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Blue Cast be Gone
Nothing is more annoying to me than a color cast in the blue range all over my photos. It makes body parts look alien and everything else looks al gloomy and depressing. For me an auto white balance usually triggers a blue cast. Auto WB never worked for me, it just doesn’t. No matter how expensive the camera I’m shooting with. So I prefer eyeballing the light and manually adjusting…
Photoshop: haze
When someone asked me what steps she’d have to take in order create the ‘haze thing’ in her photography she liked so very much, I told her it was so utterly simple I’d be more than happy to slap up a quick tutorial. Though ‘tutorial’ really is an overstatement. Here’s how you add a haze to your photo in exactly 1.6 seconds.
Photoshop: vignettes
I have a thing for vignettes. Not in my food photography, though—I feel it seriously distracts from what’s going on in step by step food photos—but in my regular photography I really like them. Provided it’s not a very dark and exaggerated vignette, I don’t care for those at all and that’s what you usually see around the internet a lot. The one thing I seldom see are light vignettes….
Photoshop: paint with light
There’s no such thing as the perfect exposure. Or maybe there is. When either you’re very lucky or an absolutely brilliant photographer! Chances are you’re not and, just like me, you have to tweak it. Bring the light to life. Exposure is also subjective; what I might think to be the perfect exposure for a particular shot could easily be under or overexposed to your eyes, and vice versa. It really is in…
Photoshop: high pass sharpening
Sharpening your images is a necessary evil, especially when it comes to digital photography, there’s just no work around. There are several ways of doing this, but first let me say that sharpening is often overdone. Seriously overdone. When I see the amount of eye sharpening—and especially in child photography—some people do, it makes me cringe. It looks awful to me and screams fake when you practically crystallize a child’s eyes. Ewww. Yuck….
Photoshop: creating actions
Creating your own actions isn’t just fun; it’s also a huge time saver when you automate the editing techniques you use a lot. I have a enormous collection of my own actions. Each and every editing technique I’ve ever done over the past 10 years or so, I literally transformed into an action. Anywhere from simple borders, to special color pop techniques, sharpening, resizing, favorite B & W editing and foggy overlays. You name…
