The Digital Darkroom
We’ve added a new forum over at the Photography Critique and Advice group called The Digital Darkroom, you can find the group HERE
Everyone is welcome to join the group for some photography critique and now for some help with image editing software.
Hope to see you all there
Cheers, Alison
View Deke McClelland training video on masking
Deke did a guest blog spot training video over at Scott Kelby’s blog Last Wednesday. It goes for about 30 mins, I have no idea if the video is there for a limited time – so get on over there and watch one of the masters at work.
Simple Colour Change In Photoshop
This is a very simple effect, it won’t change darks to lights and it won’t work on any black, grey or white pixels. It won’t add colour to a greyscale image either. It will simply change the Hue, whilst leaving the Lightness and Colour Intensity as is and it can all be done with the paint brush and a blend mode change – doesn’t get much easier than that.
I can’t remember the photographers i…
Creating A Simple Sky In Photoshop
You looked at how to fix a blown out sky in another tutorial and discovered that it was quite simple. Creating a sky is also an extremely easy process, and who knows, maybe you’ll actually use it some day :)
Create a new file and fill it with white. Create a new layer above that and using a Linear gradient with the f/ground and b/ground colours set to two different shades of blue (or whate…
Working With Reflections In Photoshop
Making reflection in Photoshop is generally an easy affair, if you have a head on view of the image. Duplicate layer, Flip Vertical, Blur, Gradient, Opacity. What if you are making a design and the easy affair turns out to not be so easy …...... well as it turns out, it’s pretty easy to fix :)
In the image below I’ve made a new file 800 X 600 @ 72 dpi and filled it with white. Created a…
Bleach Bypass Effect In Photoshop
The bleach bypass effect seems to be all the rage at the moment. The effect is very popular in movies, and is an effect achieved on film by skipping the bleaching while processing color film, leaving the silver on the negative. The end result is an image with high contrast, graininess, and reduced saturation.
I’d like to thank Gracey over at the “Pu…
Add Some Years To A Person In Photoshop
This is not one of the easiest things to demonstrate in the written word – I really should stop procrastinating about doing video tutorials and get on with them ….... soon LOL
There’s quite a few things to consider when you decide to add a few years to a person, and if you can see an older member of the family or at least view some images, you’ll get a sense for what might happen to the in…
Design Elements In Photoshop
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Most of you will see it as a design element something along the lines of the image below.
It can be taken to more elaborate levels with a bit more playing
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More Effects For Portraits In Photoshop
The start image is brought to us by mirimcfly over on Flickr, you can find it HERE The image is available with a Creative Commons License, which you can read about HERE
You’ll notice that the image is a little flat i.e. not very much contrast going on, and this will suit the type of effec…
More Effects In Photoshop
Initially this was going to be a tutorial to do with portraits, but I couldn’t find an image that I liked. I got all huffy about it and decided to do a tutorial about making water silky smooth, but decided that selecting something and using the motion blur filter was probably a bit lame :) So then I thought I’d change a road into a river, which is how I ended up with the start image below. T…