Want to learn how to crate and use actions in Adobe Photoshop?  Maybe you’ve heard about it, or tried it in the past, only to find yourself getting stuck or held up at a certain point?  This tutorial is for you.  It will walk you through the basics of how to record an action and then how to use it in your post processing workflow.  Tutorial by the one and only Bob Mizerek.

Cross processing is a technique where you either have the same image, shot on a tripod, captured with multiple exposures. Or, cross-processing can also be done by creating mutltiple exposure levels in post, using an original RAW file.  Here, Bob Mizerek gives us a peek inside his personal workflow to see how he took a landscape photo of a forest from dull to spectacular by cross-processing the image.

Tutorial shared from the Red Dot Blog.

Here Bob “The Miz” takes a simple landscape image and shows how to turns it from dull to interesting in photoshop in just around 4 minutes.  By adding highlights to some of the tree limbs and tweaking the levels, as well as adjusting the way the sky looks, the image really comes to life (as compared to the original). The techniques covered in this tutorial video include layer masking, saturation, curves adjustment layers, and blown out sky replacement.

Unfortunately the weather and time of day have a lot to do with how your outdoor photos are going to come out.  Landscapes are something I find incredibly challenging, just because of the lack of control you have over all these elements.  When you go on a trip, on vacation, or wherever you are at the moment, you pretty much are at the mercy of nature.  There are certain educated guesses you can make by planning what time of day you might shoot according to the direction of the sun, and it’s height in the sky, but when the clouds or fog start to roll in it’s an entirely different story.  Here is a Photoshop video tutorial by our good buddy Bob that shows how you can repair these types of hazy images in post processing.  Using lab color mode, and later switching back to rgb, you can maintain control of adding too much extra artifacting.  Here we learn how to use the curves on the lightness channel, as well as on a, and b by moving the little points around.  I have to be honest, this stuff was greek to me until I watched the video.  It ended up being a very simple and to the point technique which I find myself using more and more in my daily workflow.  The beauty of Photoshop as I always say, is that there are so many roads to the same outcome, so sit back and enjoy this one.  I’m sure you’re going to find it very useful to remove haze, increase saturation and mid to low level contast.  The results might actually impress you; a lot. They did for me, on an image that I just processed of Flamenco beach.

Here Bob explains how to creatively use exposure adjustment layers to add highlights and subtle lighting effects to your photos.  This feature was originally implemented in the CS3 version of Adobe Photoshop.  Amazingly what he describes as “subtlety” here makes an incredible improvement over the original image.  If you enjoy this tutorial, click the tutorials category to the right of this post for more creative digital goodness.

In this Photoshop video tutorial Bob “The Miz” Mizerek shows how we can replace skies and clouds in our photos quickly and easily.  There are a lot of methods to doing this, as I have posted earlier.  That is the beauty of post processing – it’s similar to programming or web development, where there are 100 ways of doing anything.  You just need to stick to what works best for you.  It still never hurts to pick up a few pointers on how to do something a different way, because you never know; you might just find the new way faster or easier.  This video shows how to use the “blend if” or the blending if option.

Here Bob “The Miz” Mizerek shows us how we can simulate reflections quickly and easily in this Photoshop video tutorial.  Creating realistic reflections can be challenging, but this tut will send you in the right direction towards mastering the technique.

Photoshop Tutorial – Getting Rid of Wrinkles from Todd on Vimeo.

A quick and painless demonstration of wrinkle removal using some tools in Photoshop. I apologize for the fact that it sounds like the mic was inside of my mouth…

Here Bob “The Miz” Mizerek shows us how we can create vignettes in two different styles using Adobe Photoshop.  Vignetting is an effect that is also very easy to add to your images using Adobe Lightroom.

Here Bob “The Miz” Mizerek shows us how we can simulate shallow depth of field in Photoshop.

Blown out skies ruin a lot of good photos – don’t worry, they’re very easy to fix in Photoshop in under 5 minutes.

I found the answer already, after I recorded the screencast, of course. It’s so easy – just go to: Edit->Preferences->General and then uncheck “Enable Flick Panning”

When you’re making a quick selection in Photoshop, a lot of times you will realize that because you were feeling so lazy the selection really came out like crap.  The edges are jagged and fringed, and basically look like crap compared to if you had actually used the pen tool and done it the right way in the first place   Either way, sometimes you just feel like being lazy.  This method show how to defringe a fringy edged image.  The Miz’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

Adobe Photoshop video tutorial by Robert Mizerek

Video by imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland

Below are a few other videos demonstrating how far you can go with the liquify filter.

A fast and simple video tutorial by Robert Mizerek on how to create an action in Photoshop.  Here you will learn how to create an action for saturation and lab color conversion.  Bob’s photoshop video tutorials are always a great resource to all photographers, graphic designers, and Photoshop users alike.

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