How to Create Volumetric Lighting in After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to create volumetric lighting in After Effects by looking at how we can practically recreate it or accentuate it here in After Effects. We’ll be following on form our previous lesson on how to add volumetric lighting and move on to how to… Continue reading How to Create Volumetric Lighting in After Effects

Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Fine Art Category Winner

The 2022 500px Global Photography Awards serves creatives working with photography and provides them a chance to showcase their skill and be rewarded for it. The second edition of the competition consisted of six categories: Technical, Storytelling, Commercial Content, Documentary, Fine Art, and Landscape. Today on the blog we’re talking with the winner of the… Continue reading Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Fine Art Category Winner

Lens Flare Trends! What Is Lens Flare and How to Add It?

What You’ll Be Creating Today, we will be taking a look at what a lens flare is, why it can be both good and bad, and how to add lens flare in Photoshop. Let’s find out how this hardware error turned into an artistic asset! What We’ll Learn You’re ready to begin learning about lens… Continue reading Lens Flare Trends! What Is Lens Flare and How to Add It?

April Updates for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Camera Raw

Adobe has just released an update containing new features, new camera support, new lens support, and some bug fixes. Open up your Adobe Application Manager, click on the Updates tab, and then click Check for updates if you don’t see the latest releases for Lightroom Classic 12.3, Lightroom 6.3, and Camera Raw 15.3. AI-powered Denoise… Continue reading April Updates for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Camera Raw

How to Composite Multiple Videos Using Clean Plates in After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to composite multiple videos using clean plates in After Effects in order to get the best out of our lighting tools that we have on hand, when creating content on a budget. In a previous tutorial we talked about how we can create… Continue reading How to Composite Multiple Videos Using Clean Plates in After Effects

How to Light Video Scenes on a Budget

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at some tips and tricks we can employ on set, in order to get the best out of our lighting tools that we have on hand, when creating content on a budget. First up, let’s talk about clean plates and taking the extra time and effort on set to… Continue reading How to Light Video Scenes on a Budget

Adobe announces a slew of video-centric updates

The newest features coming to Premiere Pro will make video editing easier and faster. Adobe Adobe has long been the primary editing program powerhouse, especially in the realm of video editing. Premiere Pro, it’s video editing platform, is typically the software of choice for pros and novices alike. In fact, in a recent press event,… Continue reading Adobe announces a slew of video-centric updates

Make a Trendy Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating You’ve probably seen this interesting effect of two or more overlapping photos. In this double exposure Photoshop tutorial, we’ll create a trendy double exposure effect from scratch. We’ll use Blending Modes and Clipping Masks in a few steps. But first, let’s get the basics right. What Is Double Exposure? The multiple… Continue reading Make a Trendy Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop

10 Colourful Preset Packs to Add Picture Styles to Video Using Premiere Pro (LUTs)

The magic of these Premiere color effects is that they help you generate ideas for your footage. Try them out easily and your film may take an entirely new direction. Note: some of these assets are labelled by the authors as “Lightroom presets”, but they also include LUT versions that are ready to use in Adobe Premiere. Featured LUT Pack… Continue reading 10 Colourful Preset Packs to Add Picture Styles to Video Using Premiere Pro (LUTs)

Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Landscape Category Winner

The 2022 500px Global Photography Awards was created for the photography community to provide them a chance to showcase their skill and be rewarded for it. The second edition of the competition consisted of six categories: Technical, Storytelling, Commercial Content, Documentary, Fine Art, and Landscape. Today on the blog, we’re talking with the winner of… Continue reading Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Landscape Category Winner