Create your own animations with this quick tutorial: you’ll learn how to combine free characters from Reallusion with live-action stock video from Envato Elements using Adobe After Effects. We’ll show step-by-step how to download and add the free 2D cartoon animations to a live action video, in about 30 minutes start to finish. To celebrate… Continue reading How to Add Free Animations to Live-action Video in 30 Minutes With After Effects
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Shimoda Explore v2 review – a versatile camera backpack for nearly any adventure
The Shimoda Design Explore v2 backpacks come in three sizes, 25-, 30-, and 35-liters. Mason Marsh In my 40 years as a photographer, I’ve owned dozens of camera bags. Lugging camera gear has always been an exercise of compromises, but with the new Explore v2 camera backpacks from Shimoda Designs, those compromises are few. And… Continue reading Shimoda Explore v2 review – a versatile camera backpack for nearly any adventure
Best photo editing software for macs in 2022
Stan Horaczek Best overall Adobe Lightroom Check Price Adobe’s raw workflow software has become a standard for photographers. Best for raw photos Capture One Pro 22 Check Price Pull every last bit of image quality out of your raw files. Best for beginners Photoshop Elements Check Price Photo editing software will help you improve your… Continue reading Best photo editing software for macs in 2022
How to Use 1 Off-Camera Flash to Make 3 Different Portraits
Welcome back to ‘Introduction to Flash Photography‘. This lesson is going to be a little bit different than the rest of our lessons, because you’re actually going to watch me on a shoot. The model today is Matt, who is a model who needs to update his portfolio. I want to get some close-up headshots,… Continue reading How to Use 1 Off-Camera Flash to Make 3 Different Portraits
How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. Photons have an electromagnetic field that fluctuates as it moves through space. In this lesson, you’ll find out why that matters to photographers. Noticing Polarised Reflections Polarised light refers to the… Continue reading How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
Honey, I shrunk the kids: Our favorite reader-submitted macro images
Raymond Choo Inspired by the recent Apple Macro Challenge, this week we asked PopPhoto readers to get small and search for the detail in their everyday. In the rote of daily life, it’s easy to forget that beauty is all around—and much of it is teeny-tiny or nearly invisible to the naked eye. This week’s… Continue reading Honey, I shrunk the kids: Our favorite reader-submitted macro images
How to Take DNG Photos with Open Camera on Android — Free, Open Source App
Open Camera is an open source, free camera app for Android devices. Cameras on smartphones have come on leaps and bounds, even just in the last five years. Open Camera aims to give you additional options that you might not have with your pre-loaded camera app, opening up functionality and generally giving you more control… Continue reading How to Take DNG Photos with Open Camera on Android — Free, Open Source App
How To Edit a Raw Photo With Gemstone Editor — Camera Raw Alternative for Windows
Gemstone Photo Editor, from ACDSee, is a photo editor for Windows with a dedicated RAW photography adjustments window, layers, and a multi-document interface. It’s a buy-outright programme rather than a subscription. In this article, we’ll be focusing on its RAW editing capabilities and walk through some of the main tools you’d use. How To Edit… Continue reading How To Edit a Raw Photo With Gemstone Editor — Camera Raw Alternative for Windows
Spotlight on cottagecore in Commercial Licensing
Last year, the now-famous prairie-style “Nap Dress” by Hill House Home took over the internet. By February, when the brand dropped a new collection, it sold $1 million’s worth in inventory in just twelve minutes. By the end of the day, they’d made more than they had in the entirety of 2019. Meanwhile, English Garden-inspired… Continue reading Spotlight on cottagecore in Commercial Licensing
How to Use a Classic One-Light Portrait Photo Setup to Create Rembrandt Lighting
Welcome back to ‘Intermediate Flash Photography‘. Over the next few lessons, you’re going to learn how to achieve vastly different portraits with simple and easy adjustments of your flash. Each of these lessons will go over one or two of the classic lighting setups, or lighting patterns, that have been used for hundreds of years by… Continue reading How to Use a Classic One-Light Portrait Photo Setup to Create Rembrandt Lighting