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Release Date: 2009-09
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Free Issue: Underwater Love
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Underwater Love
I took this shot in a studio of a famous hairdresser, for the Austrian Hairdressing Award 2007. As Background we used a violet drapery. The model was exposed with one Flash-Light (500 Watt from Richter Studio equipment) from the front. For the Photo I used a Canon 1Ds Mark III.
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The Illusion of Beauty
Through this tutorial i will guide you through the art of Beauty retouching. I will be using Adobe Photoshop; most popular application as it offeres a selection of tools for airbrushing, smoothining skin hair, enhancing make-up colour and altering body proporations to create the optimum vision of beauty. Having some experience with using Photoshop you will be able to fine tune your retouching skills and learn some basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. Beauty retouching is the industrys best kept secret and in this tuturial I will reveal all. I will show you how to enhance an image, changing almost everything within it without it looking fake or overly ‘photoshoped’.
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Reptile
I took this shot in my studio for a test shot in the year 2008. As Background we used a standard-background (paper) for photography. The model was exposed with one Flash-Light with beauty-dish (500 Watt from Richter Studioequipment) from the front and as headlight also one Flash-Light with a beauty dish (500 Watt from Richter Studioequipment). For the Photo I used a Canon 1Ds Mark III.
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Funkagenda
Did you ever think before to use Adobe Photoshop to create sound? It may not be too clear how pixel pushing application could serve as the right tool to accomplish just that aim but let’s clarify our intentions. Our current technology enable us to simulate cross platform exciting emotions, use the genius tools to experiment outside the given subject. Adobe Photoshop has seen many evolution where it makes it easy to simulate lights, glows, burns or even 3D text. Retouchers effortlessly create, incredible or credible to that fact, images that fill advertising campaigns, making us double take when we come across them. If you were to write down every achieved idea figured out and realised in Photoshop, the list would be quite impressive. Nonetheless, the aim of this tutorial is to recreate a wall of sound, the vibration you get outside the speaker in the club or festival float, the feeling when you get when you suspect your intestines may have emigrated into your rib cage as a result of the loud decibels. We’ve got an image of DJ Funkagenda, we’ll get him into the ‘groove’.
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Lights Photoshop Action
When it came to graphic design and Photoshop, the same thing was true as is with anything else: practice makes perfect. I am going to put together a design that involves some very nice techniques that you can take and apply to any design, not just this one.
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The Eye
To make a starry blast of color, you need to understand blending and textures. Blending colors to look natural is important to make your photo look as clean and believable as possible. Textures that compliment the photo all over. Flashy, something that definitely catches your eye. Yet still have a beautiful photo in front of you. Stars and splatters mixing together, making a burst of hue. In the end having a Starburst of beauty and color.
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Celest
This piece shows how to create a dynamic typographic image in a beautiful way using typography as image. The inspiration for this piece came while I was at art school and I was cutting up some old Vogue magazines to use as a collage. I started to create figures and shapes out of the editorial content and adverts. Once I started to use the Apple Mac the style evolved from a conventional to a digital approach that still has a creative and organic feel to it.
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Restoring the past
The digital restoration of old photos is basically an art that requires patience and love for history and art of photography. The essence of the original photo should be preserved in its restoration; care must be taken to ensure that, where possible, the image undergoes a minimum of changes, both in its original form and in its artistic aspect or expository
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From the Past
I recived this picture from some relatives who were tired of the rejection of
photo-labs to try to restore it. So, they asked me to restore it, I said OK, let
me see what can I do… The scene is from the countryside in Chile, during the
1930’s.
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Colorization of a Black & White Photograph
This tutorial shows a practical way in which to colorize a black and white photograph. The process is simple and is done by blending the colors
using the Hue blending mode as well as other modes as required by the photograph. Some additional retouches are also applied such as lights and shadows to highlight the details in the skin. At the end we will have achieved a transformation of a black and white image to full color with a very realistic appearance.
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Snowdoll Reforming an Image by Using Liquify
Even though in the beginning, I thought it would be difficult and bizarre to write a tutorial for an art work, later on I thought that a tutorial like that could be useful for those who are searching for new plastic effects in digital media or for those who want to develop new illustrative styles. So please consider this tutorial not as a guide that will be applied word for word but as tips that will help those who seek different plastic effects for their works in order to reform photographic materials.
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Creating a Fantasy Portrait
For this tutorial, I will be creating a fantasy portrait similar to one of my previous pieces entitled, Dryad. In my work, the photography is really like a gesture drawing or a sketch. I know I am going to heavily work my images over in Photoshop, so I need a camera that is going to be fast, reliable, easy to use, and capture a good quality image, even on just the basic auto settings. I also carry with me a Sony Cybershot on a daily basis. The Cybershot is perfect for when you are out and about and see that interesting architectural detail or texture pattern. I am am continually amazed at just how great the images are from this camera, plus, it fits in my pocket!
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Creating a Pseudo HDR from one JPG
I often like to reflect on my past work, just as you would reflect on a fond memory of an old friend. Each photo I take, though it may not be of a person, still remains a snapshot of a time gone by and a moment from my life. Though I am still rather new to photography, I feel that I have come a long way in my studies, even though I still have many miles to go. Time to time, I like to look back on my earlier works, to see how I can use my newly acquired knowledge
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The Eyes Have It!
Follow these six simple steps and make your subject’s eyes truly the window into their soul. The steps below detail a normal eye optimization workflow. The
main adjustments are based on tonal changes from the Curves Adjustment Layers.
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Interview with Rob Shields
Rob Shields, the self-trained Philadelphia based fashion illustrator takes a moment to explain his changing view of what it means to be a designer as well as his plans for expansion in 20 09.
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Interview with Brand Nu
Radmin Malinic // Brand Nu is an award winning freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in London, the United Kingdom. Brand Nu is one of the most sought after, internationally renowned creative artists working today, with an extensive and diverse clientele.
www.brandnu.co.uk
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Daniel Meadows Retouching
Daniel Meadows Retouching