Another Animoto creation. I really like that software.
I did all the photos in Lightroom – and thanks to Mr Kevin Kubota, I learned some really cool things about Lightroom. Anyway – all that aside – congrats to John & Jeanette!
I finally got around to sorting through some of the 2000 photos that I took last year. I have put some of them in a slide show format using Animoto.
Have a look:
If the embedded video isn’t working – check out: http://animoto.com/play/HlbKea4k6879wDAFSBgpgg
Our image is nearing the end of creation – so there are a few final tweaks to make, this one being done using the dodge and burn tools to give the image a little more depth and texture.
So – in this, part 4 of the tutorial – I’ll show you how to use Curves and adjustment layers in photoshop to dodge and burn the image to bring out the brightness and contrast of the image. Curves for some reason are tricky at the start but become easier the more you play with them.
In this part of the tutorial – we look at using Photoshop’s Channel Mixer to create the mono conversion of the building. Often the channel mixer is overlooked, and there may be better conversion tools in CS3 – but for those of us still in Photoshop CS2 – it is a great tool for bringing out a great black and white image
One of the first things we need to do to this image is add a little more drama to the sky. To do this – we need to add some clouds by blending 2 images together. The best way to do this is using layer masks, and in this tutorial – I’ll show you how to make extremely accurate selections to blend two images together in Photoshop using Layer masks.
To create this image of Liverpool Lime Street train station, I used the Photomatix software for the HDR (high dynamic range) conversion and then finished of in Photoshop. This short video tutorial shows you how I set up and converted the image in Photomatix and some of the things that had to be fixed in Photoshop. It is great if you want a quick look at HDR as well as Photomatix.