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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Feature Tour

Virtual Photography — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:47:34 +0000

Did you see Adobe Photoshop CS5 was released this week? As a photographer, I’m sure you are excited as we are, and are wondering how this will impact your business.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 has promised us some amazing features. Anything to make our jobs a little easier, right? Join Terry White as he walks you through the brand new Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 extended.

Photoshop’s 20th Anniversary – 7 Fun Facts About Photoshop

Virtual Photography — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:18:17 +0000

In honor of Photoshop’s 20th anniversary this month, I would like to share a few fun facts about why Photoshop is a photographer’s best friend, and how you can get the most out of using Photoshop. If you have any more tips or facts about Photoshop I’d love to hear them – please comment below.

1. Photoshop was originally created by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll. In 1987, Thomas began writing a program to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. Display, as it was originally called, caught the attention of his brother John, who recommended turning it into a full-fledged image editing program. Together they developed ImagePro, which was eventually bought by Adobe to create what we now know as Photoshop.

2. Adobe prefers people to use the term “photoshopping” when referring to photo editing to prevent its trademark from becoming generalized. Yet its never caught on as much as they had hoped, and today we regularly use “photoshop” as a verb.

3. The best place to learn all about Photoshop? The National Association of Photoshop Professionals of course. Scott Kelby is the president of NAPP, and knows more about Photoshop than just about anyone. He’s also in charge of putting together the Photoshop World Conference and Expo coming up March 24th in Orlando.

4. Want to learn even more about Photoshop? Stop by PhotoshopUserTV. Every week you’ll learn insider tips and tricks to becoming more efficient with Photoshop.

5. How many versions of Photoshop have there been? From Photoshop 1 through the current Photoshop CS4, there have been 11 major releases all together.

6. Looking for the perfect shade of green to use in your designing efforts? Check out this graph that will help you find the perfect color based on a box of 120 Crayons. Not only can you find the perfect color, but you’ll quickly have the hex code and RGB value for it too.

7. One of the funniest Photoshop channels on YouTube? You Suck At Photoshop is a Webby Award winning tutorial series by Donnie Hoyle. Do more than learn Photoshop – get involved in a soap opera as well.

Photoshop Tutorial – Retouching Blemishes

Virtual Photography — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:45:15 +0000

One of the most time exhausting areas of photography is using Photoshop on every image, and retouching small items like blemishes. There are many tips, tricks, and techniques for improving skin tone and covering up blemishes, and one of my favorites is by using Photoshop’s healing brush and patch tool. You can blend unwanted areas and hide those tiny imperfections with ease. Sample areas of skin that are in great shape, and use it to blend and alter blemished areas. The healing brush will get the job done with little effort.

Check out this Adobe Photoshop Tutorial on Healing Brush Tool and Patch Tool to see how simple retouching can be.

Photoshop Tricks – Retouch Tutorial For Modifing Nose

Virtual Photography — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:24:11 +0000

What do you do if your client wants a few modifications to his or her nose? Photoshop of course.

We found a tutorial that teaches how to modify the nose of your subject using the lasso tool and transform tool in grid mode. Once you have adjustments in place, simply erase the hard lines created by the transformation and your done. Simple Adobe Photoshop Tips increase work-flow efficiency and we want to help.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vYYa4NEtlQ

Photoshop Retouching Tutorial

Virtual Photography — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:01:19 +0000

It’s fun presenting a portrait to a client where they absolutely love the results. They look good. They wore their favorite outfit. And they loved the entire process.

Part of creating an amazing portrait is retouching. Blemishes, stray hairs, small lines and wrinkles all can “disappear”, giving the client more than they bargained for in the process.

As photographers, its not enough to know how to take beautiful portraits; you also have to be a whiz at Photoshop too. To help understand how to use many of the retouching tools, we found a Photoshop tutorial on image modification.

Thanks AdobeTV!

Photoshop Tutorial – Add Glowing Effects To Your Images

Virtual Photography — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:54:15 +0000

Popular styles such as the addition of glowing effects will help draw attention to your image. Photoshop allows us to quickly modify the look and enhance the finished shot. Using some of the basic Adobe Photoshop tools, pen and brush tools the video below, you will see how to add glowing effects to your next image. Learning the basics of this amazing program will help and expand your creative tallents.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwuuQ1BhhiE

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peek

Virtual Photography — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:55:37 +0000

Adobe Photoshop has always provided us with amazing tools to manipulating our images. Photoshop CS5 looks to have some really cool features for us in the near future. This video shares some new painting and brush features that are sure to please. Another feature uses pins, which lock elements of an image when using parts of the warp tools.

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Portrait Professional – Another Way To Make Your Photographs Better

Virtual Photography — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Anytime you take a close up image, it’s easy to find areas to change: soften a wrinkle, add a sparkle to the eyes, or remove traces of acne. While I’ve used Photoshop for years, I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an expert. I know the things to help my images become better – and, well, that’s about it.

If you’re trying to break into the photography business, learning all there is about the business and taking better photos is more than enough. So why not make your life a little easier, and use tools that can work for you – instead of making you spend hours in a training class?

Anthropics Technology’s Portrait Professional software makes the entire process easy. Instead of requiring you to understand and use an array of tools and filters to perform adjustments, it automates much of the process for you.

When you open up your photograph and launch the program, you are guided through each step. Start by choosing Male or Female to set the default facial adjustments for that gender. From there, select the five points on the face for eyes, nose and mouth. You can fine tune the points, and facial outline marks.

Once these adjustments are in place, the image is process in a matter of seconds. The photo is not over-retouched – just softened and reshaped to give you a much more pleasing portrait.

And if you still want further adjustment, you can alter each item individually to your liking. The more you learn, the more sophisticated you can take your retouching.

Portrait Professional comes in two versions – standard and studio. By upgrading to the studio version, you will have additional support for RAW images up to 16 bits per color and professional quality image color calibration.

You can download a free trial to give it a whirl. Right now you can save $30 and buy Portrait Professional 9 for $69.95. Or save $50 off the Portrait Professional Studio 9 for $99.95.

21 Photoshop Tutorials And Resources

Virtual Photography — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:20:12 +0000

Photoshop is a program by Adobe loved and used by photographers around the world. From highly skilled professional photographers to novice shooters, Photoshop allows amazing creative results. Yet Photoshop is such a complex program, it can be a daunting task to learn how to use it to its fullest extent. If you follow us on Twitter, you get dozens of Photoshop tips every single day. We picked out some of the more popular ones and thought we’d share them with you today.

Here are a 21 Photoshop tutorials and resources that will keep you busy for hours.

How to Create Professional HDR Images

High Dynamic Range (HDR) have become very popular in the digital photography movement. By extending the highlight and shadow ranges, each image becomes a work of art.

Glass Ball

Create a glass ball using a step-by-step approach with important settings for the life-like appearance.

Create a Stylish Club Poster

Using multiple images to design a club poster.

Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop

Design a website with a nature scene in brown tones.

Smoke Brush Set

Nice selection of brushes for Photoshop to add smoke effects to your graphic

Create an awesome background using patterns

This tutorial will show you how to create some flawless patterns, which we will use to create some amazing backgrounds that you can use for your desktop, websites, posters…

Steps for Changing Hair Color

See how quickly you can modify the color of hair

Add Makeup To A Photo

Modify the makeup on a photo

Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation

In this detailed and lengthy Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork.

Spray Paint Text

This tutorial will teach you how to make this spray paint style text effect which really stands out and would make a great wallpaper.

Grunge Photo Edges

In this Photoshop tutorial learn a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks.

Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop

Easy to follow tutorial walk thru a 10 step process to making your own watercolor image

Create Simple Cartoon Characters in Photoshop

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Create a Glowing Globe Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a simple 3D glowing world globe icon. This can then be applied to a logo or one color image instead of a map.

Create Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop

Create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.

28 Web Design Tools and Generators For Easy Web Design

Check out our compilation of 28 generators we found online to help you design websites easier. If you know of any tools that we can add to the list, feel free to contribute through our comments section.

Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes

The workflow for creating the splashes involves taking photographs of thrown paint. Through photography you can capture amazing 3D images without the need for 3D software. Learn to make a splash in your next design.

Free Photoshop Plugins

Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new functionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process. Check out the selection.

Photoshop Black and White Cheat Sheet

Photoshop itself has several ways (filters) how to make b&w images and each filter has many presets…

Easily Transform Your Photo into a Watercolour Painting in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you the processes to transform a daily average photo into a Painting-like Image in Photoshop.

Colorizing A Photo With Multiple Colors In Photoshop

In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to colorize a photo using multiple colors.

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Photographing The Macworld Cover

Virtual Photography — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:08:25 +0000

Every wonder what it takes to photograph the cover of a magazine? We found a great video that time lapses the entire process, from start to finish.

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.