Today we complete our free photoshop video tutorial showing how we turned that badly exposed RAW file into a bright, colourful and interesting seascape. In this show we do some dodging and burning using a bitmap layer and then we use a curves layer with overlay blending mode to darken the corners as a vignette. Finally we use a neat technique for adding a lens flare to the image without the filter making a destructive edit.
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PW139 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 2 - Northwest Wales Sunset
In today's show we show you how to use the lightroom adjustment brush and graduated filters to boost contrast and colour and add a sunset glow on the horizon. We then move over into Photoshop for the rest of our tutorial where we begin with some dust spot removal with the spot healing brush tool to deal with lens and sensor dust. Then we use a curves adjustment layer and paint on its layer mask to boost the oranges in our horizon glow.
Read MorePW138 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 1 - Northwest Wales Sunset
Today we start a brand new tutorial showing how I turned a very challenging exposure into a very pleasing seascape with rich blue, purple and yellow tones using Adobe Lightroom and then Photoshop. In this episode I use colour balance and graduated filters to add the colour toning and some sky darkening. I also bring back detail in the very light and dark regions by using the fill light and recovery sliders.
Read MorePW135 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 4 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today we finish up our tutorial 20 lightroom 3 and photoshop cs5 video tutorials with a show all about creating your slideshow, adding a graphical identity plate overlay, watermarking your images and then exporting the slideshow as a video.
Read MorePW134 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 3 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today we have chapter 3 of our tutorial using the new features of both Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Today we do some dodging and burning, cropping, saving with transparency and take a look at stacks in the Lightroom filmstrip.
Read MorePW133 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 2 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
In today's free Photoshop CS5 tutorial we continue making our fashion label by using the quick selection and refine edge tools then add our text using the type tool and give it some shape and texture with layer effects and texture inside a clipping path.
Read MorePW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today's show does double duty as both part of our Lightroom 3 review and also the first chapter in a new tutorial. We'll be adding fashion labels to our photographs as a fun way to brand a Lightroom 3 slideshow and I'll show you how the label is made by using new features from Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. If you want to see what we're aiming for I've uploaded the Lightroom 3 Slideshow to my Flickr.
Read MorePW128 - Tutorial 19 - High Key, High Colour Portraits
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.
Download the source image and try this yourself.
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PW126 - Photoshop CS5 Review - Repoussé Tool
In today's show we examine one of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS5 Extended, the Repoussé Tool. This tool can be used to extrude shapes and turn them into 3D objects. I'll show you how it all works and then introduce you to another tool that does many of the same things but for far less money.
Read MorePW125 - Photoshop CS5 Review - Puppet Warp Tool
In today's Photoshop CS5 Video Review we take a look at the new Puppet Warp tool to see if it's of any use to photographers and to help you decide whether CS5 is worth upgrading.
Read MorePW124 - Photoshop CS5 Review - Refine Edge Tool
In today's show we take a look at the improved refine edge tool. We put Photoshop CS5 through its paces on a series of real world images and show you where it does a great job and where it doesn't do so well.
Read MorePW123 - Photoshop CS5 Features - How good is HDR Pro?
In today's show we take a look at another of the new Photoshop CS5 features aimed at photographers, HDR Pro. It's sure to be an improvement on CS4 but how good is it really? How does it compare, for example, with HDRSoft's Photomatix Pro. Check out today's show for the full scoop on how HDR Pro works and how the results look compared to the competiton. We also take a look at the new HDR Toning feature designed to apply HDR style effects to single images.
Read MorePW122 - Photoshop CS5 Features - Content Aware Fill
In today's show I'm going beyond the perfect world demos of the new Photoshop CS5 features by putting the headline feature, Content Aware Fill, through it's paces and showing you where it works well and where it doesn't. Join me to find out if Photoshop CS5 is a worthwhile upgrade for you.
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