I feel so bad for "not" posting on this blog

Soooo sorry:-)

For my excuse i like to show you today a tutorial in english. 

I use this technique very often when i retouch male models 

You will get a more contrast, desaturated look. 

I hope you will like it

If you like to see more tutorials you can take a look here. Click

Heres the Tutorial

If you like it and like to see more leave me a comment:-)

lg Calvin

Hi friends

Today i like to show you some pictures. 

All the pictures where done for the models. 

Hope you will like the pictures

If you have any questions, feel free to write me

Have fun

 

P.S 

I will do a free webinar soon. 

Take care

Calvin

Its amazing…. a dream come true……

Calvin Hollywood goes LAS VEGAS!!! YEAH!

I am a instuctor on the worlds largest photoshop convention. 

THE PHOTOSHOP WORLD!!!!!

For this big event i have to practise my english. Thats why i like to do some webinars for FREE. The next webinar is this tuesday where i like to retouch a file from the beginning to the end. You can finde more informations in this post. Click

Beeing a instructor on the Photoshop World is a big honor for me. I am not sure but i guess i am the first german photoshop freak who will teach on the PSW. 

I will be on stage with Mr Russell Brown for a presentation of our best photoshop techniques. And i also have my own presentation where i show the audiance my best techniques in color manipulations, contrast boosts and much more. 

Now its time to do more on the international market…. 

lg Calvin

Heres my next webinar, where i retouch a picture from the beginning to the end.

Date: June 8

Time: 7pm – 9pm (german time) Time Zone Berlin

Room: Adobe Connect <– click

Room will be open 1 hour earlier

The time zones

Ok, its time for the next FREE webinar. This time i like to show you my complete workflow from the beginning to the end. I like to retouch and show you the making of the picture TORNADO.

Everybody who will join this webinar will get the raw file of this image. You will find the link to the raw filme in the meeting room. To make it in the room you have to login early as a "Gast". Just type in your name and join the webinar. I will open the room 1 hour earlier.

In this webinar i like to show you:

• raw conversion
• contrast and detail techniques
• working with the pen tool/quick mask mode
• liquify tool
• creating a compositing
• creating a look
• creating reign
• 2080

I hope to see you……

lg Calvin

P.S
Dont forget to check my photoshop training with more then 4 hours of my best photoshop techniques. CLICK

Actually you can find so many tutorials about the new features in Photoshop CS5.

But where are the tutorials about the new blendmodes in Photoshop CS5?

I love to work with blendmodes. you can create so many effects and looks.

Today i like to show you a tutorial about the new blendmodes "divide" and "subtract".

Ok, lets start with the blendmode "divide". You can create a effect of a scetch with this

blendmode in a very short time. Heres my result.

And now the new blendmode "subtract". Very nice effect. Take a look

And heres a tutorial for you. Have fun with it.

If you like to see more of my photoshop techniques, dont miss my free webinar. CLICK

Greets from Germany

Calvin Hollywood

Sorry for beeing away so long.

But now i am back, back with great news.

I will do a free webinar for you on May 12th, 11pm (time zone Berlin)

In this webinar i will explain every layer of the picture "Blue Dragon" and "Blind".

Read more……

The webinar starts at 11pm german time (Berlin). Click here for your time zone. CLICK
The running time of this presentation is about 60 to 90 min.
I start with explaining each layer of the picture "Blind".

After that i ll explain the whole PSD File of my picture "Blue Dragon".

In both parts i ll explain techniques like

• Color manipulation
• painting with light
• adding backgrounds
• creating a "look"
• contrast boost
• and much more

After my presentation i will be available for some questions and answers.

To join this webinare just click this link (room is open at 10pm)
FREE WEBINAR <– click

I hope this webinar is interesting for you

See you

Calvin

Ok guys

Whats up???

Hope you doing well….

I know that some of you are addicted to photoshop.

Am i right? 

If you like to find out if you do to much photoshop, check this PDF out

Have fun:-))))))

I am founder of a german photoshop forum named www.photoshopnonstop.de. 
In this forum we created a thread where you can find out if you are photoshop addicted. 

That was a lot of fun. A guy was creating a pdf then with the best claims.
Last week "Dr.Mabo" did a translation into english for you. 

I hope you like the pdf and i think many people think like the claims in the pdf:-)

If you like to download the pdf, with more then 100 claims, just click on the screenshot!

If you like the pdf,please share it in other forums. Just link this post. 

Its also very important for me to get your feedback.
Thank you all and dont do to much photoshop *har har har* 

lg Calvin
www.calvinhollywood-blog.com

I am sure that everybody of you know Russel Brown!

No???? WHAT ?????

If you do not know Russel Brown – do not touch Photoshop (just kidding)

Russel Brown is an amazing presenter and a awesome photoshop Expert.

Today i like to write something about me and Russel Brown.

Russel Brown is my absolutly role model!!!!! *Bam*

Everytime when i see a Russel Brown presentation i think: DAMN, thats perfekt.

I love the way he teach and i love what he do. He have so many great ideas.

Take a look at his presentation at the Photoshop 20th Anniversary

NOW you know what i am talking about , right?

I met Russel some months ago in germany and i also showed him my photoshop techniques.
I like to know what he think about that. And i am so happy about his words:

“News Flash! Photoshop goes Hollywood!
Or should i say Calvin Hollywood. I recently came across Calvin´s work and i was totally blown away. Not only is he a great photographer, but he knows tips and techniques about Photoshop that are almost magical.
If you´re a Photoshop user, then you should stop everything and take a look at some of his tutorials. Trust me on this one….”
Russel Brown, Sr.Creative Director Adobe Systems Inc

Amazing…. and some of my techniques gave him inspiration for his tutorials.

Take a look of his tutorial about getting details!!!!

Smart Detail Tutorial

Eclipse Detailing Tutorial

Stay tuned…..

lg Calvin

Today i have a guestpost for you.

Markus Petterson bought my Photoshop Training "Calvinize"

Today he will tell you some words about the techniques and post some final results

Have fun…

Calvinized in action

First of all I must send a BIG thanks to Calvin for releasing his Calvinized online tutorials!

I bought it a few weeks ago and I haven't even watched all of the tutorials yet. That's because I have already found so many great techinques that I had to stop watching the tutorials and try them out on my own pictures. I'll be sure to watch the rest as well though, because this training material is absolutely FULL of great and useful stuff. And the best part is, it's really easy too!

Calvin stumbled upon a few of my retouched pictures in a retouching forum. He thought the result looked good and wanted me to write a huest blog post, so here we go.

I do some freelance photography/retouch jobs on occation, and I actually used the techniques from Calvinized on a recent job as a suggestion on how to improve the look on a bunch of kinda boring pictures of industrial workers in a workshop to be used in their advertising. The lighting and the quality of the pictures was good, but the advertising agency thought the pictures looked kind of dull. I did a test retouch on a few pictures and they really liked it. I used the "Amazing details with blurring" tutorial, among other things, to change the feel and look of the pictures into a bit rougher style.
 

I have used sort of the same workflow in all three of these pictures. I will take picture number three and explain what I did step by step. Remember, this can all be learned from the Calvinized tutorials, along with some previous Photoshop knowledge, but there is not much needed at all.

This is all the layers I used for this picture:

The main thing is the "Amazing details with blurring" tutorial, that's what gives the picture that special look. I copied the background layer, set it to Vivid light, inverted it and used a Surface blur filter.

I used slightgly different settings than in the Calvinized tutorial. I think Calvin uses about 40 on both Radius and Threshold in the tutorial. I think I used less on both sliders, about Radius 25 and Threshold 18 because it simply looked better on this particular image. The effect is less noticable when you use lower values, but I knew I could enhance the details later with local contrast.

Then I merged the filtered layer and the background layer and set that new layer's blend mode to Overlay (erased the Surface blur-filtered layer). I enhanched the details effect with Image -> Adjustments -> Local contrast 100% to get even more details. I had some problems with annoying halos. I haven't really perfected this technique yet, so I also added a layer mask and painted with a black brush in different sizes depending on where I wanted to get rid of these halos.
The thing I added after that, which is very simple, was a curve layer where I painted the highlights in the t-shirt. It's very easy to see where you should paint when you have done all of the above, because the highlights really stand out, but I wanted them even lighter.
Then I added another Curve layer called "Lighten with Curve" to lighten some parts of the picture with a pretty big and soft brush.

Next thing was two Vibrance adjustmentlayers to desature the colours all over the picture, except for the drilling machine in the guy's hand. I kept that detail fully saturated as a "colour-click". The final touch was a curve layer which I used to create a Vignette (darker corners). I also Dodged & Burned on a Soft light-layer on a few spots in the face to even some details out just a little bit.

That's how I used some of the techniques from the Clvinized online training. There's a lot more to try and I'm excited to try some of the compositing tricks that are shown in the turoials!

Finally, here are some other before and after-pictures from previous photoshoots of mine.

From a session I shot in 2006 and recently made a "re-retouch" on. I played around with the idea of making the model into a "Terminatress". A lot of testing with compositing and blend modes. Photo & retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Angelica Jansson
From the same session shot in 2006. In this picture I experimented with blood brushes and different blend modes. Photo & retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Angelica Jansson
Quick and dirty 10 minute skin retouch on portrait a friend of mine shot for his portfolio. I used Healing brush and surface blur for the smoothing and High pass to bring back the texture. This is just a cutout of the original picture. Photo: Richard Ström, Retouch: Markus Pettersson
From a glamour session in 2009. Skin retouch with Clone stamp and Healing brush. Fake lighs with Lens flare. A lot of painted highlights on a Curve adjustmentslayer. Photo & Retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Sofie Lindberg, Make up artist: Evelina Lundqvist
Beauty picture from 2009. Skin retouch with Healing brush, Liquify filter on parts of the face. Photo & Retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Sofie Lindberg, Make up artist: Evelina Lundqvist
Portrait/fashion shoot with two sisters who run a very succesful blog. Healing brush and surface blur for skin smoothing, High pass for texture. Fake lights with Lens flare. Photo & retouch: Markus Pettersson, Models: Beatrice and Veronica Örtenberg, Make up artist: Madelene Hrvacanin
From a beauty and fashion shoot in 2008. Skin retouch with healing brush. Black and white conversion with Black & white adjustment layer. Curves adjustmentlayer for highlights. Photo & Retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Malin Lenhult, Make up artist: Madelene Hrvacanin
Test shoot with a home-made aluminium ring light of about 100 cm diameter with 16 separate 100W light bulbs that can be lit one at the time. For this image we used 8 of them. Skin retouch with Healing brush, adjustment layers for eyes and lips, Liquify for some parts of the picture. Photo & retouch: Markus Pettersson, Model: Caroline Lundqvist, Make up artist: Evelina Lundqvist

Best regards,
Photographer Markus P, Sweden
www.markusp.se
www.facebook.com/markus.pettersson
 

Hi guys

Today i like to show you a video of one of my last presetations in Saarbrücken/Germany. 

I was showing  some of my retouching techniques and i also showed  lightning techniques. 

Have fun with the video