Today we conclude our free lightroom video tutorial on picture packages and printing from lightroom 3. We see how to make a picture package layout, customise it with your company name and website and even make a custom package that uses more than one image.
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PW141 - Lightroom 3 Tips - Picture Packages
In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial we take a look at Picture Packages - an extremely useful feature for event photographers wanting to print and sell their images at the event. We see how to make a picture package layout, customise it with your company name and website and even make a custom package that uses more than one image.
Read MorePW140 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 3 - Northwest Wales Sunset
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.
Read MorePW139 - 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 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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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 MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 4 on TFTTF445
The final, fourth chapter of my Lightroom post processing segment on Photo Day 2009 has been released and is available to watch as part of Chris Marduardt's show, Tips From The Top Floor Ep.445. Chris took over the TWiT cottage for a day while Leo was on vacation and filled the day with Photography tips, discussion and interviews.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 3 on TFTTF442
Part 3 of my Lightroom tutorial given on Photo Day 2009 was just published on Chris Marquardt's Tips From The Top Floor feed. Photo Day was a full day of Photography based tips, interviews, discussions and tutorials broadcast on Leo Laporte's TWiT network - Leo handed Chris the keys to the cottage for a day while he was on vacation. I was lucky enough to take part in the day and this video is from one of my Lightroom tutorials.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 2 on TFTTF436
Chris Marquardt has just posted episode 436 of Tips From The Top Floor which contains part 2 of my contributions to Photo Day 2009. Photo Day was a full day of photography based podcasting run on Leo Laporte's TWiT network and hosted by Chris. I was lucky enough to be involved a couple of times in the day and this video is from the session I did showing how to post process a rather nice black and white landscape shot from Portmeirion in Wales.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 1 on TFTTF429
My good friend Chris Marquardt has recently been posting episodes from the Photo Day that aired on Twit Live in 2009. I was privileged to be part of the day and Chris recently posted part of my contribution. You can find the episode on the Tips From The Top Floor website as tfttf429 - Photoday 2009 Video - Post Processing with John Arnold - Part 1 of 4. There's a link on the page there to download the MP4 version, which is much higher quality than the embedded YouTube show. I recommend viewing that one.
Read MorePW101 - Tutorial 17, Chapter 2 - Removing coloured light with Lightroom
This is the second and final part of Tutorial 17 where we do some further colour cast removal and then work on light and tone, guiding the eye and some dodging and burning. This show is in the new shorter PhotoWalkthrough style which should enable to me to get more episodes out.
Read MorePW100 - Tutorial 17, Chapter 1 - Removing coloured light with Lightroom
In our 100th show today we start a brand new tutorial where we look at how to remove nasty reflected coloured light from a photo. We also have our usual assignment and the entries to the last assignment set to music.
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 MorePW98 - Decorating a Netbook
In this stand-alone tutorial we have a little fun decorating a netbook using our own photograph printed on moo stickers. We cover how to create the stickers in Photoshop using guides and slices then we have a quick timelapse of sticking them on the netbook. As a bonus Moo.com have given us a promo code to get 10% discount on the stickers used so you can try this yourself. Use promo code pwtmoo09 at the checkout.
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.
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