Articles on: photo & video

[caption id="attachment_13806" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] The internet is a cruel place – especially when it comes to the awkwardness of teenagers. Prom photos are especially susceptible to highlighting this particularly rocky and, often, unphotogenic phase of life, and there are plenty of websites out there just waiting to eat it up and Tweet it out.

Today marks the third anniversary of the day Sue Bryce walked into the CreativeLive studios in Seattle and, with her now-trademark sassy wit and searing candor, changed our lives — and the trajectory of CreativeLive. To celebrate and honor our friend and mentor, we asked CreativeLive employees to share a favorite Sue moment.

The vignette is one of the most popular effects on Instagram, and can add drama and focus to an image -- but when you're not shooting mobile, it's surprisingly difficult to figure out how to create a vignette in Photoshop. There are many ways to create a vignette in Photoshop," explains fine art photographer Brooke Shaden in the Lighting Effects guide from her CreativeLive class, Fine Art Compositing.

When I started my photo business, I was desperate to learn everything I could about the technical aspects of my camera. I read everything I could find online, dog-eared my manual, and participated in photo forums with a plethora of questions.

[caption id="attachment_12700" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Good design benefits just about everyone. Whether it's wayfinding that helps you get to your gate at the airport to a beautiful website that is both appealing to the eye and functions well, artfully created objects and texts make our lives richer.

The Photoshop Filter Gallery gets a bad rap. A rough application of a stock filter can quickly make a photograph look overdone or even passé, but it doesn’t have to.