Sometimes the most subtle differences in the way you process an image using photoshop can have some dramatic affects on the final image. Here is another saturation technique that allows you more control, and uses the LAB mode once again.
We’re going to take this image of an old 1860’s manure spreader and make a subtle change to the grass and sky to add more depth and contrast. (Read the article)
Lately while riding my bike, I find myself attracted to the colors around me, and almost feel moved by the diverse hues, shapes, and colors in the county town I live in. With my trigger finger on my camera’s shutter button, firing away in machine gun fashion, shooting up the neighborhood. So the question is: How come the colors in my processed image don’t look as “vibrant” as they did when I made the shot?
The answer lies beyond the scope of this article, but perhaps I can help.
So here’s an image I took of my neighbors cabin door. (left) I swear, it was much better looking color wise when I took the image! So how did I improve the saturation in two (2) easy steps to get the image you see below? Simple Photoshop’s ”Apply Image”!! (Read the article)
If your not shooting a million shots in one session you might consider shooting RAW if your not doing so already. RAW offers you the equivalent of film based cameras “negative”. RAW has so many advantages over shooting just JPG, and just one disadvantage. I might modify that statement and replace “disadvantage” with the word “inconvenience”.
So in this article for those who are not familiar with shooting RAW, I’m going to show you how to get the correct exposure for your shot when converting the RAW file to JPG using the Adobe’s RAW dialogue box in PS CS2.
There are many RAW converters on the market, some better than others. I prefer to use Adobe’s, and that’s what I’m using in this article. If you have Adobe, you can follow along with me here. (Read the article)
One of the major advantages to shooting in RAW is we have immediate access to correct for any exposure problems during a shoot. There are times though when we either forget to set the camera settings to RAW, or we just prefer to shoot JPG format. In either case there comes a time when open up an image to process and discover we have taken an under exposed image. (Read the article)
Comments(1) Welcome to tutorial section. Here you can find lessons about quality standards on stock sites, images requirements, needed files, title and keywords, copyright, model and property releases, etc. Before you start submitting, please read carefully next lessons.
Every stock agency tries to find a good photographers and illustrators. On the beginning, it was not hard to get in, but right now, it is not easy task. These lessons will help you to see what you can sell, what do they need and much more. In addition, they reserve the right to decline files including reasons (focus problems, lightning, noise or color distortion, compression, over filtering, not enough quality isolation or cropping, up sampling or resizing, image composition, inappropriate title, description or keywords, copyright trademarks and adult content.
My first tutorial here is about most important things for submitting images. You can read it here
I have couple of tutorials to submit but unfortunately, my grandfather died so I will submit them for a few days. I hope you will be back to read them. If you have cool tutorials and you want to publish them on mangiaphoto.com, please contact me.
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