Photo retouching in Photoshop

How to make a Windex Bottle look beautiful. Post-production.

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:01:33 +0000

Recently we had a Google+ "Studio Photography Insights" Hangout assignment to shoot a Windex bottle. This is Alex Koloskov's and my attempt. Below I will describe a post-production part of this project in outline way. I have two source files. One for the bottle and the other for the spurt. 1. Cleaning. I use a [...]

Our little cartoonish family at a strawberry field. Dodge and Burn Technique.

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:18:45 +0000

I like this cartoonish look, which I see on movie posters and advertisements, and I try to reproduce this look in my pictures. I used a different workflow for each image for experimenting, however the main technique for such a look is a Dodge and Burn. I will describe it below. RAW file and Processed [...]

HDR in example. How I processed this picture.

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:00:11 +0000

These are the images before and after post-production. Below I'll show how I did it step by step. I use a different workflow for every HDR photo, and this is one of them. All manipulations with this image are non destructive. You can go back to any step and change all parameters. The source (middle [...]

Product photography tip: The fast and easy way to clean dust.

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:34:52 +0000

You can always use usual cleaning tools like Clone Stamp and Healing Brush. However for product photography I like to use Photoshop Filters and Masking. Let me show how I do it? Below you can find the simple steps: 1. Open the image and Duplicate Layer 2. Go to Filter/Noise/Median... For this particular image I've [...]

Adobe Photoshop CS6 – TOP 6 Features by Russell Brown

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:23:16 +0000

Just love it!

8 Common Post-production Mistakes in Product Photography

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:07:10 +0000

After watching series of our Studio Photography Insights G+ Hangouts I've noticed common mistakes photographers do, and created this post to highlight them and help to solve based on eight examples. These images I have selected form our weekly assignments submissions, done by our hangout and assignments participants. These are very easy and fat fixes, [...]

Splashing Beer shot: Post-production

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:59:34 +0000

Tonight (Wednesday 3/21/2012) at 10PM Eastern time Alex Koloskov and Dave Nitsche will be talking about this shot as well as will discuss and critique submission form everyone who did the assignment: The Beer Shot weekly assignment. These are the pictures I've used to make the splashing beer shot: A detailed tutorial how we did [...]

I am back!

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:18:24 +0000

Sorry for the long silence on this blog. It was a thinking time about my way, my passion and my life. I've made some important decisions, as a result I understand that I still want to write for this blog. And this is why: 1. I want to do something useful and create valuable [...]

HDR without a tripod: Photoshop vs Photoshop+Photomatix Pro 4 vs Photomatix Pro 4

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:10:38 +0000

I was challenged by interesting question from Google+ discussion: what post processing is preferred if you are shooting a multiple exposure HDR without a tripod. I've tested 3 methods: 1. Align and Merge to HDR image in Photoshop 2. Stack and align bracketed exposures in Photoshop and then assemble HDR image in Photomatix Pro 4 [...]

Before and after photo of our upcoming ebook.

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:23:20 +0000

We are working on our upcoming ebook (another ebook and video from latest masterclass will be available next week), and here I would like to show you the progress. It is not a regular "before and after" image, as before is not a one image, but a picture that showing what you can get from [...]

How to make film look photos in 1 minute: Our weekend camping

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:27:28 +0000

Our Last weekend was awesome! There were lake, forest, live music, camp fire, and great company. Thank you Sasha and Rasa for inviting us. Below are some photos of my family. Post production have took only a couple minutes to drag sliders in Adobe camera RAW converter. This is a such creative and easy [...]

WOW! Our water splash photo in 3D design

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:09:12 +0000

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How to do Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5. Jewelry photography post production.

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:13:11 +0000

I noticed a big interest to the focus stacking topic. I will explain a post production part in Photoshop CS5 more detailed. You can read and see the video of a shooting part on Alex's blog Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5 So, we have a sequence of images: 5, 8, 12. I mean, [...]

Jewelry photography retouching: Before and After.

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:09:13 +0000

Based on the responses from Alex's last post about jewelry photo session I''ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Some times I had to almost completely re-create a part of the item: it appears to be faster that to trying to restore lost [...]

How to get a professional up-to-date portfolio for a reasonable money.

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:59:40 +0000

If you are on the way to create new or update your old portfolio this post is for you. I can show you 3 different ways to do it: easy, intermediate and advanced. 1. Easy Only for $50 per year you can get Gorgeous Portfolio with your own domain and without any upload limits. iPhone [...]

How to do a water splash butterfly. Post production.

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:09:45 +0000

Some time ago I was impressed with stunning water splash photos some photographers did. I saw flowers, birds, bulls, horses. I was curious how they actually did it? Now I know the answer:-) First, you need a huge set of water splash images and second, many hours of assiduous work. And here is my water [...]

Light brush painting. Post-production.

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:42:42 +0000

Recently Alex had a new post on Pixiq.com: Using light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography. It's not a new technique, we play with it almost 10 years ago, but I think this method is pretty spectacular and expressive. At the same time working with a light brush is so very creative process that [...]

Still life retouching. Glass on black, white and grey. Before and After.

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:16:32 +0000

In this post I want to show the difference in visual perception of retouched and not retouched images. There is nothing special in post-production: levels, curves, healing, cloning, transforming. Just routine work and images become more clean, crisp and finished. For some cases we should spend more time for retouching to make photos perfect. [...]

Glamour portrait retouching. Before and after. Useful links.

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:38:10 +0000

I love retouching! I can spend hours and days working on a single photo. Retouching for me is relaxation, inspiration, meditation, excitement, satisfaction and more:-) I can only wish I could have done it earlier in my life. I still have to learn a lot and learn fast and deep. If you love Photoshop [...]

Recent discovery: Dr. Brown’s Adobe Photoshop CS5 Script – Edit Layers in ACR.

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:47:40 +0000

Update: This script is for edit psd layers in Adobe Camera RAW ONLY, because you can open any TIFF and JPEG through Bridge. Right click on the image and choose Open in Camera RAW... I did not know it. Thank you guys from LinkedIn:-) ------- Some days, working on customer's images (not RAW), I [...]