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

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.

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Before and after by ~silverpaw98
Retouching Series Part 4 by ~LJM-xo

Retouch 1 by ~St-op

It’s all about make-up… by ~BakaSara

Male Retouch Before-After by ~catherineuvarova

Tutorial shared from the Red Dot Blog.

This is a short video tutorial by The Miz on how you can very easily set up a rule of thirds grid for your designs and images in Photoshop.  Composition is important in effective imagery, and this grid will definitely help you in both your design work layouts, as well as in your photo cropping in post-production.  The newer versions of Photoshop also have a “rule of thirds” grid automatically when you select the entire canvas using the crop tool.

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…

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

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.

Author: Robert Mizerek