Photo retouching in Photoshop» Photoshop Tips and Lessons

HDR without a tripod: Photoshop vs Photoshop+Photomatix Pro 4 vs Photomatix Pro 4

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:10:38 +0000

I was challenged by interesting question from Google+ discussion: what post processing is preferred if you are shooting a multiple exposure HDR without a tripod. I've tested 3 methods:1. Align and Merge to HDR image in Photoshop2. Stack and align bracketed exposures in Photoshop and then assemble HDR image in Photomatix Pro 43. Align and [...]Related posts:

How to make film look photos in 1 minute: Our weekend camping

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:27:28 +0000

Our Last weekend was awesome! There were lake, forest, live music, camp fire, and great company. Thank you Sasha and Rasa for inviting us.Below are some photos of my family. Post production have took only a couple minutes to drag sliders in Adobe camera RAW converter. This is a such creative and easy process:-)At the [...]Related posts:

How to do Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5. Jewelry photography post production.

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:13:11 +0000

I noticed a big interest to the focus stacking topic. I will explain a post production part in Photoshop CS5 more detailed. You can read and see the video of a shooting part on Alex's blog Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5So, we have a sequence of images: 5, 8, 12. I mean, as [...]Related posts:

How to get a professional up-to-date portfolio for a reasonable money.

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:59:40 +0000

If you are on the way to create new or update your old portfolio this post is for you. I can show you 3 different ways to do it: easy, intermediate and advanced.1. EasyOnly for $50 per year you can get Gorgeous Portfolio with your own domain and without any upload limits. iPhone & iPad [...]Related posts:

How to do a water splash butterfly. Post production.

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:09:45 +0000

Some time ago I was impressed with stunning water splash photos some photographers did. I saw flowers, birds, bulls, horses. I was curious how they actually did it?Now I know the answer:-) First, you need a huge set of water splash images and second, many hours of assiduous work. And here is my water splash butterfly:As [...]Related posts:

Light brush painting. Post-production.

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:42:42 +0000

Recently Alex had a new post on Pixiq.com: Using light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography. It's not a new technique, we play with it almost 10 years ago, but I think this method is pretty spectacular and expressive.At the same time working with a light brush is so very creative process that it's [...]Related posts:

Glamour portrait retouching. Before and after. Useful links.

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:38:10 +0000

I love retouching! I can spend hours and days working on a single photo. Retouching for me is relaxation, inspiration, meditation, excitement, satisfaction and more:-) I can only wish I could have done it earlier in my life. I still have to learn a lot and learn fast and deep. If you love Photoshop like I [...]Related posts:

Recent discovery: Dr. Brown’s Adobe Photoshop CS5 Script – Edit Layers in ACR.

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:47:40 +0000

Update: This script is for edit psd layers in Adobe Camera RAW ONLY, because you can open any TIFF and JPEG through Bridge. Right click on the image and choose Open in Camera RAW... I did not know it. Thank you guys from LinkedIn:-)-------Some days, working on customer's images (not RAW), I had a dream:-) [...]Related posts:

Advanced sharpening for web in one click and full control.

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:00:23 +0000

There are many tutorials how to sharp images for web, and I tested majority of them. Finally I found the one which works best for me. I did not invent the algorithm, big thanks to smart Russian guy, photographer Pavel Kosenko for his research, summarizing the knowledge and finally action he created. I use this [...]Related posts:

Using curves in photoshop for retouching. Very useful trick.

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:03:10 +0000

I was asked couple times what the strange mode I used in my video. So, here is the answer:I used curves presets to see differences in gradients and colors. When I apply various curves even slight difference in color or brightness become extremely visible. Here are two examples:1. On this image I want to see [...]Related posts:

Landscape photography. My post production.

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:03:38 +0000

I have been asked many times about the post production I do for a landscape photography. This post should answer some of the questions, as I'll show you how and what I did on the images from our trip to Key West, FL. A funny thing is that there is no Photoshop (by it's common meaning): [...]Related posts:

Product photography behind the scene video: Post production part.

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:20:23 +0000

A recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass you can find at Alex's blog. Here is a post production part with some explanations what I did. Hope you will find it interesting:-)

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Retouching water splash in photoshop. Video.

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:54:33 +0000

This video shows my post production process in photoshop. This is my first video, I think water and product retouching is hard to find, and I am sure my video will be very interesting for those who do products.Some time ago I start to record retouching process of almost every image I work on. So more [...]Related posts:

How and where learn High End Photo Retouching. Tips and resources.

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:58:42 +0000

If you believe in self-education (like I do), you don't need to go to a school or college to become a retoucher, you should only know the right places where to find an information and spend many many hours, days and years for practice. I can help you with right resources where you can learn [...]Related posts:

Architecture photography post-production and retouching for Vieler International.

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:45:05 +0000

Half year ago we did a product photo-session for Vieler International.Now Andre Vieler asked us to shoot exterior photos of the whole plant. We used a fork lifter to raise the photographer to a height where was much less perspective distortion. This works much better then any tilt/shift lens, I wish we could have such [...]Related posts:

Portrait retouching manual and bonus links

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:43:21 +0000

It is not to easy to find lessons or tutorials how Pro prepare images of models for magazines and advertising. I try to accumulate information what I learn from different professional retouchers in this tutorial.I do not pretend to "guru" status, you can correct me. I just want to learn how to do sublime retouching [...]Related posts:

Is the white background really white?

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:08:45 +0000

or how to make a white background (RGB:255.255.255) and prepare image for a catalog print Step 1. Finding not white areas of the backgroundConvert photo from Raw using Raw Converter Duplicate layer Create New fill ore adjusted layer/Curves:Than drag the graph from the left lower corner to the right lower corner:Now we can see that our "white" is [...]Related posts:

Our first studio workshop and master class in Atlanta

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:54:46 +0000

Studio lighting for fashion and beauty photography workshop. Location: AKELstudio - Atlanta based photography studio. Photographer: Alex KoloskovWe had a great first workshop and master class experience and got beautiful photos of our students:-) More technical information about studio workshop and lighting set up please read at Studio lighting for [...]Related posts:

Lens distortion and perspective correction in architecture photography

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:53:47 +0000

This article is for those who do not have tilt shift adapter or TS lens and still do architecture photography. I'll show you how to correct perspective distortion using Photoshop. Camera lens distortions occur frequently when taking pictures of architectural subjects with a wide-angle lens and the need to use an external program. Distortion will always [...]Related posts:

How to determine overexposed and underexposed areas using Photoshop

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:26:04 +0000

note: This lesson will be useful for photo retouchers, who will be dealing with partially overexposed image, where important to see exactly where overexposed areas is. For example, if you need to get completely white background, etc.Couple years ago we found that a histogram on the camera or different software's don't show overexposed areas correctly. [...]Related posts: