Photoshop Lessons

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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.

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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.

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Do you sometimes wish you had your flash equipment with you to create more dramatic lighting? Or that the sun could shed a beam of light on your main subject?

Well, let Photoshop do it for you, Karsten Frankes show you how in this quick tutorial!

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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.

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If you want to enhance the lights and shadows in your photo, the dodge and burn tools seem to be the obvious choice. However, they act directly on your image and as such 'damage' your original image. Karsten Franke introduces you to a non-destructive technique that preserves the integrity of the original image.

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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.

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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.