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This is the blog for More Than A Snapshot's Online Photography Classes.  In these blog posts I will give photography tips, tutorials, and show images.

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How to Focus Stack Images in Photoshop

Gary Detonnancourt

Feel free to download the two images below and try it for yourself.

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If you’re interested in learning more about Photoshop, consider joining my Photoshop course or become a Snapshot Member and get access to all of my online courses and digital assets.

From Photoshop, click File - Scripts - Load Image into Stack

From Photoshop, click File - Scripts - Load Image into Stack

Click Browse to select the images. Then check Attempt to Align Images.

Click Browse to select the images. Then check Attempt to Align Images.

Click on a layer to select it, then Control or Command Click on the second layer to select it as well.

Click on a layer to select it, then Control or Command Click on the second layer to select it as well.

Click on Edit - Auto Blend Layers

Click on Edit - Auto Blend Layers

Click on Stack Images and check Seamless Tones and Colors.

Click on Stack Images and check Seamless Tones and Colors.

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30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements
30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements
$19.99

30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements in Photoshop or Luminar AI. Check the description below for information about how to use these skies to do sky replacements.

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400+ White Smoke Overlays for Photo Effects and Textures
$19.99

This is a digital product with over 400 high-resolution smoke images in JPG format. They can be used in any image editing program that uses blend modes on layers, such as Photoshop.

Easy to Follow Instructions:
You will need to know the basics of Adobe Photoshop and know how to use layers. If you don’t have these skills please check out my Photoshop course.

You can show or hide layers, Rotate or flip, resize, or change the transparency. Use the eraser on your overlay layer (or mask and brush) to clean something. You can mix & match additional overlays to achieve a unique result.

JPEG format:
1. Place the smoke layer over your photo and set the layer blend mode to SCREEN (after that black background will be invisible).
2. Use the eraser on your overlay layer (or mask and brush) to clean some parts etc.
3. You can mix & match additional overlays to achieve a unique result.
4. Save your photo and finish the work。

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More Than A Snapshot: A Digital Photography Workbook
$9.99 $19.99

More Than A Snapshot will be your guide to becoming a better photographer. It can do this because it provides you with 28 comprehensive lessons on how to control your digital SLR. Even more important the lessons require you to go out and make images. Practice really does make perfect and this book will give you the guidance and motivation you will need to succeed.

91 Pages

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White Balance Business Card
$9.99

The white balance business card is a small portable grey card that can be used in a pinch for setting a custom white balance in camera or in software.  Keep one in your wallet and one in your camera bag and never be without a grey card.

You will recieve 5 cards.

26 Black & White Lightroom Presets
26 Black & White Lightroom Presets
$19.99

This digital download includes a zip file with 26 Black & White Lightroom Presets that can be used in the Develop Module of Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC.

35 Edgy Street Photography Presets
35 Edgy Street Photography Presets
$19.99

These Lightroom presets have been specially created to work with street photos, travel photos, and night photos. They tend to have a lot of punch and will take your images to the next level. Remember you always have the amount slider to increase or reduce their effect.

categories Image Editing, Photoshop
tags how to focus stack images in photoshop, adobe photoshop cc, tutorial, focus stacking, align layers, blend layers, depth of field, macro, landscape, focus blending

Old Fashioned Macro Shots

Gary Detonnancourt

I took these images at a macro workshop I attended last week.  I will be sharing a DIY flash bracket system, in the weeks to come, that I used to make these images.  For the post-processing of these images, I used the Nik plugins and I am currently making a class on how to use them since google has released them for free.  Which version of this image do you prefer (#1,2,3,4).  Check out how they were made, using the Google Nik Collection, in the video below.

Check out my current course offering below.

Featured
30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements
30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements
$19.99

30 High-Quality Images for Sky Replacements in Photoshop or Luminar AI. Check the description below for information about how to use these skies to do sky replacements.

Copy of Copy of The Sky is the Limit with Luminar 4.gif
400+ White Smoke Overlays for Photo Effects and Textures
$19.99

This is a digital product with over 400 high-resolution smoke images in JPG format. They can be used in any image editing program that uses blend modes on layers, such as Photoshop.

Easy to Follow Instructions:
You will need to know the basics of Adobe Photoshop and know how to use layers. If you don’t have these skills please check out my Photoshop course.

You can show or hide layers, Rotate or flip, resize, or change the transparency. Use the eraser on your overlay layer (or mask and brush) to clean something. You can mix & match additional overlays to achieve a unique result.

JPEG format:
1. Place the smoke layer over your photo and set the layer blend mode to SCREEN (after that black background will be invisible).
2. Use the eraser on your overlay layer (or mask and brush) to clean some parts etc.
3. You can mix & match additional overlays to achieve a unique result.
4. Save your photo and finish the work。

Book-Cover-600-web.jpg
sale
More Than A Snapshot: A Digital Photography Workbook
$9.99 $19.99

More Than A Snapshot will be your guide to becoming a better photographer. It can do this because it provides you with 28 comprehensive lessons on how to control your digital SLR. Even more important the lessons require you to go out and make images. Practice really does make perfect and this book will give you the guidance and motivation you will need to succeed.

91 Pages

wb-business-card.jpg
White Balance Business Card
$9.99

The white balance business card is a small portable grey card that can be used in a pinch for setting a custom white balance in camera or in software.  Keep one in your wallet and one in your camera bag and never be without a grey card.

You will recieve 5 cards.

26 Black & White Lightroom Presets
26 Black & White Lightroom Presets
$19.99

This digital download includes a zip file with 26 Black & White Lightroom Presets that can be used in the Develop Module of Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC.

35 Edgy Street Photography Presets
35 Edgy Street Photography Presets
$19.99

These Lightroom presets have been specially created to work with street photos, travel photos, and night photos. They tend to have a lot of punch and will take your images to the next level. Remember you always have the amount slider to increase or reduce their effect.

categories Image Editing
tags old, macro, watch, pocket watch, Google Nik Collection, Color Effects Pro 4, Silver Effects Pro 2

Nikon's Small World Competition Winners

Gary Detonnancourt

1ST PLACE
2015 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION

Ralph Claus Grimm

Subject Matter:

Eye of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered in dandelion pollen

 (120x)

Technique:

Reflected Light

I think it's so cool that this year's winner is a high school biology teacher and is self-taught in this technique.  I also teach high school biology and have always wanted to try this myself.  It's also interesting that the winner was a fairly common subject and not some obscure cell type.  The photographer also used focus stacking which is becoming very common in macro photography.  Check out all the winner at Nikon's Small World website.

Here is one of my first attempts at micro-photography using a high school microscope and photographed with my iPhone.  This is a green algae from a local pond.  I believe it's called spirogyra.

categories News
tags Nikon, Small World, contest, winners, macro, micro, photography