This is a recent corporate portrait for a friend of mine, Mark Johnson of Mark Johnson Communications. We used just a small crop of the image on his business cards. The final image will be used in other marketing material. As you look at the other images you can see the progression of the concept. First the image [...]
For over eight years I was partners with a top food photographer in Chicago. Most of that time I spent retouching and color correcting food for a variety of clients like McDonald’s. However, during that time I discovered I really enjoyed the art of food photography. I also had the opportunity to observe some of [...]
What terms do you use to describe the creation of photographic images or illustrations in Photoshop?
Here is a new image composited from several images. First, the panoramic of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk was created from four hand-held shots (I only show 3 on the promo piece). The little girl on the beach was taken on the opposite coast in Florida. The panorama is available on Getty Images as stock as [...]
I my series, “Photoshop High Pass Filter – Removing wrinkles in fabric” (If you haven’t read them here are the links: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), I alluded to the fact that the aforementioned technique could be used to remove unwanted blemishes from skin as well as fabric. I also said it required [...]
Okay… so you have followed the steps in the previous posts and you are saying… Wait this doesn’t work, I added a curves layer and my shadows are still gray! I did say you may need to do some more tweaking. When you used the Highpass filter to remove the wrinkles you probably removed most [...]
The First Part of this series demonstrated the power of the high pass filter in Photoshop. Now I will walk you through this Photoshop technique step-by-step.
This is a very quick tip, but will save time when you have to retouch a lot of files. I currently have several hundred files that need some basic retouching- every minute counts! If I can shave a few minutes off of every one, I can literally save hours. I have a few actions to [...]
