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Well everyone, I hope that your holidays were fun and that you got alot of snapshots of family and friends opening their presents. I know I did.
So I have been sitting on a Blog for quite some time waiting for the right chances to shoot. But I feel that this perticular blog deserves my best, which i have yet to get!!!
I have been noticing alot of BAD PS work lately, not neccissarily here but on other sites and even some ad’s in magazines. One site i frequent has a list of what they call photoshop wizards, of which less than half would make the grade. So I wanted to point out that Youtube has a strong photoshop following of tutorials and that you can search for your copy of photoshop and find tutorials all over. One of the Best i have seen for PS elements is 42technoman. and for the CS3 users tutvid has a great list of tutorials. I would show some of thier vids but I feel that you will just have a better chance at finding what you want by logging on.
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Yep. There’s a very good series called “You Suck at Photoshop” which has several very easy to follow tutorials. This is full of dark humor though, so I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone easily offended. But, like I said, the tutorials are easy to follow and all really good.
Hey John
Could you add some links - I could really use some help with PS LoL
Kimberly, What are you trying to do? What do you want to learn?
I have been trying to photograph products lately, mainly jewelry, (which is not simple to do) and would like to clean up the photos, take care of hot spots and glares… and so on.
Kimberly: what you are attempting it actually fairly simple and should be able to achieve w/o PS. I assume you are using a “tent” for your product. If not it is really a cheap easy way to minimize hotspots. Using 2 lights on the outside and oposite each other should bounce enough light around to make it a worth while image. I would not use a flash at all. That will help eliminate hotspots. Sometimes a tent in a brightly lit room will do the trick by itself. Remember to white balance your camera
Kimberly, John gave good info. Can you post one of your images, we can help out.
I do use a tent, but also a flash- since the jewelry looked kind of dead without it. Maybe i should go for more light out side of the tent - I can’t post the images on the internet, as the friend who I am photographing for doesn’t want her jewelry on the internet. Thanks for offering to help though.
Yeah that would be the problem. One of the great things about a tent is that they are made with a great cloth for defusing light creating a less dead look. A flash it going to give you blinkies (burnout, hotspots) where the light reflects back into the camera. Where as even two small table top lights with out a shade will produce a lot better light if set opposite eachother. If you use a lens hood. You can use that to keep unwanted light from entering from the sides of the camera. I seen a good article on this a while back when I get home I’ll look it up and PM you with it.
That would be much appreciated John. I would consider it quite a feat to get this down.