Tip Tuesday: Halftone Dots/Pop Dots
Do you love those classic comic book dots; you know, the Andy Warhol look? They’re also known as...
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Creating a High-Key Portrait Effect
by Lesa Snider
Since CMYK channels represent ink rather than light, the grayscale information you see in your Channels panel represents the opposite of what it does in RGB mode. In CMYK mode, black indicates color at full strength and white indicates color at its weakest. Even if you’re not sending your image to a professional printing press, you can still have some fun in CMYK mode!
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Transform a Day Photo Into a Night Photo
by Serge Ramelli
A friend of mine showed me a picture he took during daylight, and then showed me how he transformed it into a nighttime photo. I thought this was amazing, so it inspired me to try it and show you, here, how you can achieve this look!
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Shimmering Light Effect
By Martin Evening
A few years ago I was looking to create a cover image for a new book and came up with the idea of a model in semi-profile, surrounded by a cool shimmering light. This is a look I’d used on a number of PR beauty photo shoots that had proved popular with a lot of clients. Essentially, I wanted to apply a cool white balance to a studio portrait photo of a model and overlay the image with a rippled lighting effect.
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Adding Faux Lights to a Background
by Lesa Snider
Adding faux lights is a great way to increase visual interest in a solid color or dark background. In this column, you’ll learn how to create simple shapes that you distort, blur, and fade into realistic-looking lighting effects that can be placed behind or beside your subject. Read on for some seriously creative fun!
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