Vegard Brenna over at Luminous Landscape has an interesting article on creating an HDR workflow to increase the dynamic range of pictures, in his case, the interiors of Churches. But he wants to avoid the high toned “HDR Effect” that is so popular with some. He shows how to calibrate Photomatix and how to create a “HDR Slider” in Photoshop to automate the creation of HDR images.
Read the article at: Luminous Landscape.
Procter & Gamble, manufacturer of CoverGirl, “voluntarily” pulled a print spot featuring Taylor Swift for “excessive Photoshopping.” The ad made claims about the NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara that the National Advertising Division (NAD) — the ad industry’s self-regulatory body created to review factual claims in national advertisements — found could not be substantiated except by “post-production enhancement.”
Looks to me like either the NAD missed about a gizzilion other ads — or the players involved chose not to “voluntarily” comply.
Read the article at: E! online.
From peterelst
What if you could make a blurred image become sharp? This is the promise of the Lytro Light Field Camera that does away with the need to focus your picture before you take it. In fact, the camera takes thousands of images at different focus distance and hence allows you to select the one with the subject you want to be in focus.
However, Adobe has now shown a deblur algorithm that promises to take an actual blurred image and make it sharp simply thru post processing. As you watch the video, at around the 1:18 mark, you can hear shouts of “No way, that’s impossible!” and hand clapping. Adobe has done fantastic things with its Photoshop image editing software and this will be yet another feather in its cap.
via dvice
In a portrait, a distracting background detracts from your main subject. If you have a DSLR and a lens with a large aperture, you can easily dcrease the depth of field to blur the background. Just use a large aperture and see how nicely the background blurs and isolate your main subject, putting the focus right onto it.
However, if you are forced to use a small aperture or you have a point-and-shoot camera and the depth of field is too great to blur the background, you can still have recourse to Photoshop to blur the background. Of course, this is now digital manipulation and you should indicate this as thus.
DPNow has a nice tutorial on it though it does not use the latest edge detection feature of Photoshop CS5.
Read the tutorial at: DPNow.
Read our tutorial using Photoshop Elements: Isolate Your Main Subject. It uses radial blur for a more fantastic effect but you can use a less obvious blur for a more realistic effect.
Read our tutorial on Bokeh (the real type).
Marc Silber has a video of Ken Rockwell talking about some of the post processing he does on his photos.
If you like the vibrant colors of Ken’s photos and wondered what he dials in into Photoshop, check out the video tutorial at: silberstudios.tv.
Chase Jarvis shares his lighting technique and workflow for a typical commercial photo shoot, in this case, The Ladies of the LPGA.
A lot has been written in the brief time that the iPad has been out, with a few photographers dismissing the iPad as a serious equipment in their workflow while others love it as a cool customer presentation display.
Ctein shares how he is effectively using the 64 GB, 3G iPad to directly edit a photo in Photoshop on his MacBook Pro. The Air Display app allows him to tether the iPad to the MacBook Pro as a secondary high-quality monitor. Add a Pogo Sketch stylus and a Contour iSee stand, and he’s got a portable dual-display rig with a studio-quality display that’s touch sensitive. He can now brush directly on the photo displayed on the iPad.
Though the setup is not as functional as a 12″ Cintiq (there’s no pressure sensitive stylus for the iPad, yet), the combination seems to work well enough, minus the occasional idiosyncrasies and slow refresh.
Since the connection is wireless, he can do sorting and editing of photographs in Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW sitting on the bed while the MacBook Pro sits on the desk.
Read the article at: The Online Photographer.
Can you really use the full Photoshop [not the free app] on your iPad? Is there, as the ad going around claims, a “secret way” or “trick” that allows you to do so? We decided to take a look. Let me give you the raw answer right now: don’t bother, you cannot.
See, when I read that there’s a way to run Photoshop on the iPad, what I understand this to mean is: someone has found a way to jailbreak the iPad and install PS (which, I must admit, sounds farfetched already).
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