In this tutorial I'll show you a unique approach to high pass sharpening that will help to bring out details like skin texture and other fine elements for portrait, architecture or landscape images. The benefit of this approach is that it prevents the harsh transitions and fringing in high-contrast areas often seen in the traditional high pass approach.
In the vide[...]
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How to Quickly Remove Stray Hairs in Photoshop
In this tutorial I'll show you a shortcut for removing stray hairs from a background. This trick will work well if the background is a seamless paper with a tonal gradation across it, or is blurred out due to shallow depth of field. If your background has a lot of detail or texture in it then the technique will not work. Another situation you may run into problems is [...]
Introducing the 500px Art Print Store
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[...]
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[...]
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 [...]
Photoshop Blend Modes for Photographers
This week we bring you an in-depth, two part video covering nearly all (the actually useful ones) the Photoshop layer blend modes along with examples of typical scenarios where you would use them. We've approached the subject from the standpoint of photographers and retouchers so the examples given will be reflective of that. All examples and blend modes will work in [...]