Posts filed in ‘Tutorial’
Jordan part 1: Layers and Masks, Removing Blemishes
As promised, here’s “Removing Blemishes and Freckles”. I apologize that it’s a day late. Murphy was biting me in the butt trying to get these video uploaded to my ISP.
I’ve also posted another tutorial, “Layers and Masks”. Using layer masks is a very important basic technique that I use in almost every step in the process. If you don’t have a firm grasp of masks, be sure to watch and understand this video. You’ll use this technique over and over again.
The first few steps in creating the Jordan image involved removing facial blemishes, and to generally clean up other scene elements that I thought were distracting. After all of the other related tutorials are posted, I’ll wrap it all up with a post that discusses how they all come together to make the image.
First tutorial posted: Making Your Photos Pop
One of the ideas I’ve had for this site is to provide a soup-to-nuts view of how a real production photograph goes from the camera, through the digital darkroom, and then finally to its intended real-world use. For example, the seals photo in the last post wasn’t just an example photo, it was an image that I created to sell as stock.
Unlike other sites, I didn’t want this site to be a collection of disjointed tutorials. If there are going to be tutorials, they should be in context to the development of a real production photograph. Originally, I intended to contextually link to tutorials that are already available on the internet, and post them under the techniques section of this site. However, I figured it might be fun to create my own.
I don’t intend for my tutorial collection to be the most comprehensive on the web, and I still intend to link to all the wonderful tutorials that are already out there. But as there’s any number of ways to do something, the more tutorials the better. That said, I’ve posted my first tutorial, which shows you how to give more presence to your photos. Incidentally, I used this technique in the seals post. I’ve updated it to link to this tutorial.
Here it is: Making Your Photos Pop. Enjoy! And please, like any good photographer, I’m open to constructive critique. Leave me a comment.