Just in time for the costume holiday. Here’s a 49 minute edit compressed to 9 minutes. The trick to a fast edit is memorizing pretty much all of the shortcuts in an application. The 1.5 seconds it takes to move the mouse to and back from a toolbar, times a few hundred throughout an editing session can mean saving lots of minutes.

I feel like most kids nowadays think you can just buy a few actions, use a few filters, and get any result you want. For purist photographers, they refuse to use any post processing at all, which is good for them, but they better produce great quality photos to begin with, instead of using the purist attitude as an excuse for their mediocre images. I rely heavily on post processing, but I am also a visual artist and designer, I like to, and can, create images. Being experienced at Photoshop doesn’t just mean you’re able to apply a random combination of filters to an image to create a cool effect. It means you have a goal, an image or visualization in your mind and you know exactly what combination of tools in the software to get you there. To be successful in digital art, you need a solid background and knowledge in visual arts, computer graphics, 3D modeling or sculting, anatomy, and lighting.  I’m not purely a photographer, nor am I purely an illustrator, I am a relatively new breed of digital artist that combines both skills into one medium.

If you would like to see some of my before and after post processed photos, click on the link below.

Before + After