From Movie Magic to Photographic Mastery | Lisa Carney

Thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Hollywood Movie Poster / Art Work Retoucher Lisa Carney and uncovering the HOW, WHAT and WHY of her personal work, her photography, process, retouching, personal projects and travel.

At the beginning of this recording check out the slideshow of her images and then learn how she captures and edits them because I guarantee, like me, you’ll be blown away!

Links mentioned in the video

Website: lisacarney.com (Portfolios, Photoshop Tutorials, Courses and more … )

Grief ( Art as Therapy - Personal Project ) LINK

Instagram: @lisacarney

The Lightroom Virtual Summit 2024: bit.ly/lvs-2024

Glyn’s Adobe Lightroom Community Page: LINK

Unsurprisingly, Lisa was a HUGE hit judging by some of the comments posted already from folks watching the recording …

😲 PERFECT SELECTIONS and CUT-OUTS with Photoshop A.I. (Generative Fill)

Selections and Cut-Outs of Hair and Fur can be challenging BUT Photoshop's Generative Fill A.I. CHANGES EVERYTHING!

The NEW REMOVE TOOL in PHOTOSHOP is INCREDIBLE! + Content Aware Fill Deep Dive

Adobe just updated Photoshop Beta with a new tool that will be heading into Photoshop in the very near future … the Remove Tool.

In this video I try it out and (spoiler alert) … it’s incredible!

In the video I also include details of how you can start using it today!

Enjoy 😃

I PRINTED a 72" iPhone Photo and you WON'T BELIEVE THE RESULT !!!

Yes you read thar right … a 72” print of an iPhone photograph!

In this video I not only show ther print but also give you a look at the kit I used along with my favourite iPhone App for creating Long Exposure Photographs.

I also show what I used to upscale the original image more than 4 times, taking up to the final 72 inches!

The future of mobile photography is VERY exciting 📱😃

iPhone Photography of the iconic Portland Bill Lighthouse

Despite temperatures going down to -8, I couldn’t resist heading down to Portland Bill Lighthouse again to catch the incoming tide and hopefully some better light at sunrise.

My GoPro Hero 10 wasn’t having any of it with the batteries immediately losing all power but thankfully my Insta 360 X3 was having no problems, so I did manage to get some Behind the Scenes footage (below)

Here though is my favourite shot from the morning; captured using my iPhone 14 Pro Max and the Lightroom Mobile App camera, and then edited in Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop on my iPad …

I’m absolutely LOVING the mobile workflow.

Being able to take a photograph with my iPhone and then moments later be sat in a nearby café editing the photographs I’ve just taken on my iPad because they’ve automatically synced across, just blows me away.

BUT to then edit in Lightroom and jump back and forth to Photoshop on my iPad too is just so much fun.

It doesn’t stop there though, because when I get home and sit in front of main computer, the images and all of the edits I’ve done are there waiting for me to tweak and finish off if needed.

Incredible!

To add to this, IF I was using my main camera I could have an equally easy and joyful editing experience by simply loading the images off the memory card onto my iPad Pro and into Lightroom Mobile whilst sat in the café … or wherever 😃

Seeing how this has progressed since Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop on the iPad were introduced, genuinely excites the heck out of me! Sure, Lightroom Mobile and especially Photoshop on the iPad don’t have the exact same functionality as the desktop version (yet) … but it’s coming and to be honest, the workarounds aren’t much to figure out anyway.

I’ll be putting a video together for my YouTube Channel showing this soon.

In the mean time though, here’s a 44 second YouTube Short I put together giving a look ‘Behind the Scenes’ of this Portland Bill Lighthouse Photo Shoot …

Lightroom is for Photographer's who take the picture correctly ... REALLY???

Had to share this and to ask your thoughts...

So my most recent video which is only 9 minutes long is all about Color and which Color Space (sRGB , Adobe RGB , ProPhoto RGB ) to use for Photography ... Editing , Printing , Sharing , Posting on the Web ... Comments have been fantastic BUT one posted yesterday stopped me in my tracks; this is it...

Photoshop is for people who are engineering images.
Lightroom is for photographers who take the picture correctly the first time.

I disagree.

Lightroom is getting better and better. It's exciting to see the enhancements BUT there are things we can do in Lightroom now that only a short while agree would only have been possible in Photoshop; in fact, Lightroom's full name is ... Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

We would always see and hear the “I like to get it right in camera” comments (well...don't we all?!?) but this made me think ... will we now start to see the 'I only edit in Lightroom' comments as being the modern day Put Down attempt ?

Images are edited.

They ALWAYS have been.

Even choosing a paper is (in my opinion) editing, because paper influences the look / feel of the final image.

Just a thought 🤔

Anyway, if you haven’t see my Color Space video, here it is …

COLOR SPACE for PHOTOGRAPHY 🌈 WHAT to use, WHY and WHEN ( Keeping it SIMPLE )

Color is a HUGE topic! sRGB , Adobe RGB , ProPhoto RGB ... What to use, Why to use it and When?!?

In this video I explain it all for editing , printing , web and sharing so you get the very BEST and CONSISTENT results 🌈

TRY THIS 👍 ONE button to FIX COLOUR ... FAST !!!

Here's a SUPER FAST technique for removing a Colour Cast from your images that requires no guess work and no keyboard shortcuts to bring up secret menus; just a straight forward one-click fix that works GREAT!

👍 This BLUR FILTER looks FANTASTIC on PORTRAITS !!!

The Depth Blur Filter in Photoshop works great on landscape pictures BUT trying using it on a Portrait and WOW!

Totally brings it to life and gives the feel of the portrait coming forward of the screen / print! I've been experimenting with this lately and am loving the results! In this video I show you my 3 Step Process...

Restoring a World War 1 Military Portrait using Photoshop

So yesterday I took some time out from recording a new video to work on restoring this Military Portrait for my Uncle Jeff.

Not something I usually do, in fact I think I've done one in the past, but it feels great to be able to be help like this as this is a portrait of a family member that my uncle is researching for his next book…

I guess this took about 3 hours to do, initially jumping in using the Photo Restoration Neural Filter in the current Photoshop Beta.

This certainly didn’t get the job done, but it did give me a good starting point…

As the original photograph was oval in shape, for my Uncle’s research / book I opted to make it a traditional portrait crop which meant adding in a completely new background which was reminiscent of the time it would have originally been taken. This also had to be done due to the small amount of background being visible and clean of damage.

I shared the result across social media yesterday evening and the response has been great, so I’ll look to add a video onto my YouTube Channel going over some of the key retouching points / techniques in the very near future.