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I'm Still Alive

 

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog so I figured I’d better make an appearance and let you what I’ve been up to.

Basic Adjustment Layers - Part 2

Adjustment Layers permit you to make non-destructive colour adjustments, but what if you want to isolate those adjustments to a particular area of the image, maybe a friends hair, your pet's collar, the sky, the ground - or some raspberry jelly? Well then you have masks, a relatively easy but hugely powerful method of applying your adjustments where you want them. In this video I'll show you how they work, and we'll set about isolating the aforementioned jelly!

Setting Black, White and Grey Points in Levels Video Tutorial

The eyedropper tools inside levels have the ability of setting specific values for specific pixels which is ideal when adjusting shadows, midtones and highlights. In the honour of levels we'll look at the eyedroppers and the theory of posterization followed by a full blown creative party as we play with those aforementioned eyedroppers, avoid the party-pooper that lives by the name of colour banding, and perform a very special party trick by transforming the grey eyedropper into a colour replacement tool. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!!

Levels Adjustment Layer Video Tutorial

In the world of non-destructive image editing with the levels command - the adjustment layer is king. Sitting at the top of the layers palette it gracefully and parametrically controls every pixel below it, and when used in combination with its equally powerful ally the luminance mask it becomes a true Photoshop force to be reckoned with.