After about a month of gathering samples of the many aspects of my work in the midst of an already hectic schedule I now have a complete online portfolio!

I have just finished uploading the videography section which features 12 screen captures from a handful of projects - mostly from the past year.

I was behind the camera on each of these shoots and was also responsible for lighting and setup of the scene. I have written about a couple of these setups before. You can read more about the setup with the drape background here and the outdoor shot here.

Thank you to all of you who have been so kind in your comments as I’ve put this together. And a special thanks goes to NAPP Executive Director Larry Becker who really pointed me in the right direction as I was brainstorming the development of my portfolio. Thanks Larry!

To see the now-complete version of my online portfolio, click here.

Adobe TV:

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 9, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® TV, a free online video resource for expert instruction and inspiration about Adobe products, including the company’s Creative Suite 3 family of world-class creative tools. With multiple channels, original series programming, and content from Adobe, leading training organizations and the world’s leading subject matter experts, Adobe TV delivers a virtual library of entertaining and instructional videos. Designers, photographers, video professionals, and developers will find product deep-dives, innovative tips, techniques from luminaries, and behind-the-scenes tours of the hottest creative shops and Adobe product teams.

Designed to educate, inspire, and entertain the creative community, Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com , or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software, also announced today…

Adobe TV features four channels, each targeting a specific audience: Photographers, Designers, Video Professionals, and Developers. Each channel features programming from Adobe evangelists, leading trainers, subject matter experts, and luminaries who pull in the crowds at industry events around the world. More than 200 videos are currently available on Adobe TV, with programming that mixes how-to information, case studies, personality-driven shows, and workflow deep-dives. The first set of videos offers secrets about Photoshop® software, podcasts and design tips for Creative Suite, techniques for Photoshop Lightroom®, tips on Adobe Flash® Professional software for beginners, approaches to taming the Web, and information about video and audio production.

Adobe Media Player:

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 9, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software. An Adobe AIR™ application, this customizable, cross-platform media player provides exciting new ways for viewers to discover and interact with their favorite content, while offering revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers. Major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks have worked with Adobe to provide a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content to viewers.

To help viewers discover new content, a broad, searchable catalog of shows from leading media companies and networks is available and it is expected that it will continually expand to include video from additional broadcasters, studios and independent producers. Some of the initial content available on Adobe Media Player includes: CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, Big Brother, Star Trek, Melrose Place, Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone and MacGyver from CBS; clips from The Hills, MTV News and Yo! MTV Raps from MTV Networks; select shows on HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living Network from Scripps Networks; Epicurious.com, Style.com and Wired.com from CondéNet; PBS programming and music videos from Universal Music Group. Additional content from MTV Networks’ brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL, VH1, CMT, Logo, Spike, The N, GameTrailers and Atom Films will be made available over the next several months.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Also from Adobe, the new releases for Lightroom 1.4.1 (Mac, Win) and Adobe Camera Raw 4.4.1 (Mac, Win) are now available!

Watch on YouTube

In this video I show you how to create the cool “layers” effect used extensively throughout Friend-of-the-Blog Matt Kloskowski’s Layers book.

UPDATE: Thanks to visitor Taffy Orlowski who reminds us that,” The cover design for Matt Kloskowski’s Layer’s book was created by NAPP designer Jessica Maldonado.”

Note: There were some issues regarding the synching of narration and video during the editing process. I’m still getting used to the software and I’m working out some of the bugs. Please bear with me. My apologies.

-Thanks.

 Visit my YouTube Channel

(Blog Note: Today we hit 8,000 unique visitors since the stats began counting in September! That’s 1,000 in 2 weeks! Thanks everyone!) 

As regulars will know, with the new year I began a new feature as a part of the blog creating video tutorials on a variety of topics using Photoshop and Lightroom and posting them on My YouTube Channel. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, leaving me wanting for a chance to get back behind the microphone again.

To that end, I’d like to enlist your help, loyal viewers, for ideas for new videos that you might like to see. Beginners, what do you want to learn? Intermediates, what sort of creative techniques or effects do you want to learn do better? Advanced users, do you have any tricks that you hear a lot of requests for that might be a good topic for an upcoming video?

Leave a comment or send me an email with your suggestions and we’ll see what we can do!

Thanks in advance!

(And Happy 55th Birthday Dad!)

View on YouTube

In this video I show how to add some depth of field by selectively applying a lens blur and also create an interesting edge effect all using Photoshop’s Quick Mask mode.

As always, if you have any ideas for future videos, please leave a comment or email me.

My YouTube Channel.