It's not often I find myself wishing my camera could do something it currently can't, but focus shift is high on my wish list for Sony. Here I explain what focus stacking is and why having something like Nikon's Focus Shift in my Sony camera would be so useful. I then show how to stack and blend the images together in Photoshop to end up with a tack sharp image.
I love how one technique in Photoshop can do more than one job. Here I show how a technique I call the Never Ending Lighting Rig, which I use for adding more lights into a picture, can also be used to enhance the eyes in a portrait. With it you can brighten the eyes, add in fake catch lights and make them pop, all from the same starting point and without needing a separate technique for each.
I love long exposure photography, but what do you do when you're out with your camera and don't have any neutral density filters with you? Here's a great technique for creating the long exposure effect by combining a number of images together in Photoshop. I explain it step by step, using a Smart Object and the Median stack mode, and it's quick, easy and very effective.
One thing my YouTube channel was missing was a trailer; something that in 60 seconds or less explains the who, what, where, why, when and how of me and what the channel is all about. So I put some time aside and made one. The channel is where I share photography techniques and tutorials, tutorials for software such as Photoshop and Lightroom, and the occasional honest gear review, and putting the videos together in a way that's 'me' has been a lot of fun.
This is a superb way to remove distractions from your photographs. I show you step by step how to get great results removing things like people and vehicles, or anything else that moves, quickly and easily using Smart Objects and Stack Modes in Photoshop. It gets results that would be impossible with the regular tools such as the Clone Stamp Tool and Content-Aware Fill, which is what makes it such a useful technique to know.
This is a great technique for reducing or removing noise in your photographs using Photoshop, no matter what camera you took them with. There are no filters, no plug-ins and no magic settings; it's simply a great use of technology that's already in Photoshop, once you know where to find it. The technique does rely on knowing your camera and at what ISO noise starts to appear. It can be used on scenes and on people, as long as they're not moving, and it's great for astro work, reducing the noise in skies that a high ISO would introduce. Some have asked why not just use a low ISO and drag the shutter. That's fair for some situations, but when you're photographing a person you wouldn't want that; it's better to take the shots you need in burst or continuous mode, which most cameras can do in less than a second.
Can’t take credit for this great little tip; saw it posted on Facebook by Rufus Deuchler (Director, Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe)
Up until I saw this yesterday I’ve been opening images from my iPhone into Photoshop, resizing them and then saving them out for posting on my website etc..
No longer going to be doing that from now on though, because of this…
Right-Click on the file then Quick Actions > Convert Image
You can then choose a file format to convert the file to (JPEG, PNG, HEIF ) and an Image Size.
That’s it!
Quick huh 😃
Again, thanks to Rufus for sharing the tip on social media.
Cheers,
Glyn
Using a drone for photography opens up so many new and unique compositions, and this is a perfect example. I finally photograph an incredible lone tree that would have been impossible to capture on foot, but thanks to my drone it became possible. I go through the drone camera settings I used, then move into Lightroom to create an HDR, before finishing in Photoshop and jumping in and out of Topaz Studio 2 to create a painterly effect.
I've always wanted to know how to create a photo mosaic: a photograph made up of lots of little photographs. I also wanted to make a video showing it all coming together. Here I show how to do exactly that, quickly and easily, using a great website called easymoza, so you can turn one of your own pictures into a mosaic and watch it build up from all the smaller images.
It’s just a few days to go now until the start of the Photoshop Virtual Summit 4, so here’s a short video by the event creator, Dave Cross covering some of the most commonly asked questions he’s received during the lead up…
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With just a few days to go until the Photoshop Virtual Summit 4, held from 2 to 6 May 2022, the event's creator Dave Cross put together this short video. In it he covers some of the most commonly asked questions he'd received in the lead up to the summit, answering them one by one so that anyone planning to watch the classes knew what to expect from the event.
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