30
May
2010
Restoring an old photograph is never easy, and almost never the same. But there are some amazing tools in Photoshop created specifically for this job.
Continue reading “Restoring An Old Photograph”
Posted in Advanced |
27
Apr
2010
Right after I posted the previous vid, I finally checked out the newly revamped Refine Edge command in Photoshop CS5. The fact is, masking hair is now child’s play!
Continue reading “Masking in Photoshop CS5!”
Posted in Advanced |
14
Apr
2010
Creating a selection for hair seems to obsess me. Who knows why? Regardless, here we take a quick look at how to mask out dark hair. it is very similar in technique to my earlier video on masking out blond hair, with a few important differences. Continue reading “Masking Dark Hair”
Posted in Advanced |
04
Nov
2009
In one of my “Alpha Channel” vids I mentioned I’d cover this topic. Well, I finally got around to it. Turns out I needed to do this for a real-world situation. I was designing a website for a client and wound up needing to extract a glass from one photo and place it in another photo. Along the way I fell in love with Content Aware Scale, then just as quickly fell out of love. I’m so fickle.
Continue reading “Extracting a Glass from a Photo”
Tags: video
Posted in Advanced, Intermediate |
14
Sep
2009
In this screencast we explore 4 different ways to extract hair from an image in order to composite it into a different background. Once again, Alpha Channels play a major role, but we also explore some Blending options in order to achieve great results. I contend that there is no one “best” way to mask hair, but if you have an arsenal of different techniques at your disposal you can usually wind up with a successful result employing one or several of the techniques I explore here. This screencast assumes a fairly advanced level of Photoshop knowledge, as I don’t spend a lot of time explaining functions that I think an advanced Photoshop user would know.
Continue reading “Alpha Channels – Part 4”
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