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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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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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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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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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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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Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may be work-arounds for other versions of photoshop or other image editors, but the work horse in this tutorial is the powerful ‘Black and White Tool’ in CS3 which has a great selection of […]
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Photoshop basics – simple colour correction – colour cast fix
This simple colour correction technique shows you how to correct the colour cast in J-pegs or Tiff files, using Adobe Photoshop
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Create a photoshop action – Colour boost
Photoshop actions are great short cuts. It is worth going to the trouble of learning how make them for the time they will save in the long run.
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Photography Blending Techniques – Focus Stacking
This articles looks at a lengthy and complicated procedure to render every part of a scene with perfect focus. the aim is to achieve a high depth of field (DOF) whilst maintaining the high quality of your lens’ sweet-spot.
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Photoshop Basics – noise reduction
No camera is perfect. If we push it to the limits of high iso and intense processing, we are going to experience the number one weakness of a digital camera – NOISE. In camera noise control Modern DSLRs have good quality high iso. In addition, the in-camera setting can reduce noise in the higher iso […]
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Basic adjustments – Sharpen and save for the web
Basic Photoshop adjustments Sharpen and save for the web This tutorial is about creating small files for your website or online portfolio. This is assuming that you have an image that you have finished processing at its full size and you want to get the best possible quality when someone views it on the internet. […]