Lately I’ve been so focused on mobile, apps, development, conferences, and more that I haven’t posted much besides IBM work news and projects. Well, I’m taking a break for just a moment… If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then you already know that I’m pretty much obsessed with “drones”. It is by far the […]
Tag Archives: Photography
Salisbury Festival Time-lapse
Every year the town I live in has a weekend-long spring festival. There are rides for the kids, live music, beer, and lots of food. This year I have a great view overlooking the carnival area, so I decided to do a time-lapse video capturing all of the activity. The trucks pulled in before I […]
Assembling A Panorama with Adobe Photoshop CC
I just put together a walkthrough of creating an aerial panorama from images captured with a GoPro camera and an RC helicopter over on Behance. Check it out for full details. Here’s the final panorama to whet your appetite: High-res here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andytrice/13899593912/ Enjoy!
Aerial Photography with a GoPro Camera and Adobe Creative Cloud tools
My second article on aerial imaging with a remote controlled helicopter is now live in the March 2014 issue of Adobe Inspire! The first article focused on aerial videography and Adobe video tools. This time it’s all about aerial photography with a GoPro camera and DJI Phantom (and how to bring these images to life […]
Believable Compositions & Creativity in Adobe Photoshop
What makes a great composition in Photoshop? Well, that all depends on what you’re trying to achieve and personal taste – I won’t even attempt to answer that. What makes a composition believable? That one is a little bit easier… We’ve all seen bad Photoshop jobs – you know, those where colors are way off, […]
Time-Lapse Photography with Creative Cloud
In addition to my addiction to aerial photography, I’m also fascinated by time-lapse photography. With time lapse photography, you set up your camera to take pictures on an interval. This could be every few seconds, every few minutes, every few hours, or heck, once a day. It’s really up to you how you want to […]
Create Amazing Photo-Walks with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Microsoft Photosynth
Photosynth is an impressive service from Microsoft. It enables you to upload photos and turn them into interactive 360 panoramas, photo walls, spins, or photo walks. The Photosynth team recently announced a new version of Photosynth, and it’s a really cool web experience. It leverages WebGL to visualize the content, and runs great on both desktop and […]
Perspective Warp in Adobe Photoshop CC
Today new versions of Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop were released, and there are some amazing new features added for Creative Cloud members. I’d like to take this opportunity to show off a really cool new feature in Adobe Photoshop CC… Perspective Warp! Perpsective warp was sneaked at Adobe MAX last year – it’s a new […]
360 Spherical Panoramas – The Creation of Planet Vegas
Here’s a fun tutorial for one of the last Friday afternoons of 2013… the creation of 360 degree panoramas, or “planets” as some like to call them. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, check out the image below: A panorama is a wide-angle view, usually captured with either a special lens, or […]
Bringing Out the “Awesome” with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
One of my favorite parts of Creative Cloud is that it gives you everything you need to be creative. Whether you are into photography, video, illustration, print design, web design, or just dabble in creativity, Creative Cloud has everything that you need. I’ve been doing a lot of photography lately. My main tools for retouching […]