I came across a link recently to a tutorial for creating the impression of a model city scape or street scene. I had done this before, back in early 2006 but had forgotten about it. It’s a very easy effect to accomplish, given the right starting photo.
I’m planning on doing a video of this technique, once I find the time to get started with those again.
In the meantime, give it a try!
We just finished up another high school show over the weekend and are in the process of setting up for another one today. So, in order to give myself a little recovery time - especially given opposing home schedules these two weeks - I decided to delay this week’s P&P Weekly for a day or two. Also, be sure to stop back on Friday for the next edition of Geographic Composition!
In the meantime pop over to a couple of great sources for Photoshop and photography humor.
The first is What the Duck by Friend-of-the-Blog Aaron Johnson. WTD is a daily comic strip designed specifically for photographers, Photoshop users, and even small business owners and it pokes fun at clients, those who don’t know enough to know that they don’t know, and the everyday ridiculousness of life. I read his strips every day and they’re a great “pick me up” after a long day.
For the next one, I know I’m late in posting this and you’ve probably already seen these, but for those of you who haven’t, check out the “You Suck at Photoshop” video series. If you’re looking for good, in-depth tutorials on how to create effects in Photoshop, look elsewhere. For some excellent Dane Cook-style humor, “warped” into a Photoshop tutorial, this is your place! (The link takes you to Episode #1 (0f 8). )
In this video I show you how to create the cool “layers” effect used extensively throughout Friend-of-the-Blog Matt Kloskowski’s Layers book.
UPDATE: Thanks to visitor Taffy Orlowski who reminds us that,” The cover design for Matt Kloskowski’s Layer’s book was created by NAPP designer Jessica Maldonado.”
Note: There were some issues regarding the synching of narration and video during the editing process. I’m still getting used to the software and I’m working out some of the bugs. Please bear with me. My apologies.
-Thanks.
In this video I show how to add some depth of field by selectively applying a lens blur and also create an interesting edge effect all using Photoshop’s Quick Mask mode.
As always, if you have any ideas for future videos, please leave a comment or email me.
This time, I take you through processing a color photo into black and white using Lightroom.
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