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 MoreTutorial 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 MoreSorry it's a little late. I'm covering for someone who's off sick in my day-job at the moment so time is tight. But we got 'er done at last. This is the final episode of Michelle's Gun image and this week we add the little skulls that are hidden in the picture here and there. There are a couple of interesting applications of brushes and blending modes used there. And just for kicks I take a moment to show you layer comps as well.
Read MoreI'm back from my week away and feeling great. Today we embark upon layer blending options and layer effects when we add the text layers to Michelle's image. A variety of interesting uses of blending modes and layer masks add lots of techniques to this show and once more I run longer than I intended. Someday I'm going to have to learn the tender art of editing. Or possibly just how to shut up.
Read MoreIt's another monster of a show. This week I over-ran to 33 minutes. Sorry about that - I'll try and keep it under 30 minutes in future. Lots of good stuff in there, though. Today I talk about brushes, especially how to load brush sets and modify your own brushes to get the effect you want. We use those brushes on Michelle's Gun image to add "grunge". I also take the time to go back over some more selection techniques that I missed out last week. Turns out I could easily do an hour just on making selections alone!
Read MoreWell it's the longest, hardest show I've ever produced but at last it's here. This was a monster, taking over 7 hours from beginning of planning to the end of uploading.
Today I start looking at Michelle's Gun image and we begin by looking at the many ways to make selections and how you can save and load those selections and then use them for selectively lens blurring your images.
Read MoreAt last! Here's the final chapter in tutorial 7. In this show we cover selective blur and selective sharpening. And sorry it's late. I recorded this show before I went to Paris and then I forgot to encode and upload it before I went. So here I am launching it after I got back.
Read MoreYes, it's Saturday and the show is launching early. As I mentioned last week I'm away from today for a week so I wasn't going to be around on Monday to do a show. This is the closest point I can manage to the proper launch day so here it is early. This week I decided to cover a couple of things we've done before, spot editing and B&W conversion, but show you a number of different ways to achieve the same result. Useful stuff I hope.
Read MoreThis is the final chapter in Tutorial 6. We finish off the image with some contrast work, lightening and a vignette (of course!). We detour through some stuff about grouping layers and doing stuff through the photoshop menus (thanks to those of you that suggested that). Sorry this episode is a few hours late. I've been working on getting the website back up today and I had to wait for the DNS to update before I could add a blog entry.
Read MoreToday I'm posting this from the QE2! Yes I'm on holiday at the moment and at great expense I'm logging onto the internet from La Rochelle harbour in order to post the show. This week Tutorial 6 Chapter 3 brings you more dodging and burning and more steps from our Weston at Low Tide 2 image. This tutorial covers most of the same topics as Tutorial 1 because that tutorial is in an old flash video format and not very pretty. See you next week when I should be back home and chestnut tanned!
Read MoreToday's 20 minute tutorial continues our re-cap of ground covered in Tutorial 1. We cover lightening layers, creating actions and black and white conversion using the channel mixer plus the usual stuff about keyboard shortcuts and so on.
Read MoreToday we return to our roots a little by covering a sister image to the one that started this whole podcast off. A number of people asked me to go back and re-do Tutorial 1 since it's only available as a flash video but instead I've decided to do this Tutorial on Weston at Low Tide 2, which was shot on the same day under similar conditions and processed to give a very similar style. Also this week I've included a quick segment on a wonderful viewer image that was posted to our Flickr group.
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