Paint, Pixels, and Paper

Sometimes things grow quietly. My daughter Jessy recently put a small collection of her painted artworks on Printler. No announcement, no fuss, just pieces she made and decided to share. Her Printler shop sits there like a compact digital gallery. Clean layout, simple navigation, clear previews. You can choose sizes, framing options, different finishes. It’s...

10 years PictureFX & Beating the Preset Factories: How One LUT Climbed to Page One

From Experiment to First Page - How a LUT Found Its Own Light It’s been 10 years since PictureFX started - a small side project that grew out of my early fascination with Nik Effects. What began as curiosity quickly turned into a long stretch of experiments, rewrites, and unexpected successes. Over the years, PictureFX...

My First 100 Days of PictureFX on itch.io

3 minutes read time Well, my first 100 days of running the new PictureFX LUTs download site on picturefx.itch.io are behind me. The obvious first question: did anyone even show up - let alone download something? Surprisingly, yes. Considering I also use freshluts.com and traffic is split between the two, plus the fact that I’m...

It Started with a Test…

Yesterday I accidentally published a link to an article that wasn’t actually finished yet - oops. Luckily, my friend Mark over at OneCameraOneLens gave me a heads-up before it spread too far, and I was able to pull it just in time. Since then? I’ve been working hard on something new. Or maybe... a discovery....

When the Northern Lights Eat Your Foreground: Overlay Survival Tips + Free Layers

5 minutes read time If you remember the last article, ‘Chasing the Aurora: Overlay Experiments with Northern Lights’, you’ll recall that while the results were more or less okay, there were definitely some flaws—mainly with the overlay technique itself. I first came across this method years ago from Trey Ratcliff, who used it—probably in Adobe—to...