Blake Rudis

Blake Rudis Through his outside of the box thinking Blake has developed a training style that is both engaging and inspirational! Follow Blake on his journey!

09/02/2026

Photoshop’s new Light Adjustment Layer looks great on the surface.

But the more I tested it, the more I realized something was off.

If you use adjustment layers a lot, this is something you’ll want to know before building it into your workflow.

Photoshop added a new Light Adjustment Layer, and at first glance, it looks like a big win.But after digging into it, I ...
09/02/2026

Photoshop added a new Light Adjustment Layer, and at first glance, it looks like a big win.

But after digging into it, I found something strange.

It looks like an adjustment layer… but it doesn’t really behave like one.

In this video, I break down what I found, why it matters, and where I think this new tool fits into a real workflow.

Link in the comments ;)

What's in your garden?My wife loves gardening, and, not gonna lie, I kinda love watching her get excited about it. My f...
08/24/2026

What's in your garden?

My wife loves gardening, and, not gonna lie, I kinda love watching her get excited about it.

My favorite, however, is when our worlds collide and we see the beauty in the garden together.

Young Blake dreamt of being a movie director. Really, I would daydream about making films when I was working at the movi...
08/19/2026

Young Blake dreamt of being a movie director.

Really, I would daydream about making films when I was working at the movie theater, cleaning up after all the people who enjoyed the cinema.

As a clerk at a video store, I would imagine my name on the cover of every movie I rang up, thinking one day it would be my movie they were renting.

Well, I never made it to the director's chair, but in a way, I'm a director, and the editor, and the actor, and the scriptwriter... just in a different genre.

Tomorrow's Live Event may be 37 minutes long, but it took over 7 hours to record and edit.

Maybe young Blake was dreaming in the wrong direction, because this is my dream job.

Wildlife photography is all about the eyes... And then there's this guy!If you are interested in seeing how I came to ed...
08/19/2026

Wildlife photography is all about the eyes...
And then there's this guy!

If you are interested in seeing how I came to edit this image and the story behind it, join me live tomorrow at 2 PM Central :)

You know the drill, link in the comments ;)

07/29/2026

I thought this image was finished. It had been in my portfolio for four years, and I honestly believed I had pushed it as far as it could go.

Then I submitted it to the f.64 Vision Mentor, my new service for artists and photographers to get immediate feedback on their work.

In this video, I walk through the critique, the uncomfortable truth it revealed about my color choices, and the subtle changes I made to improve the viewer’s experience. This was not a massive transformation. It was more of a reminder that even experienced photographers can get too close to their own work and miss what a second set of eyes can see.

Want to try it with 3 free critiques? Link in the comments to the f.64 Vision Mentor.

There can be a healthy union of AI and Photography...
07/28/2026

There can be a healthy union of AI and Photography...

07/23/2026

Q: How do you learn to "See" Color?
A: Start with the easiest Color Theory relationship... Warm vs Cool.

♨️Warm things come toward the viewer
❄️Cool things recede from the viewer.

You shouldn't be thinking globally for this level of editing. You should be thinking locally. Use Tint/Temp, Color Dodge and Burn, Color Curves, Gradients, etc, to help move the viewer through the image with color and color alone.

View the whole event in the comments below!

The shore of Elgol is simultaneously chaotic, peaceful, and beautiful.It reminds me of people. Our perception of someone...
07/17/2026

The shore of Elgol is simultaneously chaotic, peaceful, and beautiful.

It reminds me of people. Our perception of someone can be based on what side they’ve shown us at a given moment. But everyone has different sides that come out under different circumstances. Yet how often are we judged by one moment?

A photographed location can be the same way. Visit Elgol on a calm day, and you might remember the still water and silence. Come back in rough weather, and it can feel wild and unforgiving. Neither experience tells the whole story. They are both true, but they are only parts of something larger.

Don't we deserve that same level of consideration? One bad interaction does not always define who someone is, just as one good moment may not tell you everything either.

This shouldn't be a profound thought, yet here we sit in a cancel-culture-laden world. Perhaps understanding begins when we stop treating a single experience as the complete picture.

Elgol can be chaotic, peaceful, and beautiful all within the same stretch of shoreline.

People can be, too.

A brief second of light, a VERY brief second of light, is all we had on that cloud at Neist Point on the edge of the Isl...
07/10/2026

A brief second of light, a VERY brief second of light, is all we had on that cloud at Neist Point on the edge of the Isle of Skye. Couple that with the battle we had with the wind. WOW!

If you didn't have a hand on your tripod, you were likely to lose the rig on this cliff edge. Needless to say, I was pleased to see and shoot a location that's been on my bucket list for ages.

In the right light, I could only imagine what this would've looked like. Maybe next time ;)

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