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How to turn your black and white photos into colour photos
Adobe’s AI tools are powerful but can also be bewildering. Martin Evening shows why they are particularly handy for turning your black and white photos into colour photos, using Neural Filters. The art of hand-colouring photographs dates back to the early days of black & white printing, and was particularly popular during the mid to late Victorian periods.
Make the most of the fall season with these Lightroom tutorials
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PortraitPro v21 with AI 50% OFF + an EXTRA 10% OFF code pim6721. The latest Portrait Pro 21 uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to enhance your portrait-editing workflow. Any aspect of retouching – from cleaning up the skin to composite backgrounds or sky replacement – is now easy and intuitive.
Review: Photoshop 2020 for Photographers By Martin Evening
This is a book that no serious Photoshop user should be without. BUY NOW: Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers: 2020 Edition This is the latest of Martin Evening’s long-running series that has covered Photoshop versions for longer than most people can remember (23 years apparently). In a world that is shifting towards digital publishing it has held up remarkably well and copies of the early editions stand proudly bending the shelves of the office (they are VERY heavy!).
How to use Camera Raw as a Photoshop filter
The excellent image editor Camera Raw can be used as a Photoshop filter. Martin Evening shows you how to make best use of it Camera Raw first began life as a plug-in for Adobe Bridge that allowed photographers to process their raw photos via Bridge, rather than rely on proprietary raw-processing software. Since then Camera Raw has evolved to become a sophisticated image editor in its own right as well as providing the core image processing in Lightroom.
How to add lens-blurring effects using Photoshop
Add creative photographic lens-blurring effects to your photographs using Photoshop. Martin Evening shows you how Creative and selective blur can easily be added to photos in post-production. Credit: Martin Evening Selective focusing, or the ability to restrict the lens focus, doesn’t always have to be done in camera.
Getting the most from Content-aware fill in Photoshop
Martin Evening shows you how to fill selections with Content-Aware Fill and how to tame the results Content-Aware Fill has been a core component of Photoshop for many years. Credit: Martin Evening The Content-Aware Fill feature can be used to fill selected areas by cleverly blending with the surrounding textures. It does this by analysing the colours and textures outside the current selected area, and randomly fills the selection.
Get perfect perspective
Working with the Lens Corrections and Transform panels in Photoshop's Camera Raw plug-in, enables you to make adjustments at the raw-processing stage, says Martin Evening These perspective-correction tools can also be found in Lightroom. Credit: Martin Evening There are a number of ways in which Photoshop can be used to correct lens geometry and perspective, some of which I have described in a previous article.
How to make perfect panoramas
Photoshop's powerful panorama-building feature will extend the capture angle of your camera. Martin Evening shows you how Panorama stitching is a great technique to use to extend your angle of view. Credit: Martin Evening For those times where you find yourself squeezed for space, or lacking a wide enough lens, panorama stitching is a great technique to use if you wish to extend the angle of view, or you simply want to capture more pixels or create sharper images.
Make your colours really stand out
Why let poor colour spoil a great shot? Martin Evening shares his colour-correction know how Before (left), After (right): By shooting in raw it’s easy to correct colour casts in Photoshop. Credit: Martin Evening Computer colour expert, the late Bruce Fraser once commented that Photoshop’s colour management was ‘push button simple’ so long as you know which of the 26 buttons you had to press and in which order.
How to create selections in Photoshop
Martin Evening gives a quick class on stress-free ways to create selections in Photoshop Making selections is an essential Photoshop skill. Credit: Martin Evening Making selections is an essential Photoshop skill. Selections can be used to select a specific area you wish to copy or edit, or to create a more permanent mask. How accurate that selection needs to be depends on what you want to do with it. But creating selections doesn’t have to be difficult.
Member Monday Featuring John Rich
This week, we’re showing you work by KelbyOne member John Rich—a Washington-based photographer. The aviation photo you see above is his work. Keep reading to learn more about the man behind the photo. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about the image? The image is of the Canadian Forces Snow Birds performing at the Oregon International Airshow. I had never photographed an air show before and then my wife and I were given tickets for opening night, with seating in a reserved viewing area.
Shimmering Light Effect By Martin Evening
A few years ago I was looking to create a cover image for a new book and came up with the idea of a model in semi-profile, surrounded by a cool shimmering light. This is a look I’d used on a number of PR beauty photo shoots that had proved popular with a lot of clients. Essentially, I wanted to apply a cool white balance to a studio portrait photo of a model and overlay the image with a rippled lighting effect.
REVIEW: Pro Workflow X
Some of the best investments you can make as a professional are in tools that help your workflow. Pro Workflow X is a Photoshop panel that automates many common retouching tasks, with a focus on specialty techniques for portrait and beauty images. When you choose a feature from the panel, pre-built actions run automatically to set up layers and tool presets, run filters, and other such repetitive tasks. Both the actions and tool presets are included with the panel.
Keep things in perspective
Controlling perspective has its challenges. Martin Evening reveals how to combat distortions in Adobe Photoshop When photographing architectural subjects it can be difficult to control the perspective unless you are using a tilt-and-shift lens and have the camera perfectly aligned vertically.
Photo editing masterclass: How to enhance detail
You can tell that Ivan Galic has put a lot of thought into the preparation for this photograph. By combining a high-ISO setting with a long exposure, Ivan was able to capture more detail in the starry sky than one would see normally, and the Milky Way is clearly visible on the right. More than that, however, he has included a lot of interesting detail in the foreground, which really makes this photograph stand out.
Get dramatic black and white effects
There is much to be said for deferring the black & white conversion process to the image-editing stage. While it is possible to shoot in black & white mode directly and have the camera do the conversion, this normally produces a fixed JPEG image, which leaves you with no further options to modify the black & white result. I therefore recommend you shoot in raw mode. This means your options are left completely open as to how you interpret an image using Adobe Camera Raw.
Amateur Photographer
Camera Profiles have long been hidden away in the Camera Calibration panel. However, the latest releases of Camera Raw and Lightroom sees the Profiles menu repositioned up front at the top of the Basic panel. This now makes profiles more obvious and encourages you to explore the available profile options first before you start adjusting the tone and colour settings. In the past, Camera Raw profiles were for adjusting raw photos only. But the new creative profiles can now be applied to any image.
Member Monday featuring Darren Boyd
Happy Monday! In this week’s Member Monday we are thrilled to be featuring Darren Boyd! Darren is a fantastic portrait photographer based in Beckenham, south London and travels for projects all around the UK. Darren loves taking pictures of people and to capture beautiful characters behind the lens. This passion certainly shines through in his work. 1.) Can you tell us a little bit about the image (full image below)?
Adobe Lightroom and Capture One Pro Close-Up By Martin Evening
Are Lightroom users getting the most out of their RAW files and can they be sure the RAW-processing software they use is as good as Lightroom’s leading competitor? It’s a worrying thought, yet this is the claim being made by some reviewers in head-to-head comparisons between Adobe Lightroom and Capture One Pro. If you were to count up all the hours you’ve spent processing your files in Lightroom, you’d want to be reassured your creative efforts haven’t been wasted.
Photo editing tips: How to apply a selective colour adjustment
Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems. Here he looks at how to apply a selective colour adjustment How to apply a selective colour adjustment This image by Ingeborg Gibbon is flawless. It helps, of course, that she shot it using a good-quality macro lens. The camera was most likely mounted on a tripod and the butterfly subject is beautifully positioned in the frame with a narrow depth of field, where the head and body are in perfect focus.
Photo editing tips: How to remove distracting elements - Amateur Photographer
I liked this photograph by Dee Wood because the subject is so engaging. This is helped by the camera angle, where Dee was facing the subject directly, but also because of this lady’s unique dress sense. Her dress, hat, bag and jewellery are all beautifully coordinated, and really, it is only the graphic design of the ticket that gives away the fact that this is a contemporary image.
Photo editing tips: How to straighten the horizon
Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems. Here he looks at how to straighten the horizon Martin Evening takes you through how to straighten the horizon. Credit: Martin Evening This photograph of people feeding the birds was taken by Zuzana Krejcarova in JPEG mode using a Canon 400D camera. The first thing to point out is that the photo was captured in evaluative metering mode.
Photo editing tips: How to optimise sharpness - Amateur Photographer
In our latest look at photo editing tips, Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your post-processing problems. Here he looks at optimising sharpness. Ben Pike’s image combines creative skill with technical expertise and was shot using a Canon 7D with an EF 100mm f/2.8 lens. Captured at the widest lens aperture, the focusing is pin-sharp on the insect’s head and renders the background in beautiful soft focus. When editing this I aimed to apply the same treatment as Ben.
Photo editing masterclass: How to reduce image noise in your photos - Amateur Photographer
This photograph by Helena Cowell captures the beauty of the soft late-evening light at the beach, with the subtle pink in the sky contrasting very nicely with the blue sea. Because of the low light, Helena wisely set the ISO to 800 and shot hand held using a 1/250sec exposure. This resulted in some noticeable noise, which I was able to smooth out by increasing the Luminance noise reduction slider.
Photo editing masterclass: How to correct keystone distortion - Amateur Photographer
Brian Stoddart photographed this derelict gas station on Route 6/191 in Utah, USA. This image is pure Americana, featuring a classic US mailbox, a Coca-Cola sign and ’50s-style garage forecourt. It therefore suited a cinematic crop and strong colour-contrast treatment. The main problem here, though, was the keystone distortion. I was easily able to correct this by applying a Camera Raw Auto Upright adjustment.
Photo editing masterclass: How to balance sky and sea brightness
Christian Schoter took this photograph in Brixham, Devon. The low light meant he had to use a tripod for the 25-second exposure at f/22 and ISO 100. Taking into account the wideangle lens, there was no need to use f/22. An aperture of f/8 would have given adequate depth of field and better optical sharpness. A shorter exposure and a higher ISO would also have ensured less movement of the boats.
Photo editing masterclass: How to lighten an image
Cuba has long been a favourite location for photographers and access has become easier for US citizens recently. For visitors, one of the most charming aspects of the country’s life are the pre-1959 cars that have been skilfully maintained all these years. They’ll probably begin to disappear over the coming years as Cuba relaxes its rules on new car imports, so if you want to photograph them, get over there while you can.
Photo editing masterclass: How to darken a sky - Amateur Photographer
The building in this photograph by Peter Gilbert has an impressive tiled exterior that contrasts nicely with the blue sky. The people in the foreground provide a useful reference to its scale. In the black & white version I created, I wanted to emphasise the tone contrast. I achieved this by using a colour desaturation technique, instead of a regular black & white conversion. I explain more about this technique in the box below.
Photo editing masterclass: How to lighten shadows - Amateur Photographer
I like this candid portrait by Josef Thobroe, and how the strong graphical composition enhances the photo. You will notice that no Transform adjustments were required here. The cropping was important, though, as I wanted to remove the distracting white wall to the left and the ceiling. I chose to keep the burglar alarm in because it was a key element that aligned precisely with the scooter’s rear wheel.
How to set up your camera for faster shots - Amateur Photographer
Shooting JPEGs allows you to increase the burst rate for your camera, extend the number of photos on a card and speed up import (and editing) times. But you need to get as many things right in-camera as possible. If you’re shooting a city scene at twilight, for example, you need to choose between daylight or tungsten white balance, because you won’t be able to adjust this so easily during post-processing.
Photo editing masterclass: How to lighten exposure
Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems. Here he looks at lightening a shot's exposure in post-processing This is a fine example of a long-exposure shot of burning wire wool that captures the beautiful pattern created by the sparks. Darren Flynn photographed it with the light reflecting in what looks like the edge of a pond, so capturing a mirror image of the reflections. However, be careful when photographing fire.
Photo editing masterclass: How to apply a lens profile - Amateur Photographer
I think I recognise this as the pedestrian bridge at Edgware Road station in London. Graham Borthwick shot it using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 15mm fisheye lens. As the name suggests, this lens captures a non-corrected fisheye-view image where straight lines will appear curved. It is an interesting lens to use if you want to capture a distorted look and can be useful for capturing panoramic shots that can be merged to produce a composite 360° image.
Photo editing masterclass: Creating a new viewpoint
Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems. Here he looks creating a new viewpoint The subject matter in Des Gardner’s photograph is very appealing and contains a lot of interesting detail. However, the original image was shot from an angle. In this situation, l feel the most interesting viewpoint would have been from straight on to produce a symmetrical composition.
Moving from a DSLR to a mirrorless camera
Most advanced digital cameras evolved from traditional film camera body designs. For example, my first professional DSLR was the Canon EOS-1Ds, which was based on a Canon 35mm film camera body. Since then, I have purchased successive models of full-frame as well as APS-C-sensor Canon cameras. I have also shot using medium-format cameras such as the Hasselblad and Pentax 645 systems, and these too are based on SLR designs dating back to the era of film.
DNG: The Pros, Cons, and Myths of the Adobe Raw File Format
Is it wise to convert your raw files to the Adobe DNG format? If you are using Lightroom or Photoshop with Camera Raw, you have the option to convert your master files to DNG. In this article I want to focus on the benefits of converting, the reasons why converting to DNG may not always be ideal or necessary, as well as tackle some of the misinformation about DNG.
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