This article is supposed to accompany this one. Oh well. I kept putting it off because explaining anything having to do with Photoshop is complicated. So I decided to make it more pictorial that “word-orial”….ugh….did I just say that? Anyway, with many images and few words here’s how I assembled this image in Photoshop:
Ah, yes. It’s a new year, and time for this young man to turn his thoughts to color (I have no life). But seriously, if you care at all about Photoshop, and want a super-easy way to improve the color of just about any photo, you owe it to yourself to check out the L.A.B. color space.
In my last article I presented a video tutorial on how I lit and shot the picture below. This new video picks up where the other one left off. It is about the post-production Photoshop work. The fact is, no one takes the image right out of their camera, especially a DSLR, without doing at least SOME post work on it. DSLRs have a limited dynamic range and a host of other shortcomings that can be improved in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, Aperture, Camera Raw, or even the free Picasa!! Film always had the darkroom….we have software. Either way, the idea is to improve the capture.
Compositing in Photoshop is essential for the images I like to create. There are so many awesome functions inside of Photoshop…..even Elements for that matter…..that provide the means for combining several photos into one image. This video deals with Smart Objects……which I use a lot, and a cool use of the Luminosity Blending Mode to create more detail, and how I combined several images to create the final.
Restoring an old photograph is never easy, and almost never the same. But there are some amazing tools in Photoshop created specifically for this job.
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