How to Get Started With Photivo What Is Photivo? Photivo is a free and open-source photo editor Photivo is a free and open-source photo editor that works across a variety of operating systems. Until quite recently, it hadn’t been updated for a good while, meaning newer camera formatted images were either not working, causing error… Continue reading How to Get Started With Photivo
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How to Simultaneously Auto-Transcribe and Record Zoom Calls With Descript
Note-taking during meetings is officially a thing of the past. Recording your Zoom meeting is one thing. Having an AI-powered transcription unfold in real-time, as the meeting progresses, is quite another. Like, The Thing of Dreams. Meet Descript, an all-in-one software program for audio transcription, podcasting, audio and video editing, and—the focus of this tutorial—screen… Continue reading How to Simultaneously Auto-Transcribe and Record Zoom Calls With Descript
How to Use Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text in After Effects
What You’ll Be Creating In this lesson you’re going to learn how to do some basic motion tracking to add text to a shot. To follow along with this lesson, make sure to open up the motion tracking.aep file which you can download here. You’re also going to need the video file below, which you… Continue reading How to Use Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text in After Effects
How to Install .MOGRTs in Premiere Pro + Free Template
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make an animated text-based motion graphics opener video from a free template for Premiere Pro, adding your own media and modifying text, colours, and font. An opener is a memorable, attention-getting beginning for your video. YouTube creators, for example, often do a quick on-screen address to say “hey”… Continue reading How to Install .MOGRTs in Premiere Pro + Free Template
Spotlight on flat lay photography and how to incorporate it in your commercial portfolio
It’s a trend you’ve seen all over your social media feeds, initially popularized by brands like Sephora, Apple, and Gap and proliferating under hashtags like #flatlay, #flatlays, #flaylaystyle, #flatlaytoday. “Flat lay photography” is exactly what it sounds like: a straight overhead-style shot of objects arranged neatly on a flat surface. The curated Instagram page @flatlays… Continue reading Spotlight on flat lay photography and how to incorporate it in your commercial portfolio
How to Use Fisheye Lenses for Photography
If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lesson, you’ll learn about fisheye lenses and see what they look like in action, as well as how to correct the curve if you prefer a straighter image. How… Continue reading How to Use Fisheye Lenses for Photography
Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks
Shenandoah Jordan, Super Adaptoid, Lady Glorious, Matthew, and Steve Culligan in a Convertible, Haight Street, August 13, 1968. From Elaine Mayes’ “The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968”. © Elaine Mayes In this season’s photo book selection, we look at early color photographs by urban street photographer, Mitch Epstein; Elaine Mayes’s portraits of hippies and oddballs at the… Continue reading Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks
Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good
Converted from DNG, vignetting reduced | ISO 64 | 1/500 sec | f/8. Jeff Keller The flagship Leica M11 rangefinder launched earlier this year boasting a host of upgrades, most notably, a higher-resolution sensor and a more powerful processor. And yet, the camera sports the same basic design as its ancestors, dating back to the… Continue reading Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good
Nobody understands depth of field and it’s all Apple’s fault
A shallow depth of field can result in bokeh or soft, circular renderings in the out-of-focus portions of an image. Some lenses have more pleasing bokeh than others. Tang Ming Tung/Getty You’ve likely seen plenty of photos with soft, out-of-focus backgrounds. With the right setting, they can look rather dreamy with brightly colored circles (called… Continue reading Nobody understands depth of field and it’s all Apple’s fault
How to Install and Apply Presets to Photos in Lightroom Classic — Instant Image Filters
Using presets in Adobe Lightroom can help you unlock a whole new universe in your editing workflow. A preset can save you time by applying commonly used edits right from the get go, or help you achieve a specific stylized look with your photographs. Maybe you bought a preset pack from your favourite photographer on… Continue reading How to Install and Apply Presets to Photos in Lightroom Classic — Instant Image Filters