Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web. Chiaroscuro « Geyer Studio's Blog. According to Wikipedia, Chiaroscuro (English pronunciation: /kiˌɑːrəˈskjʊəroʊ/, Italian: [kjarosˈkuːro] “light-dark”) in art is characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for using contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. In practice, chiaroscuro is obtained by having strong light and dark contrast between the body and background on each side of the subject. DOUBLE EXPOSURE PORTRAITS on the Behance Network. Photoshop CS5: Selections in Depth. You may have found it challenging, in past versions of Photoshop, to select soft edges composed of fine detail, like my hair in this photograph, or a cat's fur, or the leaves of a tree.
It's a lot easier to do that now in Photoshop CS5, thanks to new and improved selection and masking technology. In the next couple of movies, I'm going to show you how to refine the edge of a soft selection, like hair, using controls in the Refine Edge dialog box. What I'd like to do is make a selection around my hair in this photograph, so that I can mask out the plain background to see through to the more interesting background on the sky layer below. I'll start by checking that the hair layer is selected in the Layers panel. I'm going to make an initial rough selection around my hair.