Scott Kelby is one of the gurus in the world of Photoshop.
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I was inspired to his book "7-Point System" (Adobe Photoshop).
Here I have translated the seven main points.
Learn more about digital artwork
I was inspired to his book "7-Point System" (Adobe Photoshop).
Here I have translated the seven main points.
THE SEVEN KEYS TO TAKE A PICTURE OF FLAT A FANTASTIC
POINT FIRST
- Adobe Camera Raw
- If you go with working in Camera Raw (TIFF, JPEG or Raw) set before the white balance (white balance), exposure (exposure) when seven workers to bring brightness to your liking with "recovery". We look forward to working on the shadows to your liking and to make this work with blacks (blacks) until they are to your taste.
- Now bring the photo to zoom to 100% for clarity and use .... say bring a sharper focus.
- If your photos we need more contrast to work on the panel and the Curves Point Curves presets and add contrast. If we need to increase the focus going in the details pane (details). If we have a panoramic view we increase the detail. For portraits are Women and children increases the mask (masking) instead. Then we can open the image in Photoshop.
POINT TWO
- Working with curves
- Probably at this point we do not have color problems if we have worked well in the preceding paragraph. But we can use curves to add more contrast.
- We can use the level curves to work with the brush to increase the contrast in selected areas, in this case we will work with the mashers of the level ... that we will see later.
- Remember that we can also use the blending mode and opacity (Blend / Opacity)
POINT THREE
- lights and shadows
- If our subject is backlit or an important part of our picture is in the shadow the first thing to do is change the method from RGB to LAB we pass in the panel of channels (Channels) and select Lightness channel. Duplicate the Background (Background), choose Convert for Smart Filters from the Filters menu and then choose "Lights and Shadows" (shadow / highlight) from the Image menu (Image / Adjastments) and select "Show more options".
- now to make a shade more realistic (bearing in mind that this filter can do very advanced things), "lower the value (amount) up a bit more tone and position the radius (radius) between 250 and 300 . Here's an image in RGB.
POINT FOUR
- Drawing with light
- If there are areas of your photo you want to brighten or darken, add a Curves layer, we place a central point on the line of control and we move up (to the right of the line) if we increase the light at the bottom (to the left of the line) if we want to darken. Let's ok and we go out from the processing of the bends.
- Now press "Command + I for Mac and" Ctrl + I "to win, to invert the layer mask (it will be black).
- Brushes now above the Mask with white to reveal the light or dark sides Pià where you'd like.
POINT FIVE
- Channel Adjastments
- To ensure that the colors are really nice to be back as LAB.
- choose "Apply Image" (Apply image) from the Image menu (Image). We have the Merger (Blending) to "Soft Light" (Soft Light). Then choose the channels that seem best of: The channel "a" - "b" - "L". But we were to find that the colors are too intense lower the opacity (opacity).
POINT SIX
- Level Mode Level Fusion and Masher
- To illuminate your subject, or to darken the sky, or generally to control the tonal balance of the photos: Duplicate the background, choose the blending mode screen (Screen Blend) to make the picture brighter, or with Multiply (Multiply) to darken, then add the layer mask and brush over the black mask to hide the effect, or reverse the form with apple + i (Win: Ctrl + s) to conceal the effect of strokes and white discover the effect where you want it.
POINT SEVEN
- Technique contrast
- Use the filter "Unsharp Mask" (Unsharp Mask) to counter megliko your photo, then choose the "fade" in the edit> fade> .... (Edit> fade unsharp) and also here you will find the blending (blend) and the ability to control the opacity from 0 to 100%. Generally use the blending Brightness (luminosity) to correct color problems. Try the Unsharp Mask with Amount: 85% Radius: 1 threshold: 4 for a medium contrast ....
GOOD JOB
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