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Window Seat  – The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking by Julieanne Kost is Now Available!

I’m pleased to announce that my book Window Seat  – The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking is now available as an eBook via the iTunes store!  First published as a soft-back book, this redesigned and revised eBook was published as a Fixed Layout EPUB directly from the newest release of InDesign CC (2014). It has been enhanced with new photographs as well as updated image processing techniques in Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop.

The Advantages to Converting Raw Files to DNG

below (The Advantages of the DNG File Format), you’ll discover the advantages of working with (and archiving to) the DNG raw file format. You’ll also learn more about how and when it makes the most sense to convert your files as you move through your workflow.

Refining the Edge of a Mask in Photoshop

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Tethered Capture with Lightroom Classic

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Hidden Gems in Photoshop CC 14.2

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How to Use Perspective Warp in Photoshop

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne walks through the new Perspective Warp feature in Photoshop CC. Learn how to create quads, adjust the layout and distort the perspective of an object in an image.

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Fractured Moments – 2013 Year in Review

Last year I created a short slideshow (Moments Alone), from images taken over the year using my mobile phone. I found it to be a enjoyable way to look back at the year and reflect upon the places that I’ve gone, the people I’ve met and the things that I paid attention to.

Fun, 3 Minute Video of Adobe’s Create Now Event in Japan

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Photographs from Japan

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Thomas Knoll and the History of Photoshop

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California Sunshine

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Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop

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Why Use Camera Raw as a Filter in Photoshop?

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Aerial Photography – This Time with the Doors Off!

Many of you know that I spend a lot of time in airplanes flying between events for Adobe, and in fact these flights were the motivation behind “Window Seat – the Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking”, but what I don’t always tell people is that I’m scared to fly. And it’s not a rational fear. I “know” that there are plenty of things that I do that are far more risky, but it’s the lack of control (and the fact that when flying, we are moving through the air at 500 mph in a fragile little metal tube and, as I learned from my father (who is an engineer), all metal has stress points that can fail).