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How to improve your Photoshop Skills

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More goodness from abduzeedo.com

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Here I list my 10 tips to improve your skills in Photoshop, but they can be applied to other tools as well
1 - Start with something
2 - Don’t be dissappointed
3 - Try to recreate the effects you like.
4 - Read tutorials before start doing your design.
  • pixel2life.com
  • good-tutorials.com
  • psdtuts.com
  • veerle
  • 100 Photoshop Tutorials
    • 5 - Learn how to use Masks.
    6 - Play around with filters
    7 - Spend some time learning the Layer Styles
    8 - Brush Engine
    Very good video explaining how the Brush Engine works
    9 - Listen and watch podcasts
    Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy
    Adobe Photoshop Quicktips - Video Podcast
    List of Photoshop Podcasts
    10 - Share what you have learned with everybody
  • Your Design Forums
  • PSDTUTS - They pay you for tutorials
  • Flickr
  • Deviantart
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    Posted by Cliff Plumlee  5 months ago

    Digital Photography School’s top ten

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    See the rest at the site including one tip that could save you some money.

    Amplify’d from digital-photography-school.com

    Today I logged into the back end of DPS and in passing noticed that our last post was the 1000th post on DPS. I also noticed that this week was the 3rd anniversary of starting the site!

    To celebrate I thought that it might be fun to post a list of the 10 Ten Posts from our 1000 posts from the last 3 years.

    1. Portrait-Obscure10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

    Viewed by 700,000+ readers this set of tips for budding portrait photographers has been a big hit. We followed this one up with 10 MORE Ways to Take Stunning Portraits (which came in at #12 on our most popular posts list)

    2. Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples

    This post has been on the ‘popular page’ of most social media sites and has also been viewed by well over half a million visitors.

    3. How to Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

    4. 15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement

    Blur-7

    5. 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!

    Another of our earliest photoshop posts with some good age old techniques.

    Read more at digital-photography-school.com
     
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    Posted by Cliff Plumlee  9 months ago

    15 min, 29 people, 1 photo, 1 flash

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    Amplify’d from www.zarias.com

    On the next to the last day of Gulf Photo Plus I was informed by GPP organizer, Mohamed Somji, that I had the “privilege” of shooting the group shot of all the GPP staff and photographers. I would be given 15 minutes to set up and execute the shot with 25 to 40 people.

    I have done countless group shots in my young career but never one that had folks like Joe McNally, Drew Gardner, David Hobby, Chase Jarvis, David Nightingale, and on and on and on. No pressure.

    This is what each individual shot looked like…

    gpp_mohamed.jpg

    This is what the group shot looks like without the auditorium showing through…

    gpp_black.jpg

    Here is the auditorium. I would use this image to mask parts of the ambient back into the group shot.

    gpp_room_shot.jpg
    The final shot was 34 layers tall. 28 layers of people and 6 layers of ambient light and details like the the strobe painting on the back wall panels.
    gpp_blog_final.jpg
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    Posted by Cliff Plumlee  10 months ago

    Some pretty amazing Photoshop work

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    From a daytime shot to a moody, foggy, night time shot.

    Amplify’d from www.scottkelby.com

    It’s “Guest Blog Wednesday” featuring Justin Paguia!

    First and foremost, thank you to Mr. Scott Kelby for letting me steal some of the spotlight this week and also to Douglas Sonders.  If you do not remember or have not seen Doug’s guest blog, check it out here.  With that being said, let’s begin.

    For this session, I’m going to break down the steps and go through the methodology of how I created the S.W.A.T. piece below:
    Untouched developed image
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    Posted by Cliff Plumlee  10 months ago