Written by Amanda Quintenz Though there is perhaps no specific way that a photographic career is made, portrait photographer Chris Orwig embraced a nonlinear journey into his passion.  When Orwig was a child, his mother told him that there was no such thing as bad art.  The point in making art was to be creative.  After a serious accident where…

Join Janice Wendt, Education Training Manager for Nik Software as she illustrates live, the award winning product line from Nik Software from the perspective of retouching portrait images. Learn how to enhance skin, optimize contrast, color correct, add a stylized look to your work and much more. Follow along as Janice teaches you how to enhance your Portraits and time-saving…

In today’s Filter Friday, I’ll show you how I used multiple applications of the same Color Efex Pro 4 Filter to create different effects within my image. I love the moment of joy captured in this image.  Here is the before image – while I was happy with the initial capture, I knew I could use Color Efex Pro 4…

The High Key filter in Color Efex Pro 4 lets you simulate the look of a high key image, while giving you maximum control over the tones, contrast, and saturation of the image. It can also enhance images that were created in the same (high key) style. A closer look at the filter controls will give you a better idea…

It’s Filter Friday!  This week I used Color Efex Pro 4 to enhance a portrait shot on a slightly overcast evening at the beach.  I used a lot of the different filters within Color Efex Pro 4 to achieve some subtle changes that really made the image stand out. Here is the original: I liked what I had to start…