Friday, November 13, 2009

the Beloved sessions,,, (announcement)







hello friends : )

above are a few images from a Beloved Session i was blessed to share with the beautiful Kathy & Jake when i was in portland, earlier this year.

the way Kathy & Jake have made a home of themselves for each other is truly inspirational, and i am a richer person for having been witness to the way they love each other.


it is my belief that if couples were given regular opportunities to rediscover and experience the gift they are to each other, it would be an extraordinary blessing to their relationship and to their relationships with those around them.

the sessions themselves have been described as 'exhilarating' and 'incomparable'.

i just received this note from a couple: "...I couldn't have thought of a better gift than what you gave us last night... The space that you created for us was one of the safest, most beautiful places on this earth..."


i am currently in the process of making a book of the same name - BELOVED - which i hope to release next year at my speech at WPPI as a part of my hope to inspire a new genre of photography, focused on the celebration of relationship.

i am looking for about 10 more couples to work with before i have enough for my book. since i travel so much, i may be coming to a city near you soon, in which case there would be no travel fee charged.

my current Beloved rates can be found here, but for the next 10 couples who book a session i have a crazygood special offer. please email us for more information : )

cities i'll be visiting in the next few months: Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Philadelphia, Nashville, Singapore, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, London.


can't wait to work with you!!!

many blessings,

jesh *

p.s. images from this session were post-processed with ColorShift ; )

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

a better view,,, (life)




the wind moves,,, a vast, invisible river around you, in quiet conversation with everything it touches.

you look up and out from the mountain ridge you stand on, muscles tired from the long climb. you pause, in a rare moment of stillness, breathing in the view of the valley spreading out before you.

this is a vital crossroads in your journey. somehow, you know everything could change, today.

you crouch down to the ground beneath you, fingers sinking into a soil that has never known your touch. you lift your hand, palm open and filled with fresh, dark earth.

dirt, you could call it, and you'd be right. but more and more lately, being 'right' hasn't been enough for you. you've been through a lot, pushed yourself and sacrificed for successes that never quite live up to their promise - trading precious years of your life for sparklers that entertain, then quickly fade.

your eyes move across the valley,,, in your heart, you believe there must be somewhere you can go to find what you're looking for. that's why you made the climb here, today.

but there are so very many different directions you could choose. how does a person know which direction to pick from among so many? and what if you choose the wrong one? how far will you have to travel to get there, and what challenges might you face? what if, in the end, it's all for nothing?

you close your eyes, releasing your hold on the building weight of frustration before it threatens to overwhelm you. as quiet returns to the mind, you are surprised to hear a still, small voice,,,

nothing is only one thing. everything changes depending upon how you see it.

an excited intake of breath, as powerful realization blooms in your mind:

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the choices we see as available to us are defined by our vision - what we see, and the way we see it. and how many different ways are there to view any given circumstance? potentially, of course, there an infinite number.

what we choose to see, our focus, literally becomes the raw building blocks we use to construct the menu of choices we see as potentials in any given situation. as we look at something a different way, different ways of interacting with it open up to us - a changeable, fluid vision directly translates to a richer variety of choice, and therefore, possibility.

in other words,,, because our lives are shaped by the choices we make, and our choices are shaped by our vision, our lives become defined by the boundaries of what we see as possible.

the richest gift of life, then, isn't in choosing from the paths that lay before you. it's in your ability to make your own paths.

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your eyes return to your hand, and you look, again.

yes, you could call this dirt, but as soon as you do, your interest fades, its usefulness clearly diminished. what good is 'dirt'? but what if you could look at this 'dirt' and see something else?

what if instead, you saw a garden bed for the most delicious of fruit? or the birthplace of a tree that will someday grow to father the most majestic forest ever seen? or a piece of a sculpture of such beauty it will move those who see it to tears? or the source of a valuable mineral never before discovered? or the foundation stone for a family's home or a school that will become a haven for the sharing of wisdom for generations to come?

it reminds you of a story you once heard about a man who, while walking in a desert one day, was all of a sudden told he was standing on 'holy ground'. how many times have you been walking on holy ground, and not even known it?

the greatest, the most beautiful, the precious,,, each of these exist potentially within every single circumstance, every single piece of this vast universe - waiting only for your vision to unlock them, for your gift of expression to draw them out, to tell their story,,, to tell your own.

you came up to the mountain for a better view of the world below, and you laugh as you realize you found one,,, but the mountain had nothing to do with it.

the better view? it's always existed here, inside of you.

Friday, November 06, 2009

singapore & seattle: open!!! (workshops)




good morning, beautiful friends : ) i'm proud to say both Singapore & Seattle are officially open for registration!

life {as an artform} SINGAPORE will be held on February 2-4th, 2010, with an Enlighten Post-Processing seminar to be held the evening of the 1st. the Enlighten seminar is free for participants of the workshop : )


life {as an artform} SEATTLE will be held on April 13-15th, 2010, with an Enlighten Post-Processing seminar to be held the afternoon of the 12th. the Enlighten seminar is free for participants of the workshop : )


You can sign up for the workshops HERE : )


there is a reason the workshops have been described by hundreds of people as transformative and life-changing,,, if you are drawn to be there, i cannot wait to meet you.

many blessings, friends ; )

jesh *

p.s. remember that those who have purchased the Fine Art Textures are welcome to use the included $100 credit ; )

p.p.s. in the interest of making the workshops as accessible as possible, i've introduced an investment plan for greater payment flexibility. if you'd like more information, please email us : )

p.p.s. look for an announcement of a europe date very soon ; )

Saturday, October 31, 2009

amy & liz (beloved)







good afternoon, lovely friends ; )

i was blessed to do a session with my longtime friend Amy and her close friend Liz earlier this year while i was in Portland.

those who are most dear to us are so very worth celebrating, and i love being able to be a conduit for this to happen.

thank the both of you for sharing with us all.

many blessings and much love,,,

jesh *

p.s. like them colors? then you might be keen on the new ColorShift,,, possibly debuting sometime next year ; )

Monday, October 26, 2009

twenty nine,,, (life)



this morning, at about 10:03 eastern time, i turned 29.

twenty-nine years,,, they've gone by so fast, truthfully, and only seem to be speeding up.

my beautiful mother told me i didn't cry when i was born, that i filled my lungs with air for the first time with wide, open eyes.

today, 29 years later, my eyes are wide and open, still, and i want to tell you why.


the richness of life, the juice of it, is underneath its skin. a skin that, as you grow, you discover is often hard and inedible, even thorny.

i have seen people i have loved and grown up with, in response to those thorns, close, burying the soft richness of themselves beneath thick layers of veneer.

our fears and pains at times overwhelm us and we shut our eyes tight, cling desperately to the idea that what we cannot see does not affect us,,,

but it does, my friends, it does.


our vision is vital to who we are, defining our entire experience of life. closing ourselves off from that gift paralyzes the heart.

who do we fall in love with? who would we give everything to? to the ones who give us the simple and rare gift of being seen. our vision is inextricably tied with the heart, with our remarkable ability to both give and receive love.

life is a mix of the most beautiful and the most heartbreaking things you can imagine. yes, closing your eyes will keep you from having to witness the most heartbreaking, but it will keep you from breathing in the most beautiful, too.

it is too high a cost.

the people around us deserve to be seen; their precious, one-of-a-kind faces, their expressions, the gift of their presence, the parts they play, the music they make with the rhythms of their life that no one else could ever replace,,, no one.

and the seeing of them is a privilege we cannot afford to take lightly. think of the ones you love the most,,, what would you trade for all they have taught you, all they have given? what greater gift can be given than the sharing of a life?


my eyes are open, beautiful friends, not because i am stronger or wiser than anyone else, not because my life is absent of challenge and heartbreak.

my eyes are open simply because i choose for them to not stay closed. to open them again, even when i fail, even when it hurts to, even when it's easier to seek that familiar lonely darkness.

i have seen the incalculable beauty that flows out of a human-being in waves, when they give the true gift of themselves,,, the way such courage sings to everything around them, in a language older than fear,,, the way walls become doors, just to feel that song move through them.

i have seen it, and i cannot forget it.

there is no way to measure what can come from truly seeing, truly loving just one person well. even when we fail, even when it hurts, even when it's easier to go running back to that familiar lonely darkness.

i believe the love in us is greater than its lack. i'm betting this life on it.

see you soon, beautiful friends,,,

jesh *

Thursday, September 03, 2009

a new face,,, (colorshift)



thank you so much to everyone who offered your thoughts and opinions on the ColorShift re-brand last week : )

i considered everything that was shared and came back with a balance that feels good to me.

the ads have been reformatted as well, and we're planning our first official campaign launch tomorrow, taking ColorShift to the wide world of photographers and designers out there. wish me luck!

many blessings to each of you,,,

jesh *

p.s. you can here if you want to see it less compressed ; )

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

jonathan & ashley (beloved)











i was blessed to spend a late summer evening with jonathan, ashley and everything between them. i'm proud to share with you a few moments from the time we spent,,,

my work with the Beloved project continues to move and inspire me. i can't help but know we're on to something with a lot of potential, and i'm going to do my best to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

thank you for visiting here, and for sharing,,,

so many blessings, my friends.

jesh *

p.s. images from this session were post-processed with ColorShift

Thursday, August 20, 2009

damien & sarah,,, (beloved)







good morning, lovely friends,,, i hope you find today well.

while in Portland for a workshop earlier this year, i was blessed to do a portrait session with a gifted artist named Damien Jurado.

i'd been listening to Damien's beautiful new record Caught in the Trees non-stop since my friend Amy had recommended it to me earlier that winter.

unbeknownst to me, Damien just happened to be performing a concert in a venue in the same hotel i was staying at on the last night of the workshop. as i was telling my workshop attendees about how crazy cool that was, Jenny Jiminez told me she was actually good friends with the Jurado's and would be glad to introduce me!!!

several of us went to watch Damien perform and the next day we spent a great morning talking and creating a portrait session. Damien's lovely wife Sarah joined us, and of course, i couldn't keep myself from fitting in a mini Beloved Session ; )

the connection between these two is a thick and tangibly gorgeous thing, and all of us in the room felt the power of it as it came out.

i have a whole shoot just with Damien that i'll share at a later time, but for right now, i wanted to share a few images from the Beloved Session.

as has been my practice for some time, i am holding back my favorite image from the session, to be unveiled next year when the BELOVED site launches,,, it was especially hard this time though, because this particular image hit me square in the heart as soon as i saw it, immediately calling tears.

yes, i know that's a tease, but at least mentioning the image is the nearest compromise i could make for not sharing it right now, lol.

as some of you know, i have big plans for the Beloved Sessions,,, i believe in my heart they could touch a lot of people, and it is my intention to bring the concept to the popular culture in north america, and hopefully one day, the world. this particular session sparked some ideas in me that might just help me do that.

i am so grateful for the opportunity to be inundated again and again by love in so many of its forms.

much love to you all,,,

jesh *

p.s. images from this session were post-processed with ColorShift

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

where should i go? (workshops)

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good morning, beautiful friends,,, i'm finalizing plans for my fall workshop tour : )

Santa Barbara, Perth & Canberra are all close to capacity and i would love to do one more workshop here in north america before the year ends. the date would likely be Oct 13-15, 2009.

please let me know where you'd like me to come!!! it is a big decision for me so your serious votes are most appreciated : )




thank you, amazing friends : ) : ) : )

lots of love,,,

jesh *

Sunday, August 16, 2009

australia 2009 released : ) : ) : ) (workshops)




good morning, dear friends from down under,,,

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!!

sign up HERE to reserve your space!!!

my trip to australia last year was one of the most beautiful journeys of my life. i am so glad to say that i'll be returning this November to give two more experiential workshops.

life (as an artform) PERTH and CANBERRA will be opening for registration at 9:00 am EST, Monday, August 17, 2009.

the Perth workshop will be held from November 24-26, with a special Enlighten post processing seminar to be given on the night of November 23 : )

the Canberra workshop will be held from December 1-3, 2009, with a special Enlighten post processing seminar to be given on the night of November 30 : )


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a few comments from recent attendees:


Never in my life has three days been so life changing. I walked away from that experience a new person… A person who loved life in a whole new way.

As a photographer…. I found a new way to connect with people. I find an entirely new joy in photography. As a result…. Our business has blossomed. I can now look at our work and see a distinct difference between pre-Jesh and post-Jesh… And never, in any of the workshops I’ve been to have I ever made such a huge leap in growth as an artist.

To be honest, I can’t wait to go to another Jesh workshop. Jesh has such a way of opening up a spot in your heart… And you never ever want that feeling to go away.


~ Bobbi Sheridan


I’ve learned so much from the workshop, not just about work, but life in general. Over the last few months, life has been happier, people around me were happier... I started to notice things. Little things. Like how my dad always laugh when he sees me at the door. How my mum smiles when she talks about my nephew. Simple things that I used to see everyday, but never appreciated. I can’t find words to describe the kind of feeling, but I can say, I’ve never felt better. It’s been an incredible journey so far.

~ Wansheng


Every once in a while, you come across someone in your life that can change who you are. They touch your heart, your soul and they make you a better person. Jesh is one of those people.

~ Heather Cole



much love,,,

jesh ; )


p.s. remember that those who have purchased the Fine Art Textures are welcome to use the included $100 credit ; )

p.p.s. in the interest of making the workshops as accessible as possible, i've introduced an investment plan for greater payment flexibility. if you'd like more information, please email support@jeshderox.com : )

Monday, August 10, 2009

ColorShift Intro Tutorial (release)



good afternoon, beautiful friends : )

i am proud to announce that the ColorShift Intro Tutorial is now up and available for your viewing pleasure.

the video is about 12 minutes long, and gives you a walkthrough of how ColorShift is designed and organized, and why it's organized that way.

i also talk about the functions of the three different sets within ColorShift and demonstrate its three levels of use: Sight-Seeing, Adventuring & Exploring.

i believe this will give you a better insight into how to use the set to increase the joy and exploration you find in your own post-processing work : )

in celebration of the release, i'm opening up a new promo code, which is the word: INTRO. the first 25 people to take advantage of the code will save 10% : )

many blessings, and much love,

jesh ; )

p.s. i am considering producing a full-length, in-depth post-processing tutorial which would walk you through my process on several images from start to finish. if you would be interested in investing in such a tutorial if it were made, please comment and let me know. the more interest i have, the more of a priority it would be.

Monday, August 03, 2009

reinvention,,, (announcement)



hello, dear friends,,,

the upcoming life (as an artform) workshop tour this fall is going to be unlike anything you have ever experienced.

i've carefully selected from the best material and most-loved experiments from the past highly-successful workshops, and grafted in findings from the last year of my studies delving deeply into the nature of the artistic gift.


every inch of the three days will be filled to the brim with a three-fold purpose:

a) exploring what lies between you and your innate ability to be set on fire, bringing that heat to all you do.
a) honing in on your artistic gift and raising it to a level you didn't know was possible.
c) having some of the best three days of your life experiencing this.

a tall order, i know. one i have devoted myself to delivering.


we're kicking the tour off September 29 in SANTA BARBARA. as of right now we have room for 5 more participants. this is going to be a one-of-a-kind experience, and if you feel a pull to be there, trust me, you won't want to miss this. this will be my only west-coast appearance for the rest of the year.

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helping me to deliver this experience, for the first time, one of my most beloved artistic mentors will be joining me as a guest presenter.

Dr. Jerry O. Lee is a master of Gen-Tou, a lost visionary healing art-form, which taps in to each person's own electromagnetic energy. Gen-Tou is a neuron composing art, triggering and accelerating unborn mental tempos in the form of innate talents, latent memories and genetic code, building a super-highway for artistic generation.

Dr. Lee has worked to heighten and develop the links between spirit and mind with artists such as myself on a private basis for many years. this collaboration will be the first time he has made his services available to the public.

i am so honored to have him join us in SANTA BARBARA, and so very excited for such an auspicious beginning to the tour : ) : ) : )

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for more information on our pricing plans, and special accommodation offer, please email us. otherwise, reserve your spot immediately, here : )

much love, beautiful friends. can't wait to see you soon!!!

jesh *

p.s. will be finalizing dates and locations for the rest of tour very soon : ) : ) : )

Monday, July 20, 2009

kelsy & tim,,, (beloved)











good morning friends,,,

i am proud to present a BELOVED session with the amazing Kelsy & Tim!!!

wow,,, it was such a lovely canadian spring evening we spent together, and i am grateful to be a witness to such a beautiful relationship : )

many blessings and so much love,

jesh *

p.s. images from this session were post-processed with ColorShift

Friday, July 10, 2009

from one traveller to another,,, (life)




you are where you are.

let's start with that. it's true, after all, and denying it, fighting against it, pretending otherwise amounts to nothing more than a waste of these precious few moments of life we're gifted with.

you are where you are.

and it is a lovely place to begin. even if it's painful, even if it's not where you saw yourself 10 years ago, or 10 months, or 10 days. it's lovely because it's what you have, and what you have is so much more than so many others are gifted with,,, more than you often give yourself credit for.

imagine yourself on a map. are you limited as to which direction you can go? certainly there are circumstances of terrain that may provide greater ease or challenge, but the vital truth is and will always remain that any direction is available to you.

even if it's a direction you've never gone before, even if it contains unknowable obstacles,,, the power of choice rests or rises with you.


you are where you are.

and you, as the traveler, now have the privilege of deciding where to go from here. just as, where you have been in no way dictates where you must go, it is equally true that your past cannot decide your future.

yes, it can be scary to leave the paths you have worn, over so many years of dusty repetition, but when the roads you know don't take you to where you know, in your heart, you must be,,, it is time to quit lamenting the fact and blaze off bravely in the direction of the undiscovered.

what a miracle that you have feet! what a miracle that they will take you in absolutely any direction that you tell them to go! you are blessed with a vehicle far more marvelous and sophisticated than anything the human mind has yet to or ever will conceive.

it is one thing to sit upon the sidelines of life and bemoan your fate, and it is another entirely to shake yourself free of mentally-cobwebbed ideas and start moving.


move!!!


move until your amble becomes a walk, until your walk becomes a jog, until your jog becomes a run, until your feet find their gravity-escaping rhythm and you take flight.

are you facing a fire? it is when you are stuck - motionless - that flames burn the worst,,, remember when, as a child, you moved your finger through the candle flame fast enough, it had no power to touch you.

remember the joy of that, the triumph in it, my friends, and move.


move until the air before you becomes a cool wind on your face, until the scenery rushes past in a celebration of your speed.

move until you find yourself in the clearing you are looking for. i promise you, it exists on the other side of whatever lies between you and that place of rest.


when caught in the frustrating mazes of life, we are often closer to freedom than we realize. a view from above adds the clear perspective we are blind to when we think only on ground levels.

when you cannot go left, and you are blocked from going right,,, when the way in front of you is too tangled, and you know you must leave what is behind,,,

go up, my friends, go up.

you will find there the far-view,,, drink in the picturesque scenery of hope that every weary traveller at some point needs.


you are where you are.

perhaps because you are learning things now that are seeds for blessings in days to come, for plantings you have not yet imagined.

you are where you are.

perhaps because you are accumulating experience that will someday be the common ground on which you meet the love of your life, your greatest friend, or your self.

you are where you are.

because the sometimes difficult, but ground-shaking truth is,,,
you are choosing to be.


we can't always control where the winds of this life blow us, how far they might veer us from the flight-paths we'd projected,,,

but until the moment our last spark of life passes from this vehicle of our body and moves into the next,,, it remains our choice to rise up from wherever we are, no matter the obstacles, no matter the challenges, no matter the odds, and to move, one precious step at a time,,,

footprint by footprint, handhold by handhold, until at last we find our home.


i love you so much, my beautiful friends, i pray every day that the wings you've been keeping secret will one day be loosed.

until that day,,,

jesh *

Sunday, June 14, 2009

ColorShift,,, (expose)



hello wonderful friends,,,

i've been working on projects on several fronts and am excited about where each of them are in their various stages of growth. i'm so excited to share them with you over the coming months,,,


up first: Enlighten: Experiential-Post Processing

as you may know, the finishing of my images (also called post-processing) is a part of my work i've always been fascinated with. i have found it to be an incredible avenue for exploring the people i work with, myself and what i see - specifically because so much of what i am interested in portraying in my work is invisible to the naked eye.

my philosophy and approach toward this kind of exploration i call experiential post-processing. very shortly, i'll be releasing a tutorial for ColorShift, my experiential actions for Adobe Photoshop, which along with detailing the power and versatility of the actions, will go more into depth about what experiential post-processing means to me.

as beneficial as it can be, exploring is not a time efficient thing, and is rarely an investment that pays an immediate return. with the demands of my business and life, i had to find ways to maximize my investment of time by increasing the rate of discovery while decreasing actual hours spent searching.

through countless hours and sleepless nights i developed several tools that greatly improved my efficiency, enabling me to skip much of the menial, technical aspects of post-processing, and focus more of my time on doing what i really loved: creating work that felt true to me and touched the people i made it for.

these discoveries enabled me to reduce the amount of time i spent on the computer by 70%, and greatly enabled me to give a superior product to my clients. no small victories, lol!!!


though originally created just for myself, i have recently begun to share these tools with others. why? two reasons:


a) i believe one of the greatest gifts we as humans have is the ability to share our experiences and knowledge with each other, being able to absorb and continue from a point it took someone else a lifetime's worth of journey to achieve.

Isaac Newton said "If I have seen farther than others, it is because i have stood upon the shoulders of giants."

this well describes my feelings on the matter. i have learned much this way and love being able to continue the cycle.


b) i am taking a sabbatical from shooting weddings to focus on building my Beloved project. my dream is to inspire a new genre of portrait photography that focuses specifically on celebrating and expressing the genuine relationships between people in love, for couples of all ages, types and varieties.

i have a plan for how i am approaching this, and will share more with you over the coming months. if all goes to plan, i'll officially showcase the project at the next WPPI convention, spring next year.

the Beloved project, which delves into a lot of uncharted territory and implements ground-breaking research in several fields, represents a significant time investment on my part.

to help fund that transition, i created Enlighten, which is the umbrella encompassing the post-processing tools i already have released, ColorShift and the Fine Art Textures, as well as the ones currently in production (at least two more planned for release by end of year!!!)


i have been overwhelmed with the response and positive feedback for my Enlighten releases and so very much appreciate all the amazing word-of-mouth referrals i've been receiving!!! love you guys, you know who you are ; )

i sincerely thank each and every one of you who has invested in me and my work. i promise i will do all i can to repay you manifold with the sharing of new discoveries and freshly-blazed trails to explore,,,


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as a prelude to the ColorShift tutorial, i wanted to post a few images from a portrait session with a model, shot while i was teaching with my amazing friend Jose Villa in Guadalajara.

all of the following images were post-processed with my ColorShift actions.

i limited myself to a SightSeeing level of use, which means the color affects were achieved using one-click only from my actions. the actions were designed to go two levels of interaction deeper when required or desired, but i wanted to show that great color affects can be as easy as one-click : ) find out more on the tutorial!




this image was post-processed using BlueBerry Night from theDream set. i feel that the the soft pink and blue shift throughout the image looks lovely with her skin, and matches her innocent expression.




this image was post-processed using Color of Summer from theDream set. this action is a tribute to what summer means to me: warmth, playfulness, adventure, friends and the joy of love. it's yellow/orange warm wash i find very conducive to images of people and bright scenes.




this image was post-processed using a special sharpening action i have called Edge of a Leaf from theReal set which highlights and accentuates tiny details such as strands of hair and the earrings.




this image was post-processed using Light From a Star from theDream set. this is one of my most used actions. i love how it gives images a light, and clean feel.




this image was also post-processed using Blueberry Night from theDream set. i usually find that, because of their different color combinations, different shoots will tend to gravitate towards a heavy use of certain actions, though in another shoot, it will be others that are dominate.




this image was post-processed using Evening Obscura from theDream set. easily my favorite and most-used black&white action of all time.

i'm kind of a color super-fan for the most part, but i designed this action in honor of my longtime attraction to old wetplate photographs, low contrast with a very shallow, sometimes non-existent high end of the range.

i love how this action will simplify an image, blending in a lot of information on the high and mid-high ranges. it can be very flattering for locations that aren't ideal, or really strengthen ones that are.




this image was also post-processed using Blueberry Night from theDream set.

theDream set of actions are all predesigned to be color-related and harmonized. i wasn't going for how-many-drastic-differences-in-effect can i stick into one collection. remember, i designed these for myself. i wanted to deliver completed Collections to my clients that felt like Collections, not a patchwork of different directions.

the actions are designed to work best when subtly accenting an images strengths, not distracting from an image's core communication. more on that in the tutorial!




this image was post-processed using Warm 70's Love from theDream set. this action draws from the faded yellows, browns and oranges that were staples of 70's design. that retro look feels human to me, and compliments the warm gamut of human interaction.




Blueberry Night from theDream set was used on this image as well. i love the soft blue tint it gives to the shadows.




mmm. lovely creamy skin tones courtesy of Light From a Star from theDream action set : )




this image was post-processed using Weathered Rock from theDream set. this is a purplish duotone image that adds an incredible ethereal quality to the right kinds of images. also a good action for simplifying busy images.


so much more to come, amazing friends!!!


ColorShift has its own Twitter account now, so please follow @ColorShift to get hooked up with supafine tips, tricks and advance notices of product releases, as well as the chance to be a beta-tester!!!

lots of love,

jesh ; )

p.s. in honor of you reading through this long freaking post, i'm giving away 25 promo codes. the first 25 people to use the code sunday will receive 10% off their ColorShift and/or Fine Art Textures purchase : )