Remember ‘Reselect’

Posted on May 24th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photoshop.

Quick Photoshop Selection Tip:

If you are like me and accidentally goof up a selection you’ve just made (you have a nice selection and when adding to it, you make it disappear, or you deselect it and need it again later)… remember that under the ‘Selection’ menu you can choose ‘Reselect’.

If you really love a selection that you might need later, you can choose to save it from the Select menu as well…and then load it anytime you need.

Remember to use you key combos too, or the tool option to ‘Add to’ or ‘Subtract from’ your selection… you don’t have to get the selection perfect the first time!

Have a great day!

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Easier to Ask Forgiveness… In Photoshop

Posted on May 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photoshop.

I’ve been retouching some images lately in Photoshop and the way I work reminds me of the adage ‘It’s often easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission’.

What does that have to do with Photoshop? Where’s the ‘forgiveness’ tool?

Well, it’s called the ‘History Brush’ and the way it plays out is that it’s often easier to do a quick and dirty retouching (get that Exit sign out from behind the subject’s head) and not worry too much about if you spill the retouching over onto the subject themselves.

They use your History Brush, with a small brush size and ‘history back’ over the subject to clean up the mess you left.

That’s much faster than being meticulous in your retouch or making the perfect selection around an object.

Give it a try. And remember that you can set the History point anywhere in your History palette list, so click on the box next to the History state that was right before your sloppy retouch.

Happy Sloppy Retouching!

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Friendly Home’s Historical Display

Posted on April 24th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Teaching, Rochester NY, Photoshop.

I’ve been fortunate to be asked to do copywork and retouching on two waves of historical images that the Friendly Home is putting on display. The long-time Pittford photographer Paul Spiegel gets all of the credit for these wonderful images, I’m only scanning them in and retoucing the bad spots in Photoshop.


If you are by the Friendly Home on East Avenue, the display is just inside the doors, in their entranceway. I copied the first images using my camera, but for this newer set, I have a better scanner and was very pleased with the results. If photos are too large to scan, or if there are many images of very similar size, doing them as copywork with a good digital camera is often faster than scanning.

Retouching Old Photos:
People also ask me about what can be retouched and I always tell them that I can retouch anything with some ‘reality’ around it. If a bad spot is surround by lots of good, similar area, it’s very easy to retouch it. If there is little ‘real’ material near the bad spot (or similar material somewhere in the photo), it’s hard to retouch without the results looking faked.

As an example, if there were parts of thw wood missing in the swimming photos, or a corner of the sky or grass in the kids line (a problem I did have), that’s easy to fix. If someone’s face was mostly missing, what could you take to replace it?

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Edit Photos Online with Snipshot

Posted on March 9th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photo, Internet, Blogging, PhotoJava, Photoshop.





Have you ever wanted to just do a few tweaks to a photo online… seems like a hassle to open Photoshop up just for one shot? With Snipshot.com, you can upload a photo, resize, crop rotate, enhance it all online, then save it to your computer or Flickr.

I’ll have to see how often this is handy, and I’ll keep you posted.



Snipshot: Edit pictures online




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My Live Audioconference on Aperture & Lightroom…only $99

Posted on March 8th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Apple, Teaching, Aperture, ApertureCast, Photoshop.

This is a great setup, you don’t even have to leave your office to attend!

You can listen in on an audio conference I’m teaching about getting started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture. This kind of software is the first (and desperately needed) innovation since we got started with digital photography. Now you can be totally organized, totally backed up and edit and tweak your images at light speed.

I’ve never worked harder on a presentation, and you’ll walk away knowing the reasons you need this new type of software. You’ll also get all the facts so you can easily decide on buying Aperture or Lightroom. Finally, I’ve been all over the net and compiled the best resources on the topic, so you don’t have to spend days Googling and wading through junk.

And with Lightroom on a discount until late April, it’s the perfect time to learn about this software.

This class will save you money:
You’ll save the price of the conference by learning about it now, before the Adobe offer expires (Adobe is offering $100 offer, per LR package for a limited time). And you could really save $300 or more, since you’ll be choosing the right software for you, and then you’ll be ready to jump right in when you get it.

I’d love to have my clients attend and they’ve made the price fantastic. It’s even lower than when I teach for a client on-site… only $99 for as many folks as you want to listen in at your office!


Info and signup HERE

So please sign up and shoot me a message (or comment below) that you’ll be listening in!

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Doin’ Taxes Like it’s 1999

Posted on January 25th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Equipment, Funny, Photo, Internet, Photoshop, Games.

I rotate my taxes boxes over a 7 year period, so I just pulled my 1999 taxes to make way for doing 2006.

How different things were just seven years ago:


• Digital Cameras—I paid $900+ for my first digital pro-sumer camera a year or so before (Kodak DC260) and was in 1999 deducting my next digital camera, the Nikon CoolPix 950 for over $1000.

• Computer RAM…anybody up for the big 128Megabyte RAM upgrade (PC100) for $138!

• Blank CD’s for my burner—$2 per blank CD (they are about 25¢ each now)… ah, and on the same invoice, I bought the first version of the


Myst Game!

• Phone Bills—Back then I had a normal phone line and long distance via Sprint. It was around $35/month for the local phone and $40-$50/month in long distance.
Today, I have Vonage for my home line for less than $20/month and my cell service with Cingular comes with free long distance.


• Film & Chemicals—I would go to RIT and buy around $300 worth of supplies every three to four weeks. And then there was process and color at labs, and my time doing this all.
Today: Digital, baby! After you plunk down the big money for the camera, upgraded Mac, Software, etc, etc…as Lisa I’m sure will tell you ;-)

• A delivery service was needed back then to deliver things from here (45 minutes from Rochester). Now clients edit online and get their images from me by convenient download.


• My Photoshop 5.5 Upgrade was bought in 1999,

and I paid $70 to renew HuthPhoto.com for two more years (I just paid around $80 to buy it till 2015.

• I photographed Meryl Streep as my first big event for the George Eastman House in 1999, and I see that Geva was going strong as a big client

• Logos—Above, you’ll see I was phasing out the ‘film and sprockets’ logo (top of page, on the right) and was moving toward the big, swoopy H logo (up there again on the left).

I bagged that after a few years of getting payments to H Photo. Is my current logo, here, too dated yet?

So, that’s the trip in the way-back machine I just took and hope you’ll get a kick out of seeing how much has changed with digital photography, the ‘net and HuthPhoto in these last amazing seven years.

Comment (from my old blog):
Joe
I think I still have notepads with both of those old logos!
Monday, February 19, 2007 - 11:17 AM

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