Category: Digital Imaging
Colour Tinting
Colour tinting is a technique in Photoshop where we can add, or change, colours in an image. Last time, I used the technique to turn a photograph of smoke into an artistic piece full of vibrant colour... Read More
Smoke Photography
Photographing smoke on its own doesn’t look all that appealing. With the help of Photoshop, however, we can create abstract art full of vibrant colour that would look great hanging on our walls.... Read More
Adding and Fixing Noise
As you can see from the image on the left, there is quite a lot of banding. To fix this, I removed the air balloon and the foreground using the select tool and deleted it using the “content-awar... Read More
Feedback Task
We were tasked with making some minor edits to these images and to merge them together. I did this using various tools: spot healing to fix some minor blemishes and layer masks to cut the model out fr... Read More
Radial Filters
For me, this image is underexposed. The background is too dark and my model needed more light. To fix this, I opened it up in Photoshop’s Camera Raw filter and adjusted the exposure by about hal... Read More
Changing The Channel
Here’s an image I recently took. It’s technically a perfectly fine photograph but it wasn’t to my taste. So I took it into Photoshop to make some changes. Adding a curves adjustment ... Read More
Mask and Montage
Using layer masks I was able to cover the bin bag in the corner of the stairway using another photograph of an orange. This is a technique that can be used to add objects or people to a photograph tha... Read More
Opening Our Eyes
Sometimes when we have a large gathering waiting to take a photograph, such as at a wedding, some of the guests might blink or look away at an inopportune time. As photographers, it is part of our job... Read More
Does Changing Colours Mean Changing The Truth?
Photoshop is an effective tool that can completely change a scene, prompting the arguments that nothing is real in photography anymore (a topic I am keen to go deeper into at a later time!)However, as... Read More
Advanced Cloning and Does Photography Speak The Truth?
SPOT HEALING My first task was to retouch this image. It is a simple retouch which uses the “spot healing brush”. By adding a new layer, I could do this non-destructively so any mistakes c... Read More