Photoshop

Why we should give Photoshop a little more respect.

9th January 2012

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams Photoshop seems to be getting a lot of flak lately, so I wanted to post something in support of such an amazing tool.

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Colour Grading Photos: Creating a standard cross-processed vintage look.

20th December 2011
Sophie with a magenta/green cross process

This is the final part of this series of articles on using colour grading techniques “borrowed” from the film industry with Photoshop to enhance our photos. Having covered using, hue, saturation and exposure, simulating the time of day, creating the bleach bypass and the teal and orange look, this week we look at one of the most popular looks in photography, the cross [...]

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Colour Grading Photos: Creating the Teal & Orange look from Transformers

13th December 2011
Biker 101: Teal and Orange Look

Continuing our series of using colour grading techniques “borrowed” from the film industry with Photoshop to enhance our photos. We previously covered using, hue, saturation and exposure, simulating the time of day and creating the bleach bypass look. This week we look at how we can create the high energy (perhaps overused in the cinema) Teal and Orange look, popularised by Transformers.

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Colour Grading Photos: How you can create a bleach bypass look

6th December 2011
Blue Hills Biker, 2011: Bleach Bypass Look

Using colour grading techniques “borrowed” from the film industry we can use Photoshop to enhance our own photos. We have previously covered using, hue, saturation and exposure as well as simulating the time of day. This week we look at how we can achieve one of the most popular looks, popularised by Saving Private Ryan, [...]

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Colour Grading Photos: Simulating Time of Day

29th November 2011
Dan, Golden Hour

Continuing my series on Colour Grading Photos, this week we are looking at how we can use the techniques we have learnt so far to change the time of day. In this series we are taking inspiration from the techniques used by colourists in film/TV to use colour to effect mood, time of day or create a stylised [...]

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Colour Grading Photos: The Effects of Saturation and Exposure on Mood

21st November 2011
Surfer, Desaturated

Continuing my series on Colour Grading Photos, this week we are looking at how both Saturation and Exposure can effect mood. In this series we are taking inspiration from the techniques used by colourists in film/TV to use colour to effect mood, time of day or create a stylised shot.

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Colour Grading Photos: How you can use hue to affect the mood

16th November 2011
Sitting on the decking #1

As discussed in my last post, when colourists are grading film, they look to use colour to enhance the message the director is trying to portray. We can do the same with stills photography and use colour to enhance the message or story, we as photographers are trying to convey. We will start with the [...]

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Colour Grading Photos: Why we should take a leaf out of the video / film colourist’s book

8th November 2011
Sophie at the Life Guard Hut #2

The current trend to give photos a cross process look (or colour treatment) is certainly a visually interesting effect. The effect, applied in post process, once needed a little bit of Photoshop foo (and originally a bit of darkroom magic) to achieve but the advent of apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, has made the effect ubiquitous and [...]

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