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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PW121 - Tutorial 18, Chapter 3 - Draganize a Portrait
The final chapter of our Photoshop CS4 tutorial showing how to create a Dragan effect using a portrait. In this chapter we create the gritty high contrast effect so characteristic of Dragan's work along with some colour work to give the image character. We finish our work with a little more dodging and burning through the draganizing layers to get the precise draganized effect we're looking for.
Read MorePW120 - Tutorial 18, Chapter 2 - Draganize a Portrait
We continue to work on applying the Dragan effect to our portrait in Tutorial 18, Chapter 2, starting with some work on fixing eye colour with colour blending mode and some more work on preparing the image for the draganizing layers. We then move on to boosting contrast and fixing colours by using curves and hue/saturation layers.
Read MorePW118 - Tutorial 18, Chapter 1 - Draganize a portrait
Today we start Tutorial 18 where I show you my take on how to Draganize a portrait using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Discover the Dragan effect by viewing Andrzej Dragan's amazing portraits if you're not familiar with his style. This is a 3 part free video tutorial and this section lays the ground work with getting the light and detail levels right using dodging and burning layers with soft light, hard light and a wacom pen and touch tablet so that the later, draganizing layers will look right. We also perform some basic colour correction using a curves layer.
Read MorePW99 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip 4 - Targeted Adjustments
On today's show we've got exciting news about a special Photo Day on TWiT Live, hosted by our good friend Chris Marquardt. I'll be joining Chris on air at 4pm pacific (midnight UK time). We've also got another quick tip showing some of the new targeted adjustment features in Photoshop CS4. These features have been ported over from Lightroom and make editing your images much more natural. And of course we have a new assignment ready for our next show - the big Episode 100!
Read MorePW97 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip 3
Today we introduce the new CS4 tabbed windows interface and show you how to wrestle under control the tool palettes. We've also got a brand new composition segment showing you how to shoot panning shots with all the basics plus some advanced tips. There's a new assignment and we review the entries to our last assignment, Pencil, to the music of Matthew Ebel.
Read MorePW95 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip 2
In today's show we have a really useful and interesting viewer question about workflow where I really get into what I typically do with a large set of photos when I need to process them. Then we take some more time with Photoshop CS4 and discover what I think is the most compelling new feature. We finish with the entries to last week's Light and Shadow assignment set to the music of Jason Reeves.
Read MorePW88 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip - The Adjustment Panel
Today we've got the start of a new short series of quicktips on Adobe Photoshop CS4 and one of the new features - the Adjustment panel that really makes one of the most frequent Photoshop actions much quicker and more intuitive. As well as that we've got a viewer question and answer, some news of more workshops and a new assignment.
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