Of course, it’s best if you get everything right in camera first time: light, color, pose, everything – however, it’s not always going to swing your way! So, plan your shoots accordingly if you can in order to avoid heavy repairs in post production, since you never know how they will turn out.
Photoshop Articles
As much as people can add life, mood and scale to an image, there are times when we just wish they were not there. There are times we might have set up our perfect shot and waited patiently for people to disappear from the scene in vain. Either more people arrive or in some extreme cases, […]
We photographers all strive for the perfect light. It is normal to aim for perfection, however, the light that we usually imagine in our heads is quite difficult to achieve in real life. Well actually, not that hard if you own complex light systems that usually cost heaps. Is it possible to achieve the same […]
Previously I’ve talked about preparing and shooting your images for the composite. If you missed it, click here. Once the images are uploaded in Photoshop, the retouching should be done first. I will use the frequency separation technique to retouch the portrait before masking it to fit the other background. Before you start, convert everything […]
As you are probably already aware, noise reduction can be a painstaking process. There are many ways to reduce noise but all of those ways have one thing in common: detail sacrifice. The more noise you have, the less signal there is, and in reducing more noise, you just reveal the lack of signal, add damage […]
Usually, when I am sharpening or reducing noise in a picture, I end up doing it in a separate layer, and then masking the areas to which I don’t want the effect applied. With the Blend If function you can apply this effect as much as you like to only select portions of the tonal range. It […]
