Blake Rudis will start us off this month with a tutorial on how to adjust color in Lightroom’s develop module or if you do not use Lightroom, in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop. Blake is a former painter turned photographer and is a master of color adjustments. Here is his tutorial titled “4 Things You Should Be Doing with Color in ACR”.
Continuing on with Blake, He has just released a 4-part series on Color Theory. He’ll take you from and intro to color theory to how to color grade a photo to change the whole mood of the image.
The link is a little confusing because it starts on part 4, but you can get to part 1 from there. The problem is that you can’t get to part 2 from part 1, you have to go back to part 4 to click on the part 2 link. Not overly difficult, just a pain. What do you want for free?
https://f64academy.com/ctfp-p4/?mc_cid=08b281670f&mc_eid=b757bed750
One area in photoshop that I’ve been studying while were all stuck at home is dodging and burning to control the light more precisely in my images. Chris O’Donnell has released a tutorial on his Creative Raw site titled My Complete Dodging and Burning Workflow in Photoshop. You’ll find it here.
https://creativeraw.com/my-complete-dodging-and-burning-workflow-in-photoshop/
Our friend Colin Smith from Photoshop Café has been very prolific during the lock down, he publishes free info several times a week. Here’s one I learned something new from titled “5 Photoshop Tips You Probably Don’t Know”.
https://photoshopcafe.com/5-photoshop-tips-probably-dont-know/
This month, a couple of my oldest friends celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. I’m having a tough time dealing with that since I’ve known them since we were teenagers. My only rational is that they probably got married in elementary school because we just can’t be that old. But I digress. I wanted to send them a canvas of an image I did of Chicago since that’s where we all met and grew up and since moved away. My problem was I needed a few more inches of sky and I didn’t want to change my composition by enlarging it to get the additional sky but having to crop the sides, or by stretching it and distorting the main subject. Colin Smith came to the rescue with his timely tutorial titled “How to use Content-Aware Scale in Photoshop”.
https://gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/how-to-use-content-aware-scale-in-photoshop
