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Photography basics Part 1

So this Part 1 of the basics of photograph editing. I’m going to use a photo of me when I shot my first buck. Credit to my uncle for taking a good photograph.

Before

After

Always try to use Adobe Bride for opening photos. If you have a Digital SLR camera when open your image it should open in Adobe RAW and there you should start with:

Temperature – Slide it around a bit to see what it does, it makes your photo look cold or warm. I like a photo that is a bit on the cold side, but it’s all personal choice.

Tint – I would recommend leaving it on 0. But remember to play around with it to see if you get a specific result you want.

Exposure – If your image is too bright, use the exposure slider to darken it a bit.

Brightness – If you used the exposure sliders you won’t really need to use the brightness settings, but you might want it a bit lighter so use the brightness slider.

Contrast – This is a good setting to use, cause it can give your image more color and make it look more realistic if you know what I mean.

Clarity – This sharpens your image and gives it more detail. NOTE: Remember to zoom in to 100% for the best view to see if you sharpened to much or not enough.

Vibrance – This is a helpful tool, slide up a bit to get enhance your colors.

Saturation – Use it to make the colors more highlighted you can say,, it’s hard to describe but if you use you will see what it does.

And that’s it for this tut. Stick around for Part 2. So guys remember to comment and send me requests via email and comments. If you need any help please don’t be afraid to ask me. 

Photoshop Magic.

The basics of airbrushing.

We’ve all got that picture that looks sooo good, but you had a big old zit and some sunburn on face to ruin it all, here is your solution AIRBRUSHING WITH PHOTOSHOP.

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Step 1: you should know if you’ve read any of my previous tutorials you should know that after your image is open in Photoshop, duplicate you background layer. First we start with the zits, moles ect. So go on and select your “Patch Tool” and make a little selection around for example a mole, after you selected it click on the selected area and drag it to a piece of clear skin. Do it to all the blemishes.

Step 2: next we will start to make the skin look flawless, go to Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur, set the radius to a setting that will make the skin look creamish, I used 5.3px. apply it and again go to Filter – Noise – Dust & Scratches. Put a radius of 9px and the threshold at 35 levels or so.

Step 3: add a mask to your layer and fill it with black, select your brush and use a soft round brush to color in the area of the face, be sure not to go over the lips or eyes. If you are sure you’re not going to edit the mask layer again, you right click on it and click on “Apply Mask”. Decrease the layer opacity to anywhere between 50% and 60%.

And that is about it. Stay tuned, please.

Cheers guys and don’t forget to send in the tutorial requests, I promise I’ll read every comment and email.

Email – photoshopmad@hotmail.com

Make some body paint!!!!

How to put body paint on without using paint

So guys here is another tutorial for you, it’s a pretty simple thing to do and it involves using masks, blend modes and brushes.

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Step 1: as always open your image in Photoshop and duplicate your background layer. Find the image your gonna use for the body paint. And drag it in to the your main image ( The body ).

Step 2: resize and move the “Paint” layer to where you want it and set the blend mode to “Overlay”. Add a layer mask to the Paint layer and this next bit can if you do it right, save you a lot of time. If the area you want the paint to be on is an arm or a leg, fill the layer with black ( Ctrl+Delete ) and use a soft round brush ( Color should be white ) and color in the area you want the body paint to cover. If it is on the back or chest/stomach area, don’t fill the layer with black, keep it the same and use a soft round brush to remove the excess paint ( Brush color should be white )

And that my dear readers, is how to apply body paint in Photoshop.

And please remember to comment and send me an email if you want to put in a tutorial request or if you want any type of help. Email – photoshopmad@hotmail.com Also I’m looking for people to feature in my blog, if you want to be featured send me your name, last name and of course the image you want featured. Please tell about the image and if there is something you want me to put in the post add it as well.

Cheers guys ‘n gals

I need YOUR help!

Hello again bloggers

So I have been reading stuff about how to keep up a good blog and the main thing they said was "Keep it short". Which is against all my previous tutorials. I want to know if you me readers think my posts are too long. Please comment and/or email me - photoshopmad@hotmail.com I want my readers happy, that's 1 of my main priorities. So what do you think?

Wanna be featured?

Hey everybody

So I started thinking of how I can make my blog better and if you read my blog description it said "Share your amazing Photography and Photoshop talents" and I got an idea. Why start a weekly feature? Its cool and it will be interesting. So if you've read my previous post about changing eye colors, you should have seen at the bottom that I said you guys should send me your images that you would like me to feature. So here is my email - photoshopmad@hotmail.com and if you need more info email me, its as easy as that. Also don't forget to put in a tutorial request for any type of tutorial, photoshop/photography. If there is anything else you want to know, the same email. Don't be afraid to speak up.

Live creative!!!

Yours truly

Gbooy2

That contac lense that will never hurt your eye, here's how to recolor eye.

Hey guys this is a pretty easy thing to do with Photoshop, but it can teach a lot of other things that the same type of technique.

As I always do I get my stocks from either Google or Stock Vault. This one I found on Google and I’m sorry to say, I can’t remember her name.

High Opacity

So step 1: open up your image in Photoshop and duplicate the background layer. Pick your color, for this I’m going to use a pretty basic nice bright blue, I used #0066ff blue. For this your will need a soft round brush, and put your range to “Color” and your opacity to 80%. Then coler the irus in and try to work around the pupil f you can, if not its not that big of a deal.



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Step 2: as you can see it looks almost perfect, the only thing thats needed is a bit of volume and don’t go and turn your PC sound to max. Select your “Dodge” tool and set the range to “Highlights” and the exposure to 30% and gradually color the middle of the irus. When your finished select the “Burn” tool and set the range to “Midtones” and the exposure to 30%. Darken the edges of the pupil and the irus. You can reduce the layer opacity a bit to get a more realistic look or leave it for the magazine look.

And that my blog readers is how to recolor your eyes. Remember to send me a request for a tutorial via email – photoshopmad@hotmail.com or leave a comment. Guys listen up, I'm going to start featering other people's designs in my blog, so if you want to be featered you have to me an email with your design that you would like to be featered. Also email me if you want more info. Thanx for reading and please come back for more!

Cheers guys.

The transfromation from man to vampire!

So you all probably know about Twilight and that every girl these days is crazy about Edward Cullen ( Robert Pattinson ). So I thought it would cool to know how to make yourself a vampire for a pretty awesome Face Book profile pic. And you will learn a 1 or 2 airbrushing techniques. So lets get started.

Here is a preview of my Johnny Depp Vampire:

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The person I will be turning is Johnny Depp, if you don’t know him Google his name before you continue with this tutorial, I beg of you.

Step1 open the image you will be using in Photoshop and start off by duplicating the background layer and rename it to “Skin Texture”. First you will be doing some airbrushing. To start go to Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur and put in a good blur radius, but not an overpowering one( I used a radius of 5px and apply it. When you’re done with that go to Filter – Noise – Dust & Scratches, use a radius of 9px and your threshold at 35 levels and click OK.

Step2 first you’ll have to add a new layer mask, you can do that by going down to the layers pallet, its the little page button with corner thats lifted up. When thats done, fill the whole layer with black, to do this fast press D to reset your colors to Black & White and the press Alt+Delete. Now select your brush tool and with a soft round brush color in the face alone, but not the eyes and lips. It will look really milky when your done, but we’ll fix that now. Go to your layers pallet and set the layer opacity between 65% - 75%.

Step3 after your done with that, we can start working the skin tone. But before we start you have to flatten your image and duplicate the background layer twice, rename one of them  to “Skin Tone”.  Select the top layer and go to Images – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast and set the brightness slider to +60 and click OK. To get the paleness go to Image – Adjustments – Black & White put these settings in ( Result may change from image to image ) :

·         Reds - 40

·         Yellows - 60

·         Greens - 40

·         Cyans - 60

·         Blues - 20

·         Magentas – 80

It should look pretty cool, but its not what we’re looking for is it? No it is not! We want the skin underneath to come through a bit, thats why we made 2 background copies. After the Black & White is applied go to your layer opacity and detune it to about 66%. Now we need to add a layer mask, you should know how to if you have been following the whole tutorial so I’m not explaning again. Fill the layer mask with black and use your brush to color all of the skin, make sure you ALL of it. Don’t color the eyes and lips. Right click on the layer mask and select “Apply mask” then right click on the Blacn & White layer and select “Merge Down”.

Step4 by now Johnny Depp should look a lot like a vampire, but something is missing AH HA! Its the eyes, we need vampire eyes. There are a lot of different vampire eyes, but I used the black eyes for mine. For the black eyes you will need the “Elliptical Marquee Tool” and make a selection around both eyes and press Ctrl+J to copy them into a new layer. For the eyes I used this color #161515, select the brush tool and set the range to “Darken” and color the irus black. Don’t worry about it being too dark ‘cause you can correct that by decreasing the opacity until the eye’s underneath show through a bit. Press D to rest you color pallet to the default black ‘n white and press X to switch your color to white on top of black. Use a small round brush and make like small reflection in the corner of the irus. ]

And your done!

So guys there you go, now you can show of to your friends and family. Please feel free to comment and ask for requests. My next tutorial will be about changing eye color.

Cheers for now!

A Good Looking Grunge Effect

Okay so this tutorial will show you how to make a grunge photo effect. Like this one:

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For this I used 2 stock images from http://www.stockvault.net

Step1 open up your 2 images in Photoshop. Drag you clouds into your building image and use “Free transform (Ctrl+T)” to resize the image to fit. If needed you can lower the opacity to see better. When you’re finished set the opacity back to 100%. Hide the cloud layer by clicking on the eye next your selected layer (Should be clouds layer).

Step2 select the building layer and use the “Quick selection tool” and select the sky on the building layer. Unhide the cloud layer and select the cloud layer. Go to your layers pallet and add a layer mask by clicking on the little button that looks like a page with one corner lift up. This should automatically hide all the excess of the cloud image. Flatten your image when you’re done.

Step3 next you a copy of the background layer (Ctrl+J) and go to Image – Adjustments – Black & White. Type these settings in when the box comes up:

·        Tick the “tint” box

·        Hue should be at 50

·        Saturation anywhere between 20-25

·        Yellow – -200

·        Cyan – -72

·        Blue – -101

You don’t have to have these settings exactly like mine, I would recommend playing with them to get your desired look and feel.

Step4 your image should be looking more like the one I showed you on the top of the page. Next we have to make the whole thing a bit darker. You can do that by going to Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast. Use the “Brightness slider to make the image darker and put some more contrast.

Step5 to get that dark yet colourful effect you will need to use the “Hue and Saturation” sliders. For that go to Image – Adjustments - Hue and Saturation. Put these settings in, but remember to experiment with them to get what you’re looking for.

·        Hue – leave it at 0

·        Saturation – at +27

·        Lightness you have to be careful with, it’s  very sensitive. Put it at -10 or so.

 Step6 this is the final step, for this you will need the “Dodge and Burn” tool. But you’re just going to use the Burn tool. Set the Range to Shadows and Exposure to 23% there about. It will be easier to use a pretty big brush size, but not a colossal one, around 150px would be fine, just remember it will change from picture to picture. Okay burn the dark areas of the clouds and around some of the windows and at the bottom of the building.

And that’s it. Remember to experiment with different colours to get what you’re looking for. Please feel free to comment, especially if you want a request or if you have a problem.

Cheers guys and gals