Adding texture to pictures
February 12, 2008
Adding textures to sketches has proven to be an invaluable technique in the fashion design industry since the introduction of Photoshop. Rather than having to physically produce a prototype garment to see how certain fabrics may look (or worse still, imagining how it would appear) designers can scan in their sketches and in a few minutes add several different fabric textures. But this is not the only use the technique can be applied to; anyone can add any pattern or texture to any photo they desire. Read more
Transforming a photo by drawing
February 12, 2008
There’s a story that photography was invented for people who couldn’t draw. Suppose like me you are not gifted in drawing and you want to “draw” a picture? No need to resort to tracing paper: using free and commercial software, you can easily transform a photo into a very convincing drawing. These programs allow you to rework and refine the thickness and intensity of the line of a pencil.
To turn a photo into drawing, we will use commercial software Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, which is one of the best for the general public.
Photoshop Elements allows you to easily transform a photo by drawing applying some filters. Note that this tutorial will also work perfectly with “full” Photoshop thoguh some of the menus have different names. Read more
HDR for beginners
January 23, 2008
High Dynamic Range.
What is it?
Well if we look at low dynamic range (LDR) first, we can then determine what is HDR.
LDR is the typical range that is recorded by most digital sensor and film. It is generally accepted to be between 6 and 9 stops.
The human eye is capable of seeing something like 10-14stops. So often what happens when we take a photograph and look at the resulting image – it’s not what we remember. The foreground is darker than we thought, and the sky is not blue. The camera has recorded the information it can see.
High Dynamic Range, or HDR has become a term for a photographic technique to expand the range of tonal values in an image.
Spice up your images with curves
January 21, 2008
So, you’ve been somewhere amazing and taken some great photos, but the sky seems a bit dreary and the colours are too dull. This happens to everyone and can make what should be a cherished memory into a frustrating photo. But not to worry, with this tutorial you’ll not only be able to apply what you will learn about ‘Curves’ to improve your image, but understand what it actually does so you can use it in the future.
Get to grips with Raw editing
January 10, 2008
If you’re serious about digital photography then you may well shoot raw. Once you go down the raw route it becomes a minefield of which software to use, which settings to tweak, when to make edits, how to make edits. If you’re not careful then your head could explode.
If you don’t want that to happen and you shoot raw and own a copy of Photoshop CS3 then go and get “Photoshop CS3 RAW: Get the Most Out of the RAW Format with Adobe Photoshop, Camera RAW, and Bridge” (M Aaland)if you need convincing (or need a similar book for Lightroom) then read on.
Kelbytraining.com Launches New Subscription Based Online Training Classes
January 10, 2008
During December, 2007, KelbyTraining.com launched a new subscription based online training that includes a lot of the top Photoshop/Lightroom instructors all in one online experience.
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Photoshop Elements for the Mac - v6 now available
January 10, 2008
Finally there’s a new version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac. Version 4 is getting very long in the tooth and version 5, well it kind of never happened.
Let’s make a fake T-shirt
January 4, 2008
It’s Friday and time for some silliness. And when I’m looking for Friday silliness I always head over to PhotoJojo - I don’t think they will mind me calling them one of the silliest photo sites on the web. Silly - but a lot of fun.
Resize your pictures for the web - how to
December 31, 2007
Time to get down and dirty with Photoshop and resize our picture for the web. If you didn’t yet see our “basics” article then you might want to read that first. Read more
Resize your pictures for the web - the basics
December 30, 2007
We’ve all been there. You buy a shiny new digital camera, take a picture of your dog/car/sunset/mate falling over and can’t wait to share it with the world. You upload to a sharing site and get told the file is too big, you email it to a friend and they stop being your friend because their inbox is full for weeks. Well, stay tuned. This article will tell you how to resize your picture to a more acceptable size.
