24
Jul, 2010
Are you looking for a way to improve how you take your pictures? Even if you have that ultra expensive SLR camera, you just can’t seem to do what the professional photographers do best, which is to take professional looking photographs. You have all the latest photography accessories and still you can’t take high quality pictures. You need to remember that before professionals develop the photos they take, they first edit it using a photo editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop.
Today, Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing software programs available today. It is very easy to use and it also provides all the necessary tools you need in order to edit your digital photos.
For example, if you want to make someone look a little bit younger, you can simply edit out the wrinkles and age spots using the smudge tool in the Adobe Photoshop. The liquefy gallery in Adobe Photoshop also has tools that will make someone fat look thinner and vice versa. This is only a sample of what this photo editing software can do.
In fact, even if you took pictures in bad lighting condition, you can easily edit the photo using Adobe Photoshop and make it look like as if it was taken with a very good lighting condition. As you can see, this is usually what professional photographers do. They are able to get the best lighting conditions because they make it so by using Adobe Photoshop.
There are quite a lot of tools that you can use in Adobe Photoshop. You can paste objects from another picture in to another picture. For example, if you want to be beside a celebrity, you can do it with Adobe Photoshop. By adjusting the lighting effects as well as doing a bit of erasing and editing, you can make it look like it was real.
In fact, you can even change the clothes of someone with Adobe Photoshop. It may require a bit of work, but it will produce great results. These are just some of the few things that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. There are so many effects that you can try with this software.
Another great effect is by turning old black and white photographs new again. If you have a scanner, you can scan the old black and white photographs and repair or restore it. In fact, some professional photographers can even make the black and white photographs in to colored photographs by just using this photo editing software.
There are so many possibilities that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. Although it may be hard to master especially when you are just a beginner in the world of photo editing, you will see that with experience, you will be able to get the hang of it and start converting your amateur looking photographs in to professional looking ones.
With the tools that Adobe Photoshop needs, you can be sure that any pictures you take will be able to become something magical. Whether you have a problem with the red eye phenomenon, or the bad lighting conditions, you can be sure that Adobe Photoshop will be there to rescue you.
So, the next time you take pictures with your SLR camera and you still can’t get it right, just remember that with Adobe Photoshop, you can get everything right.
Today, Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing software programs available today. It is very easy to use and it also provides all the necessary tools you need in order to edit your digital photos.
For example, if you want to make someone look a little bit younger, you can simply edit out the wrinkles and age spots using the smudge tool in the Adobe Photoshop. The liquefy gallery in Adobe Photoshop also has tools that will make someone fat look thinner and vice versa. This is only a sample of what this photo editing software can do.
In fact, even if you took pictures in bad lighting condition, you can easily edit the photo using Adobe Photoshop and make it look like as if it was taken with a very good lighting condition. As you can see, this is usually what professional photographers do. They are able to get the best lighting conditions because they make it so by using Adobe Photoshop.
There are quite a lot of tools that you can use in Adobe Photoshop. You can paste objects from another picture in to another picture. For example, if you want to be beside a celebrity, you can do it with Adobe Photoshop. By adjusting the lighting effects as well as doing a bit of erasing and editing, you can make it look like it was real.
In fact, you can even change the clothes of someone with Adobe Photoshop. It may require a bit of work, but it will produce great results. These are just some of the few things that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. There are so many effects that you can try with this software.
Another great effect is by turning old black and white photographs new again. If you have a scanner, you can scan the old black and white photographs and repair or restore it. In fact, some professional photographers can even make the black and white photographs in to colored photographs by just using this photo editing software.
There are so many possibilities that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. Although it may be hard to master especially when you are just a beginner in the world of photo editing, you will see that with experience, you will be able to get the hang of it and start converting your amateur looking photographs in to professional looking ones.
With the tools that Adobe Photoshop needs, you can be sure that any pictures you take will be able to become something magical. Whether you have a problem with the red eye phenomenon, or the bad lighting conditions, you can be sure that Adobe Photoshop will be there to rescue you.
So, the next time you take pictures with your SLR camera and you still can’t get it right, just remember that with Adobe Photoshop, you can get everything right.
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24
Jul, 2010
It took me a long time to first delve into the creation of funny pictures. Almost fifteen years into my career, to be exact. A big part of that evolution was the advent of the digital world and Photoshop. As a matter of fact, Photoshop came along at a perfect time for me and opened up a whole new world.
It was early 1990 and my business had hit the wall. It was like someone turned off the faucet. 1989 was, at that point, the best year I had ever had. I could barely keep up with the assignments! But our economy took a dive and my business went along with it. One of my clients went from a staff of 24 to only five people in a six-month span of time.
Who was going to hire me, and why?
With all that time on my hands I took a hard look at my business. Who was going to hire me and why? My answer was that not too many would hire me. My book wasn’t even interesting to me. But one thing did interest me, combining images. I began to combine images using in-camera duping.
The difficulties of that process got me looking at this new development in the pre-press world, digital compositing. When I checked into that, the proprietary systems were prohibitively expensive. And then came this new program called Photoshop.
I didn’t have any money, but I traded some stock photos to Adobe for a copy of their new program, and used my income tax money to pay for an apple computer. The rest, as they say, was history.
Pics of flying pigs and heads buried in the sand
It wasn’t long before humor began to creep into my Photoshop work. A funny picture of flying pigs came within months of my starting to work with Photoshop. Shortly after that came a fun image of raining cats and dogs.
The humor showed up not just in funny animal pictures, but also in humorous people pictures as well. In one such shot I created an image of myself, times three, and in each case, with my head buried in the sand and my butt in the air (what was I thinking?).
Eventually I created a stock image of a cat with a huge grin and a canary feather protruding from his mouth. That fun little picture got me a contract with a greeting card company and my own line of greeting cards “John Lund’s Animal Antics”. Soon we were selling over a million greeting cards a year!
At first I was uncomfortable getting complements on the funny animal pictures. I wanted to be known for serious work. But it began to dawn on me that people were truly appreciating what I was doing. I get e-mails from all over the world from people thanking me for bringing humor into their lives.
A week after 9/11 happened a United Airlines flight attendant sent me a letter thanking me for giving her fist smile since the twin towers tragedy.
Appreciation on a weekly basis
After twenty years of photography I don’t ever remember anybody thanking me for creating images…and here I am suddenly getting appreciation on a weekly basis. How bad can that be? Now, of course, I have come to terms with it. As a matter of fact, few things make me feel as good as seeing a smile spread across someone’s face when they first look at one of my images. As a matter of fact, when someone chuckles at one of my images I know I have a winner.
Even today, I created a funny image and sent e-mail the image to my brother while I had him on the phone. When I heard him laugh I knew the image was successful.
It took me fifteen years of shooting before I found my stride, a combination of photography, Photoshop and humor. I create funny images of pets, funny photographs of business concepts, and, yes, the occasional serious shot too. And I’m laughing all the way to the bank!
Category: stock photos
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24
Jul, 2010
Adobe Photoshop is a fabulous program containing tools for manipulating and enhancing pictures and graphics. Although the application is useful it can be complicated for some. Here are some tips you may find helpful even if you are a veteran Photoshop user.
Picture “pops out” of the frame
This is an easy task that can have dramatic effects. A portion of the picture will “pop out” of the original frame and look as though it has “popped” onto your screen.
Save a copy of the original picture and work on a second copy, just in case you make mistakes.
Use any selection tool to cut out only the portion of the image you wish to have “pop out”.
Lift the image by using the Float Command and duplicate it onto its own layer.
Create a new layer in the frame for the photo. You can use textures, borders or nothing at all.
Place a picture into text
Placing a picture into text is a simple job that creates a word using the picture. The picture will be placed into the text.
Select the image you want and place it in a new layer with a solid background.
Set the word you want using the type input method of choice. Use a style with a large area so much of your picture can be seen.
Select the type so you can move it around.
Click on the picture layer to edit the picture.
Use the Float Command to pick up the picture inside your text.
The selection will start a new layer and fill with a copy of the picture.
Turn off the original layer with the picture and your text will be filled with the picture.
Remove the white background from an image
Many images end up having a white background included in the frame. For example, a logo that may be used on different documents will often be surrounded by a white square. When placing it on a white page this is not a problem. However, placing it on a colored page will show the white square behind it. For a more professional look, follow these steps to remove the unwanted background.
Start a new layer and create an object of the same shape as your picture. The shape must replicate that of your picture and will be used like a cookie-cutter to place over the picture.
Make sure your shape layer is under the original picture layer in the Layer Palette.
Place the pointer over the line that divides these two layers in the Layer Palette while holding down the Alt/Option Key and click.
You have created a layer group. Choose Save As and select Photoshop EPS as the file format. Name the file. You are done.
NOTE: You may use Help and Export Transparent Image for an interactive wizard to help prepare images with transparency to be used in a page-layout application.
Make old photos look more vivid
Old photos can look dark or have a brown or gray color covering the entire image. Photoshop can help brighten and color these types of photos to make them vibrant and bring them closer to their original state.
Use Photo Filter from the Adjustment Layers area to choose color filters based on what your photo looks like.
Choose Color Balance from the Adjustment Layers area to adjust flesh and other tone levels for different elements in the photo.
Use Levels to balance the photo after the above changes are made.
Select an area with the Magic Wand to adjust from the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. You can repeat these steps as many times and in as many areas as necessary.
Adjust the Brightness/Contrast levels as your final adjustments to the photo.
Whiten teeth and eyes in Photoshop
There is no better way to make someone look fantastic than to whiten their teeth and eyes in a photo.
Create a new layer.
Select the Dodge tool.
Set the Range to Midtones on the Tool Options bar. The default Exposure is set at 50%. You may change this, but 50% is a good place to start.
Run the Dodge tool over the teeth and eyes to whiten. If you make a mistake or the results are too white, you can use Undo to reduce the Exposure level.
Zoom out frequently because the results often look different when viewing the entire image.
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