Drag and Drop from Lightroom
I was asked recently whether you could drag and drop files from Lightroom onto a memory stick and this raised a few points that I thought were worthy of mentioning here. To understand the [More]
Tutorial
Creating Light Streaks With Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial I answer another reader question. How, they asked, can I add light streaks into an image.
In particular, they wanted to add the streaks around a bottle, so that's what I do here with a quick, and simple use of the Pen Tool, some Layer Styles and a little bit of Warp.
Colour and glow can all be changed once the image is finished to give as much flexibility as possible. [More]
Smoothing Texture in Photoshop
A lot of old photos have a textured appearance. Some are so bad they look like they were printed on a heavy watercolor paper, which is a very artsy effect, I'm sure, just not to everyone's taste! Texture can be corrected, especially if it isn't too terribly deep, and here's a super easy way to do it! [More]
Targeted Adjustment Tool in Adobe Camera Raw
In this video I take a look at a feature of Adobe Camera Raw that is often over looked, Targeted Adjustment Tool.
I switch between using this and heading straight over to the right hand side, but find using the tool is just that bit quicker and ‘less fiddly’. [More]
Building an ebook in Lightroom
Today I thought I would try something a little different.. How about creating a book in Adobe Lightroom 4, converting it to an ebook and publishing it to the Apple iTunes (and Blurb book store). Does [More]
Making Corners Lift From The Page in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial video I answer a reader question. How, they asked, can you easily make it look like the corners of the photograph are lifting from the background?
I demonstrate two ways here, with some tips along the way including finding the centre of an image and separating Layer Styles from a layer (yep, you really can!) [More]
Photoshop Coloured Lighting into a Scene
In this video Photoshop tutorial aimed and beginners and intermediate users of Photoshop I add some colour to a reflection of a window. The work a long files nostainedglass.jpg and colouredwindow.jpg [More]
Put a Simple Photoshop Frame On It
In this Photoshop tutorial video I’m going to add a very simple frame to my image by increasing the Canvas Size. This works well but there’s a couple of things I need to consider if I want to do the same to all my images, and should I want to record an action. [More]
Using Photoshop to Make Concentric Circles
OK, I’m no graphic designer or digital artist, but I needed a ‘cartoon style closing credit’ for a piece I was working on with a student. Creating the circles was easy, and I kept them [More]
Pro Workflow Techniques Start To Finish
In this video tutorial Rich takes us through the processing of an HDR image from start to finish. To get his desired effect, Rich utilises Blending Modes, Blur and the new to CS6, LUTs. Once the [More]
Creating Fake Highlights with Photoshop
Now of course there's nothing better than getting things right 'in camera' but when it comes to the lighting, what are you supposed to do after the fact when you maybe want to add some highlights or even tweak those that are already there?
Well here's a technique for doing just that…for adding in or tweaking highlights, and it's one I tend to use on a fairly regular basis when putting together composites; however it's also a technique that can be used in any image and what's more it's quick and easy to apply. [More]
Changing Eye Colour and Using Warp Shape Presets in Photoshop
In this video I take a look at using the presets when using Warp. Before that, I change the eye colour of our model so that we know how to change the eye colour to a Union Jack (well, it is almost the Olympics!) [More]
Coloring With Photoshop – Hair
We left our heroine a bit on the pink side, but we’ll get back to that in a little while. The color of the hair can affect the way we see the skin tone, so I’d like to work on that, right now. When colorizing hair, like skin, I like to take my colors from the historical era I’m trying to duplicate [More]
32 Bit HDR in Photoshop
HDR, love it or hate it there’s no getting away from the fact that sometimes your camera can’t capture all the tones in a high contrast scene that you see. At that point you’ll need to take more than one image and blend the exposures together and create a more realistic (or surrealistic) image. [More]
Using Bokeh to Add Oomph To Image in Photoshop
In this video, Eric takes the new Bokeh filter and uses it to 'beef up' his plain, flat image witha a “random but not random” approach. Although all the effects rely on bokeh the finished image shows no sign of bokeh at all. [More]
