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What's New in Lightroom 4 beta
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Everyone's talking about Lightroom 4 beta at the moment. But what is new in Lightroom 4 beta? Kate Breuer sums up the most important new features.
When you open LR4beta for the first time you will soon realize that there are new modules in the module bar. Kate Breuer explains the Map and the new Photobook modules and shows their possibilites.
In addition she explains the functionality of the new sliders in the Develop module. There are new ones and others have been replaced. This can be a bit confusing but you will like the new sliders soon.
Renaissance Look
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Rüdiger Schestag created a German series of videos explaining how to create an antique painted look from your photos. Kate Breuer recorded the Photoshop part in English.
In this tutorial she uses the photograph Rüdiger Schestag used in the German version and follows his steps, explaining which steps are necessary to make your photos look like they were on old canvas. She explains how to get rid of flying hair and skin flaws and how to optimize the mood of the photograph. In addition, she explains how to add lights, shadows and structure. At the end of those steps the result is a wonderful Renaissance Portrait.
Fog Creation
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Fog can make every place more mystical. Learn how to create fog using simple photoshop techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer first adds some loose fog with a pencil. Afterwards she adds some denser fog using one of the render filters from Photoshop.
By combining this techniques she creates realistic fog that adds to the atmosphere of the image.
Preston vs. Brown I
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Russell Brown has been an Adobe employee for 25 years and exchanges his Photoshop expertise with photographer Robin Preston.
Both of them experienced the development of digital image retouching with Photoshop from the outset. Having started with rub down typesets, the leap to printing texts and working with costly hard- and software to implement CGI was a milestone at that time.
Despite all progress, they adhered to one principle: think analogue, work digitally.
Smart Objects and Filters
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Smart objects and smart filters were added to Photoshop with version CS2. To many photoshop users, they still are a riddle. Kate Breuer deciphers the usage and advantages.
Kate Breuer inserts an Adobe Illustrator file into a picture to depict the usage of smart filters and what a smart object is.
In addition, she explains the functionality of smart filters, which are highly adjustable after applying them to a layer and offer additional options.
Creating Film Grain
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Film grain makes a picture look like it was captured on film. This analogue effect is something, many try to achieve.
In this video, Kate Breuer shows different possibilities, to achieve this effect.
At first, Kate Breuer explains the usage of Lightroom (or another RAW converter tool) to create film grain using the effect panel.
Then, Kate shows, how to achieve the effect, once you are in Photoshop using grey layers and different Photoshop filters.
In addition, Kate uses two filters of the Niksoftware filter plugin ColorEfex Pro. Each of those solutions creates an analogue film grain effect, but each of them with different possibilities and advantages.
Watermarking in Lightroom
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With the advent of digital photography and the Web came one of the major benefits, sharing photographs online, to be viewed instantly by people around the world.
This has, however led to people's photography being used without their permission, thereby depriving them of potential financial reward and credit for their work. One way to help prevent this, is to watermark your photos. We've all seen photographs with either some text, or a logo, superimposed on a photograph to identify the photographer. Using an image manipulation program, such as Adobe's Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, it is possible to add a watermark, but without some considerable technical know-how, it's difficult to add one to multiple images.
This is where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes to the rescue. In this tutorial, Mike Le Gray will guide you through setting up Lightroom so that you can batch-process your completed images, not only adding a watermark, but also converting color-space, file type, adding sharpening, etc.
Whitening the Skin
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Learn how to create the porcelain like skin you see in the magazines with some easy techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer will show you two possible ways to achieve the wanted look. At first, she will show you how to do it in Lightroom using only the possibilities a Raw conversion offers.
In addition, she will switch to Adobe Photoshop and show you how to get nice results in photoshop, where you can't use the same way as in Lightroom or another Raw-Converter.
She uses a little trick to acomplish the goal of a white skin.
Watch this video and learn the technique to create a skin like this yourself!
The Nightmares of Stefan Gesell
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Talk about your bad dreams? Stefan Gesell is a photo artist whose pictures seem to come from the subconcious.
On his night table you'll find a pad and pencil so if he should awake he can quickly record his visions. These vision will be realized later on the studio set and in Photoshop as a means of working through his visions.
These disturbing nighmarish works are reminiscent of the work of H.R. Giger as might be seen in on of his sets for the Alien quadrilogy. As a balance to this somewhat dark aspect of his work is his work in Glamour and Fashion photography.
We met up recently with Stefan Gesell and here he shares with us a look into his soul as well as his fascinating work.
Dodge & Burn IV: Skin Retouching
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This is the final part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this episode, Kate uses the dodge & burn technique to retouch the skin.
Kate Breuer shows, how dodging and burning can be used for skin retouching. It is an advanced technique, that normally takes much time, practice and patience. But with this video, you can learn the basics easily and save some time practicing.
This ist the last part, so if you missed the other three go back and learn the technique of dodging and burning and how to use it for different things.