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Tutorial 14 re-released

I've been steadily moving my old shows over to YouTube. It makes sense to put the content where the viewers are. But in the process I realised that there's a lot of stuff in those shows that was timely when it was released but much less interesting now. So the new versions of the old shows will, from now on, be stripped down to just the important bit - the tutorial. I'm also increasing the video quality everywhere I can and uploading 1080p versions where possible. As always these videos will remain free and you'll be able to download them if you wish.

So in that vein I've re-released Tutorial 14 in improved quality and stripped down to just the meat of the shows. It was a long one - 8 chapters but there's a TON of good photoshop tips in there and darn near all of it is still relevant to CS6 today.  So go and check it out. Here's links to the YouTube pages or you can find Tutorial 14 in the Video Tutorials section of the site here.

 

 

Tutorial 24, Chapter 2 - Smoke pictures

Part 2 of our tutorial on shooting smoke pictures shows you how to edit the pictures once you've taken them. I'm using Lightroom 4 for this tutorial but the same techniques could be applied in just about any photo editing package. I'll show you how to improve contrast and tonality, how to get a clean background and then invert the image and add vibrant colours. After that it's all down to your own creativity to see the possibilities within the picture and bring them out.

Tutorial 24, Chapter 2 - Smoke pictures

PW177 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 6 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

In the final chapter of our free Nik Color Efex Pro 4 tutorial we take a look at the vignette filter then complete our round-trip back to Lightroom where we do a little finishing off and then I give you my verdict on the new version of Color Efex Pro.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

Throughout the course of this tutorial we'll take a single image from the original RAW through to a finished image. This video is one part of a multi-part free video tutorial and review. You can find the other parts at photowalkthrough.com/tutorial23.

PW177 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 6 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW176 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 5 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

In chapter 5 or out free Nik Color Efex Pro 4 tutorial we take a look at the Pro Contrast filter. This isn't a new filter but it does give fantastic control over the contrast and areas of brightness in your image.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

Throughout the course of this tutorial we'll take a single image from the original RAW through to a finished image. This video is one part of a multi-part free video tutorial and review. You can find the other parts at photowalkthrough.com/tutorial23.

PW176 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 5 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW175 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 4 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

In chapter 4 of our free Nik Color Efex Pro video tutorial we look at a new filter type, Levels and Curves and learn how we can combine them with Nik Software's U-Point control points to make selective edits to our image.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

Throughout the course of this tutorial we'll take a single image from the original RAW through to a finished image. This video is one part of a multi-part free video tutorial and review. You can find the other parts at photowalkthrough.com/tutorial23.

PW175 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 4 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW174 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 3 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

In chapter 3 of our free Nik Color Efex Pro video tutorial we make our model's skin glow by using the Contast Color Range filter.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

Throughout the course of this tutorial we'll take a single image from the original RAW through to a finished image. This video is one part of a multi-part free video tutorial and review. You can find the other parts at photowalkthrough.com/tutorial23.

PW174 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 3 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW173 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 2 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

In chapter 2 of our fee Nik Color Efex Pro 4 video tutorials we take a look at the most exciting feature of the new version - stacking filters. We also look at three of the new filters, Film Efex Faded, Film Efex Nostalgic and FIlm Efex Vintage.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

Throughout the course of this tutorial we'll take a single image from the original RAW through to a finished image. This video is one part of a multi-part free video tutorial and review. You can find the other parts at photowalkthrough.com/tutorial23.

PW173 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 2 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW172 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 1 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

Today we've got another free video tutorial featuring Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software. This multi-part tutorial will cover a variety of filters, old and new show and ways to use them creatively to take an image from the original camera RAW to a finished version ready to print.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

In this first chapter we look at Color Efex Pro 4's integration with Lightroom and examine the user interface before using the Skin Softener filter. This is the first chapter of a multi-part tutorial. Find all the chapters and loads more free video tutorials on Photoshop and Lightroom at www.photowalkthrough.com

PW172 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 1 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4