Tutorials
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Building an Image – Northern Lights Deconstructed
When I’m doing a lecture, people often ask about how to do a particular technique. I don’t consider myself to be a Photoshop expert, so I usually give a name to the process, e.g. “layer mask” and suggest they put that term into Google and come up with a tutorial somebody has done on that process! There are some great tutorials out there to help you get started. So, for my Christmas Greeting this year I have built a Northern Lights e-card, based on a web tutorial at this link, though I didn’t quite follow the process in the tutorial, preferring to use the techniques I generally work with. I…
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Building an Image – “The Lair”
My club lecture “Building an Image” deals with my method of working and how my images are created. This snippet shows the building of a recent image and I’ve picked out some key stages, though not all the layers are shown. The working title of this image is “The Lair”. The starting point is a trompe-l’œil. Most of the building is real and three dimensional but the hole in the front is faked. The enticing message “this is a photo-opportunity” means you can’t really walk past it without being tempted to take a shot! The building was shot against a bright sky and didn’t have much light on it, so…
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Tutorials
I’ve embedded my YouTube tutorials into my new website…access them here.
