Freebie!

One of my usual photo blog's that I read (photog), offered a neat action for Photoshop CS4. Basically this gives your picture a floating border look! Very neat! You can get the action here... Twip Photo This is a companion site to the very popular podcast TWIP, you can also sign up for it free in iTunes, just search for TWIP.

Blurry for teh win!

From 2008-04-26

Saw a good article on TUAW today, it showed how to use Photoshop to make a fake tilt-shift lens effect. Basically it gives the effect of toy/miniature look to photos. Works really well on shots of scenery with buildings. I couldn't find any in my immediate library of photos, so I chose another that I thought would look pretty good. I like the results! It draws your eyes directly to the in focus parts of the photo and the main subjects. I'll have to give this another go with a scenic photo, have to search the rest of my photo library :)

Just a little more...

I thought to myself after doing the last HDR tone mapped image... hmmm... I wonder if I have anything in my collection that would pop or benefit from some adjusting.

Then I remebered this fountain in Charleston, SC. Oh yeah, I think it makes a statement.

You can see my source files HERE. As before, I just did some adjustments in PS to make 3 seperate images. Now I need to do this for real... set my camera up and let'r rip!

FLIP!

Photoshop for teh win!11!!

I just absolutely love this picture of Landyn! I loaded it up in photoshop and did a little touching up.. well really just some editing, can't mess with perfection eh? hehe!

So to give a short little photoshop tutorial, I made the picture b/w in a layer, then I created a mask on that layer and painted back in his beautiful eyes and his fun little sleeper! I jacked up the hue/saturation to really bring out the colors (did that in another layers as well). Next (or maybe it was last?) I adjusted the levels of the overall picture to make sure that everything was exposure correct :)

I guess the only downside to doing stuff like this is... it can be a really, really big time sink! I really want to learn how to do editing in photoshop and have found a few good tutorials on the interwebtubes. Psdtuts.com and 70 Horror PS tuts are a pretty good place to start. Well all for now, FLIP!