Rich Hauck's Blog » photoshop

Revisiting Rome

Rich Hauck — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:37:13 +0000

During last month’s Central PA Tweetup I ran into a few friends that I hadn’t really seen since we were part of a group visiting Rome in 2002. The encounter reminded me of a Website of my Rome pictures I’d built shortly after the trip.

I posted the site to share the photos with friends (pre-Flickr, mind you), and I remember being scolded by people that were offended of a bunch of Penn State students hitting foreign bars so close to 9/11.

Apparently I’d taken the site down years ago, but I decided to restore it in its table layout, 800×600-supporting glory (you can check it out here).

The way I built the site and formatted the photos reminds me more of my age than any old picture of me ever would (Ugh, I’m getting old!).

Presentation on Photoshop Color Correction at CPPUG

Rich Hauck — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:06:49 +0000

SHAMELESS PLUG

(that’s what blogs are for, right?)

I’ll be presenting a few Photoshop tricks I’ve learned over the years at the upcoming Central PA Photoshop User Group (CPPUG) meeting on May 12th (6-8 pm) at Penn State Hershey (more information is here on the CPPUG site). If you’re interested in joining the discussion on improving your own photos (and are in the area), I hope to see you there!

Tilt Shift Miniature Faking

Rich Hauck — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:29:00 +0000

I decided to attempt to make some tilt-shift photography miniature faking photos as examples for my class. They’re not quite there, which makes me wonder if it was a matter of the photos I chose or the blurs I applied. Regardless, it was fun revisiting some photos I’d shot over the years.

Revisiting the Subway Cafe 6 Years Later

Rich Hauck — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:46:50 +0000

Last week, I introduced HDR to my digital photography class. To present a working example, I chose to use a photo of the Subway Cafe that I shot six years ago. Fortunately for me, it’s one of the few photos from my past where I kept all of the originals I shot, so it gave me an opportunity to play around using techniques that I didn’t really know of back then.

Here’s the 2003 version, which was composed of two exposures.

Here’s the version I did this year (2009). It’s composed of three exposures. I used an underexposed version of the sign, added some unsharp masking to the bricks, did some Shadow/Highlight to the sky, and did a bit of dodging and burning with my Cintiq.

As a photographer, it’s frustrating to realize how many of my pieces I’ve done in the past that could be revisited and improved upon–furthermore, how many that could have been revisited had I not saved over the files. Nowadays, I make a point to save all of the originals.

Photoshop CS3 Bugs in Leopard?

Rich Hauck — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:21:32 +0000

I was recently at a FlashCodersNY meeting where a rep from Adobe acknowledged that CS3 has some bugs in Leopard. I told him I hadn’t run into anything, however, I clearly spoke too soon. Two bugs I’ve found in Photoshop:

Using the crop tool crops the image to 1×1 pixels. As a workaround, I’ve been using the marquee tool and cropping based on what’s selected.
Sometimes the font menu in the top panel won’t accept typed-in font names or scale the font’s pixel size based on pressing the up or down keyboard arrows. I’m having trouble replicating this, so I didn’t report it.

I’m not trying to point fingers, but rather find out if there are other bugs I haven’t run across yet. I’ve already submitted one to Adobe bug form, and figure that Adobe will be releasing updates soon enough.