Photography Tips & Tricks
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- zoiks
Looking for a place to bump up my camera skillz - ie. how to achieve certain effects - pre photoshop.
- ********0
always put your penis in the corner of your shots.
- ********0
It will be your trademark style.
- mg330
This is a good thread idea, please don't let it die. I'm new to using my D90 and loving the hell out of it. I'm a sucker for some of the great saturated/vintage looking photos that have been posted in the Show Your Latest Pics thread.
Photos like this:
Definitely a style and method I'd like to know a little more about.
FYI these are from http://alexandraintheforest.com/…- http://fc08.devianta…ayport
- that one kind of sucks. check the one I posted below.mg33
- ah, very cool!ayport
- this look is getting a bit tired....everything Ive seen for the past 3 years looks exactly like this.********
- ********0
- BannedKappa0
Nothing that can't be done in Photoshop...
- mg330
Here's a good question, and I just assume ask before I create this in Photoshop.
I basically want to create an action that creates a grid of sorts that is proportionate to a 4"x6" and/or 800x600 dimensions including 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, and potentially smaller measurements.
What I basically want is an easier way to keep my photo sizes proportionate when cropping them. I have a few different actions I use for photos and batch operations, but if I'm editing photos one by one, I want to see a grid over the top of them that I can see proportionate sizes. Once I've chosen the right crop size and cropped it, then I can use one of the other actions to get it down to 4x6 or whatever other size I'm using.
Does this make sense? Kind of weird to describe.
If I actually create an action for this, I hope to have it create multiple layers of the included crop sizes, with a layer mask that can be turned on and off to show only the possible cropped section.
- bigtrick0
i use the crop tool and hold down shift to keep the proportions the same when cropping... and then i keep my eyes on the navigator widget in the top right to get a pixel measurement near to what i want.
- mg330
kind of like that, but something where I know exactly what the measurements are. I used to have a written out chart but think I lost it.
- I think you would need create a psd and use it over and over.********
- I think you would need create a psd and use it over and over.
- mg330
bigtrick,
I guess I could create a few actions that would create the crop at the desired size? That would probably work out pretty easily. Hate to admit, I've never even used the crop tool until just now...
- bigtrick0
interesting... you could make a .psd with guides set at the dimensions you want, and then paste things into that .psd and crop? the crop borders would snap to the guides that way.
- freeskihp0
Here's some image retouching tricks
http://www.qbn.com/topics/597931…
- OSFA0
I tried to start a thread like this already...
- OSFA0
so, back to mg33s post about the vintage-ish photos, how is this achieved properly?
I've been playing lately with blacks, but those photos he posted are cool. Anyone can recommend a good way of doing this?
- quamb0
Scan your own negs - get a huge range of depth / colour choice from one photo. Aren't a fan of photoshopped photo's, though for colour work play around with the colour channels in 'Curves'.
- mg330
OSFA and others,
So I looked up some tutorials tonight and found a perfect one here:
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comm…Set up the entire thing as an action (first time using adjustment layers as well - always learn something new!)
Here are some examples (click for larger version)
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
Other final images:
Overall I'm really satisfied with these. The steps in the process leave a few things open for adjustment, which is nice. I think the vignetting could be a little much in some other examples I did, but I think it pretty much nails it.
- NICE dude!!! thanks for the linksOSFA
- nicebaseline_shift
- cool!sea_sea
- mg330
Messing around with some old photos taken on a plane, on my Panasonic Lumix about a year ago:
