add noise filter, christmas, Creative, cutout filter, free, free transform, layer group, levels command, motion blur filter, photoshop cs3, screen blending mode, smart filter, smart object, snow, video tutorial
Take a cold, wintery photograph and add the illusion of falling snow. This effect is sure to help you build the perfect on-line Christmas card. In part 2 of this video tutorial we'll blend the Photoshop-manufactured snow into the scene, and fix the edges of the snow effect by transforming the layer outwards. The result will be realistic, editable snowflakes!
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adjustment layer, beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, highlights, hue/saturation comand, layer mask, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, saturate, shadows, video tutorial
At first glance, it may seem that we’re revisiting the same things we looked at way back when we explored the Quick Fix mode, but on second glance, we’re correcting the same problems only this time with way more accuracy, detail and control.
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Learn how to add a professional level contrast effect to a portrait shot to make it look more defined and sharper. For this amazing effect we'll using the Gaussian Blur filter, blending and Levels.
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The journey ends with a few words of wisdom, a firm handshake and a friendly shove in the right direction. After 25 videos and five hours of video training - the world of levels is yours for the taking!
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brightness, colour cast, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, tint, video tutorial
A colour cast is when the colour of an image shifts towards a specific hue, say green, to give the whole image an unsightly green tint. The reasons behind this and the resulting cast can be as numerous as the tools available to fix it. For this reason we'll take a classic example and put things right both manually and automatically.
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brightness, colour, colour blend mode, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, lab colour mode, levels command, luminance, luminosity blend mode, midtones, photoshop cs3, saturation, shadows, Special Effects, video tutorial
So we know the difference between colour and luminance information, now's the time to look at dividing the two and working on each individually. Whether we're doing that with blend modes or the highly theoretical Lab colour space we're going to be opening our eyes to a whole new universe.
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brightness, camera raw, colour histogram, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
Made popular by the Camera Raw plug-in that ships along with Photoshop, the color histogram contains all 3 RGB channel histograms inside one window, giving a visually pleasing reference to colour information, how the channels interact and where exactly they don't.
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brightness, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, levels command, luminance, luminance histogram, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, shadows, video tutorial
Because the human eye doesn't see red, green and blue light equally we need a reliable way of representing the brightness of a pixel independent of colour. And so steps up the luminance histogram - the most accurate way of spotting clipped shadows and blown highlights threatening the very existence of your image!
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brightness, clipped highlights, clipped shadows, colour panel, Commands / Tools, contrast, eyedropper tool, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, luminance, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
Photoshop produces red, green and blue histograms inside an RGB image, when it's done it puts the results into a composite version and displays it as the standard view. How that composite view is calculated decides how we see clipping inside our images - and as you'll bear witness, things aren't always what they seem!
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brightness, channels, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, histogram, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop cs3, RGB, shadows, video tutorial
It's time to summarize the RGB, luminance and Colour histograms available inside Photoshop, and talk more specifically and indeed more technically about the statistics available in the expanded view. It's not necessarily about how to ask questions, it more about deciphering the often misunderstood answers that the histogram palette is shouting out!
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