What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.
Okay, my last Photoshop Tutorial was 8 months ago. I would apologize, but it would sound empty. Really, I’ve been busy. A lot of people have brought this oversight to my attention, so I’m resuming my photoshopping documentation here - starting today.
Wow, wow, and wow! I want this NOW!
Developer Dr. Ariel Shamir uses such terms as mesh partitioning, object feature-space analysis, visual succinct representation of information, seam carving, and the like.
While I don’t even understand half (okay, all) of that, I’m already drooling. Imagine how many steps you can skip with this amazing piece of [...]
Turning colored photos into black and white is a snap. Everyone knows how to convert pictures to grayscale, right? But transforming black and white photos to colored images is a tad bit trickier.
Most purists seem to take offense at the idea of manipulating images in PhotoShop, but I have no such issues. As pixel guru Roy Difuntorum puts it, “Art should not be hindered by anything less than what’s not art.”
The process of faking digital scenarios is no secret, really. The key is simply putting two or more pictures together to make a brand new (and well, fake, yet passable) image. And it all starts by deleting and replacing the background of a picture and trading it for something else.
