something. Right. Right. Cameras are tools too, you know? Like maybe the original renaissance painters would be some of them would be like, look at you, using a camera. It's cheating. You didn't even have to learn how to paint a portrait, you know? It's like yeah, you can go back in time as much as you'd like. But with every new technology that comes about, there are going to be people who are excited about it and who adopt it immediately. And I feel like as new technologies become available, it can seem overwhelming for sure, but I also feel like there's opportunity for us to learn and grow with these technologies and embrace them because if we're not embracing them, someone else will be embracing them. And portrait painting has not gone away. There are still amazing painters out there, but photography is here to stay. You know, photography didn't go away because portrait painters didn't like it. In fact, it's continued to evolve and evolve and evolve and evolve. So I feel like it's our job as creatives to keep our focus on why are we creating art in the first place and then the tools and the mediums, that's always secondary. That's just whatever you decide to choose. That's baking a cake over an open fire or in the oven. Those are just different tools and different technologies that we can choose. But the whole reason we're baking a cake is because someone we love just had a birthday and we want to show them this awesome cake and enjoy their birthday, right? It's not, it's not the fire, it's not the oven. We love this person. We want to give them something for their birthday that makes them feel special. So I think as long as we focus on that, we'll be all right. Yeah. No, absolutely. He's like telling Emeril or when it was celebrity chefs that just cooked you a 5 star meal and you're enjoying it and you're like, oh, this is delicious. You must have great knives and an oven in that kitchen. Your cookie tastes great. This is amazing. You must have great tools.
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"In a non destructive way. Only if you're using Photoshop, would you want to use a smart object? The whole thing is like, okay, so right now you can see I've created this smart filter and camera raw is a smart filter that exists underneath that, right? So let's say, let's say I go to this photo here on the left hand side. And I do the same thing. I'm just going to go to filter. We're going to go to camera raw filter right here. And let's just say I go and just crank up my exposure way, way, way high and hit okay. It's going to apply it. But now you can see here on my background, I don't have the ability. Here on this image where I made it a smart object, I have smart filters, camera raw filters, and I can go and change that at any time. But on this image, where I didn't make it a smart object, it just applied that to the layer without the functionality of going and editing that once more. So if you're going to be doing the process in Photoshop, be sure to create a smart object first because that gives you access to your smart filters and your camera raw smart filters that are within that. So right here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit undo controller command Z, then we're going to just right click here. We're going to convert this to a smart object. There we go. And now if I want to go to filter camera raw filter another time, let's just say I do the same thing I crank my exposure all the way up, I hit okay. But now what we can see is instead of it just being directly applied to the layer, we have smart filters, and we have our camera raw filter so I can go in, I can turn this off and on at any point in time. And I can double click right there on the camera raw filter, I can go back here and I can bring my exposure back down. I can just click here and type on zero and then we're back to where we're at. I can hit okay and then here you can see it applies to my image. So if we're in Photoshop, we just want to make sure we're using this smart object workflow. It's going to make a huge difference in how interactive these new tools are with our photos. So big big deal in Photoshop. But any of the lightroom tools don't worry about smart objects, they don't even exist. You can't do a smart object in any of the lightroom tools. So just get in there and start working with these filters. So they work the exact same with lightroom. And before you dive into the other image, Aaron, settle it for us here once and for all. Should I be working in camera raw or should I be in lightroom? I really depends on your workflow. If you're like a primary lightroom user, then stay in lightroom. You're totally good. Cool. If you're a primary Photoshop user, then Adobe camera raw is an amazing tool. It's the same tool. Adobe camera raw is the software that's embedded into Photoshop, and it's embedded into lightroom too. So it doesn't matter so much how you access it, because it's the same tool. So it just depends on what your workflow is. It's in bridge too now. So you could just open your images directly open camera raw. So it just really depends on what your workflow is. But these tools are there to help, and they're integrated across the entire suite of products. So I would just say keep using the tool you're already using. Love it. Love it. Cool. Cool. Yeah, we can take a look at this next image. So if I go to my index image here, so I've already created my camera raw filter. So let's just go ahead and double click on that. And now we're going to go to our masking tools over here on the right hand side. So let's click on our masking. And it's going to say, okay, finding the people. So let's click on this person. Pretty cool. Now in this case, you can see it found the person. It did select a little bit of this floor around the person as well. Don't worry though, because this is creating masks and we can actually change these masks at any point in time. So if it's not perfect, like if it doesn't get exactly what you need, it can be changed. So with our person selected, now I can hover over face skin, body skin, eyebrow, things like this. Now this person, in this case, I got teeth and lips and hair and all kinds of stuff. Because it's just identified more. So let's go ahead and select their face skin, their body skin. You know what? In fact, I just want to do the entire person for now. Let's just click on the entire person here and I'm going to hit create because this would be a good learning opportunity. So my entire person, they look really good, but they were just like a tiny bit dark against my background. So I'm just going to take my exposure and just drag that up like a tiny bit. And I'm going to take my shadows and we're going to drag this up a tiny bit. I'm not trying to change skin color or anything like that at this point. I'm just trying to like make my exposure a little bit better so I can see my personal little bit better. So let's just turn that off and back on. So I'm going to hit controller command plus a couple of times to kind of zoom in and then we're just going to move on down here because if we remember as I turn this off and on, it did select a little bit of my background. Look at those shoes by the way. Oh wow, look at that. I've never seen shoes like that before. Neither have I wow. I wonder if they're comfortable or less comfortable than normal shoes. I'm going to go, I'm going to go and say that that does not look comfortable, but it doesn't look so comfortable. It seems like maybe all shoes would be made that way if it was more comfortable. But we're just going to turn this off and on and yes it did select part of the background.
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"Our layer zero. Remember, I converted this to a smart object earlier. So now what I've got is the smart filters and my camera raw filter. So I can just go to this little eyeball here, my camera raw filter. And I can just turn this off and on at any time. This is in my layer stack. It's a smart object. So I can just turn this off and on. If I like it cool, if I don't like it, that's cool too. I can change this at any time. And if I want to edit what I just did, all you have to do is double click right here where it says camera raw filter. And you're going to be back in. Let's just click on our masking and I can go to this mask, okay? And maybe I want my exposure of the, there we go. I want my exposure of the clothing to be a little bit brighter. I want the color temperature to go even more blue on their clothing as well. That looks good. Let's hit okay. It's going to automatically update and here we go. So I can turn this off and on at any time. And I've still got access to my full stack of tools in Photoshop as well. So I'm not limited, I've kind of just added functionality. We got time for a second example here. Absolutely. Yeah. And while you bring that, I'm curious on the eyes. So you were editing and I love that. You were editing and sort of making those irises pop out a little more. What if you're in a situation where both eyes aren't exposed the same or different in some way and you want to give more attention to say the left eye than the right eye? Is that just a subtraction again on that mask? Yeah, you would just do a subtraction as well. Let's go right back here into camera raw filter. We're just going to double click here on camera raw filter. We'll go back into our masking. And then I'm just going to turn off this mess that we did earlier for the eyes. So let's just use the little eyeball tool. We're just going to toggle that invisible. So let's go to create new mask. We're going to go to select people again. There we go. It's going to find the people. Okay, person one. Let's just go to iris and pupil. That looks good. All right, and we're going to hit create. So right now you can see it's going to do both of them. That's what's highlighted there. So let's hit create there. All right. And then let's just say we want to bring our exposure up. We're going to go kind of crazy. But I don't want this to be visible on both eyes, right? Like right now, you can see it's visible on both eyes. So what we're going to do is just go to this little subtract button there. So subtract. And then in this case, we're just going to go to the brush. So I'm going to subtract with the brush flow. So let's just click on that brush tool, and then I'm just going to make my brush a little bit smaller and then paint over this eye. There we go. So now if I go over this mask, if I take a look at this mask here, we can see it's not really on that eye. Let me just bring my flow all the way up and we'll paint it completely invisible there. So as I turn this off and on, let's just there we go. Let me just hit there we go. You can kind of see the little tools over top of that, which is, there we go. Fantastic. So as I turn this off and on, now you can see it's only affecting one. Let's just click on a different mask. So it said we don't see all that. That is just that you can do that. That's crazy. That you can do that. Even just being able to select your subject, you know, say this was a shot like the other shot you're going to show. You're going to select the subject and invert that and say, all my shots, I usually light them so that my subject pops out a little bit more. Now you can invert it and just dial that background just back a hair to make your subject pop out. You find that it's accurate for that, or does it end up with that kind of paste it on look? I would say it's accurate and it's getting better too. Every new release of Photoshop gets better. Like when they first released select subject to hair selections, we're not that great, but every new release of Photoshop gets better and better and better to the point where I don't find myself having a refine it. But we are able to refine these masks as well. They're not written and so on and as we've seen, we can refine them. And I've created a few masks here in Adobe camera raw. We wanted to show what happens if we just did one I and left the other one as it was, right? But I didn't have to get rid of my original math. So now I'm just going to turn that off and then we're just going to turn the original that I made back on and we're good to go. So I kind of have layers here now within camera raw. And again, we have the same functionality throughout the lightroom suite of tools as well. So without that without the smart object functionality though, right? So in lightroom mobile or in lightroom classic on the desktop, I'm not able to do the whole okay, I'm working in a completely non destructive workflow. I mean, I guess it is non destructive. So in that light, what's the purpose of creating the smart object if it's going to be non destructive anyway? The purpose of creating a smart object is only in Photoshop. Lightroom desktop lightroom classic lightroom mobile, those already
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"Programs. And if lightroom is your Wheelhouse, that's where you feel comfortable. And all of a sudden, it's more powerful, then that's just a great thing. And if your Photoshop is where you'd like to hang out and Photoshop all of a sudden gets more powerful, I feel like that's a great thing too. So I feel like we're just a win a win win. They're not removing any tools. They're not taking anything away. They're just adding more power and more tools for us to use this creative. So I feel like we're like at The Cheesecake Factory and the menu just keeps getting longer and longer and longer. So it can feel overwhelming, but we also just have like more stuff we can order. Yeah. Yeah, and for folks, that's a good analogy for folks that don't know about The Cheesecake Factory. It's a restaurant chain here. I don't know if they're international, but they're absolutely here in California where I am. And the menu that Aaron is referring to is this Bible of a menu that has all these dishes. Every time every time I go to The Cheesecake Factory, I'm thinking, you know, all these dishes can't be amazing. Like you can't, you can't be world class at 9000 things, you know? But the things I order, they're really good at it. So I don't know, maybe you can. I'm going to cheesecake. So the more flavor the better, or if you want to use ice cream analogy, you know, if you like, if you really like chocolate, that's fantastic. But one day, if you're like, oh, hey, I kind of like mint chocolate chip, too, or I like raspberry sorbet, too. I didn't know it was an option before, but now that I've had it, I know I like it. So maybe I'll get two scoops. Maybe I'll get the chocolate that I like. My classic chocolate option and I'll put some strawberry or raspberry sorbet on top of that too. And now I can kind of mix them both. So I feel like the more tools we have, the more options we have available to us, it just allows us to create and everyone's going to use these tools differently. Every creative is going to operate a little bit differently. So I feel like just having these tools that are disposable and getting in there and playing around and anything that can make the tedious part of the creative process a little bit easier. I'm a huge fan of. I love that. I love that. Well, for the second part of this interview, I would love it if you could take us into these new tools in Photoshop and kind of show give a high level of what's new and why it matters to folks. Are you able to do that? A 100%. Yeah. So we can go ahead and jump into Photoshop here. So I've got two images that we've got both of these are going to benefit supremely well from these new masking tools. So we're going to start with this image here on the right hand side of our subject we've just got a nice portrait. And the first move we're going to do, we've got our background layer. I'm going to right click on that and we're just going to make this as smart object. So I'm going to go over here to convert to smart object. The reason I'm doing this is because this allows me to change my filter at any time. Just infinite flexibility. So we've got a smart object here. Now we're going to go to filter and we're going to go right down to where it says camera, raw filter. So this camera raw. This is the same tool that's going to be built into lightroom, lightroom classic, lightroom, mobile, lightroom desktop, all of these different tools are using this same camera raw. And it's also built into Photoshop. So if you haven't updated your current version of Photoshop or of camera raw, just be sure to do so and you can do that through creative cloud. There we go. Are you able to see my entire screen then? Absolutely. Yeah. Fantastic. All right, so basically how this works, we're in our camera raw I'm just going to kind of close everything down here on the right hand side, we have a toolbar that allows us to go through all of our different editing tools. We can adjust our details or color, color grading, geometries, special effects, things like that. And over here on the right, we have our filters. We have our patch tool this for getting rid of things like dust on the sensor or skin like maybe we have a little breakout or something we want to get rid of. And then over here we have our masking tools. And this is what we're going to hang out right now, and this is where all these new advances have come in. So let's go ahead and click on our mask. Now, within the masking tool, we have our different objects that we can mask. This is a brand new feature within lightroom as well. Selects objects. This has been in Photoshop with the object selection tool, but now we can do it here in Adobe camera raw, or in lightroom. So this is where it's super powerful. And as you can see, it was just kind of working in the background to find the people in my image. So this is also brand new here in lightroom. So this is we're just going to click on this person. You can see we also have our options for selecting our
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"Your goals and your desires and your objectives can change as well. And so if you want to stick with something that you once found passionate, but now you're finding like, okay, maybe I feel a little bit different about this thing now. Sometimes it takes a little bit of self reflection to be like, okay, I still want to do this thing. But I'm going to have to find a new way of coming at it. I'm going to have to find a new thing that I enjoy about it. And that's been such a fun journey over the last ten or 15 years of photography Photoshop creative education of like, okay, I used to do it for this reason, but now moving forward, that's not going to serve me anymore. So I'm going to find a new reason. And then once I find that new reason, it's like the spark gets reignited because it's like, okay, I have like, I'm going to come at this same thing from a totally different angle. And I feel like that's when we become truly well rounded as creators and individuals is when we can approach the same context or the same type of art form from many different perspectives. And it kind of like redefines over and over again, like why you keep coming back to these things. Yeah, no, absolutely. Well said, yeah, and one of those things is the tools that we use, like Photoshop, right? So Photoshop in tandem with your own personal growth and development and desires and all this stuff. Photoshop continues to evolve over time, you know, some people, some people are angry at the evolution, and some people love the evolution, as is life, right? That this latest, what is this the latest evolution or one of the features that came out of the latest release at Adobe max last week or a couple of weeks ago was they pushed the ball forward on selections and masking and all that. You remember back in the day Photoshop, I started, I was exposed to Photoshop. I started using it at version two, two. Three was where layers showed up and all that goodness, right? So I remember, okay, if you wanted to select, say, a bunch of trees, you needed some Photoshop channel intersection wizardry in order to select though. It never looked exactly right. And then you fast forward to 2022, 21. And now we have sky replacement that looks full on beautiful. If you look at the mask that this software generates, it's a mask that you could never have created for the most part on your own. What do you think about that? From you know, putting on your compositing artist had and looking at those tools that we have, even on our phone now, in lightroom on the phone. No more Bezier tool for that kind of stuff. Like, what do you think? As a compositing artist, are you happy with the directions that things are going? Are you more like, man, this is too easy for these kids today. They need to suffer like I did with that Bezier path tool. No one needs to suffer. I'm happy with it. It's great. You know, like the whole goal is like creativity, self expression, like doing what you love, right? And if the tools get better, that just makes it faster and easier and more accessible for everyone. So I love it. I'm all for it. When we had to use the Bezier tool or the pen tool to cut out someone for 45 minutes back in the day, I didn't enjoy that. I just had to do it because that was the way it was done. And now I can click two buttons and I can do it. And that's better. Because I can work faster, which means I can get more done. And I'm not bogged down by the annoying parts. I can just continue to create. So I'm all for it. Bring on these artificial intelligence advancements that we've got coming down the pipeline as well. Some incredible incredible stuff. And I think we're just at the very beginning in terms of seeing what artificial intelligence is going to do for our space. And I'm super excited by it. I think it's just going to create an explosion of creativity and open the floodgates for anyone who wants to create. So I'm for it. I'm like, you know, I live in a world of like the more art, the better, like let's get everyone out there expressing themselves in whatever way they can. You know, whether that's music, whether that's writing, whether that's visual arts, like the more art the better. If everyone in the world is expressing themselves and bringing the thoughts and feelings and emotions to life through art, I feel like the world is just going to be more vibrant. So I'm like, you know, as these tools get better, it just opens the door for more people to create. And for me, that's exciting. I want to see as much beautiful artist as possible. And I want that for other people because I know that when I am actively creating art, I'm able to understand myself and work through my own personal levels of like, okay, why am I feeling this way? Or why am I experiencing that? Or man, I've had a rough day. I want to express this through my art and having that outlet has allowed me to move through that day and get on to the next day where maybe I feel a little bit better. And if we don't have these proper, healthy, beautiful, safe ways to express ourselves and to get out our frustrations or our feelings or our thoughts or our desires, emotions. If we don't have these ways to healthily express ourselves, then that can lead to all kinds of repression, which has a number of side effects. And I feel like as a society, for us to be truly beautiful and healthy and move forward, we have to have these wonderful ways where we can express ourselves. So if the technology gets easier, then it just allows more people to go through these periods of self expression and get their art work out there, you know? So I'm a huge fan. I'm like, yeah, let's make it as easy as we possibly can. The more artists, the better, if everyone in the world is expressing theirself in a beautiful way, you know, like that's just better for everything. So I'm a big fan. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and it lowers barriers. As you were talking, I was thinking, yeah, the people that would have this idea in their mind of some art they wanted to create. And you're like, of course, I got to create that in Photoshop, but I don't really, I'm not that good in Photoshop. I'm going to try to execute this thing that's in my head and get it onto the screen. Then they hit a barrier of some sort, whether it be selections or something else. And you're like, oh, Photoshop sucks. I can't figure this out. And then they stop. And then that vision that they had never seen the light of day. Now, in your opinion, these new tools that Adobe has released in this election and masking area. Are they up to par?
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"Is cool. I want to learn a lot more. And I want to get like super in depth. And I want to hang out with me more. Photoshop and photography, then learn dot com. It's a fantastic option. I love it. I love it. And your background here and what your background is portrait photography, retouching, and then compositing. What are the areas within Photoshop that you enjoy the most? Yeah, so my background is with photography. I started out with travel photography and then I moved into self portraiture and I started a project called 365 days where I took a picture of myself every day for a year and after about day two or three it was getting really boring and I was like, well, how do I make this interesting? So I started incorporating Photoshop and learning about layers and compositing and lighting and things like that. And that really just blew my mind in terms of the creativity and like what you can accomplish with Photoshop and that really helps steer that project to mine the 365 day project. And about 200, 300 days into that project, a lot of requests were coming in for me to teach Photoshop and this was just kind of something out of the blue. I had no idea I wasn't expecting it. But it really resonated and I found a really enjoyed teaching. So I started teaching Photoshop also finished up with that project and started photographing other people doing conceptual fine art like portrait photography I'll say. So photographed other people after a year photographing myself, I was like, all right, the world has seen enough of me. We're good. Don't need any more photos of me. So I was like, let's photograph other people, let's bring these same ideas, same concepts and same skill set to life with other people. And so I spent the next ten years photographing other people. So building my fine art compositing and like my style with portraiture and teaching Photoshop, all at the same time. So my entire career has been in the beginning. I was really wanting to be of commercial photographer. That was my end goal when I started. I was like, I want to be a commercial photographer. I want to do fine art and I want to do conceptual work. I want to do crazy cool stuff. And then along the way, Photoshop and the education side of things took off went so spectacularly well. I was like, well, I guess this is my path. You know, which is kind of like presented itself. It was like, you are going to be a Photoshop instructor. This is your path. So I was like, okay, cool. Let's do it. This was unexpected. But so beautiful and so wonderful in so many ways. And so that's been the last ten years of my life has been doing conceptual and fine art and portraiture and things like that for me as I enjoy it and then teaching that side of things on YouTube and then on my own website as well. That's great. Yeah, and like you and I were talking about before we started recording just sometimes you got to take steps in a direction in order to realize that that's the direction that you should be walking. And it sounds like you were cruising by in space looking at that black hole over there. You're like, oh, I'm in the gravity of that black hole. I guess I'm here. I guess I'm in orbit. Okay. Yeah, I guess I'm here. Yeah. It's funny. You know, you never know where life is going to go. And I've always had my greatest successes when I've just followed my heart and followed my interests. What is actually really interesting to me at this point in my life, I want to just dive head first into that. And that's always where I found success. Any time where I've been driven by other motivations, it's everything's just been harder and just like hasn't really worked out the way that I wanted it to necessarily. So it's been a fantastic journey of like identifying gut feelings and then trusting those gut feelings and then leaning hard into them. I love this thing. Let me just lean hard into it with my life. Let me eat, sleep, drink, think about this thing. And without a super clear goal of what I want back from it, it's like, how can I give to this thing? How can I, how can I learn the most that I possibly can? How can I just completely envelop myself in this thing that I'm so interested in? And doing that is just going to, if you love something, you're going to do it more. And the more you do something, the better you're going to get at it. And putting in those hours after year after year, eventually you're going to find yourself in a place where you feel the confidence of like, oh, okay, cool. I know what I'm doing now. I can do this. I feel good about it. If I want to take, if I want to take the next step and maybe start orienting my career around this, I feel comfortable operating in that space because I've got so many hours and I feel so comfortable doing this. So I've always tried to lead my life passion first and then whatever comes, you know? There's obviously like everyone that has their own motivations and everyone comes from a different background. So whatever resonates with you, like whatever makes you feel good at the end of the day, I'd say completely lean into that. There's no one right or wrong way to do anything in life or in Photoshop or photography or anything like that. But everyone finds their own way to success. And I don't think there's a right or wrong road map. And everyone who I know who's been successful has just, they've found their way to what they enjoy. And then they've done that for an extended period of time. And I feel like for me, you know, that's been Photoshop and photography and just the visual and creative arts in general. And my personal road to enjoyment, like what I loved about these things, that has also changed in the beginning and we're talking ten, 15 years ago, the things that really drove me towards photography and Photoshop, those things have changed over time. And sometimes you change as a person. So your goals and your desires and your objectives can change as well. And so if you want to stick with something that you
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Hey, welcome back to another episode of this week in photo. I am your host, Frederick Van Johnson. Today I'm sitting down with a good friend of mine, mister Aaron naze, he built a little training service called fleur. It's all about learning Photoshop and diving in and doing some cool stuff in there and sort of learning all the different doors and nooks and crannies of Photoshop in Aaron's way. If you haven't heard of fleur, go check it out. I've learned dot com, but Aaron Aaron's way of teaching is very empathetic and personal and very sort of buddy next door showing you how to use the application, which I enjoy. So Aaron Mays man, thank you. Thanks for coming on. How are you doing? I'm going to do a great project. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, buddy, buddy, you know? That's the best way to learn. I want a best friend who also happens to know about Photoshop or whatever I want to learn. And we can just kind of hang out and learn it together. That's kind of the most, it's like the most fun way to learn, right? It's like, okay, let me just find a friend who's already good at this. We'll just hang out and do it together. And then it won't feel like it won't feel like work. It's just going to feel like we're hanging out. Yeah, I got to dig through a million YouTube channels just to figure out how to make a drop shadow or learn how to use the Bezier tool or something. Yeah, I'm going to just show me how to do this real quick. And yeah, but I was serious. Your way of teaching is very, it's very engaging and personal, right? I don't feel like it's okay class. Now we're going to learn what channels mean, turn to page 32 in your manual. It's more a dude. This is a channel. This is what you can use before. You don't need to worry about it if you don't need this. A 100%. Super informal. Yeah, that's kind of like how I operate in my whole life, like the whole world, the other, that's all I know, is informal. So that works with you, great. If not, there's plenty of amazing formal resources out there as well. Yeah, absolutely. Well, before we dive into this discussion, so you and I discussed that we're going to make this all about masking and Photoshop and the new tools that are in the latest version of Photoshop or camera raw. But for the folks that may not have heard of fleur, learn dot com what's the elevator pitch that you throw out there for people that may be new to the stuff that you're working on. Yeah, so let's see. About ten years worth of Photoshop and photography and lightroom videos are available for free on YouTube. So it's learned that's PH learn. It's our YouTube channel. So I recommend starting there. We have an awesome series called 30 days of Photoshop, which kind of gets you kick started. If you don't know anything about Photoshop, we go through all the wonderful tools and features and then kind of like move our skill set forward into replacing backgrounds and removing distractions and retouching and even compositing. So it's a really great place to start. It's completely free and it's on YouTube. And then on our site, if you want to go professional level, you want to learn even more and get
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
In Memory of Our Dear Friend Judy Tenuta
"The world and the Steph had community, huge, huge loss of the passing of Judy tenuta this week. And it just for all of us personally and you Travis tweeted picture you said 16 year old Travis could have I could have told him he was going to meet Judy tenuta and just all of our stories of a first time meeting her or seeing her perform. She was just she was so nice and so warm and like to her it wasn't a big deal. To me it was like a huge thing, but to her it was like, oh no, come here, take a picture. She was the first. There's so many stories like that. You have no idea for all fans where she grew up in Chicago and just how and she never said no to me. I mean, an appearance on the show or a happy hour or sexy liberal or sexy liberal virtual that she didn't say yes to. And I was saying the saddest thing for me is the big comedy girl party I had when COVID first started to pass with Lily Tomlin and Paul pounce on all these legends. I of course invited Judy and she said my doctor says I can't because she was battling cancer at that time and immune compromised obviously. I got an email from her every birthday. Wishing me a happy birthday. I mean, she didn't have to do that. But she was such a sweet, sweet person. Offstage. And just the body person on stage. Documented her battle with cancer, and I guess you know how that is for all of us who are all rooting for her and, oh, maybe she beat it this time. And she did those hilarious, I don't know if you saw on Instagram that, you know, she put her face and Bette Davis or all these Photoshop. And just kept doing that, I mean, right up till very recently. And even though, you know, we knew she was battling ovarian cancer. You just somehow ends up being a shock. And just a huge loss for us personally and for just the comedy world, she was really so many people sort of hero and like you were saying, just as kind and generous and sweet in person as she was just outrageous and funny.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
HBO Max Is Cutting Smoking From Old Movies
"To see this new thing, HBO is cutting back on costs. Okay, HBO Max. Try to save some money. So get this, they're taking cigarettes out of old movie posters. It's such a ridiculous move. They've been censoring cigarettes from certain really famous iconic movie posters that they display on their streaming site. Now I thought it was on a couple of years ago when I started to see. This movie contains graphic language just moving contains sex and smoking. I thought smoking. Why do we need them? Why don't we need that? Oh, warning people are smoking in this movie. All right. I don't know why that suddenly became the thing we have to warn people about. As if it's as bad as sex or so now not only are they warning you that smoking takes place in a movie, now they've gone and just taken the cigarettes or cigars out of actors hands on movie posters. Some people were on Twitter and they noticed, hey, you scrubbing cigarettes out of some very famous movie posters. Robert Altman's mccabe and misses Miller. The life and times of judge Roy bean, you got these Photoshop posters, you know, Warren Beatty and Paul Newman no longer hold cigarettes between their fingers, but instead they're just posing bizarrely with their hands in a certain position with the digits raised up in the air, staring off in a distance. That's better. You see they show the photo before and after? And it's outraging people. It's so stupid. It's ridiculous. 90% of the people who work at Warner Brothers are discovery. I bet they vape at their desk, a small snort Coke at lunch, and now we can't see a cigarette in someone's hand. I hate smoking, but it's part of the movie.
Techmeme Ride Home
"photoshop" Discussed on Techmeme Ride Home
"Quoting TechCrunch. Meta might soon want everyone to hop into its playful virtual realms, but some users are set up for a shock in the service of pushing people to socialize in horizon worlds. The virtual social network has voice chat enabled by default. As anyone, particularly any woman who's played an online multiplayer game in the last decade can attest, chatting over live audio with people you don't know is often a harrowing experience and one that opens the floodgates for harassment and hate. Nonetheless, meta's virtual social world doesn't disable the voice chat options off the bat, a strange decision for a company that should be at least a little self aware that it's online platforms have time and time again been used to spread hate. Now the company is adding voice mode, a new set of controls for voice chat that will be rolling out in the coming weeks. Voice chat is inexplicably still enabled by default, but will soon come with some more granular options that let users opt in to disable audio from nearby strangers. There's also a new option to garble strangers voices, turning them into unintelligible friendly sounds, basically meta's version of simlish with garbled voices on, avatars around you will be able to see that you can't hear them via a mic icon with a strike through. You can raise a hand to your ear to hear what they have to say without needing to add them to your friends list, but really, why would you do that? In March, meta introduced a feature called personal boundary to keep a small four foot buffer of space between avatars and horizon worlds. The option which was presumably implemented to address obvious concerns about spatial social networks and sexual harassment is on by default for strangers. In the modern workplace, employees log in and out of countless websites, services, and apps every day. How many of your coworkers use password one two three for every system? How many teams share credentials on a spreadsheet or via email? According to the Verizon data breach investigation report, 81% of corporate data breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords. Keeper securities, enterprise.
Techmeme Ride Home
"photoshop" Discussed on Techmeme Ride Home
"Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 I'm Brian McCullough today. Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium. Massive and controversial layoffs at coinbase, Firefox is blocking stuff by default now, meta announces more tools to make the metaverse safe from trolls and worse. And why those pro features and iPadOS are only for iPads with M1 chips and above. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Might Adobe be about to go all in on freemium. The company has apparently begun testing a free to use version of Photoshop for the web in Canada. Some features will eventually be subscriber only, but maybe we can all get a free version of Photoshop soon like so many Oprah car giveaways. Quoting the verge. The company is now testing the free version in Canada where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as freemium, and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop's core functions. We want to make Photoshop more accessible and easier for more people to try it out and experience the product, says Maria yap, Adobe's VP of digital imaging. Adobe first released its web version of Photoshop in October, delivering a simplified version of the app that could be used to handle basic edits. Layers and core editing tools made the jump. But the service didn't come anywhere close to including the app's full breadth of features. Instead, Adobe framed it primarily as a collaboration tool a way for artists to share an image with others and have them jump in, leave some annotations and make a couple small tweaks and hand it back over. In the months since Adobe has made a handful of updates to the service and it's also started to open it up beyond collaboration use cases..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ Weighs in on Kim Kardashian's Sports Illustrated Cover Criticism
"Kim Kardashian came out on the cover one of the covers, looking very curvaceous on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, a boy she got some shade right away. Let's call it Photoshop shade. As soon as that cover came out, Kim looked gorgeous. I mean, this very few things you can falter on. Like I've always said that answer is ridiculous. Let some air out of that ass. And then you've got to me, you know, one of the top 5 most desirable women on the planet. If you're gonna personality her voice, just either way. She's wealthy beyond all means, she's a good mom, I think. She could be home more often. But I mean, very smart in a lot of ways, could teach you a lot of things. What really embarrass you, beautiful on your arm, I mean, there's a lot of plus pluses to candidates, not a lot of minuses. But she got dragged, nonetheless, in the twittersphere, which really doesn't mean shit, but that's what everybody's going by these days. One of the sounds with her, let's turn to Twitter as if those assholes know anything. Don't let your day get ruined by strangers on Twitter. God. So of course Twitter sees the cover shot of Kim. And they called it a Photoshop and airbrushed champ of 2022. Because the magazine had its unveiling of her on the cover, sunbathing, and people have nothing better to do, noticed her unblemished skin. Her immaculate hairline and her flawless nose see, this proves that Twitter is all gay. 'cause not one guy mentions her tits. I mean, you guys only looked at her skin or hairline, the nose, no wonder you're not getting laid.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Life Imitates Art With 'Wag the Dog'
"Everybody needs to go back and rent the 1997 classic movie wag the dog. In it Robert De Niro plays a political consultant who gets called in by a president who's been caught having sex with a campfire girl in The White House. So in order to the election is in two weeks, in order to distract people, they make up a fake war with Albania and then they film the war and they have Kirsten Dunst and they dress her up as a peasant running with a bag of Cheetos, but later they Photoshop it to be her doll. And they just, they manufacture this crisis out of thin air. That is exactly what they did with COVID. It's what they did with George Floyd. It's what they did with Jussie Smollett with Russia collusion, it's what they're doing now with the Ukraine and I guarantee you if that tragic war ends tomorrow, the very next day, we're going to learn that systemic racism lies behind putting things in alphabetical order. And that using alphabetical order is a continuation of slavery and it was invented by a slaveholders conspiracy and the Catholic Church is tied up in it and we all have to repent using alphabetical order. Now, you think I'm kidding. I just took that from a real headline that said that the Dewey decimal system is systemically racist.
This Week in Photo
"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"But then also not only are you doing that, but you're also on top of the changes and the ebbs and flows on the hardware side with Apple and the M1 and also what Adobe is doing because you have to be you have to be on top of that as well. So you've got multiple things that you've got going on over there and you're doing it well. And people seem to really gravitate to the software and really love it, especially once they understand it, go to the website and get in there, you know, so definitely head over there and download it. So thank you. That's been a big, big change for a lot of companies. Better or for worse for a lot of people, right? So yep, years not over yet, Greg, where it's only December 7th as we record this. So jigsaw. We still gotta have a month. We have three quarters of a month left of craziness that can happen in 21. I know, probably release about three more things by then to actually release the latest version of 20 minutes before you and I got on the call. So. I get like jump back and check like, is it going well for everybody? You know, I think so. So you released that? It had to go through corporate approval and go through the engineering team and all that in order to get that out. So there are basically two different tracks you can take to get a panel out. So you can go through the Adobe marketplace and that's where web sharp pro is. So if I want to submit an update for that, I do have to submit it. They review it. Sometimes they get back the same day. Sometimes it could be a week. It varies a little bit, but they do have to prove it. And they're good about that, but it's not something I totally control. And then you can also go direct. And that's what I do with laments. It's always been direct. And that's the channel that I kind of prefer. It's more open with the marketplace. It's still pretty new. And there's some things I think need to still be worked out there. So with Lindsay, I literally put it on my server, let people know and boom, they're in. So sometimes they do a soft push and sometimes they do a hard push like this one I just did. It's kind of like out there and I shared it with some people, but it's not the kind of thing I'm like blasting out an email to all my customers and saying go get it right now because I feel like it overwhelm people if I let them know every time I made some update to it. Yeah. No, no, for sure. Very cool. Very cool. All right, well keep us posted on what's next. And as you evolve the software into the next iteration, you know, you're. Hopefully going to get a M1 computer maybe by Christmas. I'm thinking. So I'm still on the pre M1 until not bandwagon. I'm just there. That's where my MacBook Pro sits. But I'm looking forward to that M1. Are you an M1 Mac mini are using the MacBook Pro right now? I got the fully loaded 14 inch MacBook Pro. So this is the M1 max with all the bells and whistles and I know the 16 inch technically can run a little bit harder, but I mean, this thing is, it's nice. It's compact, the 14 inch screen is plenty good when I'm traveling. And I'm not going to leave a laptop in a rental car, whatever. So for me, 16 inches, not something I want to haul on my back. So I love that they've now given us all the features all the capability in the smaller version. That's a nice change on its own. But this M1 max man, it is a really nice laptop. I mean, the speed is the obvious thing that is, I think, super exciting. And for example, like why my other topaz gigapixel, if you're emphasizing image to make a big print on my old laptop, I ran the exact same test head to head and with a simple enlargement on the old laptop. It took a 180 seconds. And the new one took 30. It's literally 6 times faster. And this, you know, my old laptop is a 2018 top of the line, MacBook Pro. It's not a slow machine. So the speed gains are very real. I think it's going to start to expose companies that have an optimized their software for multiple cores and GPUs and all that kind of stuff because the gains really vary. The more optimized the software is, the more that M1 really shines with it. So some of your software is going to be just like blowing things away, other pieces of software or maybe they get like 30% faster. It's all better. But then there's all these other little pieces of it that I really enjoy..
This Week in Photo
"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Hey, welcome back to another episode of this week in photo. I'm your host Frederick Van Johnson. Today I'm sitting down with mister Greg Benz. He is the creator architect mastermind behind the little piece of software called lumen. Lumen. My mouth doesn't want to make that lumen. So we're going to talk about lunge. What it does for photographers for those who may not have heard about the software and for those that have heard about the software, we're going to talk about what he's doing next with it, which is really exciting. And the reason for this interview. So Greg bins, welcome to the show, man. How's it going? Hey, good, Frederick good to see you again, man. Yeah, it's good to see you. It's good to see you. You and I were chatting before I pressed the record button about all kinds of cool stuff, you know? I was just thinking, that should have been a podcast, right? 'cause you're talking about VR and AR and crypto and NFTs and all that stuff. And luddites and progressive people. We've been chatting for like 45 minutes now. It's where on our second podcast. I know. It's totally. I was like, oh yeah, I should have recorded that. I should have pressed record. But sometimes you just want to have, you know, sometimes you want to let conversations go out into the ether and all of them don't have to be recorded. So for the folks that may not have been introduced to you that are new to Greg bins and or lumina, give us the give us the elevator pitch about you and the software. Yeah, yeah. So I'm landscape photographer based out of Minneapolis and I'm a working photographer, but I'm also a photographer who's focused on helping other photographers. So I'm a software developer and a Photoshop instructor. So I've got this panel Lindsay and another one called web chap pro, but they're basically plugins to Photoshop to help with all varieties of imagery, but I think a landscape is probably the most common place people would use a luminosity masking panel. Let's start there. So first of all, panel with the heck is a panel for those that don't know what a panel is. What's a panel? So basically just a collection of new tools. So when you're sitting in Photoshop, you'd have like layers and channels and all the little different boxes of tools in Photoshop and when you install label, you get two more little boxes that are my software. So it's basically a way of trying to take this one size fits all monster, scary Photoshop, and narrow it down to the needs of a particular audience. In this case, people who are trying to make more precise selections and masks. So you want to adjust the sky or the tree or whatever it has new tools to help you do that more effectively and efficiently in Photoshop. Excellent. Excellent. And then you just blew right over luminosity masking. That's a lot of syllables. What is luminosity masking? What is that? Yeah, so the term literally comes to the idea of using the luminosity, the brightness in your image to make a mask, which is the way you would of course say, I want to reveal this part of the image or this part of the change. So if I want to go in and make the sky more colorful or restore blown highlights, whatever, I can create a mask of the sky. And there's tools built into Photoshop, of course, to do that, but they can be a little bit rough with the transitions or hard to create, whereas if you use a luminosity mask, you're taking the image and basically saying, hey, I want to select all the pixels that are blue or bright or dark or whatever it may be. So that you're literally interacting with Photoshop in a more intuitive way to work with the actual image content so that when you make adjustments, they don't look as Photoshop. They just look more natural. And then where does lumen's you fit in in terms of the software stack? So you mentioned Photoshop. So where am I using it in Photoshop and then finishing in lightroom or am I starting in lightroom and round tripping out of Photoshop or am I going over to capture one and doing some work and then coming back? What's the ideal sort of workflow from your perspective? So it's really, if anyone is familiar with masks and selections and Photoshop, which is kind of your somewhat untrue level Photoshop. This is just a more advanced version of that. So it's every bit as open ended as anything you would use a mask or selection in Photoshop. But it only exists in Photoshop. It's built on top of Photoshop. So it doesn't do anything in lightroom or capture one or other applications. It doesn't run on its own. It runs only in Photoshop. Then the workflow can be whatever you want it to be. So most people are going to go maybe do raw edits and lightroom, bring it into Photoshop, and then they can use a combination of Lancia and all the existing tools and Photoshop. But you certainly can use it with capture one or whatever your preferred raw editor is or when you're done exported onto the next step like maybe you're using topaz to resize your image or something like that. So it's pretty flexible. But it's ultimately just to give you more precision while you're in the Photoshop environment. And I wouldn't say it necessarily something that changes your workflow. It's really meant to fit into that. But once you start mastering these techniques, it opens up so many possibilities. I find a lot of people including myself do start to change the way that you even take the picture because it creates so many new possibilities suddenly you want to take pictures differently because you realize, oh, if.
This Week in Photo
"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"All right just going to take me a slight second to figure out how to use this tool educational seeing someone that just someone who's photoshop expert. That's just now basically experiencing affinity. How do you get get around in there. And it looks. Looks relatively intuitive. It's i mean it's pretty. Thank god i got. I gotta say i'm you know i'm surprised is again. You're watching we do this for literally the first time if this was something where you know you you had this tool and kind of played around with it for a little while. I have no doubt that you'd be able to do exactly what you needed to do. You know what's interesting is a couple of things i wanted at you while you're doing that. So the the the file format between the saraf applications because they've got affinity designer and you know i think publisher. I'm not sure. But they've got a couple of other applications and according to the managing director they all share a common file format even across mobile. So you know what you if you started working on this file and a hell. These layers an adjustment layers etc. Apparently you can open this exact same file on your lap on your your ipad and continue with the know with feature parody as well as all your layers tact and then move it over into a desktop computer with affinity designer on it and continue working. They're adding text and all that stuff and basically eliminating the need to round trip in sin files back and forth that way because there it's a common file format it would did you know about that. And what do you think about that. I think it's brilliant and I you know i again. That's where i think. The real benefits come you know like because they were able to edit like build the mobile applications at the same time it's desktop applications. Of course it makes sense to use exact same file format you know. Photoshop is all the photoshop. During the same thing you can open. Psc's on their mobile application too. So you know the mobile application photoshop just out yet but it will be soon and you'll be uploaded. Vsd's there but yeah. I think that they just. They did a lot of things that make sense. And you know here. When we're using the gradient tool for instance and again this is my first time using the gradient tool. But i actually really liked that. After you create the gradient you can go in and change this gradient after making it. I'm even able to change it from a linear gradient to an elliptical gradient and. I'm able to change the lips in this gradient in real time. Which is something that actually photoshop cannot do hosting. Yeah let's go ahead back to here. Yeah check out migration. Well i guess you gotta make it. But there we go. I can change the. I can change the gradient itself. Change the colors on the gradient. Go from black to white as well as changed the type of radiant here in real time and continue to make adjustments to it. Which i think is actually fantastic. Adaptation is that is fantastic. And that you know it's interesting and that's a that's an example of the like they standing on the shoulders of giants and being able to okay. Well maybe what if we did this feature like this. You know listening. Adobe is famous for listening to users and you know but they're giant right and their user base. You know you can only you're never gonna make everyone happy you know right. Yeah so affinity. They had a little bit of a leg up. You know they started out like of course. We're going to have a gradient tool in this. How can we make this a little bit cooler. Oh let's allow people to edit the gradient after they make you know what i mean whereas photoshop had to come up with the idea of the gradient tool and how that would work with layers adjustment layers so you know. It's it's really interesting evolution. I would say in products now. I i wouldn't say. The affinity photo makes photoshop inferior in any way. But just like you said they were able to take something that already existed and was already working well and then figure out how they could basically a clone stamp it and then tried to improve on it a little. Bit so yeah. They're they're good spot. And you know i'm i'm happy that there is a legitimate competitor out there and it seems like the pricing is. What's gonna keep any photo around. Because i know a lot of people are not necessarily into the subscription products or subscription models in general so especially for those individuals. I think affinity photo is a great alternative. I love it. I love it and why not give it. Give it a shot. Download it and play around with it and see if it sort of meshes with the way you like to do stuff. And i think that one of the big takeaways from this discussion and thank you for those demos fantastic but one of the one of the big takeaways is. There's nothing to lose to two playing around with it in the end. It's about your art. In the path of lease resistance to getting from here to the pixel so if money is an issue. I'm not sure. I forget what the pricing is for affinity. But you plunk down once and get your teeth into it and start playing around and if you find it necessary later you know the next step might be. Just move into photoshop when you can afford it or it makes sense you hit some walls in there with one of the questions i had about and we can't address it right now but one of the questions about affinity is. I know some photographers that are especially composite artists that work in a gazillion bazillion. Layers right Nested layers in all this stuff going on. i wonder i don't photoshop. In the folks over at adobe have you know put a lot of work into performance and making sure keep up with those sorts of heavy heavy workload tasks giant documents. I wonder if affinity can handle that and especially can handle that on on a mobile processor. You know so that. That'd be interesting and likely the same same question goes to photoshop on tablets can photoshop on a tablet. Handle fifty one hundred layers. You know because. I'm i'm sure you've you've got documents like that. Oh yeah yeah. I definitely do. And that's a good question you know. We're doing relatively simple edits here. But yeah i've i've worked photoshop files that have anywhere from one hundred two hundred layers of very very complex photo composites and You know it would be interesting to see how these other programs are formed under such a heavy workload and at the end of the day it may just be you know how how you know beefed up. Your computer hardware is photoshop in particular. I find that having a very fast. Scratch disk and having a lot of ram will increase photoshop performance so if you are experiencing any lags though some great ways to in fact we actually just released. A tutorial on flourine called how to improve photoshop performance. And we did all the research to figure out every single way in which you can save file size and get the most out of photoshop. And where we were able to increase photoshop performance pretty substantially just with a bunch of little tips and hacks things like that so i i wonder you know what affinity photo or these other competitors are doing to increase performance but photoshop does take advantage of things like graphics card. Handle some of the processes. So you're you're able to rely on different parts of your computer to get different parts of the job done which spreads out the workload and increases performance and if people wanna to check out that tutorial or in your you kind of have two sides of your house over there or multiple sides. Obviously but the two big sides where. There's the the free youtube stuff that people can go and consume abkhazia. There's a literal mount everest of content over there. Then you also have paid tutorials where you deep dive into some of the stuff that you're kind of screwed surface on on the youtube site. Where are both of those or is there a room where all flirting roads lead here. Yes learn dot com and we actually have a subscription platform is well so.
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"And for our viewers for our listeners. This is i downloaded the trial affinity photograph affinity photo yesterday. So wow yeah okay. That sounds a lot you know. This is this is basically. You know kind of the first time. I've used this program like you know. Why did a trial run before. I got on air with you because i didn't want to look like didn't know what i was doing. Obviously but you know we're not talking about a huge transition time here you know this is. This is something where the the tools i mean. There's pretty much a direct transfer of the toes. Even the keyboard shortcuts are are relatively the same which is which is just a fantastic adaptation. And again i don't know how they got away with like yeah. I wonder i wonder if you can copyright keyword shortcuts. I guess. I guess he answers just no. You can't because maybe they're in court right now right knows who knows but as we can see the the tools perform you know relatively similarly. I don't have any issues moving from one tool to another. So i was able. You know here. We're looking at the same exact changes. Let's just turn these off and on using you know we've got check boxes instead of eyeballs. Here you know so some user interface differences here. But i was able to use the healing brush. You'll to remove these objects here and the stamp to remove those objects therein were at basically the same basically the same place. We were in photoshop. So let's go ahead and take a look at our adjustment layers. We have adjustments right. Here is go ahead and click on levels there. We go now. We've got some Preset options here. Which is interesting. I can change my color channels. So we're going to go to blue channel. change are black level. We're just going to pull this up. Okay are actually want to the output black level so you can see justin where blue channel here adjusting my output channel here and we've got a very similar result here so let's go to our layers and we can see we have a levels adjustment which is fantastic so this level adjustment we can turn off and on just like we can in photoshop and let me go ahead and add a mask this here.
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Statement on color there. So i can turn that off and on at any time i go back in here. I can change the properties could add to it or whatever. I wanted there as well and this is you know i can save this. Come out come back in here. And i turn both of these often. Say you know what. I like the original coloring or you know what maybe like this warm but not too hot about this blue that added so you can make any of these changes at anytime orbit back to your original photograph. I love that. That's part of. I mean that's a lot of the power there right because the power of adjustment. Layers the power of masking those adjustment layers and the the power to sort of rewind back in time An experiment and do different variations without without affecting the underlying image. I think that's that's huge based on you know. I don't know if you remember back in photoshop to that was before layers were introduced right and it was a okay. Let me save a different version with a different name. Layers are fantastic. Fantastic way to keep your options open. I very rarely will undo steps in photoshop. What i do instead is every time. I'm gonna create something new. I created a new layer that way i can just turn that layer off and on at any point in time love. It love it okay. So here's here's the million dollar question now so. Can you replicate what you were doing here. On this imaging photoshop in affinity photo do we have adjustment. Layer layer masks. And all that magic or you have to give those up in figure out entirely new workflow all right well. Let's see we're going to switch to affinity photo right now. Okay so here. We are in affinity photo and we have a lot of the same tool so obviously the layout looks a little bit different. But we're going to just start off from the same really start off with the same set of steps so we're going to layers panel right here and you can see we have our background gotta passively in here i've got blending modes. We've got a lot of the same tools let's go ahead and create a new layer so this is a new pixel layer and then i want to go ahead and find a brushless. My healing brush tool. We've got our healing brush patch tool the blemish removal tool or just going to go right to our healing brush tool and see how this does so a lot of our keyboard shortcuts are actually the same which is fantastic so if i hold on the space bar there we go. It's actually going to tell me some shortcuts down here on the bottom which i really do like so holding on this space bar tells me drag to panda you and then hold command andrew zoom mode. And when i'm putting command it's gonna tell me what you do down here. So i do like this information bar so i'm going to just hold down space for in command and we're going to zoom in now. I have found things like this. Zoom engine is not as smooth as photoshop. You can see it's just a little bit more jerky it tends to snap. Every go snapping could be something that we turn off and on. I haven't dug deep into the preferences to know that but the zoom is just a little bit more. Clunky not not bad but just a little bit We're going to hold all or option to sample an area and we're gonna start painting again. I wanna to make sure you're the top i choose. Current layer and below. So that's going to be important. It's gonna sample my current layer and everything under that as well. Let's go ahead and sample and we're just going to start painting in and you can see as i painted and we get a little preview of wherever i paint. Go let's go right down here as well. So i'm using the regular healing brush tool. Here's oppose the spot healing. Brush tool right. Let's just hit undo controller. Command see to undo that. We're going to sample here and move this person as all persons gone there you can see. These tools are working very similarly. Did a pretty good job up until here again. Just like in photoshop. I don't want to go all the way because look at this. It's going to give us an undesirable result. So yeah go ahead and hit undo their. We're gonna continue by getting rid of these light posts in aaron while you're doing that. Are you noticing. Any any noticeable responsiveness differences photoshop. More fluid or faster than affinity. It's there's just some different user interface things like. I'm getting a little bit of like a interesting preview as i paint in This area here seems to go now. It's working a little bit better it. I think the tool actually works just as fast you know. I'm on a pretty a beefy computer here. So i i. I would be surprised if you know there's much of a difference here But yeah i would say you know. The the the program itself seems pretty well developed. We're gonna make one more layer here for the for the clone stamp tool. We're going go to current layer and below goat and now going to sample. I can use my brush keyboard shortcuts. Which i used using photoshop hardness hardness inflow.
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"You're using a tablet there. Yeah i am using a pressure sensitive tablet and keep in mind that i love love love photoshop and spent many years with this program so But you know with a little bit of practice. Anyone could do this. I do believe that So let's go ahead and use a quonsett tool. She's got a necklace. A kind of is coming up near her face there. It's a little bit distracting there too. So let's go ahead and clone stamp that out okay. J. spot healing brush. You'll anything that's on a relatively simple background and not not in direct competition with any other objects. The spot healing brochures the way to go. Wow and you're doing that on a on a separate layer. So i see your lear to their so those the clone the pixels that you're adding in being added onto layer to and sampling from the background layer correct. Exactly so check this out. I can turn this off. And on at any time. Even when i saved this out. So i'll save this out as a ps d. And if you want get back to the original photo straight out camera you just turn those layers off. This is what we've got straight out a camera. Turn back on. And here's our image with all those distractions removed so matt's a if the client says you know what we those light poles in the background are really important to us can put those mechanism back on and say lightbulbs back in not a problem or say. Yeah it's gonna take me a couple of hours with those back in your business mind working. Yes definitely i can. I can do anything you what. Just let me send you my estimate. I and you decide if you want me to go for it exactly. It's interesting because the healing breast versus the clone stamp tool. I think a lot of people myself included just sort of default to the clone stamp tool. Because i don't know because it it showed up before the healing i it came first. So you know every once once you understand how to work a hammer. Everything becomes a nail so from your standpoint. Being the photoshop expert is the the healing breast tool in evolution of clone stamp like just a smart version of the stamp tool or is it just something completely different it is. It is an evolution. It's a fantastic tool. And i would say the uses for the spot healing brush tool because it has content wear technology built into it anytime. You want to remove something that's on a relatively simple background. The spot healing russia is the way to go. If you have some little bit more of a complex background or you have like defined edges for instance you know we. We showed this earlier. This light bowl. That i wanted to remove right. It's on a relatively. Simple background is just mostly like dark looking trees right. Yeah so you. This is a perfect opportunity for the spot. Healing brush tool. Because photoshop can say oh you know dark trees right there in the background. I'll just sample some other dark trees from around the image and put him right there to cover this up. you know. we'll why would. Why would you make a selection around there and just say content aware phil or is that just two ways to get you know getting to the same destination. You could definitely use content to wear phil. I find that the spot healing brush tool works a little bit better than contact. Where phil also you can it. I find it much easier to just go over an area because sometimes keep in mind. These tools are automatic. You know they try to figure everything out for you and sometimes they do a great job but sometimes they miss and you know if there's a little bit of a mess with the spot healing brush. Will you just paint over that area again. And there's a good chance it's going to do a better job so Content where phil was. Just create a new layer. Here we're gonna create a lasso. Selection notice i have my layers off. Were removed objects go. So let's go ahead and make election around this light post and it shift delete. Which is my keyboard shortcut for dialogue. And we're going to go to content aware and hit okay. There we go. Now this is another drawback of content. Where phil is that. I can't actually do this on. A new layer. I have to do this on the background layer. Oh okay yeah. Unfortunately and for that reason. For that reason i tend to not use this tool as much because i am always trying to every step in photoshop as non-destructive possible in other words i watch every every single every single change i make. I wanted to be on a new layer. So i can turn this off or on at any point in time and this has to do with things like retouching. Object removal coloring. All of these changes. I want to be on a new layer that way. I can save this out of the layered file and years from now if needed. I can come back. And i can say. Let's put these live post back in. Or maybe i want this necklace or whatever back in usually. It's not big changes like that a lot of the time. It's like coloring or lighting. Like maybe i'll edit a photo and i'll think the colors look really good and then i'll look at it like a day or two later and be like. Oh you know what. I actually to green and it can be difficult to see those things when you're editing but usually taking a little bit of a break coming back to look at your photo later you'll start to see you know what it's a little too green so you go back in your file. Maybe lower the opacity of that layer where you did a little bit of color balancing in. You're good to go so takes very little bit of time to go back there and make some changes. Also if you're in the learning phases where you're just like trying things out in learning how you do things it's very helpful to save out layered files because sometimes you kind of forget what you did like. I really liked the lightning effector. I really liked the coloring. I did on this image. But i have no idea what i did like. I just don't remember so you can go back into your layered files take a look at the layer that affected the color or affected. Light for instance. Let's go ahead. i'm gonna make a levels adjustment here. Scrabble levels adjustment layer. I'm gonna go to my blue channel. And i'm gonna pull some blues into the shadows just a very little bit. Can you see that. Like a tiny bit of lewd since the shadows and a little bit warm colors in my highlight. Give a little bit of a dual tone there..
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Bekker's if you do plan on working with these other types of applications then it could be a good idea to go ahead and invest in that you don't be system because those apps do play really well together if you plan on. Mostly just doing photo editing I would say the throw. This is a really good option out there. it's you know it it's a it's a full build. This is not like a light version of a photo editing application. It's you know it's very feature rich and if you know budget is a is a big issue. That's a big concern than i would say. Go with what you can afford. You know the most important things like using these tools right like you can get a great camera in your hands but if you're not out shooting day in and day out in developing your skills it great camera sitting on your shelf isn't gonna produce greek pictures. You know an inexpensive camera in your hands day in day out is going to produce much better pictures than the most expensive camera in the world sitting on your shelf so i would say the most important thing is like using the software getting creative like doing what you wanna do with it and you know sticking with the price point that works for you so i think affinity photo really is a good option for those beginners out there and i would say for most photo editors that's probably all they would need ever get. I would say that if you start with finnity photo and works for you. I wouldn't think of many applications in which you would need to move into photoshop to be able to do what you wanna do. That being said affinity photo does sport out as psd's so if you ever did wanna bring some of those files directly in photoshop. You'd be able to do that as well. Yeah yeah the other piece of that before we dive into. 'cause i wanna have you. I know you're cute up to show some stuff For we do that. Just get your thoughts on. You are an educator. Obviously you're an educator photographer. Re-texture comprising artists longlist titles. That go along with who air. Nasa's learn you know like we said at the beginning. Is photoshop learning. you know. that's what that's what the the name stands for. Are we gonna see additional oriels in there for photoshop competitors in your library like a you know affinity photo and the others as those apps get traction or you're going to stick with photoshop and be specific there so learn is my background is actually in photography and also in photoshop. So flirt is kind of like you know. Photography starts right so right right. Yeah yeah it's kind of like photo learn you know. That's that's where the name photoshop is. A part of that. Photography is a part of that and at this point i just learned to just be a word on its own so whatever we teach it it can totally come into the umbrella flirt so my goal as an educator and as a business owner is to go where the go where people go where the my students are going. You know if there is a massive shift towards other applications. I'm definitely happy to teach those. And we've taught different applications on flirt. We have an entire suite of light room tutorials on flooring. We even have guitar teaching how to composite images using mobile applications. We did a fantastic teacher with guest instructor swaps. She's on instagram at spokes s. w. o. p. e. s. checker. She's doing awesome stuff and she is editing from start to finish amazing composite photos using just her phone so we had her in the studio and she produced with us a full length tutorial on depositing using iphone apps so we are most interested in moving the future like wherever wherever the artist going. We're going to be there to provide education for them to have his fantastic. That is fantastic. See i was hoping you'd say that. Because i i need to see your take on stuff. Ever way of teaching them makes things feel accessible in doable versus complex in unknowable. I need that. Those skills applied to everything. So you wanna dive in. I know you're cute up to show these these applications. I'd love to see what you have planned for today. Let's do it. Let's do it so we're going to start off photoshop and we're going to. We're basically going to remove some objects in photoshop and then we're going to do the same thing in affinity photos you can get an idea of how these different programs work and this is just a. It's a very common scenario. Where you've got some distractions in your image and we want to get rid of them. So we're going to start off here in photoshop. So let's go ahead and grab a photoshop et. We've got a ballet dancer. Beautiful photograph here. This is from a stock image website called on splash. And i want to start about removing these light poles in the background you can see. We've got a feud light poles here in the background. And i've got this one here at the very top right as well. So what we're gonna do in photoshop. We're going to start by creating a new layer. Okay there we go down here on the bottom right and we're going to go to the spot. Healing brush tool brushed. Looks like a big band aid right over here on the left hand side and we wanna make sure that our type is set to content. Aware what that's gonna do. Search out for civil areas in our image and fill it in with the content. And we wanna make sure that the top we click on sample all layers. That allows me to do this on a new layer so this tool. It's actually incredibly easy to objects. Basically i just have to paint over the objects that i want to remove and photoshop is gonna look for similar areas in the image and fill it in with that content now. It doesn't always do a perfect job because it is one of these automatic type tools but you can always just paint over again now. We're gonna go over like easy use cases for this tool okay. Stuff in the background is relatively simple. And then here we get closer to our subject. We're to possibly use a couple of different tools depending on how this does so you can see. They're very quickly and easily. Let's just routes and stuff in the parking lot here to very quickly. An easy are able to remove these background pulls out granted there on a relatively simple background and the tool can do a good job in these simple situations but see how it does here when we get closer to the ballet dancers leg. I'm going try to remove that. Poll it did do it. It did reconstruct your leg but it didn't do a perfect job there. Okay not a perfect job obviously got a little bit of a weird looking leg there and that's just you know did preserve the line. That's fantastic but it doesn't know. Hey this is a leg and it should look like this. So what we're going to do in this case is i'm going to create a new layer really hit s for the clone stamp tool now the clone stamp a. We'll just make a direct copy of wherever you sample. And the benefits of the clone stamp tool is that it doesn't try to blend anything. There's no automatic software going on. It's just a direct copy. You have to paint in in sample a little bit like there's a little bit more manual work that goes into using the But with that manual work comes a little bit more control so know when we get to these tight areas we go. It makes a lot of sense to use the clone stamp tool. And you can see how close stamped away from the leg and the ballet Dressed there and then this area which is again pretty easy because it's not surrounded by anything important. I'll just go back with that spot. Healing brush tool painted over and remove that you make that look so easier. i love. you're.
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"photoshop" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Back to another episode of this week photo. I'm your host frederick. Then johnson today on the show. I have my friend. None other than mr air nays here. Aired maize is from a little tiny company called learn photoshop. Alerting concatenation of those turn. But aaron knows thing or two about photoshop and composite retouching and all that so. I thought it'd be good. We sort of brainstorm about what would be the the the most impacting to talk about on this show Now they have them on the hot seat. And i thought it would be the comparison. You know in this case we're gonna. We're gonna talk about the differences in the alternatives to photoshop or. Should you just stick with photoshop as the industry standard going forward so the correct person to ask this. Is this guy. Aaron as aaron. Welcome to the show man. It's a pleasure to have you again. Thanks so much frederick. Good to be here man. I'm excited about our little demo today and talking about the state of the industry because a lot has changed less couple years. We've got a lot of new exciting options out there. And i think for the first time in history. We have revealed senators to photo shop. Things that you know. I would say professional could Could use in their workflow. And the depending on what. Your price point is. I think these could be real options for a lot of listeners. Yeah i agree. And that's that's the exciting piece of it but from my standpoint it's exciting intimidating because you wanna jump into this stuff in sort of pick a horse and ride it right because like you when i watched tutorials which fantastic by the way when i what i watch her to tourelles. You've got the hockey's down in its. You're you're playing music in hordes and you know when you're editing a photo it's not like okay file this. Let me do this year. You're playing the photo. You're playing the image to build up that hockey muscle memory. You gotta pick an app and stick with it right. Surprisingly okay so. Photoshop is obviously been around for a lot of years and these new players. An affinity photo is what we're going to be taking a look at today. I don't know how this works. Exactly but basically just took all lot of photoshop just duplicated it and like legally. I'm not sure what happened there but like a lot of the keyboard shortcuts are actually the exact same as well which is like kind of mind-blowing me started using affinity photo and by habit going back to the same people shortcuts said. I'm like oh they're literally the exact same photo which is great for me anyone making that transition and someone who's already used the keyboard shortcuts not to mention you can change your keyboard shortcuts to match your editing style as well so Surprisingly the transition is is not that difficult of a transition It's mostly just a user interface. Once you get over the fact that things are look a little bit different and slightly different places. It's a it's kind of like a one to one. it's almost like a copy paste of photoshop. Which is pretty surprising. Photoshop definitely has some technology that the other programs just do not have which makes sense. It's been around for a long time. But i would say for the majority of photo editing. You're going to be able to do what you need to do. And these other programs. Yeah and that. That's that's also part of you know the the. I don't know the the the decision making process when you're sort of thinking about you know which which apps should i put my my money and invest my time into Yeah they're very similar. In fact. I had the the ceo or the managing director from sarah the company that makes affinity photo in one of the questions. I asked him was you know it. The five million pound elephant in the room is li-. Would someone want to go with your application win. There's the industry standard photoshop. Photoshop is part of our lexicon now. Affinity photo is not part of our lexicon. You know if you put photoshop on your resume the person reading it and instantly knows what that means. If you put affinity photo on their you know it's an even though like you said they have parity but in his response to that was i'm curious to hear what your thoughts are. His response was the They were able to stand on the shoulders of giants. Right and build this new application with al the legacy code and processes and learnings that went along with the the decades of photoshop. So they kind of started from today. I'm paraphrasing what he said. They started from today. And build a modern version of photoshop versus having to build onto legacy code dissatisfy users that demand this obscure feature these you. When you're playing with both apps do you. Do you feel that is it. Does it feel modern in new or like you said. Is it just a rubber stamp of photoshop. Without without much difference. I definitely there's there is definite value and legitimacy in that statement. Do you know like building something on a modern for modern audience using modern technology. And i think with affinity defoe. The real advantage is their tablet software. They have affinity photo for the desktop computer. But you can also get on your ipad. And that's where. I think you know building something in two thousand nineteen four. The current technology. Think that's really the the biggest feature there is that the app is basically just like pairs very well from desktop editing to tablet editing. Now photoshop is coming out with a tablet version of photoshop. I've had the opportunity to work with the beta version as a talking right now. It's not a public release and it is very good but i think affinity photo being able to develop both their desktop and tablet application at the same time you know. There's a definite benefit from from doing that. Finnity photo in in my opinion. I mean the features are there and it. It is is done in a in a good. You know the program. As far as i used it i haven't experienced major bugs or crashes or things that just don't work I think the user interface is pretty solid There's just a couple of things where i'm like. Why did they do it like this. But that could just be. Because i'm used to using photoshop for years and years. I think person new to photoshop or new to affinity photo would basically have the same learning curve to get into either one of the programs. Yeah and that's interesting but if you take the learning curve piece out of it or that that variable out of it one of the other big variables of course pricing right so with photoshop. You're committing to the creative cloud one of the ten polls that affinity stands on serve stands on is you know it's like the old days you give us some money. We give you the bits and if we updated you know. We update fractions. You get those for free if update whole numbers. Then you know there's a fee probably discounted from what new purchasers would would have to pay from a you know. Obviously you're you're the expert in this the putting on your newbie hat and starving artist hat right. The for the people that want to get from where they are now to where aaron mazes. That's i think that's the question it's expensive. You know no matter how you define it right. It's more expensive to use photoshop than it is to use some of the competitors out there infinity included should the starving artists start especially considering the parody that you mentioned should the starving artists. Start with affinity. Since it's about the same get going and then with an eye towards later when i can afford it in a more successful. I should transition into photoshop or should they just suck it up and start with photoshop now. Because that's what they're going to be using Or the third tier third leg in that. Tripod is will affinity someday surpass photoshop as the defacto composite retouching standard application. What do you think. So i would say it depends on what you're interested in for instance if you plan on doing video. Editing and maybe some vector based work other programs within adobe secretive cloud like adobe premiere which is used video editing illustrator..
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Chinese Government Tries Passing a Photoshop Image of Spy Dong Jingwei
"I mean, there's an easy way China is trying to refute the story and knock it down, saying no, no done. Jingwei didn't defect to the United States. He's here in China. And I said, You know, the best way to determine if he's in China is to do a simple proof of life video. I don't know have done Jingwei hold the newspaper up from the headline. I mean, seriously, there's 1000 ways to authenticated that he's in China. They haven't been able to do so until now. Or maybe not. You know the best stories are the ones that leave you with unclear answers. That's why I love this story because it's so Every time you think you've got something another angle turns up so new story in the son John Rogers, June 24 2021. Mystery is Chinese Spy Master Dang Jingwei quote reappears amid rumors he fled to the US with the Wuhan lab secrets. Supposedly has the story about how coronavirus started to I believe it leaked out of a bioweapons lead. So they have this picture that appeared the Chinese government said. Hey, here's a picture of dungeon way. So, folks, you're probably thinking all right. Case closed. There's the picture from the piece. This guy Solomon, you You've seen this picture. It was taken June 23rd, which again would indicate Dong is in China. He's not here, right? This guy Solomon Music co founder of the RNC Republican National Conservative Caucus, he says known is on a Twitter post, he said. That pictures photo shop. He sent a Twitter message that the D A. R D a obviously still has done Jingwei in its protective custody, and he's singing to celebrate the chat and, you know, singing, giving them secrets. Obviously. To celebrate the ccps 100th birthday. This picture is photo shop now. I was told that I
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Media Can't Discredit Jennifer Van Laar if the Chinese Government Can't Prove They Have Dong Jingwei
"It is very easy Jennifer to prove bona fide he's here. If the Chinese government has damaging way, then just put out a video and the people trying to discredit you. It's hilarious. They're putting out these pieces. Like one of them. I see a Newsweek which really isn't trying to discredit but wrote a piece they say Hey, listen, um, the Chinese Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission said Don Jingwei gave a speech Friday in China, but they wouldn't say we're the talk took place. Hilariously. This is great. They didn't include a picture of him or other parties. Depends. I mean, if this is a really lame effort, if you're going to prove bona fide, is, is it not Live very lame. And that same author? I just read that piece before we came on the air said that this put those rumors to rest. Okay, Right? I mean, how hard would this be to do? All you'd have to do is what they have the guy doing. Hello, Video on Twitter Man. It's not hard like it would be picked up tomorrow morning. And given the sophistication of their intelligence operation, I find it hard to believe that they can't figure out a way. To locate this guy. I mean, it's only the world's largest surveillance state. That doesn't make any sense. I'm sure it doesn't make any sense to you either. No. I mean, I would have at least expected a really bad Photoshop by now, Like with him holding up are sitting at a computer with my story in front of it. You know, I'm sure they have Photoshop capabilities, right? Someone who looks like him, Eddie. I mean, it's really try to fake it. I mean, like you said, this is almost, you know, semi confirmation of your sources account of events that the Chinese government like no, no, no worries. Jennifer. He's here. Well, where is he? We don't know. He gave a speech somewhere. We don't know We haven't. We haven't pinpointed the location. Do you have a picture? No. No pictures, either. It was just a speech on something somewhere about something. No photos, no evidence. What's there? I mean, it's It's really insane to think about it that way. But I don't think they've done a good job at this
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Supercharge Your Editing App
"So i think most of us that work with photo management apps are familiar with plug ins many of us probably have plug ins that. We're using right now so on one sense you're just going okay. Plug in a big deal right. Well not exactly exactly so. I've talked about a number plug over the years. Raw power lumine are pixel mater. And they're all very good. And i'm a big fan right now. Raw power of for my infrared work. I just love it. It keeps getting better. However what i want to talk about today is on one effects. Twenty twenty one. Now i have been looking to get on one into this family plug ins that. I recommend for some time. And i've always hit some sort of bump in the road while testing this time and i've been using this plugin now for about six weeks. This time not only did pass all the tests. It has exceeded my expectations. And i'm just going. Yes i finally i get to talk about on one as a legitimate plug in for just about anyone's workflow. And what do i mean by that. Well first of all it works on both windows and mac. Okay so yeah. There's a great start you can plug it in to check out this list. Lightroom photoshop capture one pro. Yes i said. Capture would pro photos for mac. Os paint shop pro in affinity photo. Plus you can use it as a standalone application as well so now there's practically no one in our audience that can't use this plug in with their existing workflow practically no and i'm sure someone's got some interesting stuff going on outside of this window but for the most part i think we're in pretty good shape
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Tough Questions About Lightroom and Photoshop
"Guys. Know the resistance to the creative cloud and the switch to a nobis from from a consumer standpoint the switch to the the subscription model which has a lot of people looking for alternatives. Maybe not a core audience because they're going to stick with it no matter what but there's other people that are like there's this there's that or whatever and i can cobble together. Something that gets the job done. It may not be as integrated as creative cloud but it gets the job done. And i'm only paying one fee for you know i capture one and affinity photo etc matt authority. I when you're faced with somebody that's making that decision you know. Let's take let's take funds out of it you know. Even though the subscription things a big deal take funds out of for this this chat or for this question. And they're just making a decision on where to place their bets because they want to be in this creative world for the long haul and they don't have to relearn stuff you know. Is it better for them to just you know dive in with the new kids because their doing cool stuff in ai and all this stuff or should they go and buy a brick building you know dobie side and just deal with and change the furniture out every now and then. What are you what he say. I mean i i'm always i look at it this way And i'm i'm gonna speak more toward photographers. That's that's primarily. Who i talked to but of of all the things that photographers spend money on ninety nine a month is the cheapest thing that you will spend money on as a battalion And and we can argue aside from the camera and the lens. It's the most important thing that you'll spend money on for for your photography. So i usually just frame it to people that way that ill. It's this ten dollars a month for arguably one of the most important steps in your
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Beyonce Gets Called out for Photoshopping
"A stirred up controversy and she may not even realize it. She's accused of photo shopping. Her body she posted this photo of herself. Looking like the queen she is zoom in and look a little closer there on the stairs. Looks like we see a little bit. So what do you guys think. Did she alter the photo no girl. That's a construction issue okay. Contractor needs to be called back. I don't think it's a. I mean totally it might be. I don't know this is her first time doing it. It's fine. I'm sure like everyone does it. I don't do it because i can't figure out. How do photoshop on my phone. So so i'm just like this is this is it just as a good a good high angle right but beyond say i mean maybe a little bit. I don't know. I assume that all celebrities do it like i assume when i opened a magazine. I'm getting a version of someone and now i do that with instagram. And twenty twenty one. I think that people put the best versions of themselves out there. And if you have a team who is your social media team nine times teen. They're touching things up
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Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81
"The man who helped invent the pdf file as co founder of software company. Adobe has died software so widely used. you almost take it for granted. It's the portable document format better known as the pdf and sadly charles. Chuck geschke the man who helped to develop it and co founder of adobe is dead at age eighty one went onto invent pdf acrobat. Illustrator premiere pro and photoshop. But his wife. Nancy says geschke was also proud of his family in nineteen. Ninety-two guess she survived a kidnapping. When he was held for four days a suspect caught with six hundred. Fifty thousand dollars in ransom. Money eventually led police to the hideout where he was held captive and two two thousand nine. President obama awarded guests and adobe co founder. john warnock the national medal of technology
Leo Laporte
Founder of Adobe and Developer of PDFs Dies at 81
"Helped invent the PDF file is co founder of software company Adobe has died software so widely used, you almost take it for granted. It's the portable document format better known as the PDF and, sadly, Charles Chuck Geschke. Man who helped to develop it and co founder of Adobe is dead at age 81. Adobe went on to invent pdf Acrobat illustrator premiere pro and Photoshopped, but his wife, Nancy, says, Guess he was also proud of his family. In 1992 guess she survived a kidnapping when he was held for four days. A suspect caught with $650,000 in ransom money eventually led police to the hideout where he was held captive and in 2009, President Obama awarding Geschke and Adobe Co founder John Warnock, the national Medal of Technology. I'm
Daily Pop
Khloe Kardashian responds to controversy over unedited picture
"Kardashian is speaking her mind after getting a ton of hey over a leaked bikini photo. She stripped down for this video. Showing off her toned body with the caption. Yes i did a lie to show you this to show you all. This is not photoshop. Khloe got really personal about her struggles with body image writing in truth. The pressure constant ridicule and judgment my entire life to be perfect into the other standards of how i should look has been too much to bear khloe as the vet sister. Chloe's the ugly sister. Her dad must not be her real dad because she looked so different the only way she could have lost that much weight must have been from surgery so all of this comments. She's been getting nonstop her entire famous career. I
First Things First
LeBron James becomes partner in group that owns Red Sox
"Talked about the king. Lebron james clearly not enough on his plate if he can add part owner of the boston red sox to the old resume. Going fenway. sports group is a partner. Looks pretty good. Any red sox uniform was photoshop. Granted lebron james becoming part owner of the red sox is blank. This chest like the greatest. I'm a big chess fan. I play it every day. I got the app chess with friends. I got a couple of boards. Skoll awesome beautiful game. You learn a lot about people when you play. Chest aren't the greatest chess players in the world. They're able to play ten twenty moves out thirty moves out like they just got it. I got this thing where they can see into the future. That's lebron james. He's the first athlete to actually strategize use tactics to build enterprise companies. So right now great. Yeah oh this is great baseball baseball. No this is lebron. James playing chess. You know what's to happen in about. Maybe it could be five years. I don't know when he retires. But let's say ten years he's going to own nba team. There's been a lot of talk about it. The with to with this is him taking the next step four. This is just like in a lot of athletes need to study this dude and how he moves his can because these our next level nick
Esports Minute
Sentinel's Sinatraa Accused of Sexual Abuse by Ex-Girlfriend
"What a sad day in Esports, once again after being able to celebrate the women in Esports on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday have been a stark reminder of how far we still need to be go. First off before I get into this episode a trigger warning. This minute is going to contain details that include sexual abuse gaslighting harassment and rape on my dreams and the Esports minute from a sports network. So you've seen the allegation by now. I can imagine J one better known as Sinatra has been accused of sexual abuse with plenty of proof by Cleo his ex-girlfriend Thora is the former MVP of the OverWatch league has been playing ballarin for the central since retiring from the uw-l. The allegations are long and I'll link down below they are difficult to read but it is extremely important to do so in the Google Doc Cleo details how Sinatra coerced her into sex made her feel guilty for not wanting to have sex and progress past the point where she was saying no to confirm You having sex with her that's rape. We should call it what it is. There's audio of them having sex where you can hear that situation play out. Clearly. The write-up is nine pages long including screenshots of many different conversations. I want to read a section at the end that I think is especially important quote if this isn't proof enough, I'm not sure anything will ever be to get you to understand the hurt those done to me by this man. It's not his word against mine. It's his word against multiple points of proof and an audio of his voice not allowing me to say no to having sex and quote. She's right and while many people have spoken out about how horrible this is other voices have chosen once again to ignore a victim. The fron is one of the high-profile ones eating out quote e girls can be scary as a twitch streamer. They will try to debate or photoshop evidence to fuck you. I'm not saying she is one, but she could be and quote I really Dubose. Giving his horrible message a platform but I think it's important as it reconfirms what Cleo said at the end of her message. She knew some people wouldn't believe her even with the evidence. I hope a community we see these types of people for who they are and shut them off as this won't be the last time this happens victims shouldn't need nine-page Google Docs detailing their trauma complete with audio recordings and screenshots of multiple conversations for people to believe them. And when that happens that people's first reaction is somehow to blame Photoshop just shows how damning it is and how far people will go to not believe someone in this
TechtalkRadio
Deepfake technology: Can you spot what's real?
"I'm andy taylor. And i'm justin. Lemme and it is the three of us today. There is a lot of tech to talk about. I think the big thing that a lot of people have been talking about this week number one for themselves and number one by just pure astonishment is the technology of deepfake technology. We talked about this a couple months ago. Well you know we. We talked about some deepfakes and all that stuff. But this is how it's it's rear its ugly head again and it's back with a vengeance ugly it looks. It looks so good. it's ugly for society because it does look so good and it's so confusing. I think you're talking about the tom. Cruise ones right yeah. You're the one who told me about it. Because i hadn't seen it yet and it appeared on tiktok amazing because tiktok it. They have a policy no deepfakes. They don't want deepfakes on on tiktok and this was posted on tiktok and eleven million views by people. Saying wait a minute. Tom cruise is doing a magic trick. Tom cruise's played golf. And he's put it he's on tiktok and people were watching and the thing is. You really can't tell that. It's not tom cruise. And that's that's what makes it rough those of you don't know what a deepfake is a deepfake. Is you get an act. I have an actor but a person anybody it could be anybody to be the The video portion of it. And then you'll be walking around a room or doing something. But then you're going to upload know of everybody can do this because it does require some sophisticated technology but you upload like a celebrities face in different poses which gets a bunch of different pictures of that celebrity and then you for lack of better term you superimposed that celebrities face on the quote unquote actors body and it becomes that person. This technology can basically turn anybody into somebody else now. We we've seen some deepfakes in the past that have featured celebrities but always like kind of a little switch. And i've liked those. I've been entertained by those where you have stallone as the terminator or bill hater which is one of the best ones out there. I think bill hader while. He's he's on. One of the talk shows transforms into tom cruise and transforms into seth rogan. While he's i love that one. That one's a lot of fun and they're fun but this deepfake was different because it wasn't like this is another celebrity trying to be another celebrity. This is like oh this. Is tom cruise. Which makes everybody think. Oh that's tom cruise. It brings up the idea then. Okay could a politician then be created to see something outrageous or yeah. That's what i was about to say is like people say how could be a threat to society. just imagine. Just imagine that somebody does somehow does a deepfake of president biden announcing war on china. china's somehow sees this and says well no no no no no where declaring war in america and launches their nukes. Not possible but oh it is possible now that technology fake the technology yet totally and it can also in the case of crime. We've got footage of this crime going down this person did. That's not me. That's a deepfake. There's in could be used as the defense could be used as maybe putting somebody up. That is innocent of a crime. I mean it's you say that there is a technology that you found out that is now being developed to combat the deepfakes like basically be able to tell if it was altered a company. And i'm the name kind of escaped me. I signed up to kind of follow them and see what they're doing but they're apparently able to use technology to determine similar like what people have done now with photoshop. Be has been able to set now that you can tell that's photoshop. You can see that but now this company is going to work with the some of these deepfake videos and see they can determine but again. The technology is getting so good but people have said. Well we don't have the expertise to do it ourselves. But we're beginning to see that changing as
Astronomy Cast
The Universe's Background Noise: The Cosmic Microwave Background
"What is the background. It's that source signal that is in the back of all of our images and i literally mean it's like the back most layer. If you've ever used photoshop illustrator any of these art programs that have different layers. There's that layer. That's behind everything that you can set to transparent except for our universe doesn't understand that so no matter what color you're using to observe our sky in the spaces between bright objects there is light and sometimes even particles and gravitational waves that are emanating from some background that we're still in many cases trying to figure out what is and and i think people are are are most familiar with the cosmic microwave background. Only i think because it helped us figure out the entire origin of the universe. The big bang the cer- mind-bending conclusion that our universe is expanding. But but it's just one of them. There's tons it is. And i have to say also the fact that the causing microwave background was initially blamed on pigeon poop in the detector also really adds to story arc by you. Should you should explain that. If you're going to bring pigeon poop and not go into more detail. I think you have to. So so i- pens easson wilson to research scientists working at bell labs. We're working to figure out how to improve microwave. Communications here on the surface of the earth. They built a big old attack ter- and they were looking for 'cause mc sources that could interfere with point to point signals used in telecommunications and they found things they expected like jupiter jupiter is loud but between all the things they expected defined find there. Is this constant signal and normally when you have this kind of a constant signal in a detector that works like a radio detector. you think it's just like norway's in the system and so they're trying to get rid of the noise every way possible and they noticed that pigeons were roosting in their system so they gave it a thorough cleaning to remove anything. The pigeons may have left within the detector and it didn't work and in the end after contacting research group at princeton and talking to folks like people's they realize that what they were seeing matched theoretical predictions of a cold long wavelength background of light. That was the stretched out remains of photons released in the moment when the universe cool enough for electrons and atomic nuclei to bond together making our universe transparent for the first time this had been theorized that that if you win restarting to detect that they were seeing galaxies. Moving away in all directions. That was one line of evidence that would mean that those things those galaxies were all close together the past therefore you should see a time when everything was all in roughly the same region and it would be opaque and it would be hot and then you should see his moment when it all got released into the universe and and that's what they saw and just to be clear. It's it's not that there was any center to the universe any region where things were more compact. It's the entire universe. The surface of afford dimensional hyper tour. Royd was a smaller surface in a three dimensional on top of a four dimensional. Kind of
Motor1.com Podcast
GM Has a New Logo
"Me set this up for everybody. General motors has a new logo. And it's similar to the old logo. It's still a square box. It has the letters g and m on it. it has 'em on it For those on youtube. Mr bruce's just throwing it up here on our screen we can see. It's it's it's it's it's a rebrand right so the debate going on in the motor one dot com universe is whether this is a good thing a bad thing ridiculous thing a terrible move a smart move. Let me give you a little bit. More background I don't really mind this. Rebrand that much but i also come from a marketing background. I had a marketing career. Long before i went time into journalism. So i i think maybe i get a slightly different viewpoint of the rebranding process and why companies tend to do it But john why don't you lead off because that's the reason you're here john is. John is the one that opposes my viewpoint and wait one second here. I get to play referee here. I get the. I'm calling the balls and strikes if someone starts taking too long. I get veto power. Because my thing is i have a completely different opinion. That both of you. That i will express at the end but comes up in. This discussion of re brands is that we've been seeing a lot of them a lot of the just in the past year i am going to share an image with you guys Is right now of three of them. What we say so. Volkswagen simplifies their emblem. Bmw's simplifies their Nissan simplifies their envelope. All of this has happened in the past year and there are other examples that i can pull up. There's maserati there is a mazda. Oh so this has kind of been bubbling up and then this. Gm one came up and chris in john in our motor one chat kind of started going at things and so i wanna give them the opportunity both to air their feelings about this badge and then when they're done i will come in at the end and give my opinion which is barely different from both pairs. So i'm gonna pop up an image of the gm badge. Actually i the they are going to tell you how they feel about the emmett. Mr neff i yield the floor to the distinguished gentleman. Here the image you popped up the gm the new gm logo Bruce was black and white. It's forgiving that is i would say the best version of the logo. Oh their degree. There's the gradient one which i think adds a level of ridiculousness to the logo so For those not viewing on youtube it is this new. Gm logo with a gradient. That goes from aquamarine blue into like the traditional jam. Blew into another blue All right so my views on this level. When i see it my first impression is that it is juvenile. That's the word. I used that chris and i were arguing over in our chat. I say juvenile. Because i think it looks like Like gm created an iphone app and this was the icon for it Or you know this is something a this looks like the The icon for new adobe software next to your photo shop and your illustrator It's trying to look Hi tack and and Not bleeding edge but more like you know. I'm part of the software revolution Which is true. That's happening in cars. Software and computing power is growing exponentially more important Let me take a note of that really quick. You said it's true. Sure sure that is granted and of course another reason that that the juvenile comes to mind as they went from two capital letters Which is proper grammar for It's an acronym general motors. You know and they went to to lower case letters so that has a juvenile edge to it to me This gradient is ridiculous and a first year. Art student would probably create that in photoshop And some people say like it's supposed to evoke a plug. And i guess i guess that's supposed to be negative space of the m and the underline of the m. Maybe i don't know. I i don't really see i don't get that as a strong message. from the logo. Now when i say it's bad. Like when i say it's bad like i don't think it's the worst thing in the world My perspective is that. If if i were if i were running the company. Or if i were an executive in the boardroom that day i would raise my hand and said we need to rethink this. This is not what we wanna do. that said i don't think logo bruins gm. I don't think. I don't th- i actually don't think logos and names of companies have that much power especially if your product is good. Your product is good. It can overcome a logo or or a bad name. And i say that having worked at a couple of websites that had ridiculous bad names and we're still successful because they were just good websites and people look past the name and just you know they thought of the brand of the site as as what the product is and the name took came on Took on a new meaning. And i think this logo could be the same way you know if gm succeeds in its easy. Revolution will probably look at the logo. with you know in a completely different way than we do today when gm's future plans are all promises and vaporware right now
AP News Radio
Bernie Sanders' mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity
"You may be laughing at those photoshopped images of senator Bernie Sanders in his winter coat and mittens but they're raising a lot of money for charity the Vermont senator bundled up on inauguration day getting photoshopped into the cast of friends with Forrest Gump on a bench on the moon and on the bridge of the starship enterprise but the social media phenomenons raised nearly two million dollars for Vermont charities Bernie Sanders has been selling shirts and stickers of himself in that brown parka and wool mittens he says the chair man Sanders merchandise keeps selling out online even Getty images will be donating its proceeds to add the Sanders photo two meals on wheels and Burton snowboards is donating fifty jackets to Vermont families Jackie Quinn Washington