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Image Manipulation: 18 articles

Even a colorblind person can color-correct a photo

by Chris Nicholson | May 19, 2006

Tags: digital, photography, photoshop, color correction

Image Manipulation

In the digital age, color-correction is a much more attainable skill than it was in the film age. Anyone who knows how to read numbers can color-correct a photo with a computer. Read more»

Replacing a Background

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, replace, background, layer mask

Image Manipulation

Replace a background in a photograph with a completely different one. Read more»

Portraiture - Soft Focus (Part 1)

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, soft, focus, portrait, blemishes, skin, glamour

Image Manipulation

Portrait photographers sometimes employ special "soft" lenses to impart a glowing, flattering and "dreamy" feel to their subjects. Learn how to simulate this effect digitally. Read more»

Portraiture - Cosmetic Retouching (Part 2)

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, soft, focus, portrait, blemishes, skin, glamour

Image Manipulation

Learn how to effectively retouch images to enhance skin tone, remove blemishes and wrinkles, whiten teeth, etc. Read more»

Simulating shallow depth of field

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, DOF, depth, blur, sharp

Image Manipulation

Photographers using prosumer-level digital cameras have very little ability to effectively employ shallow depth of field techniques because of the small sensor size these cameras use. Learn a powerful technique to simulate shallow DOF for enhancing portraits and other images that could benefit from shallow DOF. Read more»

Selective Colorization

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, colorization, coloring, color, B&W

Image Manipulation

Learn how to convert color images to black and white and then selectively restore color to certain areas for artistic appeal. Read more»

"Smart" sharpening (sharpening without increasing noise)

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, sharpen, noise, unsharp

Image Manipulation

Sharpening images is a necessary step in the digital image workflow, but it can exacerbate noise or film grain to unacceptable levels. Learn effective ways to sharpen without affecting the noise. Read more»

Blending different exposures to increase dynamic range

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, blend, blending, exposure

Image Manipulation

Learn how to combine two different exposures of the same scene to create composite images with greater dynamic range than the film or sensor would otherwise be able to handle. Read more»

Salvaging an image with blown out highlights

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, highlights, dark, overexposed, overexposure

Image Manipulation

Digital cameras, like slide film, are notoriously unforgiving of overexposure; overexposed areas tend to blow out to completely white highlights with no chance of recovering the lost detail. Learn how to salvage such images. Read more»

Simple Vignetting

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, vignetting, portrait, lighting

Image Manipulation

Although lens vignetting of the unintentional variety is usually unwanted, vignetting can also be used intentionally to create a sort of "spotlight" effect that, if done subtly, draws the viewers eye to the subject of the photograph. It is particularly well suited to portraits. Read more»

Simulating Infrared Photography

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, infrared, ultraviolet

Image Manipulation

In this tutorial I will show you how to simulate black and white infrared film. Infrared film is sensitive to both ultraviolet and infrared wavelength light. Green foliage reflects a lot of infrared light, which is why infrared film is often used to take "supernatural" landscapes. Cameras do not focus infrared light the same way they do visible light, which is one reason infrared photographs tend to be a little blurry. Read more»

Removing hot pixels and dark current noise

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, dark pixel, noise, night, long exposure

Image Manipulation

Learn a fast and effective technique for removing hot pixels (dark current noise) from nighttime and long exposure digital camera images. Read more»

Sepia Toning

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, sepia, tone, toning

Image Manipulation

In this tutorial I will show you how to sepia tone a color or black and white image. This technique is modeled on the traditional darkroom method of sepia toning in that the sepia color is applied "unevenly" to areas of different tonality. Read more»

Creating a Contrast Mask

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, contrast, mask, dynamic range, highlight

Image Manipulation

Learn an effective technique for reducing excessive contrast. A contrast mask allows you to reduce overall contrast, simultaneously bringing out more detail in highlights and shadows. Read more»

Creating a Neutral Density Filter

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, underxposed, underxposure, NDF

Image Manipulation

Savvy photographers often use a neutral density filter to compress the dynamic range of a scene to allow the film or sensor in their camera to properly expose it. Learn how to tweak images with large underxposed areas to appear to have been properly exposed using an digital analogue of this technique. Read more»

Classic B&W toning by sampling other toned images

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, toning, tone, color, B&W, sepia

Image Manipulation

Learn a dead simple technique for matching the toning of one image in another. A trivially easy way to do sepia, selenium, platinum, palladium, cyanotype and other classic tonings! Read more»

Reducing CCD (sensor) noise

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, sensor, noise, grain

Image Manipulation

Digital cameras are prone to sensor noise, the digital counterpart to traditional film grain. Learn how to ameliorate the problem of sensor noise. Read more»

Converting Color Images to B&W

by Eric R. Jeschke | August 18, 2003

Tags: Photoshop, digital, B&W, convert, color, RGB, HSV, LAB, Channel

Image Manipulation

Learn a variety of different ways to convert your RGB color images to black and white. There are more ways than you think! Read more»