In this final chapter of Tutorial 1 we finish off our image of Weston-super-mare with a vignette, some extra steps to even up the light in the sky and add some final brightness and contrast adjustments.
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PW6 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 6 - Weston at Low Tide
In today's episode we get down to the fun part of dodging and burning our image to add shape and direct the eye of the viewer. So far we've been giving ourselves the solid foundation we need to bring the image together. Now we add expression by painting with light.
Read MorePW5 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 5 - Weston at Low Tide
This time on Tutorial 1 we take the same approach we did to the ground portion and apply it to the sky. Once again we're bringing the levels closer together by using lightening and darkening layers with layer masks.
Read MorePW4 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 4 - Weston at Low Tide
In chapter 4 of Tutorial 1 we take a look at how the ground portion of the image was edited to bring the tones together with the sky and add focus and detail using darkening and lightening layers with layer masks.
Read MorePW3 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 3 - Weston at Low Tide
Chapter 3 of our re-encoded and re-released Tutorial 1. This episode covers black and white conversion with a number of techniques for bringing out the details in your picture then finishes up with the best B&W conversion technique (at the time), the channel mixer. Please remember this tutorial was recorded when Photoshop CS2 was the latest version. This was before Lightroom and Photoshop's black and white adjustment filter existed.
Read MorePW2 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 2 - Weston at Low Tide
Chapter 2 of the re-encoding and re-release of Tutorial 1. In today's show we look at darkening layers and lightening layers. We use them to bring the sky and ground levels closer together. We also use light to start to prioritize and emphasize the elements of the shot that are going to be most important for guiding the viewer's eye.
Read MorePW1 - Tutorial 1 Chapter 1 - Weston at Low Tide
This is a re-encoding and re-release of our first ever PhotoWalkthrough tutorial. Since first starting the show your number 1 request has been to make Tutorial 1 available for download. Well I'm happy to deliver on that at long last. I'll release a show every day throughout tutorial 1 and then we'll be back to our regular shows. In this show we cover noise reduction, spot editing and layer masking.
Read MorePW95 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip 2
In today's show we have a really useful and interesting viewer question about workflow where I really get into what I typically do with a large set of photos when I need to process them. Then we take some more time with Photoshop CS4 and discover what I think is the most compelling new feature. We finish with the entries to last week's Light and Shadow assignment set to the music of Jason Reeves.
Read MorePW88 - Photoshop CS4 Quicktip - The Adjustment Panel
Today we've got the start of a new short series of quicktips on Adobe Photoshop CS4 and one of the new features - the Adjustment panel that really makes one of the most frequent Photoshop actions much quicker and more intuitive. As well as that we've got a viewer question and answer, some news of more workshops and a new assignment.
Read MorePW87 - Vintage Competition Results
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This week we look at the entries to the PhotoWalkthrough Vintage competition. I provide my thoughts on quite a few of the entries and then we pick semi finalists, finalists and the winner.
Read MorePW86 - Tutorial 16 Chapter 2 - Urban Ugliness
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 MorePW85 - Tutorial 16 Chapter 1 - Urban Ugliness
Tutorial 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 MorePW84 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Keywording
It's the end of our second week of Lightroom 2 tips and today we look at all the myriad ways Adobe have given us to add keywords to our images. I know it's something most of us shy away from doing. Who needs another post processing step when all we're really interested in is how the picture looks? But keywording is one of those tasks that given just a little of prior thought can be fast, consistant and incredibly useful. So let's delve into the tools we have available.
Read MorePW83 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Post crop vignettes
Those of you that know me know how much I love my vignettes. Well Adobe made me very happy with Lightroom 2. They added a post-crop vignette feature that does everything I could have wanted. So today Im going to show you all about how to use it.
Read MorePW82 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Export Plugins
Today’s show is a bit off-plan. I intended to show you the new features of LR2 but what I’m showing today is stuff you could already do in LR1. Adobe did make it a little tidier and cleverer so I guess it counts. Today we’ll look at how to setup export plugins that give lightroom more useful export capabilities. In particular we’ll see a couple of different ways to upload to Flickr directly from Lightroom. We’ll also look at where you can find more interesting and useful plugins.
Read MorePW81 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced Graduated Filters
Today we continue looking at our landscape image. We've already corrected the exposure in the sky but now it's time to get a little more creative by bringing the sky and ground tones together and then adding a smoke coloured filter. We also fix up some more light issues and refocus the viewer's attention using a little more adjustment brush.
Read MorePW80 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Neutral density graduated filter
Today we work on a landscape image with an over exposed sky. We do some cropping and rotation to begin with followed by a little spot editing to remove some distractions. Then we get to work with the Graduated Neutral Density Filter to fix up the sky and bring the tones in the image closer together.
Read MorePW79 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced adjustment brush tips
Today we round out the first week of Lightroom 2 tips with some advanced techniques for use with the Adjustment Brush. We also look at spot editing, snaphots, the non-destructive history in Lightroom and how to make graduated edits without using a Wacom tablet. Look out next week for a second week of Lightroom 2 tips!
Read MorePW78 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush presets
Today we move on to a picture of my sister and do a little beauty retouching with the soften skin adjustment brush preset. We also do some cropping, rotation and tweaking the colour temperature.
Read MorePW77 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush clarity and saturation
Sticking with the adjustment brush we move on to a new image today and use clarity and saturation to re-focus the eye and draw attention to a different part of the picture.
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