I love how using a long exposure to create much more drama and impact in pictures. But what if we didn't use a long exposure when we took the photograph?
Here's a super easy and effective technique I use to recreate the long exposure look...and it works an absolute treat!
Ever since I shared a video showing my 20/10 technique in Photoshop for making Portraits POP, I’ve received a constant flow of questions asking if there was a way to get the same result just using Photoshop.
Well … I had a play and this is what I came up with, and to be honest … I think I prefer it now :)
During the intro I also explain about those 4 layers you will have seen in the original video as I’ve had quite a few questions about them asking if they’re part of the technique
Hope you like it,
Glyn
Selections can be REALLY difficult. Even when using the dedicated Selection Tools in Photoshop we can still see traces of the original background around our cut out. In this video I show 5 of my FAVOURITE TIPS and TECHNIQUES for cleaning selections up and making them look their BEST!
The LIVE photo setting in the iPhone / mobile phones is INCREDIBLE!
Long Exposure Photography, being able to choose an exact moment before or after you took a photograph AND then there's Presets in Lightroom. Great advances in technology or cheating?
Whatever you think...it's VERY clever stuff!
So many times I get comments about the portraits I take and how they appear to almost come forward of the screen, and even more so, forward from the paper when printed.
This effect is largely down to a particular technique that I use in Photoshop; a technique that I call 20/10.
In this latest video I show exactly how I use it but also explain the principle behind it and why it works so incredibly well.
Hope you like it,
Glyn
When it comes to using Photoshop, selecting hair is without doubt THE area that people struggles with more than anything else.
Over recent years, Adobe has put an incredible amount of work into Photoshop with updates that make selections quicker and easier however, even Photoshop has its limitations; try selecting dark frizzy hair on a dark or busy background and you’ll know what I mean.
So here’s a technique that has saved me more times than I can remember because sometimes we just have to cheat.
Hope you like it,
Glyn
Thursday of last week I presented in a webinar hosted by my publishers, Rocky Nook all about my latest book, The Photoshop Layers and Selections Workshop.
It was so good to see so many people tune in LIVE and also to see the numbers of folks that had signed up to be sent the recording.
If you missy it and fancy checking it out, Rocky Nook have also now posted the webinar on their YouTube Channel that I’ve now added below…
At the end of the presnetation we went through a Q&A and one of the questions posted asked about the new selections and masking function in Camera Raw and Lightroom, and in particular about using the Color Range option…
Susan asked…
“Can you only subtract one colour point at a time or can you click multiple times on slight variations in the color in the same subtract operation?”
Originally I answered that I ‘thought’ you could only do one at a time however a friend of mine Trevor Ager messaged me to say that you can actually add more by holding down the Option (Mac) / Alt (Windows) keys and clicking.
Hope you enjoy the video.
Cheers,
Glyn
Composition is so incredibly important; it can make or break a photograph.
Here's 3 ways that we can alter the composition and make images bigger using the CROP TOOL in Photoshop to show our pictures off at their VERY BEST for screen, print or social media.
Hope you like it,
Glyn
If you ever place backgrounds behind people (individuals or groups) when taking photographs and wish the background was bigger, here’s how you can use Photoshop to do all the hard work blending images together to fake it.
Enjoy,
Glyn
It’s my own fault that this year I didn’t manage to grab one single Autumn / Fall photograph; I’ve spent every opportunity photographing down on the coast here in Devon or over the border in Cornwall.
Until next year though (when I WILL get some Autumn / Fall photographs) here’s a couple of ways we can use Photoshop to fake it; the first using a single Adjustment Layer and the second using a new Neural Filter.
When you see the video, which one do yo think works / looks best?
Enjoy,
Glyn
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