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Posted by tekgik under Post Processing, kaBlog

4 days with Lightroom 2.0.. not beta

Posted by tekgik under News, Post Processing, kaBlog

If you havent seen / heard of it. Lightroom 2.0 is now finished with its beta stage and Adobe is now selling the final version of the software. Luckily adobe provides a 30 days fully functional trial version of LR 2.0.I already used it in two projects, two event photography coverage 1 is coroporate and 1 personal.

I must say that the new improvements are very useful specially the brush exposure +/-. Im still fiddling with its new added feats. I also like the saturation brush. Some noticeble UI improvements in the grid folders views. Speed wise, theres a little to noticed and Adobe still didnt add an option for bumping up RAM or CPU power. Im still dissappointed with the watermarking feature which is the most useful export feature i always used.

Yeah.. so heres some screenshot with the color desaturation technique

Download the 30 days trial here

Selective Coloring

Posted by tekgik under Landscape, Post Processing, Tips & Tricks, Travel, kaBlog

A PiPhoL posted a question about how to make selective coloring. I answered his query and that post gives me an idea of doing this particular photo in selective color

Steps in selective color in photoshop

1. Copy layer (ctrl+j)
2. Go to top layer
3. Open hue & saturation (ctrl+u) and put the saturation to 0 (to the left)
4. Select background layer
5. Pick eraser tool (ctrl+e)
6. Pick brush (b)
7. Choose rounded brush adjust by right cliking or ([ or ])
8. Adjust hardness to suit usage

9. Erase the area of the tshirt
10. Flatten then save
11. Voila you now have a selective color photo

Easiest but tricky method is Selective Color

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 now available

Posted by tekgik under News, Post Processing

If you havent updated your lightroom download it here http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ there are lots of improvements  worthy of saying is the overall speed at first i thought it was just a tad faster than 1.0 but i was wrong. Try it now!

Ala Infra Red Photos

Posted by tekgik under Post Processing

While Im compiling photos today, i saw my old photos from my canon powershot s30. Something came into my mind which i wanted to try long long ago. When i was starting as a hobbyist i really wanted to try IR Infra Red photography like this gallery of Daniella Thoret. You can see on her gallery how cool & crazy the color is. I was planning on buying a canon g1 or one of the olympus that is IR sensitive but i end up buying a 300d that has no IR capability because they blocked it. Fast forward, i have a couple of IR-like photos processed today which I really love. You wont believe that i only used gradient, hue, curves and the shadow & highlight tool.

From this

Another one. (additional blur tool)

I think Im loving this workflow, I might do this more often