Here Bob takes a nature / landscape photograph and shows us how to really bring it to life even further using Adobe Photoshop.

Here is a quick and easy demonstration of how to crop a photograph in Photoshop. Very noob tutorial; very basic cropping.

Don’t forget that with cropping, you will be losing some resolution.  If you shot the original image at 6 or 8 megapixel, you don’t want to crop too much if you intend on printing the image at a larger size.  If you’re shooting a larger megapixel camera, in the 15+ megapixel range, then you will have a lot more freedom with cropping.  I find myself mostly cropping in the camera as I’m shooting, but that’s just me.  It’s not always possible to get the perfect composition in ever single photo that you end up loving (in post processing) so there are rare occasions when cropping in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom comes in handy.

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a simple selection using the lasso and magic wand tools in Adobe Photoshop. After making the selection, Bob shows how to clean it up with masking, using the quick mask mode. Later, the actual color of the gumdrop candy is actually adjusted in the hue / saturation dialog box. Yes, this is just one of many ways to adjust color of an object in a photo, selectively. If you get adventurous, try also playing around with “select color range” as an added selection option. The “replace color” feature is also a pretty valuable resource, when used properly. Each of these techniques can be done very wrong, if the details are overlooked. Be careful to watch surrounding color casts. If a green object is casting red, it’s just not going to look all that real.

This Photoshop tutorial via IceFlowStudios is a brief and simple to follow method to make the iris and pupils of the eyes of your model really POP in Photoshop.  We all know we can sometimes use the dodge tool to selectively brighten or highlight the whites of the eyes, but this tutorial focused on the actual iris and pupil.  Using the dodge and burn tools, the tutorial instructor here shows how you can make them really jump out, when you either have catchlights that are uninteresting, or dull; or when the iris is just looking a little bit muddy.

Here is an alternative photo sharpening method in Adobe Photoshop using the high-pass filter and blending modes.  Tutorial by the late Bob Mizerek.

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