Sorry 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.
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Tutorial 9, Chapter 4 - Gun
I'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.
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Ok I know I promised to keep the show length down but I had so much competitiony goodness to tell you about this week that I kinda over-ran my 30 minutes again. Sorry! But on the bright side this week you get the chance to win a ColorVision Spyder 2 PRO in our first ever PhotoWalkthrough Challenge! The topic of the challenge is "Colour" and all you have to do to win is take a photo inspired by that topic, upload it to Flickr and tag it with "pwchallenge1".
Read MoreTutorial 9, Chapter 2 - Gun
It'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 MoreTutorial 9, Chapter 1 - Gun
Well 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.
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All sorts of exciting things happening today! First up, PhotoWalkthrough is now officially a part of the Photocast Network, which is a voluntary organisation designed to bring together the best in photography based podcasting. So, basically, if you like my show then please swing by http://www.photocastnetwork.com/ and check out the other shows listed there too. Chances are you'll love em all. And expect to see some collaborations between the various members in the future as well.
Read MoreTutorial 8, Chapter 4 - Flower Triptych
Today we have the final chapter in the Flower Triptych tutorial. Slightly shorter than usual but packed with goodness. Today we duplicate images, modify our gradient maps, paste our three images into a single document, play around with smart objects and finally print our images. Hope you enjoy it.
Read MoreTutorial 8, Chapter 3 - Flower Triptych
Part 3 of our Flower Triptych tutorial sees us finish the first of our three flowers by examining our image, creating a plan and then executing it. We do some selective darkening, add some contrast and selective lightening as well as selective sharpening and we remove a small colour cast.
Read MoreTutorial 8, Chapter 2 - Flower Triptych
This week we improve the background of our image and cover some spot editing and contrast work that really brings out the vibrant colours in our flower image.
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24 hours later than planned but this week we see the start of another new tutorial. This time I've chosen a bright colourful image inspired by Andy Warhols iconic Marilyn Monroe image. Perfect for the hot summer we're having here in the UK. This show covers how to examine the brightness values in your image and how to apply a colour altering gradient map.
Read MoreTutorial 7, Chapter 5 - Distorted Tree
At 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.
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This week in the second to last episode of this tutorial I spend quite a bit of time explaining what I'm trying to do with the light on this image and this really is the heart of this edit. It's what makes the picture what it is. I also cover levels adjustment layers and how to spread the tones in the shot more evenly across the histogram.
Read MoreTutorial 7, Chapter 3 - Distorted Tree
Here we are again, tutorial 3 of our Distorted Tree image. This time I talk a little bit about why I like the Holga style and show you some images from a Holga then go on to work on the sky of my image and generally increase the contrast.
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Yes, 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.
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This week we start a new tutorial that covers some new techniques. We'll steal a few tricks from the Holga style as well as learning a lot about how to make and save selections. This episode I spend most of my time working on Michel van Helden's image of the Latrappe Kloosterbrouwerij in the Netherlands.
Read MoreTutorial 6, Chapter 4 - Weston at Low Tide 2
This 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 MoreTutorial 6, Chapter 3 - Weston at Low Tide 2
Today 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 MoreTutorial 6, Chapter 2 - Weston at Low Tide 2
Today'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 MoreTutorial 6, Chapter 1 - Weston at Low Tide 2
Today 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.
Read MoreTutorial 5, Chapter 2 - Weir at Night
This week we have the second and final chapter in the Weir at Night tutorial. This time I show you selective lightening, some more dodging and burning and then how to add a tritone gradient.
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