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Renaissance Look
Summary:
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
Summary:
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.
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.
Dodge & Burn III: Body and Face
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This is the third part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this episode, she explaines, how to use dodging and burning to form body parts and the face.
Kate Breuer uses the technique to make the arm of a model lose weight and to add to the bust size of the female model.
In addition, she shows how dodging and burning can be applied to the face to make it look slimmer and more perfect.
The last parts will be about skin retouching. If you missed the first two parts, go back and learn the technique of dodging and burning and find out, how to use it to accentuate foldings and guide the vision of your viewers.
Dodge & Burn II: Guide and Accentuate
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This is the second part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this part, she shows how to use dodging and burning to accentuate foldings and to guide vision.
Kate Breuer starts with a trick, that will save you a lot of time, when preparing to dodge and burn. Afterwards, she uses the technique to accentuate the foldings at the male models shirt.
Finally, she explaines to ways to use it for guiding the vision of those watching your pictures.
The other two parts will be about forming body parts and the face and about skin retouching. If you missed the first part, go back and learn more about the technique of dodging and burning.
Dodge & Burn I: The Technique
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This is the first part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this first part, she explaines the basics and shows the technique of dodging and burning.
Kate Breuer creates two circles and shows how to create an orb out of one of them, just by adding shadows and highlights. In addition, she explaines, the different techniques one can use to darken or lighten.
One example is simply drawing on an empty or neutral-gray layer at "soft light". Another one is to create two curves layers and using the layer masks.
The other three parts will be about accentuating foldings, guiding the vision, forming body parts and the face and about skin retouching.
Adjusting Angled Images
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When photographing without a tripod, one often gets angled images. To straigten them up is really ease, once you know how to. Learn it from Kate Breuer in this video.
Kate Breuer shows different solutions to straighten out angled images. She explains a way to adjust the angle in Lightroom using the Crop Overlay Tool.
As an alternative, she uses Photoshop's cropping tool and the ruler to straighten out the image, either estimating the right angle or letting photoshop set the rigth degree to rotate by.