Auto Photo Eraser

One of the things many people struggle with when it comes to composites is matching the colours of the two (or more) shots. Manually dragging sliders around and trying to match two completely different images is just plain tricky, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience with it. But this tip from photographer and digital artist,  Dustin Valkema  shows how we can very quickly match up two or more images together for compositing using a simple curves adjustment and a little known option it offers in the “auto” settings. Essentially, all you need to do is add your two layers in Photoshop as normal, with your background underneath and the cutout layer on top. Then add a curves adjustment on top of the whole thing. You only want to adjust the top cutout layer, though, so clip the curves adjustment to that layer by alt+clicking the line in between the two layers. In the curves adjustment properties, and you might never have actually clicked it before, there’s a little

Part of the joy of landscape photography for me is standing around and waiting for the light to change. You put your camera on its tripod, compose a shot and wait, taking photos every few minutes, whenever the sky or light or whatever looks interesting. I caught the tail end of a storm in Santorini, Greece, with heavy clouds blowing over right at sunset. An hour or so later and it was blue hour, with streetlights and buildings lit up. Both photos are below, after being edited in Lightroom using the Lightroom Develop System. They are both individually pretty good, but what if we could combine them? A stormy sunset over Santorini. Blue hour and streetlights in Santorini. CREATING & USING COLOUR CHANNEL LUMINOSITY MASKS I would like to be able to take the illuminated buildings and streetlights from the blue hour photo and add it to the stormy sunset. As with shooting into the sun, the best way to do this is through luminosity masks, but with a slight twist. Ope

It’s 2019, and everyone with access to a computer, the internet, and some cash can easily edit various elements in digital images. The best and most prominent software to do so is none other than Adobe Photoshop CC, which holds powerful tools to create and retouch photos and graphics.  As powerful as the tools are, one non-advisable purpose of Photoshopping images is belittling the ethnicity of the subjects in it. Editing skin tones may be fun and profitable for some, but it causes genuine offence to others, especially when it makes minorities feel disregarded, dehumanised and disparaged as if their culture, skin colour and mannerisms were comical punchlines.  For this tutorial, I’ll bring you through the ways on what you should NOT use when it comes to altering skin tones. The steps here are pretty much applicable to most versions of Photoshop, other photo-editing applications, and creative agencies that may not truly understand the weight of their actions.  To illustra

What if I say that it is possible to get Photoshop for free and legally in 2019! I will tell you about several methods to get the software ignoring torrent resources and without spending a cent. Method No1. Use a Free Trial Photoshop CC Version Pros: All photo retouching capabilities Stable and fast work Access to Lightroom and cloud service Cons: Temporary access to the program This is probably a fairly obvious way, but I noticed that many users want to buy Photoshop without even trying it. Since Photoshop is the most popular program for work with images, even those, who do not need all its capabilities, want to get it. I think that it is more reasonable to test Photoshop free trial version to understand whether you really need this program. The developers claim that they give people a chance to take advantage of all software’s features for a month, while users convince that the trial period is shorter. In fact, an absolutely free trial version lasts a week, the