Lesson about ageing and deterioration
This is a lesson for those, who like old photos, for those, who want to try to stylize photos and make them look old. Sometimes using such a technique is defensible by the genre of the photo. For example, cityscape (if architecture allows), elements of buildings and objects of art, old constructions etc. Such a style is used very often at posed portrait genre together with corresponding entourage.
I tell all this for you to understand that applying this technique is useful, when it is really necessary to accentuate subject and composition....
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Out of the shadow
Frequently during picture retouching we have to change the object lightning, sometimes by changing time of the day from day to night. At this tutorial I will try to explain you what should be done to get such result from this original picture. Open the original picture at Photoshop. Create a new clean layer. Determine the main tonality of the original picture and choose the darkest colour of our tonality form the colour swatches. At this tutorial I used dark red (close to black). Fill the new layer with chosen colour and change layer’s features to “Multiply”....
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Simulate hair. Part: portrait afterwork. Recommendations.
Retouching portrait we frequently face with a hair redesign problems. There are a lot of methods to modify haircuts or other object hair coats. On my opinion below method is the most successful. So I choose basic picture to learn how to simulate hair. Maybe we will modify beard?
We create new document (size 450x459 pixels). Then create new transparent layer Layer>New Layer. At the layer we paint a little hair with hard gray colour brush (diameter 2-3 pixels).
Then we go to Edit>Difine Brush Preset, find there our brush and name it “boroda”...
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Expressive sky. Part: landscape after-work. Recommendations.
At this lesson we will study tools essential to give a sky at your picture expressiveness and tragedy.
These are low level corrections for those who have recently started working with graphics editors.
Let us start.
Well, for beginning we need any picture. Let us take the one we have already used before – picture of lonely fisherman.
I want to notice that it is desirable that your picture has a sky and it is very desirable the sky has surface pattern.
If it is not so and instead of sky and clouds you have white space then you need to import sky from another your picture. It is useful to have your own set of different kind of sky and clouds. As for me sometimes I took pictures of only sky and nothing else. The sky could be extremely beautiful if y...
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“Added product” definition. Photoergonomics (ñ).
Let us continue discussion “masterpiece button”. Today we will talk about added product. Remind you that before we studied picture as a “product” and use “three-level product analyze” conception for it. We divided the picture into added product, main product and essence. Thus, below is short review of “added product” (AP). Before I have already described what it is and what for you need it: image form (size), easy browsing (additional editing to easy browsing), tone, name etc. Let us see AP features using this picture as example:...
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«Essence» definition. Picture individuality and uniqueness.
This article is continuation of the discussion classified as “masterpiece button”. Here I will try to superficially explain the meaning of key concept - product essence. Remind you that in the last article we regarded picture as a product. We stated “three-level product analysis” definition and divided the product into added product, main product and essence. You can find the article here: Masterpiece tab. Marketing basis of the demanded picture creation.
I regard as a family album not pictures which we are keeping in albums and show our relatives, but pictures stored at your PC which we do not want to look over and can not remove (I have tones of such pictures).
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Nice views round-the-clock. Using of Photoshop in picture editing. Picture creation step-by-step.
This is one of my 1st tutorial, thus I treat it very sentimental. It is called Nice views round-the-clock.
Studied at this lesson principles and basic instruments of collage creation could seem exaggerated but very useful form practical point of view.
Now let us start!
Step 1. You took a picture. The better quality of the picture the less work on the picture in future. Open Photoshop. Create Layer duplicate (Layer 1).
Step 2. Press Ctrl+L, and correct WB (I will not explain how to do it, because you should know it. If you do not know so press «Auto level» - and you will get acceptable quality).
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Isaac’s Chathedral Angels. Night shooting at noon.
Believe most of yours saw my picture “Isaac’s Chathedral Angels”. I have a lot of questions where you ask me: “Did you really take this picture at night?”, “I’ve seen a picture with the same effect which was taken at day, and I am sure you know how it could be done”, “Could you give us a lesson about it?” etc.
I will share with you some secrets and will try to describe the process of this picture creation. The 1rst that should be said – this is a collage, Photoshop. Unfortunately I did not save PSD file, thus we are to create the same picture from the beginning....
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Learn from classics. Frank M. Boggs. Graphical maps of styles.
With this article I want to open new set titled “Learn form classics”. I hope to turn the set regular.
The main of “Learn form classics” is engaged photographical analysis and understanding of great painters and photographers artworks as well as knowledge consolidation through laboratory self-examinations. We will learn together because it would not hurt you!
We will start learning form landscape genre and… Frank M.Boggs – the famous artist of XIX century. By the way, our contemporary, the person with the similar name - Carole Boggs Matthews took a part in Photoshop SC2 creation.
I have selected two similar styles Boggs artworks and we will try to analyze them from the compositional, colour and light decision point of view.
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Eyes - mirror of the soul. Part: portrait afterwork. Recommendations.
While taking a portrait we are trying to catch the most unusual and expressive way of light on special parts of object. Looking for an interesting light-to-dark pattern we can neglect of trivial details. It seems incredible but namely eyes could be the trivial details if your goal is not taking a picture of eyes. From the other side this is the detail that transfers person emotion as well as creates spirit of the image. What should we do?
In spite of the miracle light we use at the studio it is advisable to do eyes afterwork to create person image more expressive. It could be done by using additional point light source (directed to the eyes). An object generally is in motion therefore this method is not suitable. It would be easier to improve the image in e...
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Manage an image perception at process of conversion to black-and-white.
Impact of changing in conversion to b/w on the picture composition and perception.
The second part.
I want to start the article from the analysis of our space perceptive. Further I will treat perceptive as a process of our comprehension of the picture since the first look at the picture up to shaped perception of the picture when we are ready to express it verbally or kinetically.
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Button “Masterpiece”. Marketing basis for demanded art creation.
Many photographers, among them me, regret that photo camera does not have button “masterpiece”. Such a button was not provided by producers. Otherwise nearly every photographer desires to take a “masterpiece”. By set of articles “Button masterpiece” I want to share with you my vision and listen yours vision. The set is dedicated those who want to get more than just a nice picture for family album. It would explain us how to create an art which will charm people, will come out the top, will make itself conspicuous at exhibitions, will attract critics’ attention....
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Archaic vision. Discussion of conversion methods of colour picture to black-and-white.
With our colleague-photographers assistance we performed many tests of conversion colour picture to b/w. As it was supposed there were a lot of results and methods of such conversion and only a few regularities. Thus we have obvious resume – there is no single correct method of conversion from colour to b/w! Is that really so? What the photographer is guided by when he converts b/w picture from colour? Let us find out!
At the first stage we would not analyze, just let us look at the picture changing during conversion from colour to b/w. We will simplify all processes, trying to show how different conversion methods impact on the picture. During the test I deliberately will use conversion settings “on default”. In other words we will see b/w picture ...
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Basis of portrait picture at studio.
Portrait pictures could be divided into 3 main directions: genre portrait; art picture (art portrait); photo-portrait (when you have to show exact similarity).
There are a few sub-directions: children portrait, wedding portrait, family portrait, advertising portrait etc. Each of them has its own individual features but in general the rules of shooting or the fist three are the same: genre, art and photo-portrait or they will be created with a help of combined technique.
In any case the result should be suitable for owner, recognizable and transfer uniqueness of the model, face features, mimicry, mood and character. ...
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Golden section in photograpy.
The article is dedicated to the main rules and definitions of shooting and further picture editing in graphics editors. We will learn about “golden section” rule, geometrical proportions, which help us to create amazing and balanced pictures in case you use them in right and correct way.
“Golden section” rule example in photography could be main components location at the specific points – “viewing centers”. Frequently we use 4 points located at 3/8 and 5/8 distance from the edges....
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