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Photoshop Tutorial: Creating Shallow DOF
The tutorial below will show you how to create shallow Depth of Field - DOF, which normally can only be achieved when you shoot with an expensive fast lens, using photoshop.
Step 1: Open your image
Best Digital Photography Books for Digital Photographers
In 2005 there were more digital imaging books published than ever before and trying to pick some of the best was difficult. So here’s the best books for digital photographers according to shutterbug.com
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques; by Barry Huggins; Lark Books; 192 pages.
Shutterbug: “This book has cogent text, beautiful photography and extraordinary production values that combine to create a book where readers will find usefull information on every page. There’s more than weather effects with entire chapters on creating reflections, working with the “Quality of Light,” and creating special lighting effects.”
Photoshop Tutorial: Extracting (easy)
Lara Jade has written an easy to follow tutorial on how to extract your images for basic photoshop users. This is a must know skill for photo manipulators.
Go to Extracting Tutorial
IR Photography with Nikon D70
Do you have Nikon D70(s) ?
Do you want to take those surreal photos with your camera and an Infra Red filter just like the image below ?
Then this IR Photography with Nikon D70 tutorial is a must read for you…
Photoshop Tutorial: Graduated Blur Effect
Good graduated blur effect using 8 simple steps tutorial by Gary Parish at Deviant Art.
Photoshop Tutorial: Replace Eye Color (Easy)
Heathrowe.com has posted 3 easy steps to replace eye color with photoshop CS/CS2:
“Switch back to your original target image. (Duplicate original image layer before proceeding)
A. Activate the ‘Color Replacement Tool (B)’.
B. Then up on the Options Bar, select a brush preset and ensure your ‘mode’ is set to ‘Color’, as captured below.
C. Then brush over the old eye with the new foreground swatch color.”
Here’s the before and after image:
How to Make Natural Smooth Skin in Photoshop
Lunacore has a neat tutorial on making skin look smooth but still quite natural with your Photoshop.
“In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make skin look smooth. The technique itself is not complicated, but does require you to be patient and work slow and accurate. If you can meet these requirements, then it’s not going to be very difficult to see good results.”
Photoshop Tutorial: Focused & Darker Effect (Easy)
This Focused & Darker Effect photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a darker and more focused image with your photoshop. I’ve tried this with some of my images and it turned out really good.
You can see the Focused and Darker Effect photoshop tutorial here.
Photoshop Tutorial: Selective Coloring (Intermediate)
This cool tutorial was originally written by Dennis, a DeviantArt member based in Germany. The tutorial will show you how to use an adjustment layer (in this case Solid Color) and the layer mask to color only a portion of a black & white picture.
Sephia Effect with Photoshop (easy)
Another great way of using your photoshop to apply a sephia effect to your photographs.
This tutorial was written by Keren-R, a devianArt member. You can visit the tutorial page here
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