How To Blend Multiple Images With Different Depth Of Field
I need to think of new ways to introduce the fact that there are so many things about Photoshop I never knew existed, much less how to use them, and that Bryan O’Neil Hughes as Principal Product...
View ArticleHow To Remove Wrinkles For A Realistic, Younger, & Cleaner Look
A wrinkle here, a wrinkle there, is no big deal. We should welcome them since they add character, right? Or am I alone here? Well, maybe I will be if I let crows feet take over my face. As is typical...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Recover Skin Texture from Over-Exposed Areas
Photographing people always presents a high grade challenge in comparison to other subjects, since faces, and people on a whole, are things our brains are sort of hard wired to recognize. As this is...
View ArticleHow To Enhance & Change Eye Color The Right Way In Photoshop
Changing eye color, without a doubt, has to be one of the most desired alterations people want to make to themselves. A look at the still booming market for colored contact lenses, and now even some...
View ArticleRender Impeccable Skin Tone Easily, Using Camera Raw & A Slider You Didn’t...
Each of us has some type of photography, that for whatever reason, as inexplicable as it may be to some, we gravitate towards. Sometimes, it’s not even the type of work we do to make a living. I...
View ArticleCompress Photos with Photoshop’s Content-Aware Scale
Many Photoshop users are familiar with the Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Move features, but are less familiar with the Content-Aware Scale command. The Content-Aware Scale command comes in...
View ArticleMatch Skin Tones Around the Body Precisely Using Selective Color in Photoshop
We’ve covered somewhat extensively, and will continue, to cover photo retouching of people. Aside from the fact that technologies are continually changing and presenting new solutions to old problems,...
View ArticleHow To Remove Your Ex In Photoshop
Summer began, and as summer does, prompted people to shed clothing as if some sort of cathartic molting. Women swap parkas and pants for tanks and skirts, and men swap jackets and trousers for...
View ArticleHow To Use The Much-Underrated ‘Pen Tool’ In Photoshop
It was, for me, the most daunting Photoshop tool there was. It felt unnatural and the flow was not as organic as other tools like the magic wand. I knew little about it, and thus was a bit afraid of...
View ArticleThis Is How To Cut Out Hair In Photoshop – Easy & Effective
I’m forever astonished to see how Photoshop users take the software and just do the most creative things - from creating vast scenes of composites to making a world that doesn’t exist. For my type of...
View ArticleHow to Create a Cinemagraph Using Photoshop in Under a Minute
Cinemagraphs are photographs that are partially animated or in motion. Most of the time, they are created by taking a series of photographs and only putting a part of each image in motion, leaving the...
View ArticleHow To Fix & Whiten Teeth In Photoshop The Right Way
Good dental hygiene. It’s just so important. Not only because teeth are, after a point, very unforgiving and costly to repair, but also good teeth and a bright smile are immensely attractive. So there...
View ArticleGet Better Vacation Photos By Removing The Other Tourists Form Your Image,...
We have all been there. You know, when you are on vacation, visiting a really cool tourist destination and all of your pictures stink because they are full of, well, other tourists. Take your vacation...
View ArticleHow To Make The Most Out Of Graduated Filters In Post | Camera RAW Makes It Easy
There is a funny issue that is cause for debate between photographers, and those who simply think they know what a good photograph should look like. It often has to do with how a particular person...
View ArticleOne Of The Fastest Ways To Dodge & Burn In Photoshop
Dodging and burning is probably my most used process in post. That’s likely half due to the fact it’s an extension from my film developing days, and the fact it’s so easy, and so effective. Too many...
View ArticleWhy You Need A Tablet & How It’ll Transform Your Lightroom Workflow
I can’t function in clutter. I loathe clutter. I’m not necessarily OCD about it, but I learned a long time ago that it makes more sense for me to only acquire things I really really like, and/or...
View ArticleHow To Fake Depth Of Field In Photoshop W/ Aaron Nace
Ahh shallow depth of field, how many obsess over thee. That’s not an exaggeration, and I know you won’t begrudge me for saying we’ve all been there. Later, however, we appreciate the subtly of our...
View ArticleAdding Lights & Changing Time Of Day In Photoshop
Many of us who work within and those who frequent SLR Lounge approach editing and Photoshop from the perspective of retouching people. The wedding photographers, the portrait shooters make up a...
View ArticleA Career’s Worth Of Wisdom On Retouch, In A Minute | Russell James
There’s really never any shortage of good retouching advice to be found in these crowded internet photography annals, much of it right here on SLRL. If you wanted to learn how to change eye color,...
View ArticleHow To Black Out Eyes In Photoshop | A Phlearn Halloween Special
Casting aside the typical gallery look to the studio, Phlearn has morphed into something of a Devil’s cauldron. Leave it to Aaron Nace and the team at Phlearn to kick off the Halloween photography...
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