Author: Gaurav Birla

  • Portraiture Photoshop Plugin

    Showing what you can do with just a few clicks and the Portraiture Plugin for Photoshop a really great plugin that will save you time when it comes to retouching portraits.
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

    Photoshop beauty retouching tutorial. See more at www.photoshopmama.net. Another iteration of a beauty retouching digital makeover, using Mama’s Powder w action. This series will highlight some advanced masking techniques; rubilith and quick mask modes, and adjust makeup colors using Levels Adjustments rather than Curves. Hopefully this will broaden your understanding of mixing color using a different type of adjustment, in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Photoshop Tutorial Part 2: Enhancing Detail & more.mov

    Photoshop editing tutorial showing techniques for: Adding Contrast, Dodging & Burning and then Enhancing Details by mixing blends modes with blurring…
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • Photoshop CS3 Portrait Retouching Essentials

    In this title professional photographer and Photoshop expert Chris Orwig gives a hands-on tour of the retouching secrets used by pros. He demonstrates tricks for covering up skin flaws, correcting discrepancies in color and tone, removing backgrounds and other visual distractions, fixing teeth and hair, enhancing facial features, and sculpting body parts. This inspiring step-by-step training course is full of secrets that will help professionals and hobbyists alike create stunning photographs of people.
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • Enhancing color and tone: Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: Camera Raw 6 from lynda.com

    Watch the entire course at www.lynda.com InPhotoshop CS5 for Photographers: Camera Raw 6, Chris Orwig provides in-depth training on Camera Raw 6, the CS5 component that enables photographers to open and manipulate images in non-destructive and now even more efficient ways. This course covers the benefits of the raw processing, which makes it possible to more precisely control an image’s appearance—exposure, shadow and highlight detail, color balance, sharpness, and more—including new workflow procedures and technical concepts and issues. Learn the entire Camera Raw workflow, from opening and resizing, toning and cropping, to sharpening and saving.

    Create a new layer and change its blend mode to overlay. Choose the gradient tool and select foreground to transparent layer. Make sure your foreground color is black. Click on top of the image and add the gradient. You should see the change in sky color. Add a layer mask and paint with black to hide the portions other than sky. vakarthik.com

  • 23 April, 2010 – Ricoh GRX. Where Does It Fit?

    Ricoh has always made fascinating if somewhat quirky cameras. Today, Sean Reid gives us his take on where the GRX-A12 fits in the current camera taxonomy.

    Sean has also just published a comprehensive user review of the GRX-A12 on his subscription site, which I can highly recommend.

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    The most recent winner in our Lightroom 3 contest is Jenny Sampson of Berkeley, CA . Congratulations Jenny. She wins a boxed copy, once it ships, of LR3 worth 0.

    How did she win? Simply by purchasing one of our tutorials or Video Journals. Find out more.

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  • Nikon Nikkor 70-200 f 2.8 VR II Unboxing

    The Nikon Nikkor 70-200mm f 2.8 VRII professional zoom lens is the newest in a long line of fantastic mid-range zooms. As a bonus we look at the Nikon TC-20EII 2x AF-S teleconverter
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • YT3D Stereoscopic 3D Video “The Wind” (Aiptek I2 HD 3D Camcorder)

    Here is a video I made to test out the Aiptek I2 HD 3D camcorder. It was shot at Nathanael Greene Park in Springfield Missouri. The goal of this project was to shoot and edit a stereoscopic video in less than 3 hours, I was rendering when time ran out so there are no title credits. If you have questions feel free to ask I will do my best to answer, PLEASE RATE AND SUBCRIBE! The Music is “Sapphire Isle” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0” creativecommons.org
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

    Meant to be Seen’s CEO shares a few words, talks about Avatar: The Game and Resident Evil 5, gives a tour of his office, and more. Lots of fun!
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • how change eye color easy adobe photoshop cs3

    this is how to change eye color easily, if you dont understant the video i can tell you how to do it, 1. add a new layer 2.now look the layer, go littlebit up, then you can see: normal, click it and click the color 3. select normal brush, brush tool 4. take some color but not black or white 5. paint the thing what you want to change, the color, 6. then go to image/adjusments/ hue and saturation 7. then select the colorize 8. then you can edit the color 🙂 tips: hue changes the color saturation changes the lightness of color and lightness change the lightness 🙂
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    Watch the course at www.lynda.com Photoshop is one of theworld’s most powerful image editors, and it can be daunting to try to use skillfully. Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image.
    Video Rating: 0 / 5

  • SLR 722 vs. SLR-Black EDITION**3D-Animation**

    SLR Mclaren Mercedes from Artificialproductions. Still WIP

  • St. Mary’s Lake, Glacier National Park

    Glacier National Park is one location that will forever capture my imagination and reverence of nature. No matter where I travel in Glacier National Park I can always find myself lost in thought as I gaze across the landscape. Whether its towering mountains, reflections, eroded stone, or wildlife it can be found with in the maze of glacially carved valleys. It is no wonder that this amazing place is considered sacred by the Blackfoot nation.

    St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park
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    St. Mary’s Lake, Glacier National Park

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