Fake Fill Flash
May 19, 2008
Today I’m going to teach you a method I use to fake a fill flash. The objective is to lighten the dark areas without blowing out the highlights. Here’s the before and after:
Great PS Tutorial Site
October 22, 2007
I just discovered psdtuts.com and will be taking a look through their archives for inspiration.
PS Filters for GIMP
October 18, 2007
Vitor has a great little article on how to use Photoshop filters in the GIMP. I didn’t even know this was possible. Thanks Vitor!
Link.
Inset Text
October 16, 2007
Veerle’s Blog is one of my favorite design blogs. She recently did a Photoshop tutorial on how to create inset text in the new Mac OS X Leopard style. This is a neat effect, and pretty simple to accomplish in The GIMP.
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Convert RGB to Black and White
February 27, 2007
There is no one “right” way to convert color photographs from color to black and white. In fact there are tons of ways to do it, and they all have their advocates. If you want to see some other methods, I’d recommend taking a look at a tutorial at digital Photography School entitled How to Convert Color Digital Images into Black and White Ones, or at another one from GimpGuru.org entitled Converting Color Images to B&W using the GIMP. Both of these detail several different methods, all with their own merits.
I’ve been researching the subject quite a bit, and I think I’ve settled on a favorite method of my own, and I’m going to detail it for you now. We’ll be using lessons learned in the last couple of posts on luminosity masking, so if you haven’t read those yet, you might want to at least skim them to get the idea.
Luminosity Masking: The Dark Side
February 25, 2007
Okay, last time I showed you how to bring out detail in highlighted areas. Today, I’m going to show you the opposite, bringing detail out of darkened areas. I’m also going to show you a different way of creating this luminosity mask that I think is a little more versatile. If you’d like to see the Photoshop way of doing things, the tutorial I’m adapting is from planetphotoshop.com and is called The Shadowy Face of the Luminosity Mask.
Luminosity Masking: The Light Side
February 23, 2007
This is part one of a two part series on luminosity masking. The original Photoshop tutorial can be found on planetphotoshop.com and is entitled: Recovering Lost Highlight Detail, by Jim Patterson. Luminosity can be utilized for a great number of color and shade adjustments. Jim covers the basics, which should give you a good idea of the types of things you can do.
Basic Photo Retouching
February 17, 2007
Today I’m going to touch on some very simple yet extremely effective things you can do to make any photo look better. This is an adaptation of the Photo Edit 101 tutorial done by Worth1000.com user Dallas_TX.
You can use these basic guidelines to enhance just about any photo. In the future, I’ll use this post as a reference on what to do before starting whatever it is I’ll be writing about that day. So, anyway, let’s get started. Pick an image you want to enhance and open it up. I’ll be using another CC licensed image originally posted by flickr user Munzerr.
Fake Tilt-shift
February 15, 2007
Note there are several updates to this entry at the bottom.
Today’s tutorial is an adaptation of Christopher Phin’s Fake Model Photography tutorial for Photoshop CS, and it’s all about faking tilt-shift photography.
Orton Effect
February 13, 2007
For today’s adaptation, I’m not going to single out any one particular tutorial because there are many good ones, and they’re all a bit different. If you want the Photoshop method, I advise you to do what I did, and google it.
So, here we go.
