Welcome to my photography website. My plans for it far exceed my ability to realize same, but I do keep trying. I love Photography and Photoshop, so I post articles about both. There are many video tutorials on Photoshop as well, so dive in!
Canon 18-55mm vs Tamron 17-50mm
I wanted a faster lens, so I just bought a brand new Tamron 17-50mm zoom lens to replace the lens that came with my old Canon Rebel XT. When I replaced it with a Canon 40D, I sold the XT body but kept the lens. The Canon kit lens’ maximum aperture is f/3.5, but is variable to f/5.6 at a 55mm focal length. The Tamron has a fixed max ap (stays the same across all focal lengths) of f/2.8. However, I was curious as to what the difference in optical quality was, if any. So I performed my own “Shoot Out!”
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Restoring an old photograph is never easy, and almost never the same. But there are some amazing tools in Photoshop created specifically for this job.
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Right after I posted the previous vid, I finally checked out the newly revamped Refine Edge command in Photoshop CS5. The fact is, masking hair is now child’s play!
Continue reading “Masking in Photoshop CS5!”
Creating a selection for hair seems to obsess me. Who knows why? Regardless, here we take a quick look at how to mask out dark hair. it is very similar in technique to my earlier video on masking out blond hair, with a few important differences. Continue reading “Masking Dark Hair”
Creating the illusion of a narrow DoF photo is super-easy. So easy in fact, I didn’t even go through the trouble of recording a screencast of it! Yup, this is a simple step-by-step tutorial. If you have a photo that was shot with an aperture of, say, f/22, and you want to make it look like it was shot at f/2.5 (or whatever), you can do so in about 1 minute!
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