Photoshop CS3
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Hi All,
I’m new to fly fishing (not fishing though), photography, and photoshop. I have recently really started getting into CS3 and barely know my way around.
I am looking for helpful tips from you all on this board on easy additions to a photo in photoshop. Specifically, I’m trying to get step by step instructions on how photoshop can help me improve photos by adding lens flare, eliminating the need for polarizers, applying filters, making sky and water look truer to color, etc…So if anyone wouldn’t mind taking the time to write simple instructions for their favorite Photoshop technique I’d really appreciate it!
Thanks!
That is a tall order. Photoshop is a huge program. There are many very thick books written on the subject. I think you would better serve yourself to get one specifically for the subject you are most interested, such as nature, and read it.
In general though, if you pull your pictures into photoshop and adjust the levels, contrast, possibly saturation then apply, not over apply, a bit of sharpening that will suffice for most well taken photos.
I hope that helps.
As Don said, what you’ve asked for is a tall order. Some of the techniques you are asking about are pretty advanced, so I would agree you should probably pick up a book (or two) on Photohsop CS3. I would recommend Scott Kelby’s, The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (ISBN: 0321501918). This book is nice in that it focuses on the Photoshop techniques used by digital photographers as opposed to those who may be creating images with Photoshop. There are many books like this out there, but I like Scott’s book for it’s ease of reading, easy to follow instructions, and the breadth of techniques covered.
I’ve been using Photoshop since CS (I’m currently using CS4) and I have Scott’s book for all of those versions, so I highly recommend it.
Brian
Here is an excellent resource. Best $17.99 I spend a month.
http://www.kelbytraining.com/D.
Any recs for some free how to sites? Or at least some sites that show examples of photos and what the effects used on that photo are called?
Look at the site I linked to above. Each tutorial is divided into sections, or chapters, and the first three chapters of each tut. are free. Kind of a teaser to get you to buy. Honestly though, drink the cheap beer this weekend and spend the twenty bucks. I also have a lot of Kelby books, and they are very good, but the video tuts. have helped me much more. You can also do a search at http://www.adobe.com and get some good references as well. This should get you started:
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.scottkelby.com/
http://www.photoshopkillertips.com/
http://www.photoshopuser.com/
http://www.photoshopusertv.com/D.
My advice would be to keep your photoshop work to a minimum with a view towards getting the picture right at the time of shooting.
Getting color temp and exposure right is vital.
That way, when you get to the post production point, you’re starting with good material.Some common faults I see from new players is overdoing things like sharpness, contrast and saturation.
www.dsaphoto.com
A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
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