Photo retouching in Photoshop» Products Photography

Before and after photo of our upcoming ebook.

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:23:20 +0000

We are working on our upcoming ebook (another ebook and video from latest masterclass will be available next week), and here I would like to show you the progress. It is not a regular "before and after" image, as before is not a one image, but a picture that showing what you can get from [...]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:

Jewelry photography retouching: Before and After.

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:09:13 +0000

Based on the responses from Alex's last post about jewelry photo session I''ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Some times I had to almost completely re-create a part of the item: it appears to be faster that to trying to restore lost finish [...]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:

Still life retouching. Glass on black, white and grey. Before and After.

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:16:32 +0000

In this post I want to show the difference in visual perception of retouched and not retouched images. There is nothing special in post-production: levels, curves, healing, cloning, transforming. Just routine work and images become more clean, crisp and finished.For some cases we should spend more time for retouching to make photos perfect. However you [...]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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aDesign makeup brushes WOW! shoot and post production in photoshop: Before and After.

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:08:55 +0000

I am glad to start a first post in New Year with our recent creative shot for our good customer, a company called aDesign. The assignment was to create an image for the front page of the company website, and should look WOW!It was really fun to work on such project and play with the [...]Related posts:

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:

Post production of cosmetic brushes. Before and after retouching.

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:50:17 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov Retouchers Genia Larionova, Anna YeninaRecently we had a photo-shoot for Anisa International, Inc. a leading cosmetic brush design and manufacturing company based in Atlanta, GA.Anisa Telwar is CEO & Founder of Anisa International. She is Creative entrepreneur who started a small distributorship in 1992 and built it into [...]Related posts:

PrimaBella is non-invasive medical device intended for treatment of nausea due to pregnancy.

admin — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:37:51 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovPrimaBella is an innovative prescription neuromodulation device worn on the underside of the wrist to reduce nausea and vomiting symptoms during pregnancy.I wish I would have this device when I was pregnant with my twins:-)Below are some examples of post-production in Photoshop, before and after.

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First AKELstudio LIVE! masterclass went well. We did it!

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:19:06 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovIt was not easy for Alex and me, because we are not a public people. But it was fun and gave us a great feeling that we did something useful:-) We are really enjoy every photo-session with water, because you never know exactly what will come up: every [...]Related posts:

Water photography webinar-masterclass (LIVE!) is scheduled for Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:50 +0000

AKELstudio glad to announce a date for our first LIVE webinar-masterclass: Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.We’ll be doing our water photography third tutorial, creating photos similar you see below. The lesson will take about an hour, plus some additional time when I can answer your questions.The registration is completely free and one click [...]Related posts:

Art product studio photography. Before and After post-production.

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:52:19 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovRecently we had an enjoyable photoshot of designed and hand made unique products for the artist Doug James.Doug James is the quintessential product designer whose blended talents as both an artist and engineer have propelled him through many artistic and design challenges to successfully create elegant, appealing and [...]Related posts:

Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:10:28 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovLighting setup, technical details, behind the scene video tutorial for these photos, as always available on our photographer's blog article: Water in product and advertisement photography: episode two released! Today I'll show you my retouching work. I really enjoyed working with such vivid bright colors. I am a color person, [...]Related posts:

Children fashion photography in studio and on location.

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:32:35 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovThese pictures are our first collaboration with my favorite children fashion designer Alla Koval. If you are searching for a truly special for your little one, visit her web site www.mylittlecitygirl.com. Her designs look fabulous and unique! Once you see it you'll never forget:-)The images was shot for [...]Related posts:

Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two (announcement)

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:38:30 +0000

AKELstudio is glad to announce a new upcoming tutorial, we are working on it right now. This is a second episode from our “using water in product photography” series (the first one is here).This time we used a carbonated water, pepper, colored lights and other ingredients:-). Enjoy a little preview, the first image form the [...]Related posts:

Water splash photography and post-production for products advertisement.

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:30:33 +0000

If you like to know the shooting details, please take a look our photographer's blog post: Water in still life and advertisement photography: Episode oneHere I'll show you the final images and a little example of post production that was done. Photography with a water usually requires many hours of retouching because of dust (hard [...]Related posts:

Product catalog photography on a white backrgound

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:49:01 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovThese are examples of images on a white background for Refrigiwear catalog. (find bonus at the end of post:-). How to clean background and how to make it really white you can find on my oldest post Is the white background really white?About the lighting setup and all [...]Related posts:

Product photography for catalog cover.

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:32:13 +0000

Recently we had a photo-session for Unitex International Inc.Unitex International Inc. are importers and distributors of bed, bathroom and kitchen linens for home, industrial, correctional and institutional markets. They asked us to shoot a photo for the catalog cover.This is the result:

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov

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