by Dennis | Sep 24, 2008 | Case Studies
Sometimes we get lucky. Every now and then there is actually one of those “Quick and Dirty” tricks that actually works and saves us hours of extra work. Depending on the shot “Channel Pulling” is one of those tricks.Basically the idea here is if one of the channels in...
by Dennis | Sep 8, 2008 | Case Studies
Maybe this comes under the “Pet Peeve” heading, but as a retoucher I see a lot of Photoshop files with lots of layers that have names like “Layer 1” or “Layer 2” etc. While I know this is Photoshop’s default naming system what happens is pretty quickly you need some...
by Dennis | Aug 17, 2008 | Case Studies
Black and White imagery has had a long tradition in the world of photography. And in this digital age Photoshop goes a long way to honor that tradition giving us many different ways to convert our Color images to Black and White with more control and finesse than ever...
by Dennis | Jul 31, 2008 | Case Studies
I’ll be teaching another seminar for the Los Angeles chapter of the APA on August 9th with some of the folks from Bowhaus. Should be an interesting day.APA/LA Digital Workshop: From Color to Black and WhiteSaturday August 9th, 20089am – 1pm3221 Hutchinson...
by Dennis | Jul 30, 2008 | Case Studies
One of the more frequent questions I get asked is about masking. Almost every Photoshop user has used masks at one time or another to control how one image blends with another to limit some effect to certain areas of the image. Safe to say they’re used a lot....