Doug Boutwell the occasional odd thought or image
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Wisdom From Willy Wonka
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on this morning, and since there’s nothing to do on Thanksgiving prior to eating turkey, Chenin and I sat down and watched the whole thing while drinking hot cocoa. The Gene Wilder version, not the (with all respect to Johnny Depp), crass, over-done remake of late.
Anyway, I’ve seen [...]
Join The Totally Rad Team!
Do you like helping others?
Are you handy with Photoshop?
Do you have both sets of our actions, and use them all the time?
Does your friendly personality come across well in emails?
Do you have a few extra hours a week that you’d like to make some money with?
If you can answer “yes” to all those questions, I [...]
Photoshop CS4!!
Just released yesterday. Yes, I have it. Yes, there are a handful of things that will be broken with both TRA1 and TRA2, due to some internal things Adobe mucked around with. And yes, I’ll be fixing them, and issuing an updated version of both sets. Probably a couple weeks… it’s high on my priority [...]
The Little Things Count…
I was working with an image today, testing out some very rough ideas for a future TRA product, and decided to go ahead and finish out the treatment on the image I was working on, since I really liked how it was looking. I do truly believe that our stuff rocks, but sometimes I surprise [...]
Quick Q&A About TRA2
I’ve been getting a lot of email from excited photographers about our next set of actions, set to debut in mid-June, and I thought I’d take a little time to answer some of the questions people had. So from my hotel room in Chicago, here are some things that you might want to know [...]
$500 Mac Gift Certificate Winner!
Congrats to Cyndi Montgomery of www.barefootphoto.net, who is the winner of our drawing for a $500 gift certificate toward Apple products. Yesterday marked the close of our week-long contest, and we were thrilled to have such an overwhelming response…
How did we pick a random winner? Simple. Everybody who downloaded our Totally Rad Action Mix sample [...]
Off to Vegas…
Just a quick note to say we’ll be off to Las Vegas for about 10 days for the Anti-Workshop, and WPPI, where we’ll have a venue booth at Bally’s (come say hi!)
If I’ve been slacking on the blogging lately, it’s because I’ve been doing a lot of menial things to get ready for this week, [...]
Chenin was feeling left out, so I just sent this email out…
Hey – I like getting these because I think they’re funny, but my wife doesn’t get any spam… could you send her a few scam letters, too? She’s feeling left out. Send em to chenin@boutwellstudio.com as well. Thanks! I really love these emails… quality stuff!
Dr. Johnson Michael wrote:
From [...]
Totally Rad Action Mix Tutorial – Layers and Layer Masks
First of all, let me say that right now I hate my computer. This thing was edited and ready to go this morning at 10, and it took me until about 5 to get Premiere to render the file out without crashing, causing audio sync issues, or just otherwise doing really dumb stuff. [...]
Good Morning Peeps!
I just love YouTube…
I Live In Orange County
Sometimes I forget that. It’s not necessarily up in my face every day. But sometimes I get a jarring reminder… none more pointed than this:
Nuff said. Oh yeah, one more thing… vote or die, motherfuckers. Happy Super Tuesday!
TRA Recipe Card #9 – The Bebbs
Last but not least, our good friends from Canadia – Jen & Steven Bebb! The Bebbs run a heck of a successful studio out of Vancouver, and were recently included in American Photo’s list of the top ten wedding photographers in the world!
On a side note – I don’t remember who shot that photo of [...]
Your Daily Dose of Cute
Saw this at a pet store… day before the matching sweaters… Probably belongs on Chenin’s blog, but what the heck…