3 Ways to Change Colors In Your Photographs With Photoshop
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In this short video tutorial, you’ll discover how to change colors in a photograph using a Solid Fill Layer, Hue/Saturation, and Curves Adjustment Layers.
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How To Rapidly Reorder Photographs in Lightroom Classic Collections
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In this Quick Tip, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to quickly reorder photos by selecting multiple images rather than the time-consuming technique of dragging (and dragging and dragging!) and dropping photos into position.
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How To Use Association To Go Deeper With Your Photographs
My early curiosity about clouds displaying invisible forces at work, lead to associations of nephomancy (divination by clouds) and later clouds as divine messengers.
The working title for this series, Glory (later changed to Illumination) was drawn from religious iconography in western art history.
The working title for this series was Heaven's Breath but it was later released as Exhalation, leaving room for viewers' interpretations. The many personal associations I bring to my imagery remain subliminal but strongly felt giving them consistency and depth.
Our work is as deep as the relationships we have with it. Mastery involves much more than researching subjects and perfecting craft, it also means doing some soul searching. So how can you deepen your relationships with your work? How can you understand the inner life of your work better? One way is to associate freely.
Free association is a classic psychological technique that can be used to reveal and clarify internal relationships. While most association is done linguistically, you can use anything as a touchstone for association; sounds, gestures, tastes, smells, images, etc. Use one or more at the same time. Whatever you choose to associate with, record your associations with something that doesn’t get in the way of the free flow of your association process. If you use words, use the language that comes most easily to you. If you use something else (colors, sounds, images) make sure that collecting them can be done fast, fluidly, and flexibly. Do record your associations. If you don’t record them, you’ll forget most of them and the patterns they make will elude you.
Simply observe what comes to mind. Don’t critique or censor yourself during the process; nothing shuts down this process faster. Let it all out. Be thoroughly spontaneous and utterly candid with yourself. You may or may not choose to do this with others. It’s your choice. Try different approaches and see how each influences the experience and results.
There are several ways to guide association.
13 Tips To Help You Master Curves In Photoshop
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In this short video tutorial, you’ll learn essential tips for working with the Curves panel in Photoshop, including how to customize the Auto options, add and delete points, use the Targeted Adjustment tool, and adjust color and tone.
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How To Use Metaphor To Make Stronger Photographs
Zoomorphism animates and connects these images.
Photographs can often be well-crafted transcriptions of their subjects and nothing more. It’s usually that elusive ‘something more’ that makes great photographs, elevating them beyond craft to art. How can you bring more to your images? One way is to use a guiding metaphor.
What is a metaphor? In language, spoken or written, a simile implies a shared quality (This is like that.), while a metaphor states that two things are the same (This is that.). When a metaphor is used, it’s understood that poetic license is being taken. A metaphor isn’t used to create misinformation and confusion, it’s used to emphathetically draw attention to shared qualities.
Cool Multi-Color Effect Using RGB Channels In Photoshop
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Learn a bunch of creative effects you can apply using three simple checkboxes. My favorite use is to light an object from three different angles and then combine the three images into a colorful result.
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Use A Little Gestalt Psychology To Make Your Compositions Stronger
Motion attracts attention.
Danger attracts more attention.
Including a person in an image does more than show scale; the person becomes the main actor in the scene.
Typically, man-made objects are almost as interesting as the people who make them, sometimes more.
Animals are almost as captivating as people.
Though they demand less attention than animals, plants still demand more attention than minerals.
Metaphor, especially anthropomorphism, helps establish human interest in animate elements.
You can use psychology’s insights into perception to creatively enhance your compositions. Psychological forces not only divert the flow of the eye through images but also change reactions to image content in specific ways.
While all psychologists agree that perceptions are the products of complex interactions between a variety of stimuli, not all fields of psychology have the same focus and so they offer different insights. One field of psychology offers a particularly rich set of theories for understanding perception – gestalt psychology.
How To Fix Red Faces In Your Photographs Using Photoshop
Learn how the pros remove red from faces. We’ll go beyond the standard technique of Hue/Saturation and will also take a look at why a lot of images from the internet always have red faces. In the process, you’ll learn how to isolate colors using Hue/Saturation, how to paint with color and how to perform basic color shifts using curves. You’ll learn a bunch that will be applicable even if you never run across skin tones that needs fixing.
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3 Great Books On Composition
Michael Freeman’s The Photographer’s Eye demonstrates how the elements of composition are applied in photographs, which are often so laden with detail that it’s more challenging to see the fundamentals.
Christian Leborg’s Visual Grammar is a quick read that you can look at for a long time. It is very useful to consider visual dynamics abstractly so that they can be applied more universally.
Rudolf Arnheim’s Art and Visual Perception is a classic that discusses how the principles of gestalt psychology apply to composition.
Read more in my Creative Composition resources.
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Quickly And Easily Change White To Any Color With Photoshop
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Learn three methods for adding color to white objects. The first two are the most common approaches, which to my eye do not look professional, so I’ll show you how to improve their results. The third approach is the highest quality and least common method and is the only one that involves zero guesswork to produce very professional-looking results.
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Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.