In this tutorial, we take a look at my personal workflow on how to run Fusion on OSX. I use a wide variety of tools including Bootcamp, Parallels, NTFS-3G, and MacDrive to make this possible. If you have any comments or questions on this workflow, just let me know.

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Fusion on OSX? | On many people’s wish lists | It *IS* possible

Bootcamp: This allows you to boot your Mac as a windows PC. It’s essentially the same as buying a PC with windows when you’re in boot camp. You have access to the full hardware, and your software can run to its full potential

Parallels: My tool of choice for running Fusion along side OSX. Parallels allows you to use your boot camp partition in a virtualized environment. This is extremely handy so you can boot into Bootcamp when you need full power to your PC apps, or use the same partition and run windows apps along side Mac OSX apps.

VMware Fusion: Another virtualization software similar to Parallels. I haven’t used this one, so I can’t tell you if it’s better for running Fusion or not. If anyone has any experience with it, let me know in the comments!

NTFS-3G: An system pref for OSX that allows OSX to read/write to NTFS partitions.

Mac Drive: A piece of Windows software that allows you to read/write to HFS and HFS+ formatted drives. Mac OSX drives are formatted with HFS+

In this 45 minute tutorial, we take a look at a final shot for the Open Cut 3.0 Challenge created with Fusion 5.3, and look at every tool involved in putting this shot together.

Compositing Love… | Every Single Node Explained | Details are the Key…

Here’s some links to topics and plugins that are refered to in this tutorial:

Learn why you should work in 16-bit and 32-bit modes, Advanced Photo Manipulation, and many other tips and tricks! This tutorial is meant for intermediate to advanced Photoshop users who want to take their knowledge to the next level! There’s lots of discussion in here about topics that aren’t readily covered in Photoshop tutorials, and I think you’ll be surprised by what you learn!

Advanced techniques | Taken to the next level | Your skills will increase!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:

Working in 16-bit and 32-bit mode:

• Why 8-bit is for suckers!

Advanced Transfer (blending) Mode 
Tricks and tips

Working Non-destructively in Photoshop

A preview of this tutorial can be seen here

Advanced Photo Manipulation

File Formats Explained!

A preview of this tutorial can be seen here

Photoshop Tips and Tricks!

What’s included in the Download?

I really hope that you enjoy this tutorial. I had a lot of fun putting it together. If you have any comments or questions about anything, send me an email, and I’ll try and answer it as soon as possible. Thanks!

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This is a feature length tutorial on Advanced Multi-pass Compositing with Cinema 4D and Fusion. There’s a ton of material covering how to set up your render passes in Cinema 4D to working with them in Fusion 5.

Advanced techniques | Taken to the next level | Your skills will increase!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:

Cinema 4D:

Adobe After Effects:

Eyeon Fusion:

Adobe Photoshop:

What’s included in the Download?

I really hope that you enjoy this tutorial. I put a lot of work into making everything as simple and easy to understand, so it should get you really rocking with multi-pass renders. Even though I do the final comp inside of Fusion instead of After Effects, ALL of the concepts can be applied to After Effects as well. Fusion is my compositing tool of choice, and once you see how easy it is to manipulate and play with different passes in Fusion, you might be a convert to the node based workflow!

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A quick introduction to Multi-pass compositing using Fusion 5. In this example, we take a look at one of the case studies from the book “The Art and Science of Digital Compositing” by Ron Brinkman.

Make it how you want | With all the different passes | It’s Zen you shall reach

We use Fusion 5.3 in this example.

If you want more information, please check out my Advanced Multi-pass Compositing tutorial!

If you have any comments or questions, please, feel free to ask!

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A 1.5 hour photoshop session compressed into a 3:50 time-lapse. At one of Sarah’s recent soccer games, there was a beautiful double rainbow just beside the field where she was playing. I wanted to get a really nice shot of it, but I only had my LX3 and not my AE-1 with my fisheye lens…

So, I thought this would be a good a time as any to get into the world of HDR Panoramas! Without a tripod, I set my LX3 to take bracketed exposures of as much of the surrounding area as I could. I took 27 shots in total, 9 shots with 3 exposures each. These were then all dumped into a great free panorama tool called Hugin. There’s a few other tools out there to do the same thing like AutoPano Pro, but Hugin seems to allow for more manual control when things go awry when stitching together your images.

In the image above, you can mouse over it to see how the original images get distorted inside of Hugin to stitch together.

Once the image was stitched together, it was exported as an HDR .exr file and brought into Photoshop where the magic happens.

The clouds that day were pretty dull, as the sunset was actually happening to the west, and this was being shot towards the east. The drab sky called for a sky replacement! That along with a bunch of other colour tweaks and you’ve got the final result!

If anyone has any comments or questions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!

A quick walkthrough showcasing my Photoshop workflow and how I adjusted one of my photos in Adobe Photoshop.

UPDATE: I just want to welcome all the new viewers to my site! This tutorial was chosen as the winner for the ‘So you think you can teach Photoshop‘ contest held by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

This tutorial covers one of my latest photos: Clone operation fail. This image is pretty heavily modified in Photoshop and I’m going to show you my workflow and some of the techniques that I use in order to enhance it,

One of the things I reference in the video is a set of Photoshop actions. Here’s the link: Lomo Photoshop Actions. I use these as a starting point for a lot of my pictures. Some people hate actions, and I agree, they’re a bit of a cheat. But as long as you don’t just use the action, and call it done, I think they can be used to your advantage. I generally try all sorts of different combinations, and use one as a starting point and build off of it.

Please send your comments, and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

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