ArenaCreative.com Stock Photos Blog » cs3 http://arenacreative.com/blog A blog for all things creative. Stock photography, graphic design, inspiration, fine art, the advertising and marketing industry, technologies, photoshop tutorials, the culinary arts, and more. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:44:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Miz Photoshop Tutorial Series – Exposure Adjustment Layer http://arenacreative.com/blog/tutorials/the-miz-photoshop-tutorial-series-exposure-adjustments/ http://arenacreative.com/blog/tutorials/the-miz-photoshop-tutorial-series-exposure-adjustments/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:29:42 +0000 ArenaCreative.com http://arenacreative.com/blog/?p=1046

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.

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

]]> http://arenacreative.com/blog/tutorials/photoshop-tutorial-fix-that-blown-out-sky/feed/ 3 Dodge Tool for Cleaning Up White Isolations http://arenacreative.com/blog/tutorials/dodge-tool-for-cleaning-up-white-isolations/ http://arenacreative.com/blog/tutorials/dodge-tool-for-cleaning-up-white-isolations/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:32:57 +0000 ArenaCreative.com http://arenacreative.com/blog/?p=727 The dodge tool set to “highlights” is mind blowingly helpful when it comes to shooting white seamless, or objects over white.  It’s always better to get it right in the camera or in the studio, but sometimes that doesn’t always happen. Here is an older Photoshop tutorial I thought I’d resurrect from the dead today.  It shows you how you can quickly and easily clean up your photos shot over white or light gray by using the dodge tool in Adobe Photoshop. This allows you to avoid having to tweak levels, make an actual selection or use masking.

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