Posts Tagged ‘photo editing’

Fool-Proof Photoshop Airbrushing for Dummies

With the advent of Myspace, then Facebook, and who knows what’s coming next, the whole world has become an endless source of perfect skin and magazine cover worthy supermodels. Now that Photoshop is a verb and household name, you might as well get in the know and make yourself (or your girlfriend/boyfriend) uncommonly perfect.

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Photoshop Technique: Digital Airbrush

Airbrushing is (or was) a process typically used to remove minor imperfections in portrait, model, and fashion photography (among other uses in photography). I’ll be presenting a digital airbrush technique in Photoshop intended to slightly smooth out skin textures in close up portraits. Sharp lenses and good lighting can produce very detailed captures, including all the small wrinkles and pores. Sometimes you just want to smooth out all those little things.

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Tone Curves: Final Tips, Tricks, and Things to Avoid

We’ve had quite a journey with this whole histogram and curves ordeal. And now I’d like to wrap things up with a few tips, tricks, and things to avoid when using curves. It’s a fairly simple tool once you begin to work with it and understand it, but there are a few non-obvious items worth pointing out.

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Nonlinear Curve Adjustments and Histograms

We’re basically building on our basic understanding of the histogram and our knowledge of linear curve adjustments to take the next step into nonlinear adjustments (the curvy curves). What I’m going to show here are some very basic curves at each extreme. The single bend and double bend curves are most commonly used during post-processing, but these are not the only options.

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Linear Curve Adjustments and Histograms

In this article, I’ll be discussing how various curve adjustments affect the image and the image histogram — but only in the realm of linear curves. So… linear… curves? Yup, you can do straight lines in the curves adjustment and they have their applications. So let’s look at a few extremes, then I’ll show you how to apply the linear adjustment to an image in need.

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Tone Up Your Curves Skills

Curves adjustments are complicated... so let's start learning the basics.

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How Well Do You Know Your Curves?

When it comes to manipulating your images, do you use curves adjustments or are you totally unfamiliar with this tool?

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Photo Editing With Histograms: 6 Basic Settings

The image histogram is often treated as a thing of "extra information" and treated as a "good way to check for clipping". While it's true that the histogram provides a good check for highlight and shadow clipping, it also serves a greater purpose in post processing. Our mortal eyes are no match for the mighty histogram when it comes to tricky photos. Understanding the histogram and how your image editing software interacts with it can greatly improve your productivity and quality output.

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