Finally after months of hard work, I’m happy to let you know that Yanik’s Photo School has its official iPhone and Android App! Woohoo!

I’m very excited be able to bring you all of my tutorials to the mobile world in a sleek and simple style that keeps the focus on what you really want: LEARNING AWESOME STUFF!!

I’ve even added push notifications so you’ll know right away when a new tutorial is available.

As a bonus, I integrated a Continue Reading »

It’s with great pleasure and honor that UDEMY has asked me to publish Yanik’s Photo School’s Photoshop and Lightroom video tutorials on its platform.

For those of you not familiar with UDEMY, it’s one of the leading online learning sites on the Web featuring lectures from New York Times best-selling authors, CEOs, celebrities, and Ivy League professors. And they’ve Continue Reading »

First off, I would like to thank all of the 900+ people who attended my webinar with Topaz Labs. And also a super high 5 to Nichole for organizing it!

The hour went by so fast that I didn’t get a chance to show you even half of what I had prepared. It’ll be for the next one then!

For those of you who missed my “Photographic Journey through Greece”, the video is now live! Make yourself a nice Greek salad, sit back and Continue Reading »

Hello fellow YPS readers! I’m finally back with a new Photoshop Video Tutorial!

This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to create awesome grunge effects in Photoshop simply by using blending modes. All you need is one of your photos, a texture and Photoshop! If you don,t have textures, just go out and shoot your sidewalk, walls or whatever that looks good. Or if you’re too lazy, just Google “free textures”.

Enjoy the tutorial and stay tunes soon for details on Continue Reading »

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know that I recently took a lovely trip to Costa Rica. Of course, traveling means travel photography (and video)! And, in Costa Rica, you focus on nature in all its grandeur! Of course the wildlife was at the forefront of my imagery including tons of birds but the landscape was also breathtaking.

In this Lightroom video tutorial, I’ll show you how to bring the most potential out of your landscape images. You can apply these Continue Reading »

This is the third and last Lightroom 3 video tutorial that I’ll be posting on the new and upgraded features in this wonderful software. There are more new tweaks and upgrades but, for me, these three are the major ones that will affect the quality of my work. If you’d like more detailed tutorials on Lightroom 3, I invite you to sign up to any of the Lightroom 3 tutorials from Kelby Training.

In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial, I’ll be covering the upgrades made to the watermarking feature. You’ll notice that you Continue Reading »

As you guys know, I’m a big fan of Lightroom. And with Lightroom 3 out, I’ve discovered many cool tweaks and upgrades like super fast importing and disk deletion as well as image preview generation. They seem like little things but it just keeps time on your side just a bit more.

On top of that, the guys over at Adobe added a great new feature in Lightroom 3 that I just love! Tethering. No more need for Continue Reading »

It’s been a while since my last video tutorial but I’m back with a microphone that actually works now. So I thought I would test it out on a new tutorial.

Lightroom 3 just came out a few days ago and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to show you my favorite new upgrade. This isn’t a new feature in Lightroom 3. It’s an upgrade. But what an upgrade it is. It’s the luminance noise reduction. I actually never used it in Lightroom 2 since Continue Reading »

If you haven’t heard yet, Lightroom 2 is great! Ok, ok you might have heard me mention it a few times but learning is about repetition. 

So here I was post processing my Greece photos in Lightroom playing around with the main basic adjustment sliders when I thought to myself… hey! this kinda looks like an HDR photo. So I tweaked and tweaked until I got a pretty cool HDR look that looked cool. Then I thought that you guys might like to know how to do it too.  So here I am.

Now, before I go on, and before the true Continue Reading »

I truly hope that all of you are enjoying this festive season and that you’re taking lots and lots of pictures!

Before sharing with you the top 5 most popular  tutorials on YPS,  I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support. 2009 was YPS’s first full year live on the Web. It’s still a baby at only 21 months. I’m filled with gratitude knowing that my posts are helping many passionate photographers from around the world.  Your comments and support keep giving me the motivation to keep sharing my knowledge and photography Continue Reading »