[OFFICIAL] Photoshop Post-Edit Discussion ***

[Rand0m]

its always fun naming your thread "official"

anyways, this is basically what i posted on H-T, because they got a pretty extensive photography forum from what ive seen...cant be sure what kind of response i'll get there, sooo, i'll post it up here, and at least the 3 or 4 of us ( ) that post in here regularly can maybe talk it out amongst ourselves....

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I've been looking for any good tutorials, or how-to's, or just good discussions on certain types of post-edit procedures....I dont know if i'd call it "dramatic", or what - i think the best (or at least i hope its the best) way to describe the effect would be that the image almost seems over sharpened, over contrasted, or over saturated....but not

Is that making any sense? something, for instance, that just popped into mind was some of the pics that Devin LeFevere has taken...i know a good portion of that is good lighting...but it cant ALL be attributed to good lighting....

I realize that this could be likened to asking a magician how he does his tricks, but everyone learns somewhere, somehow, from someone...ive been looking through tutorials, and im tired of reading "how to change my rims", "can you lower my car", or "look, i changed my background to black & white"....

I cant be the only one wondering about this - or could i? i do the basic stuff during post editing, but i'd like to step it up a notch, and am really just looking for some guidance and direction on either what to do, or at least where to look for help...

sooooo, yeah, discuss?


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so, anyone else feel like i do, or even know what im talking about?

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100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008:
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trust me, you'll want to see those scans....


HDR images using Photomatix [by Rand0m]
http://www.clubcivic.com/board/showthread.php?t=111129

Photoshop a Graduated Filter [by $lickRick]
http://www.clubcivic.com/board/showthread.php?t=110419

Contrast Masking - This can really bring some photo's to life and reveal hidden potential
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/contrast-masking2.php
With this one, i've noticed that you can get some better results without desaturating the image. You can skip that step and be fine.

Also, DON'T forget that YouTube is a great resource for photoshop tips!
Here is a very good color correction that I often love to use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se3htZz2noo

Using the Extract Filter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y13QRSIyaJA

Color Correcting and Sharpening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n6ggAhUh3o

How to use the Clone-Tool:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/clone-tool1.php

How to use Levels:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/histogram-levels.php

Adding Depth of Field:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/create-dof2.php

"Dragan effect" tutorial vid
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/735941/dragan_effect_photoshop_tut

"Dave Hill" effect tutorial
http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157594577686705/

FREE Photoshop plug-ins
http://www.thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm#imageenhance

Performing Edge Burns in Photoshop:
http://www.apogeephoto.com/sept2003/mfulks192003.shtml

How to Read and Interpret a Histogram
http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?article=100306&op=academy_new

How to use the History Brush:
http://www.lonestardigital.com/history_brush.htm

How-To: Get Vibrant Colors
http://nicolas.noben.org/blog/photoshop-tutorial-photo-post-processing-dull-digital-make-vibrant-lab-colors-colours-spaces/

Photoshop tutorial - Post processing: Painting light on photographs
http://nicolas.noben.org/blog/photoshop-tutorial-photo-post-processing-painting-light-correct-exposure/

Tilt-Shift tutorial
(fake model photography)
http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Digital White Balance For Adobe Photoshop:
http://www.adidap.com/2006/10/16/photoshop-action-digital-white-balance-card/

High Dynamic Range images: not exactly for photoshop but i could work for the most part.
http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/#whatishdr

Circles: (interesting)
http://brilliantdays.com/how-to-create-amazing-circles/

After taking a few pics in RAW formart, I came to the conclusion that Photoshop is "supposed" to support the .cr2 format from the Nikon/Canon digital cameras. So, I found this from Adobe. Lets you actually open up cr2 formatted files.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3822

*thanks to GenuineRolla for finding alot of these tutorials*

 

[Genuine Rolla]

I'll have to look through my bookmarks. I have a few sites that give some great editing tips and whatn0t. Some are really simple and they do wonders for photos. Honda-Tech's photography section is very nice as well. I like it there a lot.

I was a huge fan of LeFevere's photo's. Moreno's latest auto photography had similiar photo's.

I think most of it has to do with lighting and then getting rid of the back ground.

The other editing style that I really envy is 96 DX Hatch's.....I don't understand how his photo's look sooo freaking sharp and yet smooth at the same time...

 

[ImportFan1]

subscribed for a bunch of info and time to learn.

I know that Child also has some really good pics as well. What programs do you guys use to edit?

 

[Rand0m]

^ photoshop cs2 is what im using....

genuine, if you find anything, be sure to post it up

 

[Genuine Rolla]

Contrast Masking - This can really bring some photo's to life and reveal hidden potential
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/contrast-masking2.php
With this one, i've noticed that you can get some better results without desaturating the image. You can skip that step and be fine.

Also, DON'T forget that YouTube is a great resource for photoshop tips!
Here is a very good color correction that I often love to use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se3htZz2noo

Using the Extract Filter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y13QRSIyaJA

Color Correcting and Sharpening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n6ggAhUh3o

How to use the Clone-Tool:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/clone-tool1.php

How to use Levels:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/histogram-levels.php

Adding Depth of Field:
http://www.digicamhelp.com/processing-photos/advanced-editing/create-dof2.php

 

[Rand0m]

good stuff....when we get a ton of links, im gonna start putting them back up in the first post for referance

 

[ImportFan1]

good stuff....when we get a ton of links, im gonna start putting them back up in the first post for referance

and then have a mod sticky this b***h.

 

[Rand0m]

and then have a mod sticky this b***h.

let it soak up some cosmic rays

 

[ferio-moreno]

stickied!

 

[Rand0m]

knew you'd come through

 

[Rand0m]

updated first post w/ genuines links, plus some old ones, an HDR how-to i wrote up a while back, and a neat filter effect from $lickRick

 

[Rand0m]

like, take this pic for example...i know that a good bit of this is due to his lighting...and maybe a lens filter....but im sure at least SOME of this effect was done using photoshop, no?

or this one....

yeah, color car on BW background, easy enough...but his went that extra mile, dodge/burn? i dont want to do this look for EVERY picture i shoot, but id like to know how to do it, for when i want to do it

 

[LowNotSlow]

History brush can be thanked for a LOT of that.

 

[Rand0m]

History brush can be thanked for a LOT of that.

***must..resist...being...a...noob....... . . . . . .CANT!***
history brush, que? explain...if you have the time, and feel like contributing


oh, and added a vid-tut of the "dragan effect" in the first post....a little time consuming, but pretty cool...my first try ended up pretty decent

 

[ferio-moreno]

looking at Devin's work i'd say....... cloning out the flashes (in the reflections), and a great deal of dodging and burning along with painting light..... similar to what I do for model's skin. except more extreme.

For th second one...... selective color is the first thing that stands out to me along with the other stuff i've mentioned above..

i'm pretty sure the history brush was used as well..... but i'm not sure exactly what for.

 

[Rand0m]

^ sweet....i'll just search for some tutorials along those lines

 

[JerseyStrong]

good idea for a thread, i'll def. be using this soon

 

[Rand0m]

nice

 

[GETxERxDONE]

awesome..subscribed..the color youtube vid that was posted looked great, ill be using that soon!

 

[Rand0m]

just added a new one....tutorial to get the "same" look as Dave Hill's photo's...havent tried it yet, but it looks like it has potential