Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i Practical Photoshop

01 COPY AND PASTE First, choose two photos that match in terms of lighting and perspective – this will make them much easier to blend together. Begin by opening them both up into Photoshop, then go to the background image and press Cmd/Ctrl+C to copy, then switch to the other image and press Cmd/Ctrl+V to paste. 02 TRANSFORM AND SELECT Use Ctrl/Cmd+T to position the new layer within the frame. If you need to resize the layer, drag the corner points. Grab the Quick Selection tool and paint to select the part of the layer you want to keep visible, then click the Add Layer Mask icon to hide the rest. 03 MASK AND TONE Highlight the mask thumbnail on the top layer, then grab the Brush tool and –…

Photoshop offers a variety of tools that let even the most hamfisted painter turn their photos into beautiful brushbased artwork. Some might look to Photoshop filters for this kind of thing, but they will usually look either generic or unrealistic. The problem with a filter is that it works uniformly across the image. Real paintings don’t work like this: they have areas of fine detail, and other areas that are less tightly depicted. For this kind of look, a filter just won’t cut it. Instead you need a good brush-based tool. This is where Pattern Stamp comes in. In essence, it lets you paint a pattern over your image. But that pattern can be anything you like, including your photo. So rather than focusing on creating a pattern (which the…

The merits of in-camera capture beat fakery every time. For landscapes – where part of the joy is in experiencing natural beauty – there’s far greater reward in capturing a scene than manufacturing one. But how truthful should a landscape be? Should it be a simple record of a scene? Or is it okay to doctor things by moving a rock or a branch – and if so, at what point does this become fakery? How about digital tricks? Is retouching overhead wires acceptable? Is exposure-blending two frames taken a moment apart more truthful than two taken an hour apart? What about a foreground composite like this? In essence, it’s a question of being honest with your viewer. In my opinion there’s nothing wrong with fakery, as long as it…

1 THE BASICS Pattern Stamp lets you paint from a defined pattern. It’s similar to the Clone Tool in that it samples from the source – but rather than Altclicking to define the source, you choose a pattern to sample in the options at the top. Like all brush-based tools in Photoshop, you can alter the size of the brush tip with the] and [keys, and set the opacity by pressing a number key – 1 for 10%, 2 for 20% and so on. 2 DEFINE A PATTERN Found under the Edit menu, this lets you create a new pattern to use in combination with the tool. By defining a pattern of the entire image, the new pattern will be the exact same size as the document. When you start…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://bit.ly/2HNcMh8 Composition and framing are essential skills, especially for landscape photography. But this isn’t going to be just another guide to the rules of composition – and there’ll be no mention of the rule of thirds. Instead, we’re going to cheat just a little bit. In essence, a strong composition is about arranging the elements in front of you into a smooth frame. Normally this is done by careful choice of camera angle, lens, and perspective. But we’re going to look at a few ways we can do creative landscaping to aid our framing. On a stormy grey day, like the one we were met with on our trip to the south coast of England, we couldn’t rely on beautiful light or a glorious sky. When faced…

As the name suggests, the Dehaze command reduces atmospheric haze in landscape images. Found within Lightroom and Photoshop’s Camera Raw workspace, the command is a slider that not only lets you reduce the haze, but also allows you to go the other way and make your photos look more hazy. Of course, the effect isn’t a magical trick that actually eradicates haziness. Instead, it works by applying a boost in contrast and sharpness to a specific part of the tonal range – the part that usually correlates with hazy highlights in landscapes. As such, we can exploit the effect not just for hazy scenes, but also for other types of shots where we might want to use the boost in contrast and detail in other, equally effective ways. Take the…

Photoshop has many types of layers and adjustment layers available, but there are six that you’ll find you need to use again and again. Learning how they should be used may seem a little daunting for beginners, but once you’ve got to grips with them, you’ll find they play a part in the creative process of almost every image you make. 01 LEVELS This should be the first layer you add to an image, because it fundamentally alters the tonal range of the entire image. Create a Levels Adjustment Layer, drag the Black Point slider inwards until it touches the lefthand edge of the histogram, and drag the White Point slider inwards to the right-hand edge. This remaps the tones of the image to make more of the available tonal…