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12 Essential Photoshop Skills Every Photographer Should Know (With Video) “…If you’re saying in your head, ‘Oh, I’ll just fix that later in Photoshop,” stop what you’re doing and slap yourself as hard as you can.”

12 Essential Photoshop Skills Every Photographer Should Know (With Video)

–Zack Arias If you’ve been reading my stuff for a while, you know that I’m a huge proponent of getting it right in the camera. Exposure, lighting, composition– all of it. As I tell my students, Photoshop is a tool, not a crutch. A bad photo is a bad photo, and no amount of post processing is going to miraculously turn it into a good photo.

One of the beautiful things about Photoshop is that there seem to be at least five or six different ways of accomplishing just about everything. Cropping While most of us think about cropping only in terms of preparing an image for print or web display, the truth is that the crop tool can be invaluable when it comes to either correcting or creating an entirely new composition. Brightness & Contrast Brightness and contrast adjustments can be a valuable tool in finding and correcting flaws in exposure. Curves & Levels. Digital Photography School - Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials. ALTFoto.

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We've got you covered: Design Tutorials Photoshop humans into zombies, stone statues, animal hybrids and more. Photo Hacks These contests invite participants to use their humour and technical skills in Photoshop to play with icons, objects and media imagery to create new concepts. Enter Creative Contests. Cambridge in Colour - Photography Tutorials & Learning Community. Aperture and Depth of Field. Depth of Field Depth of Field (DOF) is the front-to-back zone of a photograph in which the image is razor sharp.

Aperture and Depth of Field

As soon as an object (person, thing) falls out of this range, it begins to lose focus at an accelerating degree the farther out of the zone it falls; e.g. closer to the lens or deeper into the background. With any DOF zone, there is a Point of Optimum focus in which the object is most sharp. There are two ways to describe the qualities of depth of field - shallow DOF or deep DOF. Camera Exposure: Aperture, ISO &Shutter Speed. A photograph's exposure determines how light or dark an image will appear when it's been captured by your camera.

Camera Exposure: Aperture, ISO &Shutter Speed

Believe it or not, this is determined by just three camera settings: aperture, ISO and shutter speed (the "exposure triangle"). Mastering their use is an essential part of developing an intuition for photography. Camera Skills - Manual Exposure Photography for Beginners. Fotogenetic - Digital Photography for Serious Amateurs. Breathtaking Long Exposure Photography and How to Capture It. As you know, our first free e-Book was launched and so we were all, including me, busy making Photoshop resources.

Breathtaking Long Exposure Photography and How to Capture It

Thanks to you, the e-Book has met with a landmark success. Now I am free to focus on the other subjects as well. For today, I chose a form of trick photography. So after many weeks, here’s a super tutorial for learning Long Exposure Photography. As the name suggests, long exposure photo is when the camera’s image sensor was exposed to light for a longer period of time than usual. Examples Niagara Falls Exposure: 30 Seconds Image by John A Ryan Light House Exposure: 114 Seconds Image by MumbleyJoe (Tyler) Fireworks Exposure: 10 Seconds Image by Express Monorail Sky ways Exposure: 1 Hour Image by c@rljones Spinning Wheel Exposure: 20 Seconds Image by Sara Heinrichs (awfulsara) Waterfalls Exposure: 2-5 Minutes Image by Dene’ (Seattle) Miles Speed Exposure: 5-10 Seconds Image by Patrick Smith Photography Use of This Effect Taking the Shot Also try to capture a shot which I always wanted to.

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