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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….
Selective darkening
Believe it or not, he was actually blowing kisses! A selective darkening is one of the techniques I use a lot in my photography. In fact, I use it so much I turned it into a work-flow action so I’ll never have to take these steps again. But then again, I turn everything into actions. Compulsive action maker. Nope, I’m not going to share the action here. Showing you this technique and…
Color pop
I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for the color pop stuff. Oh, how I love saying stuff. I’m happy to oblige, though. Here’s a basic but highly effective color pop technique I use every now and then. It’s nothing extreme–as I’m sure you didn’t expect from me either—just a light enhancing pop. If you know the steps, you can increase or decrease the intensity to your liking. Play with blend modes, add…
Photoshop: selective light
As you know, light is everything in photography. You just have to know how to get the right amount of light exactly where you need it to be. I’ll often end up with photos where the subject has been properly exposed, but the background can use a little tweak. Got photos like that, too? Keep reading, this one’s for you!
