You’re busy—but are you actually growing? In this episode, Nata Salvatori exposes a trap that’s costing service providers time, money, and sanity: chasing busywork that feels productive but doesn’t move the needle. She walks through a clear, five-step growth path—from clarifying your offer, validating through real sales, delivering sustainably, building repeatable systems, to scaling confidently. You’ll learn: How to spot and ditch “fake work” Why clarity beats complexity every time How to use real feedback to validate your offers Delivery tips that prevent burnout System creation that enables scaling How to honor your current phase of growth 📌 Ready to stop spinning your wheels and make real moves? Map your phase, pick your next action, and don’t be afraid to ask for help: 👉 accidentalceo.co/coaching Support the show…
🏡 Welcome to the Wisconsin Housing Report! 🎙️ Your go-to podcast for everything real estate, homeownership, and market trends in Wisconsin. Whether you’re buying, selling, investing, or just love keeping up with the housing market, we break down the latest market updates, home-buying tips, neighborhood spotlights, and expert insights to help you make informed decisions. 📊 What You’ll Get Each Episode: ✅ Wisconsin housing market updates – Get the latest trends & home prices in Dane County, Ma ...
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Photoshop artist and educator John Reuter has created this Photoshop podcast geared towards the fine art photographers and teachers who are beginning to embrace Photoshop as part of their personal work and teaching curriculum. Less focused on singular tips or tricks it rather attempts to instill a more comprehensive approach to image making and manipulation that relies on Photoshop as its core. To John, Photoshop is as much a printmaking program as it is a photography program. The emphasis i ...
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In this episode of The Wisconsin Housing Report, John Reuter dives deep into the June 2025 real estate numbers across the state—and why we’re seeing the first real signs of change in years. For the first time since 2020, Wisconsin home sales rose in June, up 8.1% year-over-year, showing a potential momentum shift as we head into the heart of summer…
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Dane County, Wisconsin Real Estate Market Update – July 2025 Hosted by John Reuter, top-ranked Realtor, Air Force Veteran, and founder of Integrity Homes — your trusted real estate expert serving Madison, Waunakee, Sun Prairie, DeForest, Windsor, Verona, and the entire Dane County area. Thinking about listing your home in Madison or buying your fir…
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Wisconsin’s housing market is shifting — and for the first time in years, buyers are regaining some serious negotiating power. In this episode of The Wisconsin Housing Report, John Reuter, top 5% Wisconsin Realtor and founder of Integrity Homes, breaks down the most important real estate trends happening right now across Dane County and beyond. Fro…
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If you’re wondering what’s really going on with the Wisconsin housing market, this is the episode you don’t want to miss. John Reuter—Air Force Veteran, Waunakee Realtor, and host of the Wisconsin Housing Report—dives into the May 2025 market trends and shares how buyers and sellers can win in today’s shifting environment. In this episode, we break…
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In this hyper-local episode of the Veteran Realtor Podcast, host John Reuter breaks down the latest Federal Reserve meeting and what it means for buyers, sellers, and investors in South Central Wisconsin. With the Fed holding interest rates steady for the fourth consecutive meeting, John explains how this impacts mortgage rates, affordability, and …
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June 2025 Market Update: Wisconsin Trends, Dane County Insights, and Where Buyers Have Leverage
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In this June 2025 episode of The Wisconsin Housing Report, John Reuter of Integrity Homes breaks down the latest data and what it means for you—whether you’re buying, selling, or just watching the market. 🔹 Wisconsin home sales dropped 10.4% year-over-year, but that doesn't tell the whole story. 🔹 Median home prices are still climbing—up 7.3% state…
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John Reuter: The Mask Panel in PS CS4
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13:48In this episode we continue to explore the new features and interface in Photoshop CS4. As with the Adjustment Pane, while there are some new tools it really is a re-configuration of previously existing tools. Everything is right there for you, and in conjunction with the Adjustments Panel, you will find yourself more wiling and able to take advant…
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Photoshop CS4 Adjustment Panel
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10:58It has been over a year since I last produced an episode of Creative Photoshop. While many things made it difficult to continue for a long period, the release of Photoshop CS4 has given me ample reason to start up again. I appreciate the many messages of support, in fact the podcast is more popular than when I suspended episodes. In this episode we…
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Analog Input/Digital Output, Part 2
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13:31In this episode we continue our look at Analog Input/Digital Output. Taking one of our images from the last episode, we explore ways to integrate it into some other images and create a composite. We explore some techniques from past episodes and use them in different ways. We look at the CS3 Refine Edge Tool and how it helps to integrate an image i…
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Polaroid Materials: Analog Input/Digital Output
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18:29In this episode of Creative Photoshop we go into a different direction. For several years I have taught a class called Polaroid Creativity: Analog Input/Digital Output. Most recently I offered this class at Grossmont College in El Cajon, CA in conjunction with the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. It begins by making Polaroid Image Transfer…
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Composite Project, Part Three
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12:07I’m back after a rather long absence. Many things have been going on, work, teaching and actually making my own art, which I am very excited about. But turning our attention to our Composite Project, we finally get to Part Three which finishes off some details and I hope shows you what goes through my mind as I complete an image. We delve once agai…
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Project Composite, Part Two: Background Blending
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15:21In this episode we continue with our project on image composite. Last week we added color to an antique portrait in preparation to bringing it into a new composition. This week we blend two backgrounds together with the Blend If sliders in Layer Styles. This is a strategy I often use when beginning a composite. We will then bring the portrait into …
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Project Composite, Part One: Hand Coloring
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19:24I am back after a one-month hiatus. I received many e-mails asking if I was going to continue producing Creative Photoshop and the answer is definitely “yes?. Life sometimes intervenes and my day job as Director of the Polaroid 20x24 Studio has required quite a bit of my attention lately. We are trying to insure that it survives further into the di…
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Quick Selection in CS3 with John Reuter
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10:12I am very proud to say that with our last episode we exceeded 100,000 downloads for the Creative Photoshop Podcast. To me, this level of response to a longer, more measured approach to on-line Photoshop education is very gratifying. I thank all of you who have become subscribers to this podcast. This week we continue our look into Selections with a…
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Selections, Part Three: The Extract Filter with John Reuter
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14:31Our look at selections continues with a comparative look at the Extract filter and a selection created with the Pen Tool and Channel conversion. Students often ask me why do I prefer to use the traditional methods utilizing channels when newer tools such as Extract are available. My feeling is that once you master the traditional tools, they don’t …
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Selections, Part Two: The Pen Tool with John Reuter
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16:50This week we continue with our look at Selections with an emphasis on the Pen Tool. Our subject matter presents a very different tonal situation from last week, a portrait on a white background. These differences prompt us to use a different selection tool, the venerable Pen Tool. In low contrast situations with soft detail edges, nothing is better…
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Selections, Selections, Selections....with John Reuter
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16:20I have always said that mastery of Selections is the most important skill you can learn in Photoshop. They are the doorway to amazing control over tonality, color, and emphasis as well as the vehicle to create believable and unbelievable composite images. It is a deep topic and I will devote three consecutive episodes to Selections in both Photosho…
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Class Project: Image Composite with John Reuter
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13:52In this episode we explore image composite as I presented it to my Creative Photoshop class at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida. The idea was to explore many concepts in one exercise, from working in camera raw, to placing an image from the Bridge, creating a selection with the pen tool, working with Smart Objects and masks and finally…
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Black and White Conversions in CS2, Lightroom, and CS3
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10:54In this episode we explore converting color images to grayscale. In Photoshop CS2 we use an adjustment layer technique to create not only a grayscale effect but an infrared effect as well. I first learned of this technique on Kent Conklin's Two Minute Photoshop Tricks and have found it a great way to mimic an infrared look. We then explore how Phot…
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Blend Modes, Part Two with John Reuter
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16:43Part Two of Blend Modes focuses more on creative effects. The first effect is one I learned of on Russell Brown's excellent podcast and shows ways to paint with Blend Modes through the History brush and offers extremely flexible ways to change the tone, contrast and color of your image in a very intuitive way without layers. Next we explore hand co…
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In this episode I want to go in a slightly different direction. Rather than another how-to tutorial I want to present my work from a more creative perspective, how I evolved as an artist and a Photoshop practitioner. So we will look back at early work that predated my Photoshop involvement as well as the evolution of the imagery as I began working …
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Photoshop Blend Modes Part One
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20:10The Photoshop Blend Modes offer the artist a great deal of creative and practical possibilities. At first glance they can seem a little overwhelming and confusing. But if you approach them by their groupings and understand what each group does they begin to make more sense. This podcast explores the historical origins of the blend modes and how the…
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Photoshop CS3: Smart Objects and Smart Filters
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16:08Photoshop CS3 has taken the concept of Smart Objects to a new level, adding the capability of working with Smart Filters. Smart filters are non-destructive filters associated with Smart Objects that give Photoshop capabilities that programs such as Adobe After Effects have had for years. They come at a price, however. In larger files you may find t…
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Sneak Peek, Photoshop 2.5: A Look Back
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17:23With all of the excitement of the release of the Photoshop CS3 beta I too have been tempted to begin offering some tutorials on the new version. But rather than put up some quick me too tutorials I would rather wait and work with the program and complete some meaningful images for me before I want to offer opinions about CS3. Right off the bat it l…
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I'm glad to be back after two weeks off for shoulder surgery. My right arm is still in an ultra sling for three more weeks so this podcast is a left hand creation. I'm not bad but not great with the mouse left handed so pardon the erratic movements at times. This episode’s topic is Smart Objects, an underused and rather misunderstood feature in Pho…
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Edge Effects Part Two: Image Transfer with John Reuter
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20:26Edge Effects Two continues our explorations of our previous episode in using a grayscale scan of a transfer image to create a border for another image. But we take it a step further in more closely replicating Image Transfer characteristics from color transitions in the edges themselves but also aspects of Image Transfers such as surface texture. W…
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Creative Edge Effects explores ways to add your own borders and edges to your digital and scanned images. From a simple blurred transition edge we progress through a filtered edge and finally to an edge created from a scanned image. This allows the artist to create original and personalized edge effects, even mimicking non-silver processes such as …
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The History Palette Part Two takes us in a very different direction than Part One. Here we will explore ways to use Photoshop's filters and paint them into our image from history snapshots as well as the Fill Command. We will also explore Fade opacity and the Blend Modes to achieve creative but subtle effects with filters.…
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