Here’s a quick little video that shows a colling lighting effect and gives some basic info about your histogram and info palette.
Happy Editing!
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Holy Crudola! I love this action! This action is Honey Daze and it’s available in my Classic Action Pack or in the Whole Combo Action Pack in the store.
Holy Buddha! This makes me want to go create more actions! And that brings me to my great topic of the day, Freebie Friday. Right, now there are two free actions available in the store and today…I’m adding a third, Size for Web and Border! If you are a blogger this action is a must have. It will size your actions to a max width of 400 px and add a thin border. So with one click, your image will end up just like this.
The border is a semi-transparent black so that it will go with any type of shot. You can find this action, along with other freebies and actions to purchase here.. The advantages to using actions is speed and you can use actions when you batch process (lots of images at once). But you don’t need an action to do this. You can do it yourself by going to the top left of Photoshop and do the following:
Good luck and Happy Photoshop Editing! So I broke up with my computer last night. Things got pretty bad, so bad in fact, I just couldn’t get the audio to sync on this video. You know these custody issues can be pretty rough. The video does show how to take a fairly crappy picture and make it look pretty good so I’m posting the video anyway. When I get set up with my new computer, I’ll re-record this. You can download the free Fall Texture Pack here that was featured in the video or by going to the “Freebies and Buy Now” page in the menu at the top of this page. The action Honey Daze (from the Whole Combo or Classics Pack) that was also featured in the video is available for purchase there as well. Have a great weekend! I’ll be back with my new beau on Monday:)
Isn’t this a great shot? This was shot by Heather Barnum of the Intrepid Agency. She’s my agent. Ok, she’s not really my PR agent, I just like to say “my” agent. Heather is a sweet friend. This is her baby daughter L.’s first snow (she’s not much of a baby anymore actually). Heather shot it with a camera phone because that’s all she had at the time. Look at the magic she captured! When she shared it with me, I knew we could take this moment and make it even more. The following is step by step edit Photoshop Tutorial for beginners and more advanced users as well.
Above is the orginal shot. When I first look at this picture I think what a wonderful moment has been caught here. I want to focus more on the moment and less on the surrounding environment. I don’t want to crop it too much because I want to keep the leaves and the fresh snow.
So now I have this. The picture has a lot grey midtones. Why? Remember, the camera simply can not see what your eye can. It can only see so much information. We use Photoshop to change that. So the first thing I’m going to do is to make a levels adjustment and then add contrast.
So for a review, my steps so far have been this: Next, I’m going change those leaves because they are bugging me. I want the leaves to have more of an autumn feel.
If you want to do more advanced steps you can make selctions with your lasso and feather by 25 px and by using Curves or Levels, bump up dark areas or bring down areas. Remember the eye goes to the area of greatest contrast and we want to do that here.
I circled with brown some of what I darkened and circled with white some of what what I lightened. If this makes you nervous, move on:) The last thing I did was to add a vignette and a blur. You can add a Vignette, by going to the top of Photoshop Filter>Distort>Lens Correction>Vignette>to whatever number you like. By using the minus, you get a dark vignette. By using the + sign you get a white vignette. Then I added a blur by going to . I erased through to her little face and hands. I will show you how to this in a video tutorial next week. Beginners, I will do a tutorial next week to show you how to use the lasso and use the blur filter. Easy simple and very effective. I added border as I showed you in last weeks tutorial.
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