Favourite PS trick
Ryan
picture?
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Randall Ainsworth
<ryanm...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> What's everybody's favourite PS trick or filter to really spice up their
> picture?
Talent before the button is pressed...
Diluted
> picture?
my favourite thing with photoshop is not using it.
I prefer traditional darkroom processing and printing.
<rant>
it seems like anyone these days can get a digital camera, take photos of any
old crap, jazz it up in PS, print it off and call themselves a photographer.
</rant>
Randall Ainsworth
<nos...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> it seems like anyone these days can get a digital camera, take photos of any
> old crap, jazz it up in PS, print it off and call themselves a photographer.
Can't disagree with you there. :-)
Mike Kohary
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> <rant>
> it seems like anyone these days can get a digital camera, take photos of
any
> old crap, jazz it up in PS, print it off and call themselves a
photographer.
> </rant>
What a hopelessly misguided and cynical attitude.
Mike
Hunt
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>What's everybody's favourite PS trick or filter to really spice up their
>picture?
1.) Start with the best photograph possible and let it, and its use dictate
what is done next.
2.) For actually usable "tricks" I like PS CS's Highlight&Shadow Adjustment.
It allows for far more manipulation, than can be done in-camera, without a ton
of time and lighting - just do not overdo it!
3.) Since v3.0 (I think), Layers, and then Layer Masks, as they allow the easy
combination of elements that took days in the lab to assemble with tons of A &
B lith masks, and with SOFT EDGES!
That's my personal "short list."
Hunt
Stan
I think the best PhotoShop trick is to open your photo, and look at it.
See what needs to be fixed, and try to fix the problems (as difficult as
it may be).
This includes levels, curves (for exposure), color balance and
saturation, perspective distortion, pincushion/barrel distortion, and
sharpening.
Use it as a learning tool - make a note of the things that needed
fixing, and try to avoid them in your next shooting session. You will
often see things on your computer screen that you should have seen
through the view finder.
PhotoShop is good for tweaking your images, but it's best to get photos
that need very little, if any, correction.
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Ryan
bit or 2 to make it a bit better. What my intent was more for something i'd
like to be able to give away as gifts etc...
My favourite is finding cool ways to add frames [saves on me having to buy
expensive looking frames] to the photo. Like a glow or a scratched edge,
etc...
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Ryan
that's a little fun to add a little bit to teh photo to make it stunning.
Like my studio friend likes to 'push' the eyes out a little bit to give the
idea that they're smiling more realism.
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Stan
OK. My intent was not to rely too much on PS to fix photos. Sometimes,
you have to, but…
Hunt
.uk says...
Actually, PS has become my late-night sessions in the lab, and I don't get
hypo stains on my nails!
The part about PS, digital cameras, and the term photographer, was about the
same that we addressed when Canon introduced the AE-1. It seemed that every
art director or VP of marketing had an uncle with an AE-1 and couldn't
understand why it took days and thousands of $'s to create just one shot, heck
"Uncle Louie" could shoot 50 rolls of Kodacolor in that time, and each shot
was an "award winner." Strange, in all the years following, I don't recall a
one of them using even one shot from "Uncle Louie." Now, maybe if the AE-1 had
been built around a Sinar 8x10 with about 100,000WS of strobe power, then
they'd have used a few of "his" shots.
Not too many years later, PageMaker and then Quark hit, and all my graphic
design clients bemoaned that now secretaries were suddenly designers.
It takes more than a handful of tools to make an artist in any discipline.
Hunt
Stan
LOL, Yes. I saw that about 14 - 15 years ago. Middle level management
seemed to think that PageMaker was just an expensive version of a word
processor, which was an expensive version of the electric typewriter.
PhotoShop was just another clip art facilitator.
It comes down to this. If management types had an ounce of artistic
ability and aesthetic appreciation, they would be doing this, and not
managing. To them, it's all secretary's work (and can't understand why
their competition's presentation blow them away).
All photos need some adjusting, somewhere. Used to be in the darkroom,
and now on the computer.
n.t.
chemicals....
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Mac Tabak
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That's the difference between a photographer & an artist.