by Reed Hoffmann | Mar 4, 2017 | Advanced, Beginner, Editing, Education, Intermediate, Lightroom, Photoshop
One thing I hear regularly from students is how much they learn from critiques of their photos. So I’ve decided to start doing that as a regular feature on this blog. Every week or two I’ll choose up to five photos that people submit and create a...
by Reed Hoffmann | Oct 1, 2015 | Advanced, Color Management, Editing, Intermediate, Photoshop, Printing
An old friend once told me, “It’s not a picture until you can hold it in your hands.” There’s some truth to that. Having a physical print to touch, to be able to change its angle to the light, move it closer and further from your eyes – there’s something special about...
by Reed Hoffmann | Oct 13, 2014 | Advanced, Beginner, Computers, Editing, History, Intermediate, Photoshop, Technology
I’m in the midst of a major workflow change, and in a way I’m coming full circle. I began using Photoshop in the early 90s when we started scanning film to digitize it for the newspaper. Which was a godsend, because before that we had to print our color photos, which...
by Reed Hoffmann | Apr 30, 2014 | Beginner, Computers, Editing, Education, Intermediate, Photoshop, Printing, Technology
On the long list of topics that people find confusing about digital photography, resolution is near the top. I recently had a note from a friend who was making prints, and they came back “pixelated.” When I read that, I was 90% sure the problem was...
by Reed Hoffmann | Aug 4, 2013 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Color Management, History, Holidays, Lenses, Photoshop
I had an interesting assignment last week for the Orange County (CA) Register. The University of Missouri – Kansas City hosts a choreography conference for a week each summer, and the Register had a writer covering it. They needed photos of the seven young...
