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
How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265
In this lesson on from David Bode’s free course, Ultimate Premiere Pro FAQ, you will learn how to export your projects using the successor to H.264: H.265. H.265, or High Efficiency Video Coding, is 25 to 50% more efficient. This means you can have the same size of a file and you’re going to get… Continue reading How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265
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
Noticing Absorption and Reflection: 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 free course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you’ll learn about light absorption and reflection. Noticing Absorption and Reflection A white object appears white because it reflects almost all of the light that strikes… Continue reading Noticing Absorption and Reflection: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
100 Free Lightroom Presets — Instant Filters for Photo Styles
Who doesn’t love free Adobe Lightroom presets? With just one click, you can borrow and tap into the style of other photographers. Presets can transform your images and add styles in a second. As Lightroom’s popularity has increased, so has the quality of presets to modify and enhance images. Because Lightroom is a “non-destructive” image editor, we… Continue reading 100 Free Lightroom Presets — Instant Filters for Photo Styles
How to Color Balance a Video for Accurate Skin Tone Using Premiere Pro
In this lesson on Check Skin Tone from David Bode’s How to Color Correct Video with Adobe Premiere, you will learn how to use the vectorscope to check if the skin tones in your videos are accurate. Finding the Neutrals If you have something in your shot that is supposed to be in neutral colour,… Continue reading How to Color Balance a Video for Accurate Skin Tone Using Premiere Pro
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