The Ingredients of Visual Expression

My April/May AfterCapture Magazine Express Yourself! column is now available for download as a PDF file. This column describes a a way to look at the ingredients of visual expression.

-john

Digital Tools, Analog Art

My February/March AfterCapture Magazine Express Yourself! column is now available for download as a PDF file. This column describes a recent project in which I interpreted a photograph into a painted result.

-john

Colorizing a Memory

My latest AfterCapture Magazine Express Yourself! column is now available for download as a PDF file. This column describes a recent project in which I colorized a cherished black & white photograph for a local photography studio.

-john

Portrait Enhancement

Some of you may know that I write a column in Rangefinder Publishing's AfterCapture Magazine. The AfterCapture website generously converts articles from the print version and makes them accessible for anyone.

I recently did a two-part article on enhancing portraits. The first installment, Portrait Enhancement, Part 1, details my workflow for cleaning up an image in Photoshop.

The second installment, Portrait Enhancement, Part 2 utilizes the cleaned up image and I go through the process of using Painter to create a watercolor-style result.

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