About Rubbing Pixels

Rub­bing Pix­els is an excit­ing new site that sets the bench­mark in online video tuto­ri­als and related arti­cles for land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers of all expe­ri­ence lev­els. The site was founded by full time pro­fes­sional land­scape pho­tog­ra­pher Matt Lauder when he iden­ti­fied a gap in the tuto­ri­als that were cur­rently available.

Most tuto­ri­als seen by Matt had two main prob­lems.  Firstly poor qual­ity images were being used in them so you couldn’t tell if a tech­nique worked or not, the other was pho­tog­ra­phers seamed happy to share their knowl­edge in a tuto­r­ial but only to a cer­tain point and tuto­ri­als had a nasty habit of jump­ing over key edit­ing processes and sud­denly things like a dull land­scape looked fan­tas­tic and you had no idea how it was done and then they start look­ing at some other aspect of the shot, but your think­ing “Hey I paid $10 to watch how this image was edited and you skipped most crit­i­cal part.” !!

This web­sites func­tion is to also bridge the gap between overly tech­ni­cal tuto­ri­als you might find on other sites and to show you how to use appli­ca­tions such as Pho­to­shop, Pho­to­shop Ele­ments, Light­room and other edit­ing and devel­op­ment plat­forms with­out all the con­fus­ing jar­gon. Our tuto­ri­als use high qual­ity cap­tured images and show you how they are edited from start to fin­ish. Noth­ing is skipped, noth­ing brushed over just every­thing you would expect from a tuto­r­ial say­ing “This is how I edited this photo”. Our tuto­ri­als have been described by cus­tomers as “A real world, down to earth use of tech­niques on real­is­tic images”.

The site also boasts an excel­lent range of in the field tuto­ri­als show­ing you the behind the scenes look at how images are cap­tured, the tech­nique, cap­ture work flow, equip­ment used and the mishaps that are part and par­cel of shoot­ing outdoors.

We have a sec­tion ded­i­cated to begin­ners who look at appli­ca­tions like Pho­to­shop, Pho­to­shop Ele­ments and Light­room who scratch their heads won­der­ing, where in the world do I even start. These tuto­ri­als will build up your skills so you get the most out of the other tuto­ri­als and mas­ter­classes on the site.

Our tuto­ri­als are pre­sented in video for­mat and avail­able for view­ing in both HD and SD qual­ity. The videos draw on the skills and knowl­edge of land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers and indus­try based pro­fes­sion­als who work in the field on a daily basis shoot­ing, edit­ing and cre­at­ing images for them­selves and others.

We offer a range of free tuto­ri­als to wet your appetite to show you what the web­site has to offer you as a mem­ber. Or if there is only a few things that really inter­est you then you can pur­chase them and watch them over and over again in your free guest account.

So what are you wait­ing for, reg­is­ter now for a free guest account and start watch­ing our free tuto­ri­als and put your­self on the path of tak­ing your images from ordi­nary to extraordinary.