Photoshop Tutorials

6 Sep, 2007

Enhance Colors Using Photo Filter

Professional photographers use filters to correct lighting conditions, enhance specific colors, and create special effects such as fog, vignettes, and cross stars. You can apply photographic-style filters in Photoshop using the Photo Filter command. The Photoshop photo filters recolor photographs by enhancing warm or cool colors, or by completely retinting the photograph to a specific hue such as yellow, magenta, brown, or blue.

In this technique, you find out how to apply Photoshop's photo filters to recolor your photographs. Also, you discover how to make your photographs look like old-time sepia-toned photos. So, find an interesting photograph and experiment with photo filters!

Enhance Colors Using Photo Filter
About this photoshop photo filter tutorial : This tutorial is written by Steve Patterson for Photoshop Essentials.com. He says:
If Photoshop's Photo Filter isn't one of the most widely used features in the program, it certainly deserves to be. Not only is it easy to use, it's the only feature in Photoshop that lets you choose colors simply by selecting color names from a list! It also has several valuable uses, one of which we've already looked at in a previous tutorial - Neutralizing Color Casts With The Photo Filter - and this time, we're going to learn how to use it to tint and enhance colors in an image.
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3 Sep, 2007

Food Photography and Styling

Food Photography and Styling
Description: An introduction into the art of food photography, both historically, and practically as an insight into the tools used by professionals to create the illusion of a culinary masterpiece in each frame.

Here’s a brief overview. There are two types of still food photography: editorial photos for a book or periodical and advertising photos. Understandably, advertisers want their product prominently featured and in full focus. Editorial work allows for greater creativity on both the part of the photographer and food stylist than advertisements. In the professional world, the food stylist and photographer work together to create the look.

For the purpose of this article, I will focus on editorial work. Within this genre, again there are primarily two types of shots: process shots known as step shots where a technique or action is captured and explained and straight editorial shots of food. Step shots are always clear and in perfect focus throughout; editorial can be artistic.

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