This week we have a quick video tutorial on changing make-up - in this case eye shadow - using frequency separation. While frequency is typically used for retouching skin, the technique can be incredibly useful when making drastic color changes such as this one. In a nutshell, we'll be replacing eye shadow with skin tones in order to make the make-up more subdued.
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Creating Reflections and Aurora Processing in Photoshop
This weeks tutorial will feature the beautiful work of my friend Nagesh Mahadev who took this amazing shot in Northern Norway. For those that haven't seen his work, be sure to check out his incredible set of landscapes on his 500px and Facebook pages.
While our focus will be to punch up the reflection of the Aurora, we'll also be making some sharpness and color adj[...]
Creating Realistic Starburst Effects in Photoshop
In this video tutorial we'll be mixing photo editing and graphic art to create our own starburst lens flare effects and appling them to an image. You don't really need any sort of graphic skills to do this as the process mainly involves manipulation through scaling, rotating and applying filters. The whole tutorial can be completed on Adobe Photoshop CS3 and onward.
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Lighting Effects and Composite Blending
In this fairly extensive video tutorial I'll be covering a variety of ways to enhance and add lighting effects to your image. In the case of composites, we'll look at some ways to use light and coloring to make them look a bit more believable and improve the blend between the subject and background.
We'll start with the above composite image and work through th[...]
Creating Beautiful Hair Highlights in Photoshop
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[...]
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[...]
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. [...]
Creating Long Exposure Sky Effects in Photoshop
After several requests, I've decided to put together a video outlining the steps for adding a long exposure motion effect to the sky in your landscape or architectural images. The below video works for just about any version of Adobe Photoshop CS so you don't have to use CS6 like you see here.