Smoothing out the creases
Here’s a processing technique I stumbled across by accident – I’ve only used it on this photo so take it away, try it out and come back and tell us how you got on. No doubt I’ll be laughed at for not [..]
Posts Tagged ‘Tutorials’
Lightroom Quickie: Soften Skin
This tip is actually specific to Lightroom 2 – as it uses the Adjustment Brush, which of course wasn’t present in Lightroom 1. If you’ve yet to upgrade from 1 to 2, I personally think the Adjustment Brush alone is reason to [..]
Another Five Tips to Add Interest to Your Portraits!
Five more liberating techniques from the people who brought you Five Quick Tips to Add Interest to Your Portraits, and the acclaimed follow-up Five More Tips to Add Interest to Your Portraits… This time we’re looking at mixing things up a bit. [..]
Faking a Tilt-and-Shift Effect in Photoshop
This is a really effective and deceptively simple process that is most commonly used to create a distortion of scale – makes any shot with buildings and people in look like a model village! But it’s also really effective for creating a [..]
Flash Light: Direction Equals Mood!
I thought I’d have a very quick play around today, with my Speedlite 580EXII flash handheld (fired by the Canon ST-E2 IR transmitter – which, of course, you won’t need if you’ve got a Nikon with it’s fancypants built in flash control [..]
Attack of the Clones
Haven’t you always wanted to be in two places at once. I know its something I’d find useful. Well here is a quick and dirty method to achieve just that using photoshop. There are other methods to achieve this effect, but this [..]
Colour Rules OK!
The use of colour in photography is one of the most powerful tools that a photographer has at his or her disposal. I’d say at times it even ranks above composition. Although, obviously the ideal is the perfect union of both colour [..]
Custom Bokeh Masks
Have you ever seen those pictures on flickr or elsewhere where the background is flooded with heart or star shaped bokeh (blur)? Ever wondered how it’s done? Well it’s quite simple really, all you do is create a bokeh mask, which is [..]