Retouch images with frequency separation

Ben Secret explains how to achieve smooth yet sharp images, without losing realism One of the black arts of photographic retouching is how to achieve the impossibly smooth, yet sharply rendered skin, textures and fabrics seen in fashion and beauty images. Photoshop has its own high quality smoothing and sharpening filters, but the two processes tend to be somewhat contradictory. In this tutorial...

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How to Digitally Add Shallow Depth of Field

One of the easiest and most common techniques that photographers use to make their photos look more interesting and professional is to use a shallow depth of field. Depth of field refers to the distance between the nearest and farthest parts of an image that appear sharp or in focus. When a photo has a shallow depth of field, only a small portion is in focus, while the rest is blurry. It...

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Photoshop: Lomograph. How to Make a PHOTO look Vintage & Retro

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/69aVpRcFOfE?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Photoshop tutorial showing how to transform an image into looking like a vintage, retro, analog-type lomograph. Paper TEXTURE: http://db.tt/SWs3B...

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Tilt Shift Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes

I discovered the Tilt Shift technique perusing the photography of Drew Wilson, an uber talented young photographer here in Sarasota. I asked him about the process and he was kind enough to share it with me. Tilt shift lenses focus on a single part of the photo and shift (blur) the surrounding area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite...

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