Today's Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 video tutorial shows how to create the attractive high key, high contrast, bright colour portrait style that's so fashionable at the moment with companies like Venture. In this one chapter tutorial I used Photoshop CS5 to produce the effect and then show how to do the same thing using Lightroom 3. These steps work equally well in earlier versions of Photoshop as far back as CS and Lightroom 2.
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PW86 - Tutorial 16 Chapter 2 - Urban Ugliness
This week we finish up Mark Ridley's tutorial on how he produced his Urban Ugliness collection by taking a look and black and white conversion, contrast enhancement and adding vignettes all using Adobe Photoshop CS2. We also have a brand new promo code for Moo mini-cards specially for PhotoWalkthrough viewers and a special slideshow of some of the best images submitted to our Flickr group in the last few weeks.
Read MorePW85 - Tutorial 16 Chapter 1 - Urban Ugliness
Tutorial 16 marks the beginning of a 2 chapter screencast by Mark Ridley of www.highton-ridley.co.uk. Mark will show us how he's produced the high contrast black and white images using multiple different RAW processings from a single exposure. We also have the launch of a brand new competition where we'll give away a Plustek OpticFilm 7500i film scanner. And, of course, we have a new assignment.
Read MorePW73 - Quicktip - Shrinking and downsampling your images
This week we've got a quicktip - which ended up being as long as a regular show - all about downsizing your images for displaying them on the web while keeping the detail. We spend some time with Photoshop and Lightroom today.
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PW66 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 8 - Ophelia's Mother
The last chapter in tutorial 14 finishes the image off with some colour and light boosting layers. We also have a new composition segment about Silhouettes.
Read MorePW64 - Tutorial 14 Chapter 7 - Ophelia's Mother
Today we announce the winner of the "Best of 2007" competition and we take the second to last step in producing the Opelia's Mother image. This time we tackle the very tricky reflections and use the warp tool together with some neat blending and layering.
Read MorePW63 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 6 - Ophelia's Mother
This week we take another step with Jolene's Ophelia's Mother image and we see the welcome return of the composition segment where we'll be learning to get closer. We've also got the entries to the best of 2007 competition and I'll show you what I've chosen as a prize. The winner will be announced next week.
Read MorePW61 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 5 - Ophelia's Mother
Back on track this week with a solid 15 minutes or more of video tutorial covering masking, adding depth with highlight and lowlight manipulation plus smart objects and a whole lot more. We also launch the PhotoWalkthrough "Best of 2007" competition with a magical mystery prize that I've not chosen yet. Music for this week's slideshow is provided by Mindy Smith and has a smooth Christmas vibe.
Read MorePW60 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 4 - Ophelia's Mother
It's my first full show since our baby was born so little Catherine makes a brief appearance and then we're back to business with the next chapter in Tutorial 14 - Ophelia's Mother. We work with HDR images in Photoshop this time and I've replaced the composition segment with a quick Lightroom tip on cropping. And as usual there's the slideshow of the entries to last week's assignment set to some podsafe music. I picked the new Coconi track - Jewels cause "Light up" got great comments last time.
Read MorePW59 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 3 - Ophelia's Mother
This week we have a monster show talking all about HDRs using HDRsoft's Photomatix Pro. We see the different types of HDR algorithm and how they can be used to make images with very wide dynamic range out of multiple bracketed shots. We use Tone Compression and the Detail Enhancement mode.
Read MorePW58 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 2 - Ophelia's Mother
Today we continue Jolene's image, Ophelia's Mother, with some colou correction and contrast boosting. We then use the close stamp and graphics tablet to cut down on some of the image noise. In this week's composition segment we talk about s-curves.
Read MorePW57 - Tutorial 14, Chapter 1 - Ophelia's Mother
This week we start processing Jolene's image, Ophelia's Mother, by removing the vignette from the housing and then repairing the missing part of the model's foot using clone stamping. In our composition segment we talk about the causes and uses of grain in your pictures.
Read MorePW56 - Tutorial 14, Interview - Ophelia's Mother
Today we're talking to Jolene Monheim, the photographer that has become known for her amazing underwater artworks including the shot we'll be covering in the remainder of Tutorial 14 - Ophelia's Mother. In the interview we talk about how these shots are taken and conceived as well as the artistic decision that create the unique and distinctive style of her work.
Read MorePhotoWalkthrough 55 - Quick Tip 1 - Thea
This week we have the first short quick tips tutorial show on PhotoWalkthrough. We take a look at a picture with challenging lighting and show how to color correct for skin tones and then selectively reduce a single coloured light. Music for this week's closing slideshow is provided by Newton Faulkner.
PhotoWalkthrough Tutorial 13, Chapter 5 - PhotoWalkthrough Promo Shot
The final chaper in the Tutorial 13 saga. This week we make final edits to our promo image using Photoshop CS3 before taking our finished image back into Lightroom to produce various useful crops all from the same source image. Also this week we talk about Reflections in our composition segment. Music for the assignment entries is provided by Jimmie Bratcher with "Restless for the Sun".
Read MorePhotoWalkthrough Review 2 - Photoshop CS3 beta special
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PhotoWalkthrough Review is an occasional show where I review products related to photo post processing. We start with a review of Photoshop CS3 and then we have an interview with Bryan O'Neil Hughes, product manager for Photoshop with Adobe.
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