Archive for 'Photo Retouch'

Creative Use of Off-Camera Flash and Ultra-Wide in Wedding Photography

Creative Use of Off-Camera Flash and Ultra-Wide in Wedding Photography

This is one of several images shot at a fall wedding in Eastland, a beautiful region in the North Island of New Zealand. The bride, groom and I were flown to this location for an hour [...]

10 Cool Places to Learn the Art of Photoshop

10 Cool Places to Learn the Art of Photoshop

The great thing about the internet is how much people are willing to share a heap of valuable information. When it comes to our favourite post-processing software, then it’s staggering the amount of great information on [...]

Photoshop – Dodge and Burn Using Curves for Monochrome Images

Photoshop – Dodge and Burn Using Curves for Monochrome Images

While there are many methods to convert colored images to monochrome, the initial result is hardly satisfying. Much like traditional black and white film images, the images usually require some darkroom magic to bring out the [...]

COLOR – BLACK AND WHITE – SEPIA MIXING PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL.

COLOR – BLACK AND WHITE – SEPIA MIXING PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL.

This tutorial will show you how to transform a standard color photo into a mix of colors, black and white and sepia in a fast and easy process. Layer —> New adjustment layer —> Channel mixer. [...]

Using LAB Color Adjustments

Using LAB Color Adjustments

  Creativity in the Photoshop Darkroom by Harold Davis Intro Image: The color effects in this image of a Poppy core were achieved using LAB color adjustments.   In a previous column, Sharpening in LAB Color, I showed you how to use [...]

9 Useful Tutorials on Black and White Portraiture

9 Useful Tutorials on Black and White Portraiture

Everyone loves the traditional charm of a classic black and white portrait. Black and white can add depth, drama and glamour to your shot and so, here are some great basic (and not so basic) black [...]

7 Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques

7 Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in October, 2009. A quick glance through any photography [...]

Converting to Black and White

Converting to Black and White

Creativity in the Photoshop Darkroom by Harold Davis As a photographer, why would you intentionally limit yourself to the values available in one color channel when—with a full color model—you can have a virtually unlimited palette [...]

Cinemagraph Tutorial

Cinemagraph Tutorial

I do love the cinemagraph, it makes the photo more beautiful in other way. I never try this, but i know the way to perform this. I’d like to share the tutorial from Christoper Mathew which [...]