Digital Image Editing
Lab Grayscale Conversion
Summary:
Watch how Karsten Franke desaturates a photo with the help of the LAB mode. He uses different blending modes and adjustment layers to refine the final conversion.
Black and White with bw-Layer
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Another video contribution from our renown expert Karsten Franke, which shows a special technique of the grey scale conversion.
He works with a new tool in Photoshop CS3, which offers a very comfortable alternative to decolourise your photo.
Skin Color Correction
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In a perfect portrait the skin of the model should be as immaculate as itself. But irregularities aren't avoidable. Our Photoshop-expert Karsten Franke shows you how to compensate these reddenings and make the colours of the skin more equally.
Coloring Hair
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In this tutorial, Karsten Franke shows you how to color hair without the use of chemicals. While you follow him through the process, you learn about the different blending modes in Photoshop.
Levels and Curves 1
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In general, 'levels' are the first thing addressed when you edit an image in Adobe Photoshop. Levels refer to defining the darkest and brightest areas of a photo. This image analysis requires the use of a histogram, which is the graphic illustration of the frequency distribution of the brightness values in a photo. It illustrates the allocation of different tonal values. If they aren't distributed throughout the total spectrum of black to white, you have to manually adjust them with the help of the levels.
To further improve the appearance of the photo, you can then use 'curves' for further modification.
In this video, Karsten Franke guides you through the process.
Replacing Sky
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In this video contribution, Karsten Franke shows you how to replace the sky of your photo.
He works with masks, so the original version of the picture remains unaffected. Its advantage compared to other methods is the additional convertibility of the settings.
Printing with Profiles
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In order to print images with your injekt printer using profiles, there are a multitude of settings to work with under 'print options'.
Karsten Franke shows you how to work with print profiles appropriately and explains all of the important settings.
He goes on to explain why you shouldn't work with a CYMK version of your photo and demonstrates why it's important to deactivate the color management setting on your printer.
With the help of this video, your prints will look as perfect as they do in Photoshop!
Partial Desaturation
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A useful special effect is the partial desaturation of unimportant parts of a picture. Karsten Franke shows you how to select these parts using color range selection. He then explains how to use the fill mode 'color' to create a black and white conversion taking into account how our eyes perceive color.
Levels and Curves 3
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Using levels and curves on an image can cause critical parts of the image to be over- or underexposed. You can limit your adjustements to those parts that require the correction whilst excluding the others by using selections.
However, selections might be difficult to do.
A very elegant way to limit your levels and curves adjustments to specific parts of your image is to use a mask. Watch how Karsten Franke does just that in record time.
Levels and Curves 2
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Karsten Franke, our great "Photoshopper" shows you one problem while you are adjusting the brightness and the contrast with the help of the curves: The saturation changes, too. And sometimes, it can be an unintentional effect. Franke uses the blending modes to avoid this side action.
