Tag: basic
Photoshop basics – simple colour correction
by Tony on Oct.29, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
This is a quick and simple technique for correcting the colour of an image in photoshop. It is not always successful and will not give you the desired results 100% of the time. But as it is quick and easy it is definitely one to try first.
Create a photoshop action – Colour boost
by Tony on Oct.28, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
This tutorial offers an alternative to the saturation option when you wish to dramatically boost the colours in an image. We will make a photoshop action for this colour boosting technique so that it can be applied easily to any image in the future. More information about creating an action can be found here.
Layers and Masks 2 – Adjustment Layers
by Tony on Aug.06, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
Layers and Masks 2 - Adjustment Layers
Basic adjustments – Curves
by Tony on Aug.06, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
Like layers, curve adjustments is a way of adjusting the brightness/ darkness levels in an image. The emphasis is put more on contrast and adjusting curves is a very smooth and sophisticated way of adjusting contrast.
Basic Adjustments – Levels
by Tony on Aug.06, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
Basic Adjustments - Levels
When you adjust levels, you are adjusting the range of the brightness/ darkness levels in an image. This is determined through a histogram. The histogram displays the distribution of the different light value in an image. For example, a dark image would have a lot of value at the dark end of the spectrum (left hand side of the histogram), a bright image would have a lot of values at the bright end (right hand side).
