Tag Archives: Photoshop

Straighten Horizon Line

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 24, 2012

Three easy methods for straightening your photographs. It is very easy to end up with a crooked photograph, especially when you are shooting hand-held. Even the most seasoned pro photographers make photographs that need to be straightened, usually this is because you are so focused on the subject, trying to a capture a moment that [...]

Alternative Photographic Processes Part 2

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 17, 2012

Photography trends, techniques, and processes, part 2 In part one of Alternative Photographic Processes , I wrote about high dynamic range imaging ( HDR ), cross-processing, painting with light and Liquid Light photographic emulsion, which are a few of the photographic trends and techniques I have seen used over the years. In this the second [...]

Selective Sharpening

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 2, 2012

Selective sharpening for print output. Sharpening photographs for prints is more subtle practice than sharpening JPEG or PNG files for the world wide web. Only certain areas of a photograph may require sharpening. A portrait or beauty photograph will most likely need selective sharpening, perhaps on the mouth, nose, cheek bones, hair, or eyebrows, and most [...]

Vignetting

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 19, 2012

Vignetting Photographs for Artistic Effect. Vignetting to put it simply is the darkening of the outside edges of a photograph. In photography there are many types of vignetting, mechanical vignetting, optical vignetting, natural vignetting, pixel vignetting and finally vignetting for artistic effect. All the different types of vignetting ( excluding vignetting for artistic effect ) [...]

Photoshop Performance Preferences

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 1, 2011

How to get the best performance out of Photoshop. The first thing everyone should do after installing Photoshop is set up their performance preferences. On a PC  go to menu “Edit”, “Preferences” > “Performance”, or “Photoshop” “Preferences” > “Performance” if you are using a Mac. The fastest way to access preferences is to use the [...]

Burning and Dodging, Non-Destructive Technique using a Fill Layer

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 26, 2011

How to burn and dodge in Photoshop. Back in the days before computers, blogs, digital images, and electricity ( well…, okay maybe not that far back ), photographers used a variety of special techniques in the darkroom to help their negatives reach the maximum in potential on photographic paper. Probably the most popular and most [...]

Padding Your Portfolio.

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 3, 2011

Take risks in your photography, but not with your career. When I wrote Photographers who plagiarized other photographers,  I wrote about my personal experience of having my ideas stolen and my work being copied verbatim.  So now I want to talk about what could be worse? In this article the topic is padding your portfolio. [...]

Brightening and Whitening Teeth

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 12, 2011

[ Video Tutorial ] How to use adjustment layers with quick mask in Photoshop. Brightening and whitening teeth using the quick mask with a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Remember to be careful to not go to far in your retouching. It is better to be understated than to have badly over done your photo editing. Sometimes [...]

Get it Right the First Time.

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 8, 2011

When and when not to use Photoshop. Have you ever heard this phrase? Why don’t you fix that later in Photoshop? I have heard that more times than I care to remember. From clients, to make-up artists, hair stylists, stylists, models, and even assistants. I have even known other photographers who think like this. Photographers [...]