Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

In advance of our workshop on Hollywood Lighting in Los Angeles, on May 13th & 14th, 2017,  I am posting this detailed tutorial on B&W portrait technique in Photoshop. This is the post processing part of our workshop exploring George Hurrell style lighting...
How To Create a Cross-Process Look in Photoshop

How To Create a Cross-Process Look in Photoshop

  Here is a detailed step-by-step video tutorial that examines a fairly sophisticated technique for re-creating a classic film processing effect. The tutorial uses a reverse Curves adjustment layer, layers and layer masks, Difference apply mode, Overlay apply...
Old-School Posterize Effect in Photoshop

Old-School Posterize Effect in Photoshop

Here is a technique for re-creating a printing effect popular in the psychedelic 60’s – a posterize effect that was used frequently for Rock concert posters. This step-by-step video tutorial utilizes the Threshold adjustment, layers and layer masks, advanced...
Lighting in Layers Technique

Lighting in Layers Technique

I’m posting a revamped version of one of my older PDF tutorials as a complete step-by-step video. This is a special preview for my sessions at the Florida Birding & Photo Festival  The festival runs from April 26 – 30th, 2017 in and around St. Augustine,...
Aerial Perspective in Photoshop

Aerial Perspective in Photoshop

Very often we encounter a scene where everything works well except for a distracting background. Sometimes retouching out distracting elements can work, but sometimes we don’t want to resort to retouching, or we want to preserve some sense of the original...
The Ultimate Skin Retouching Technique

The Ultimate Skin Retouching Technique

Frequency Separation Retouching by Alessandro Bernardi while I was in Italy, I had the good fortune to hang out with some amazing Photoshop experts. One of these was Alessandro Bernardi, who very kindly shared his version of advanced Frequency Separation retouching...