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Category: Photoshop
Tweening Versions of photo
Creating different versions of an image as you work can be very helpful, especially when you have to show the work to someone else for approval. Customers like choices, and if you are doing an adjustment or applying a filter to your image, you may want the flexibility of offering different versions to your customer. [...]
Lens Correction to Add Vignette
Vignette can be a good thing or a bad thing. Bad vignette generally results when a lens causes the corners of an image to get darker, when that’s not the photographer’s intention. Wide-angle lenses are especially susceptible to unwanted vignette, and the poorer the lens, the more likely images will have this unwanted unevenness. Good [...]
Print Border
I’ve found in teaching photo workshops using Adobe Lightroom that a popular feature in that software’s Print module is Stroke Border. In order to print a black line around a photo in Lightroom, check Stroke Border and drag the slider to the right to see the thickness of the black border previewed around the photo. [...]
Midtone Selection
There are several methods to select midtones in your images. Midtone selection is a popular subject because it can be the key to broad-based tonal fixes or subtle fixes to skin blemishes or architectural images. There is a midtone-selection tool built right into Photoshop, and it is part of the Color Range feature. (See Figure [...]
Quick Mask Gradients
Whether you are using Photoshop’s Lens Blur filter or trying to use a Curve on an area of a photo where the tone graduates, gradient masks are a key to success. Whenever you want to make a gradient in a mask in Photoshop, turn to Quick Mask for the solution. Quick Mask has been around [...]
Precise Cursors
Getting a paint stroke to be precisely on the desired pixels in an image can be extremely difficult. Very often photos have straight edges where something that needs to be cloned, healed, or painted lies along the edge. That edge might be a person’s shoulder or the curb of a street, a hem in a [...]
Negative Vibrance
The Vibrance adjustment is available in Photoshop’s companion RAW editor Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom, and now Adobe Photoshop CS4. Vibrance provides a slider that will add saturation to the less saturated colors in an image first. Add the ability to ignore skin tones, and Vibrance becomes one of Photoshop’s super-tools. Vibrance is used all the [...]
Lens Blur at Light Speed
Lens Blur is a terrific tool, and just one of the filters in Photoshop that’s very useful to photographers. But I’m not here specifically to teach you Lens Blur because that might take the entire chapter. I’m here to give you an unusual technique that will speed up your work with Lens Blur and save [...]
