As you may know, I'm a big fan of 500px and have been for some time. Prior to today, their marketplace for selling and ordering prints was quite limited in that it only allowed for a single media type in one size. That's all changed as of today with the release of the 500px Art store which now offers 4 sizes and 6 media types to choose from.
The good folks at 500px[...]
Author archives: Michael Woloszynowicz
How to Retouch Lips in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll show you some tips and tricks for retouching lips in portraits or beauty shots. Note that this is a more advanced tutorial that assumes you have a good working knowledge of Photoshop tools already.
Lip retouching can be one of the most tedious and time consuming parts of the image so my goal here is to give you some advice on where to st[...]
How to Edit the Milky Way in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll be walking you through how to process Milky Way images in Photoshop as well as adding a light painted effect to the foreground.
First off a big thanks to my friend Nagesh Mahadev for letting me demo these techniques one one of his amazing images. Be sure to check out his work on his 500px page and his Facebook page.
The tools used in [...]
Editing and Compositing Night Photos in Photoshop - Part 2
In this second of our two part video tutorial, we'll be finishing up our full edit of a night time cityscape composite. If you missed part 1 of this tutorial it can be found here.
We'll be working with a number of relatively basic tools to build up this image, most of which are available from Photoshop CS3 and onward. In the first part we extended the dynamic r[...]
Editing and Compositing Night Photos in Photoshop - Part 1
In this first of a two part video tutorial, I'll taking you through a full edit of a night time cityscape and cover a number of color adjustment, masking and compositing techniques along the way.
We'll be working with a number of relatively basic tools to build up this image, most of which are available from Photoshop CS3 and onward. In this first part we'll be[...]
Dark Skin Beauty Photography
As a complement to my previous posts on beauty photography (part 1, part 2), I thought I'd further elaborate by going over a real life example from a shoot I did last week. This one is also made a little bit more interesting by virtue of the fact that I got to work with a dark skin model, which has subtle impacts on both the lighting and retouching processes.
T[...]
Long Exposure Panorama Techniques – Part 2
As an extension of our previous long exposure panorama techniques article where we took a more unique approach to overcoming some of the challenges that exist, here we'll talk about the more traditional method and how to mitigate some of the problems you'll face.
As mentioned in part 1, long exposure panoramas pose a unique set of challenges, particularly when [...]
Using Lab Mode to Change Colour and Contrast in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll show you how you can use Lab color mode in Photoshop to quickly, easily and drastically change the color and contrast in your images and really make them pop.
First off a big thanks to my friend Nagesh Mahadev for letting me demo these techniques one one of his amazing images. Be sure to check out his work on his 500px page and his Faceb[...]
Photographing a Portofino Sunrise
Often times, the joy of photography isn't merely in seeing the finished product and wallowing in the praise of its viewers, it's about the experience of actually taking it. This image from Portofino was exactly that, an amazing experience that I won't soon forget.
Posh as they come, Portofino has been the destination of choice French playboys and the British elite [...]
Mastering Image Sharpening in Photoshop
This video tutorial is all about sharpening. Here I'll be taking an in-depth look at what sharpening is and how it works, the various tools that every retoucher should know, as well as some tips on how best to use them and when.
The specific sharpening tools that we will cover include:
Unsharp-Mask
Smart Sharpening
Camera Shake Removal in Photoshop CC
Mul[...]