Another fruitfull website beatifully called "Mountain Light" with many inspirational articles. There you can find as well many creative photographs of nature and landscapes.

While searching for George Lepp and his articles on the web (see previous post) I found an interesting article with a technique about using flash in nature and landscape photography. It's called "Flash Magic" - Interview by Rob Sheppard. And while you are there, don't forget to look at other articles on this website. Such as "Learning from a Master" by Moose Peterson.

UPDATE:
Here is another article on flash in nature and landscape photography - Smart Flash Outdoors by Galen Rowell.

Simply visit the gallery and enjoy the photos.

I just watched the latest podcast from PhotoshopTV.com, where they mentioned about a photographer called George Lepp. And they mentioned some unobvious link on the Microsoft website - microsoft.com/prophoto. What could possible Microsoft offer to a photographer, right? Wrong. It appears this portion of the software giant's website offers very interesting articles. One of those is about basic tone and color in Photoshop - Photoshop CS2 Workflow, Chapter 5 (26 pages!). As you see it's Chapter #5 already. I tried to locate previous chapters, but no luck. Check out this website - there are more interesting stuff to read, but no archives.

While I was writing the previous post in the blog, I played with shortcuts and pressed Shift-Ctrl-Alt-K. And what do you think happened? A whole dialog for viewing and modifying the shortcuts.
There you can see the shortcuts for the menu, for tool bar and palette menus. And you can generate an HTML page with all the shortcuts.

Have you ever applied some sophisticated curves directly to a layer and then decided to change a bit? At least I have. And to do so, I had to do the same sophisticated curves once more time. Not very grattifying, is it? Well there is a solution.

Usually to invoke curves dialog I press Ctrl-M and then you change it and press OK. And as soon you clicked OK, you cannot change it? Wrong. Simply undo the last changes and press Ctrl-Alt-M, and the dialog with last curves will appear. Yes, Photoshop remembers the changes and allows you to apply or change them over and over, and not only in the current image - any document you open before you close the Photoshop.