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Layers and Masks – Photoshop Editing
Layers and Masks From my experience of using Adobe Photoshop, Layers and Masks used properly will give you a lot of processing power. A ‘Layer’ and a ‘Mask’ are two very different things. A ‘Layer’ is a duplicate of a photo placed on top of the original photograph… exactly. The ‘Mask’ is an area exactly […]
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Basic Photo Edits – Levels & Curves
Adjusting Levels & Curves In basic photo editing, the options to adjust the ‘Levels’ or ‘Curves’ is available. These are both tools in Adobe photoshop, Gimp, Elements or similar. Both tools can ‘lighten’, ‘darken’ and control contrast. But they do it in different ways. What’s the difference between ‘Levels’ & ‘Curves’? In brief, the […]
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Using black & white for better colour photos
If you are crazy for colour photography it can be crazy to leave the world of mono out in the cold.
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Goðafoss Waterfall – 175 Second Long Exposure Photography
I love visiting Goðafoss Waterfall in the late Summer. The sunset colours work so well with this dynamic, North Iceland waterfall. I was facing West around 20.30 on this September evening on a tour around Iceland.
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Svartifoss Waterfall Iceland – Panorama Photography
Svartifoss Waterfall Skaftafell National Park, East Iceland This panorama photo was taken in January on my Winter photo workshop. We sacrificed a sunrise shoot to get an early start on the 2km hike up to the waterfall at the Skaftafell National Park. After an hour drive and about 1 hour hike with short photo stops […]
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Northern lights HDR photography
Northern lights are a real treat for the travel photographer, but what’s the point if you can’t see the landscape your are visiting? This post looks at the HDR technique and how it can be used at night for Northern lights.
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Jokulsarlon Night Panorama – Icelandic Northern Lights
Northern lights can add an extra dimension to night photography because they add strong colours and depth to the sky. This post looks at processing an Aurora panorama.
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Diamond Ice Beach + Lightroom Graduated Filter
One of the things I love to do with recent Lightroom versions is to play with low contrast adjustments and introducing de-haze.
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Ice and Auroras – creative photoshop blending
Photoshop Blending For creative abstracts. Abstract Ice This photograph was from the ice beach at Jökulsarlon. This is a good way to spend your photography time if you happen to catch a rainy Jökulsarlon. For starters, you can capture some incredible glacier textures that you don’t see in the wide angle photos. This works especially well […]
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Red Blaze Aurora – Fjallsarlon Iceland – Iceland Night Exposure
Although the Northern lights require a long exposure, the object is often to reduce exposure time as much as possible to achieve a usable exposure and with minimal star trails.
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Photoshop Luminosity Masks – video tutorial -Ice Beach Method
Ice beach method This is a photoshop technique to enhance colours and contrasts in a landscape photograph. The technique uses luminosity masks similar to Tony Kuyper’s technique (see below). Different goals are achieved through blending modes such as; screen, soft-light and multiply. Masking limits the effects of the blending mode to particular areas of the […]
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Lightroom workflow – review of “Through the woods” preset plugin
“Through the woods” is a workflow for Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom by SleekLens. It has been designed for landscape photography and with modern digital solutions.
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Luminosity Masks – Ice beach method – Advanced Photoshop
The aim of this image editing technique is to enhance colours, to give them that contrast colour while maintaining a natural contrast.
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Skype tutorials – Photoshop and Lightroom
Master Photoshop by Mastering 3 basic skills. Anybody want a one2one session over skype to go over a landscape image? I use a very simple technique which can be applied to a lot of Landscape images as it enhances colours and contrast and gives you total control. It is a procedure worth learning and with […]
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Blending modes for drama and colour
[dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;”] T [/dropcap]his section discusses a photoshop technique which is similar to Luminosity masking and just adds the extra flavour of various blending modes instead of traditionally adjusting curves. This can be a bit like inventing recipes where some ingredients go beautifully well together and some are disastrous combinations. We will […]
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Easy masking for landscape photoshoppers
Luminosity Masks Luminosity masking is such a powerful editing technique. In this tutorial I have simplified the technique and given some creative examples.Typically, we would use a luminosity mask with an adjustment layer such as “Curves” this allows us to control the contrast locally. A whole bunch of masks and layers can give us total […]