In this video tutorial I'll be covering some techniques for making hair highlights in your portraits look beautiful. Rather than just enhancing the highlights, we'll also be discussing how to deal with common issues that arise when shooting dark haired models. Some of the tools that will be discussed include:
Layer blend modes
Channels based selection and adjust[...]
Monthly archives: February 2013
Blending Multiple Exposures in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll be discussing some of the tools available in Photoshop to help us blend together one or more exposures without the use of HDR tools. The reason I often like to blend exposures manually is that it gives me more control of the specific areas being blended and tends to produce a more natural and less noisy looking image than traditional HDR pr[...]
Building a Facebook Following for Photographers
A little while back I wrote about using Facebook advertising in an effort to increase the number of likes on your Facebook page. My findings for advertising were generally negative and I promised that I would follow up with some alternative ways to help boost your Facebook following organically. If you haven't read the previous post already, I urge you to do so here i[...]
Mastering Color Adjustments in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll be covering the various ways that you can adjust the color of your images. There are countless ways to adjust colors within Photoshop so here I'll be looking at 6 approaches that I use on a daily basis within my images. The tools shown here will work equally well for fashion, portrait, landscape, architecture and all other types of images. [...]