Video: GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters & Creative Cloud

Last week I had the opportunity to present an incredibly fun topic to the DC/MD/VA Creative Professionals user group… GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters, and Adobe Creative Cloud.  Thanks to everyone who attended.  This topic is a personal interest of mine, and I had a great time.  There were great questions and great conversations all around. For […]

Amazing Panoramas in 10 Easy Steps with Adobe Photoshop CC

Here’s a quick video I put together showing how to create incredible panorama images in ten easy steps, using Adobe Photoshop CC.  I captured this one on Monday in a sunrise session in Richmond, VA with a DJI Phantom and GoPro. …and the ten steps are: Go get some awesome shots! – Just be sure that […]

Creative Cloud Helps Me Fulfill My Creative Vision

In my last post, I proclaimed my love for Adobe Creative Cloud. This post will show you the reason why. I was playing around with some of the aerial footage I captured last week in San Francisco. Just for fun, I wanted to create a HUD (heads up display) to add to the first-person experience […]

Review: Beholder Lite Gimbal For DJI Phantom Quadcopter

I recently purchased a Beholder Lite camera gimbal for my DJI Phantom quadcopter, and I am very pleased with it. Bottom line for those that don’t want to read this entire post… The Beholder Lite is hard to beat for the price, as long as you have some time to tune the gimbal.  Output video […]

“Preserve Details” in Photoshop Image Resizing is Seriously Awesome

Adobe has introduced a bunch of new features in the Photoshop CC releases over the course of the year. One feature that I knew about, but hadn’t used much myself was the new “preserve details” upsampling algorithm when resizing images, which was introduced in the spring.  Well, I was just looking into resizing one of […]

Webinar Tomorrow: Getting to Know the Creative Cloud Packager for IT Administrators

Want to learn more about Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise Customers? Are you responsible for distributing Adobe Creative Cloud applications throughout your organization?  Want to learn how to create targeted packages of Adobe applications from your enterprise or team membership (Photography Professional, Video Professional, Web Professional)? If you answered yes to […]

Photoshop Friday: Sky Aquariums

I’m testing out something new… I’m calling it “Photoshop Friday”, where every Friday, optimistically assuming that I don’t have deadlines looming, I’m going to try and do something fun with Photoshop. Whatever I can think of… Two weeks ago I did some “crystal ball” compositions, and today I’ve put together what I’m calling Sky Aquariums. […]

A Crash Course in Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Adobe’s video production tools are among the best in the industry. These tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects, SpeedGrade, Photoshop, Audition, and more) have been used in countless videos and movies, including theatrical releases such as Avatar, Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi, and many, many more. Just because these tools are often used in making […]

Recap: Russell Brown’s Top Gun Flight Training at Photoshop World

Last week I had the opportunity to feed my obsession with aerial photography and participate in Russell Brown’s Top Gun Flight Training workshop at Photoshop World, and it was an awesome experience! Many thanks to Russell for putting together this incredible workshop. There’s nothing like a giant room full of RC photography enthusiasts, with multiple copters […]