Photoshop User - November 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOVEMBER 2014
FEATURE
64
Processing Trends
Brian Matiash and Nicole S. Young take a look at some of the
hottest processing trends in the photography industry and show
us quick-and-easy ways to re-create these effects in Photoshop.
Soon, youll be the trendiest photographer in town, which will
always make your clients happy.
Brian Matiash
Brian Matiash & Nicole S. Young
Departments
From the Editor
Columns
6 52
Contributing Writers
10
About Photoshop User Magazine
12
KelbyOne Community
14
DESIGN MAKEOVER
Design Dance
56
BY DESIGN
78
PHOTOGRAPHY SECRETS
Confessions of a Former Zombie
Why I Switched to Medium Format
Photoshop World Guru Awards
20 130
PHOTOSHOP TIPS
Exposed
26 138
FROM THE HELP DESK
32 84
LIGHT IT
How-To
DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS
Maleficent Text Effect
Steampunk-Style Type Effect, Part One
Creating an Otherworldly Title Screen
BEGINNERS WORKSHOP
Conquering Clipping Masks
38
118
44
74 122
Exposure Tactics
PHOTOSHOP PROVING GROUND

Clone Stamp Tricks
BEYOND PHOTOSHOP
Adding Trees and Projecting Shadows
Lightroom
LIGHTROOM FEATURE
10 Things Aperture Users Need to Know About Lightroom
LIGHTROOM FEATURE
Finding the Processing Path
UNDER THE LOUPE

Workflow Template Mastery
MAXIMUM WORKFLOW
Tonality Pro
LIGHTROOM
TIPS & TRICKS
Reviews
90 124
94 125
100
104
Andrew Hughes
126
127
128
110 129
DYNAMIC
RANGE
Aleksandar Mitic
KELBYONE.COM
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Tonality Pro
PhotoSweeper
Look Converter
Philips Brilliance 272P4 Monitor
G-RAID with Removable Drives
Portraiture Video Plug-In
Elinchrom ELC Pro HD
kumu STUDIO
Filter Forge 4 Professional
PrinTao 8
Photoshop Book Reviews
Photographic Illusions
Have you ever seen a photographic effect that you wanted to
replicate? Dave Cross recently saw an image where the subject
and other objects appeared to be floating in the air. He was soon
in his studio shooting and processing images, creating his own
version of this type of image. Dave walks us through his process,
sharing what he learned along the way.
Joe Hudspeth
Dave Cross
But WaitTheres More

KEY CONCEPTS
These icons at the beginning of columns indicate theres a short video on a tool
or function used in that tutorial at the Key Concepts KelbyOne member webpage
at http://kelbyone.com/keyconcepts.
Dodge & Burn tools
Lasso tool
DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT
Whenever you see this symbol at the end of an article, it means
there are either downloadable practice files or additional content
for KelbyOne members at http://kelbyone.com/magazine.
Layer masks
All lighting diagrams courtesy of Sylights

Pen tool
Smart objects
Quick Selection tool
A FEW WORDS FROM
SCOTT KELBY
From the Editor
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We had an amazing Photoshop World Conference last month, breaking last years attendance record, and by all accounts it was one
of our best Photoshop Worlds ever, which is very gratifying on so many levels (we work really hard to make the event something truly
special). However, at the same time, we ran into so many folks at the conference who still had no idea that NAPP and Kelby Training
had joined forces to create KelbyOne, which is frustrating because it highlights the fact that we havent done a great job in getting
that message out there.
Its a message weve struggled with communicating since the two joined forces back in January, so in the next few issues youll see
some of our new visual communications along these lines, including an education timeline in this issue (p. 99) that we hope will convey our message that bringing these two together has created a better way to learn Photoshop, Lightroom, photography, and design.
When we were NAPP, we were focused on Photoshop and Lightroom, taught primarily through short video tutorials and articles
on the member website. Our other company, Kelby Training, focused on world-class photography training. Now weve brought those
two together, and we did it without raising the renewal price for existing NAPP membersits still, to this day, only $99 a year, as
long as you dont let your membership lapse (if it lapses, you have to then rejoin from scratch at the full membership rate, so in short,
dont let it lapse).
Were in the midst of launching a new site, a new daily blog from The Photoshop Guys (myself included) at kelbyone.com/
blog, and an entirely new member experience. We really want our members to know about and take advantage of all our benefits.
Although were primarily an in-depth online training resource, we back it up with an amazing magazine (youre reading it); one-onone tech support on Photoshop, Lightroom, and camera gear; discounts on most everything you buy (even Apple gear straight from
Apple); and all the latest techniques and tutorials from our team of the very best instructors.
I hope youll help us spread the word about how these two (NAPP and Kelby Training) have become One, and I hope youll take a
few moments and check out our new online training experience, take advantage of those discounts, and keep reading Photoshop User
magazine because we have some amazing stuff in each issue. Take this issue, for example. Our cover story from Brian Matiash and Nicole S.
Young is on Processing Trends: Quick-and-Easy Ways to Stylize Your Photographs. They show us how to create a hand-tinted blackand-white look, a split-toned retro look, photos with textures, and a lens flare effect all in Photoshop (p. 64).
Also in this issue, Matt Kloskowski presents 10 Things Aperture Users Need to Know about Lightroom (p. 90). In our Light It
column, Kevin Ames explains the difference between reflected and incident metering, and then shows us how to use an incident
meter (p. 84). Dave Cross shows how he created a photographic illusion of his subject and other items being blown into the air by a
speaker. He covers everything from the shoot to postprocessing (p. 112). In our Photoshop Proving Ground column, Scott Valentine shows us some unique and artistic ways to use the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop (p. 118), and Rob Sylvan teaches us how to
speed up our workflow by taking advantage of templates in Lightroom (p. 100). Plus, all of your other favorites articles are here, too,
like Down & Dirty Tricks, news, and reviews.
Thanks for all your support throughout this transition to KelbyOne. Weve had so many people out there helping us spread the
word, saying wonderful things on social media, and sending personal notes of gratitude, which is so incredibly awesomewe really
value or members and appreciate your kind words more than you know.
All my best,
Scott Kelby
KelbyOne President & CEO
Editor & Publisher, Photoshop User
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KEVIN AMES
creates photographs for clients such as Westin Hotels, AT&T, and Coca-Cola. He
has authored four books, including a Dummies book, and his photos have appeared
in Time, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Visit kevinamesphotography.com.
PETER BAUER
is an Adobe Certified Expert that does computer graphics consulting for a select
group of corporate clients. His latest book is Photoshop CC for Dummies. He was
inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2010.
BRUCE BICKNELL
is the founder of Digital Blue Productions. He has been an instructor on Adobes
in-box training, and is an instructor at Sessions.edu. His clients include Time Inc.,
NFSTC, DTCC, and magazines that include People and National Geographic.
PETE COLLINS
is an education and curriculum developer and website overseer for KelbyOne. He
is one of the Photoshop Guys and co-hosts Photoshop User TV. With a fine arts
background, Pete is well versed in photography, graphic design, and illustration.
MICHAEL CORSENTINO
is an award-winning wedding and portrait photographer, Photoshop and Lightroom
expert, author, columnist for Shutter Magazine and Resource Magazine, and speaker
and international workshop leader. Learn more at www.michaelcorsentino.com.
DAVE CROSS
has been helping people get the most out of their Adobe software for 25 years.
Dave has a bachelor of education degree, is an Adobe Certified Instructor, and is
in the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
SEN DUGGAN
is the co-author of Photoshop Masking & Compositing, Real World Digital
Photography, and The Creative Digital Darkroom. He leads workshops on digital
photography, Photoshop, and Lightroom (SeanDuggan.com).
DANIEL EAST
is an author, freelance writer, presenter/trainer, and consultant with more than

20 years experience in photography, pro-audio, and marketing. Daniel is also
founder and president of The Apple Groups Team support network for user groups.
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PAUL HEBRON
is a freelance consultant in the Seattle area. He has worked as a graphic designer,
an art director, and a creative director. For more information about Paul, visit
http://about.me/paulhebron.
MATT KLOSKOWSKI
is a full-time education director for KelbyOne and a Tampa-based photographer.
Hes a best-selling author, and teaches Photoshop and Lightroom seminars
around the world.
BRIAN MATIASH
is a published photographer, writer, and Googler. When not out photographing,
he leverages his industry experience to help grow the Google+ Photos platform
and community.
SCOTT ONSTOTT
is the creator of Photoshop for Architects: CC Edition and author of Enhancing Architectural Drawings and Models with Photoshop, Taking Measure (secretsinplainsight.com),
and other books and videos. See what hes up to at ScottOnstott.com.
COLIN SMITH
is an award-winning digital artist, photographer, and lecturer who has authored
18 books and has created a series of training videos. Colin is also the founder of
the online resource PhotoshopCAFE.com and president of Software-Cinema.com.
LESA SNIDER
is the author of Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, several eBooks, and video
courses, as well as co-author of iPhoto: The Missing Manual. Shes also a columnist for
Macworld and Photographic Elements Techniques. For more info, visit PhotoLesa.com.
ROB SYLVAN
is the Lightroom Help Desk Specialist for KelbyOne, on staff at the Digital Photo
Workshops, and the author of Lightroom 5: Streamlining Your Digital Photography
Process. You can learn more at www.lightroomers.com.
SCOTT VALENTINE
is an Adobe Community Professional and Photoshop author. His latest book
is The Hidden Power of Adjustment Layers (Adobe Press). Keep up with him
at scoxel.com.
ERIK VLIETINCK
founded IT Enquirer in 1999 (http://it-enquirer.com). A J.D. by education, Erik
has been a freelance technology editor for more than 20 years. He has written
for Macworld, Computer Arts, Windows NT Magazine, and many others.
JAKE WIDMAN
is a writer and editor who lives in San Francisco. Hes been covering the intersection
of computers and graphic design for about 25 years nowsince back when it was
called desktop publishing and Photoshop was just a piece of scanning software.
NICOLE S. YOUNG
lives in Portland, Oregon, and specializes in landscape, travel, and food photography.
She has published several books, including her best-selling book, Food Photography:
From Snapshots to Great Shots. Learn more at nicolesy.com.
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Warbirds
world premiere
Recently, we rolled out the red carpet for our first-ever movie premier. Aviation
Photography: Warbirds and the Men Who Flew Them from renowned aviaship. It goes down as one of the most creative things weve ever done here at
KelbyOne. The idea started as a class, then morphed into a documentary, and
then grew into a featured film.
During the premier, Scott Kelby and Moose took us through this
exhilarating film of World War II pilots and the planes they loved and
flew. For Moose (and surely for all of us), this story is bigger than the
images captured, and thats exactly why this film was produced. He set
out with the goal to not just take amazing photos, but to tell an equally
as amazing story. Re-creating aerial battles of WWII, while challenging, was an essential piece of that storytelling process. Viewers were
able to experience first-hand the power and brilliance of these planes,
accompanied by personal and passionate interviews with navigators,
gunners, pilots, and Tuskegee Airmen.
As Moose superfans, this film allowed us to truly explore the depths of
his passion for photography, and how he pours that passion into stunning images. This was certainly a night to remember. While
it was a one-night-only, free event, members can enjoy this featured film anytime as an available course at http://kelbyone.com/
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Its a Wrap on
photoshop world 2014
If you missed Photoshop World Vegas, you missed an incredible week! We had a ton of new instructors, new classes, and a wild
week of creatives on the loose in our favorite spot, Las Vegas.
Attendees arrived from all over the country (and out of country, too) to take part in the three-day, life-changing, career-making,
educational event of the year. People from all walks of life, from students to professionals, hobbyists to enthusiasts, participated in
more than 100 classes through eight different learning tracks.
The conference kicked off with the ever-entertaining opening keynote, along with the fan-favorite themed video featuring a swashbuckling performance by Scott Kelby and his faithful crew. The
true award-winning moments came during our recognition of our Guru Award winners and the
inductees of the Photoshop Hall of Fame. This years inductees include Adobes Principal Scientist,
Russell Williams, and Kelby Media Groups Creative Director, Felix Nelson. These moments allow
us to praise the creative work of the individuals we teach, along with
highlighting professionals who continue to use Adobe in amazing ways.
As classes kicked off, the halls of Mandalay Bay were bubbling with
excitement. This is what makes Photoshop World unlike any other conference. The ability to network in and out of class, to brush shoulders
with your photography idols, to relish in the camaraderie of like-minded
creatives is all part of the journey that seems to get better each year.
As we close the chapter on Photoshop World 2014, hang up our party
hats, and return our pirate costumes (okay, maybe well keep those), we
hope that if you attended, you enjoyed your experiences and are putting
to practice the tools you acquired. If you missed the chance, we hope to
see you in 2015, when the worlds largest creative stage gets even bigger.
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Trailblazers: Powerful Women

of photography
What does it take to stand shoulder to shoulder with soldiers on enemy
soil and reach for a camera when they reach for a weapon, or brave
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@MoosePeterson Watching your #KelbyOne

Black & White course and I simply love your
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the subjects in front of your lens? Why risk your life to capture images
of an issue so violent and dangerous that each frame you take could
be your last?
Amazingly, theres no shortage of women tackling these assignments. In the new KelbyOne interview series Trailblazers: Powerful
Women of Photography, hosted by Mia McCormick, youll meet the
only female photographer in the nation for Getty Images sports wire.
Youll also meet a woman who brought us honest images of combat
from the front lines of two wars, and many others with incredible stories of sheer will to capture images with impact. Mia spent months
researching the women whose dedication to their craft continuously
takes them beyond the beaten path. Theyre blazing new trails, bringing us images that took tremendous bravery, inner confidence, and
keen eyes to deliver.
These women are changing the way females are viewed in this
industry. Theyve created powerful work while often overcoming
Just watched @KelbyOne @MoosePeterson

Warbirds and the Men Who Flew Them.
Wasnt what I expected. It was so much
more. Loved it!@stevetrup
My first car shootI learned a lot from
@Ambient_life and @KelbyOne. Thanks
for sharing your techniques!
@alexscottphotog
@MyPSWorld discovering the awesomeness
of @robertophoto. Learned a lot from him;
very inspired. Great addition to PSW!
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the mindsets of a male-dominated genre; taking on dangerous, lifechanging assignments; or surviving Mother Nature in the rawest sense.
Each month, a new group of not-so-average ladies will sit down
with Mia and inspire the fire in all of us. You can view this unique and
inspiring series at http://kelbyone.com/trailblazers.
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Want to know what it takes to be a Photoshop World
How has Photoshop World helped you reach your goals?
Guru Award Best in Show winner? Then say hello to Patrick
While Ive learned a lot from the classes and instruction over
LaMontagne. A five-year alumnus, this self-syndicated edi-
the years, the connections Ive made have been invaluable.
torial cartoonist, illustrator, and digital painter just nabbed
Ive made lasting friendships with other creatives who inspire
our Best in Show award in Las Vegas for his One in Every
and assist me in my work. Sometimes its just offering a cri-
Family painting. Read on to learn more about his award-
tique or opinion, but when I require reference photos from
winning style.
time to time, many of those have come from photographers
Tell us a little about the inspiration behind One in
I know from the Photoshop World community.
Every Family.
Whats the best tidbit of advice youve received as
This painting was inspired by a real family of great horned
an artist?
owls that I discovered locally on one of my regular mountain
Learn from everybody. Copy nobody. Find your own style.
hikes. After multiple visits, many photos, and some sketch

paintings, and from observing their real behavior, this paint-
Youre headed to an island and can only be armed with
ing became inevitable.
three items. What are they?

Well, if it wasnt a survival situation and I had power, Id
bring my sketchbook, camera, and my iPad to catch up on
magazines and books.
Name another proud moment in your career.
The thing Im proudest of is that I started late in this profession and didnt go to art school. I didnt do any paid work
until my late twenties and didnt start doing it full-time until
I was 35. When youre a teenager, its easy to take these
risks. When you have a wife and a mortgage, its a lot more
frightening, but very gratifying when it pays off. Its never too
late to follow a dream.
If you could be any fictional character, who would
you choose?
If you want to get existential, were all fictional characters.
Spoken like a true artist. Keep paving the creative path,
Patrick. Were right behind you! To see more of Patricks
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By mike mackenzie and chris main
Canon Unveils Speedy EOS 7D Mark II

and powershot cameras
Canon U.S.A., Inc. pulled the wraps off the new EOS 7D Mark II and three PowerShot cameras: the G7 X, SX60 HS, and N2.
The Canon EOS 7D Mark II sports a 20.2-megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor and dual DIGIC 6 Image Processors for
increased speed and to reduce chromatic aberration, variances in peripheral illumination, and lens distortion. The 65-point
cross-type AF system provides accurate subject tracking, and shooting up to 10 frames per second ensures youll capture
the action. Other features include an ISO range from 10016,000, expandable to 51,600; a 3", 1,040K-dot Clear View II
LCD; built-in GPS with digital compass; dual card slots for SD/SDHC/SDXC and CF memory cards; a built-in intervalometer
and bulb timer (EOS DSLR firsts); and rugged magnesium-alloy body.
For those who shoot video, the EOS 7D Mark II captures Full HD 1920x1080 resolution at 60/30/24p, and at ISO
values up to 16,000. Movie Servo AF allows you to define the AF location and speed and tracking intervals for smooth
focus transitions.
Canon also announced the PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot SX60 HS, and PowerShot N2 cameras. The PowerShot G7 X is
Canons first compact camera with a 1" sensor. The 20.2-megapixel G7 X uses the DIGIC 6 Image Processor and has an ISO
range of 12512,800. Features include a 4.2x optical zoom ratio (equivalent to 24100mm), f/1.8 to f/2.8 lens from wide
to telephoto; Intelligent IS that optimizes image stabilization; a multiangle 3", 1,040K-dot LCD; built-in Wi-Fi; RAW capture;
31-point AF; shooting speeds up to 6.5 frames per second; and Creative Shot Mode that allows you to add filters to your
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still photos. When you need to shoot video, the G7 X captures Full HD video at up to 1080/60p.
The PowerShot SX60 HS has a whopping 65x optical zoom (equivalent to 211365mm) with Optical Image Stabilization,
and includes a 16.1-megapixel CMOS sensor; DIGIC 6 Image Processor; 3", 922K-dot Vari-Angle LCD; 1080/60p Full HD
video capture; and built-in Wi-Fi. When shooting at extreme telephoto focal lengths, the Zoom Framing Assist function
remembers the previous zoom position, zooms out to locate the subject, and zooms back to the saved position when the
button is released.
The compact N2 has an 8x optical zoom lens (equivalent to 28224mm) with Intelligent IS. It uses a 16.1-megapixel
CMOS sensor, DIGIC 6 Image Processor, and it features a 2.8", 180 tilt, touchscreen LCD. Also included are built-in Wi-Fi
and Full HD video capture.
The Canon EOS 7D Mark II will be available in November for $1,799 (body only), or it can be bundled with the EF-S
18135mm f/3.55.6 IS STM lens for $2,149. The PowerShot G7 X should be available now and costs $699.99. Also available now is the PowerShot SX60 HS, which goes for $549.99. The PowerShot N2 will be available in December for $299.99.
For more information, visit http://usa.canon.com.
e x p o s e d: i n d u st ry n e w s
Nikon Releases New DSLR,

wide-angle lens, and speedlight
In September, Nikon Inc. announced a new FX-format DSLR, the D750,
along with the AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED wide-angle lens and the
SB-500 Speedlight.
According to Nikon, The new D750 represents a leap forward for
this camera segment, inheriting some of the best elements from Nikons
revered full-frame professional cameras. The 24.3-megapixel Nikon
D750 uses a CMOS sensor and the same EXPEED 4 Image Processing
Engine found in the D810 and D4S. Features include Nikons
advanced 51-point AF system; Advanced Multi-Cam 3500-FX II AF
focus system that tracks fast-moving subjects; 15 cross-type AF sensors; and a high-speed burst rate of 6.5 frames per second. With an
ISO range from 10012,800, expandable to 5051,200, youll be
able to make great photos in any shooting environment.
The D750 isnt for still photos only, as it allows for video capture
to dual SD cards in Full HD 1920x1080 resolution at 60/30/24p
with full manual control, including aperture adjustment. A 3.2",
1,229K-dot Vari-Angle LCD ensures you can shoot photos or video
from overhead, waist level, or on a tripod. When youve captured
the moment, share it with clients, friends, or family via the built-in Wi-Fi.
Accompanying the D750 release is the wide-angle AF-S NIKKOR
20mm f/1.8G ED FX-format lens. This is Nikons first ultra wide-angle lens
with an f/1.8 aperture. It has a 94 angle of view, making it ideal for wideangle landscape, architecture, and interior shots. In addition to quiet and
fast autofocus and an internal focus design, the lens also features Nikons
Nano Crystal Coat to reduce lens flare and ghosting.
Rounding out Nikons September announcement is the SB-500
Speedlight. What sets this flash apart is its also an LED video light. This
SB-500 covers a wide 16mm, has a 90 vertical swivel, and a 180 rotation.
While the controls are simplified, it can still be integrated into a CLS system
with two-group, two-channel control. Its powered by two AA batteries to
reduce size and weight.
All three products are available now. The D750 sells for $2,299.95
(body only); the AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED lens goes for $799.95;
and the SB-500 Speedlight costs $249.95. For more information, visit
www.nikonusa.com.
Topaz Impression
turns photos into art
into digital paintings by applying brushstrokes.
According to Topaz, Impression helps make your photos more expressive by authentically turning them into art, the way
a real artist would. This means you prepare the canvas for your project, build your brush, select the color palette, and let
Impression apply the individual brushstrokes in seconds. Nearly every aspect of the process is customizable, and you can modify
your brush, color palette, and canvas in real time.
Topaz Impression is available now for $99.99, and theres a free trial. For more information or to purchase, visit
www.topazlabs.com.
Topaz Labs recently released Topaz Impression, a stand-alone app or Photoshop and Lightroom plug-in that transforms photos
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Blackmagic Design Makes a

plethora of announcements
Blackmagic Design creates everything from digital film
cameras to video editing products for the feature film,
postproduction, and television broadcast industries.
At IBC2014 in September, they hit us with a flurry
of hardware and software announcements. Heres a
quick rundown of what they released.
Their Blackmagic Production Camera 4K and
Blackmagic Cinema Camera are now both available
with PL lens mounts for using both professional and vintage
lenses. The Cinema Camera is machined out of a solid block of aluminum, which means its small size is strong enough to
handle an extremely heavy PL-mount lens and fit into tight locations. It features a large, high-resolution 2.5K-sized sensor
with 13 stops of dynamic range. The Production Camera 4K has a large, high-resolution 4K Super 35mm-sized sensor with
global shutter with 12 stops of dynamic range.
The new Blackmagic MultiView 16 is the worlds first native Ultra HD multiviewer that allows the use of the new large
Ultra HD televisions and monitors for displaying images at twice the resolution of HD multiview. It supports the display of
up to 16 mixed SD, HD, and Ultra HD video sources at the same time. Speaking of Ultra HD monitors, Blackmagic also
announced the SmartView 4K, the worlds first full-resolution Ultra HD broadcast monitor with 12G-SDI inputs for compatibility with virtually all SD, HD, and Ultra HD formats up to 2160p60. With a native resolution of 3840x2160, it includes both
universal AC power as well as 12V DC power inputs so it can be used in just about any environment, including on location.
The Smart Videohub 40x40 is Blackmagics newest model in their family of mixed-format routers with their unique
visual routing user interface and 6G-SDI technology, allowing SD, HD, and Ultra HD routing all at the same time. It includes
a 5" built-in monitor and spin knob router control. They also announced the DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G, a new Dual Link
12G-SDI capture and playback card that includes an extremely fast 8-lane PCI Express Generation 2 connection, allowing
extremely high performance such as dual-stream video capture and playback at resolutions up to 2160p60. The new Ultra
HD-compatible Mini Converters and Heavy Duty Mini Converter 4K models feature 6G-SDI technology, allowing customers
to use a single type of converter for all SD, HD, and Ultra HD conversion needs.
In software news, Blackmagic announced Videohub Software Update 6, a whole new software suite for their popular
Videohub range of SDI routers that provides new client control and setup applications for easier router operation. Theyve
updated DaVinci Resolve to 11.1 with dozens of features and improvements that professional editors and colorists have
been asking for. And finally, they announced the acquisition of eyeon Software, Inc., a leading developer of high-end digital
compositing, visual effects, and motion graphics software, which includes Fusion 7.
As you can see, Blackmagic has been extremely busy. If youd like to learn more about the pricing and availability of these
and other Blackmagic products, visit www.blackmagicdesign.com.
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Phottix Makes Product

announcements at photokina
At Photokina in September, Phottix announced several new products for photographers and videographers. First up is the
Phottix Odin II TTL Flash Trigger. This update to the original Odin includes five groups with a button for each group and a
control dial for quickly adjusting flash power levels, 2.4 GHz frequency with a range of 100m, and 32 channels with Digital
ID to prevent triggering by other nearby triggers. It also has TTL and manual power control, high-speed sync up to 1/8000,
second curtain sync, flash zoom control, and an AF assist beam. The Odin II should be available in Q1 of 2015.
Phottix also unleashed the new Indra500 TTL Studio Light. This 500w light features TTL, Manual, and Stroboscopic
modes; high-speed sync up to 1/8000; second curtain sync; TTL exposure adjustments in +/ 3 EV levels; and manual power
from 1/128 to full power in 1/3 stops. It can be powered either by a battery pack or with the AC power adapter. At just
more than 4.5 pounds, the Indra500 TTL was developed for on-location shoots and events, such as weddings. It comes with
a built-in Odin receiver that works with Canon and Nikon, and a built-in Phottix Strato II Receiver that works with Strato II
transmitters. When used with the Indra Battery Pack, photographers can take up to 340 full-power shots with two-second
recycle times, as well as power two lights. An Indra500 TTL and Indra Battery Pack will retail for $1,295.
They also announced the Phottix VLED 168, 198, and 260 continuous lighting solutions for video cameras and DSLRs.
The number represents the number of LEDs in each VLED. The 168 produces 1,050 lumens, the 198 1,250 lumens, and the
260 1,600 lumens. They can be powered by six AA batteries or using the included battery adapters that work with camera
batteries from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, and Sony.
For more information on pricing and availability on these products and more, visit www.phottix.com.
Perfect Photo Suite 9 Offers

new features, enhancements
onOne Software announced Perfect Photo Suite 9, a collection of all seven of their applications: Perfect Browse, Perfect
Enhance, Perfect Layers, Perfect Effects, Perfect B&W, Perfect Portrait, and Perfect Resize.
Perfect Photo Suite 9 sports a new preview mode that allows you to quickly sort, cull, rate, add keywords, and edit
and close the file. Other new features include the Quick Mask tool, noise reduction, Lens Flare filter, auto tone, crop and
level tools, print options, batch rename, and ratings and labels. While they were at it, onOne also improved the image
processing and updated the Perfect Brush so it works better along soft edges and on semitransparent objects, such as
smoke or hair.
Perfect Photo Suite 9 should be available in late October for $149.95 for a new license, or $99.95 to upgrade. For
a comprehensive list of new features and improvements or to purchase, visit www.ononesoftware.com. Q
photos. Also new is Smart Photo, which allows you to reedit your photos with the previous setting intact after you save
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HOW TO
Down
&Dirty
Tricks
malecent text effect

BY COREY BARKER
This is one of the times you might nd the 3D features in Photoshop

useful in creating 3D effects. In this tutorial, were going to re-create
the metallic text effect from the movie Malecent. Youll see how easy
it is to employ 3D in Photoshop to create realistic effects.
DOWN AND DIRTY TRICKS
Step One: Begin by opening the Malevolent_Start.psd download file. Go to the Paths panel (Window>Paths) and click the
path containing the text shapes. If you prefer, you can create
your own text and then convert it into a path by Right-clicking on
the layer and choosing Create Work Path from the menu.
[KelbyOne members may download the files used in this tutorial at http://kelbyone.com/magazine/issue/november-2014. All
Step One
files are for personal use only.]
Step Two: In the Layers panel, make a duplicate of the black

Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Hide the
Background layer for the moment by clicking its Eye icon.
Step Three: With the duplicate layer (Layer 1) and the path
(Path 1) selected, choose 3D>New 3D Extrusion from Selected
Path. Click Yes in the dialog that appears to switch to the 3D
Step Two
workspace. This converts the text into a 3D extrusion; however,

the extrusion is a bit much.
Step Four: Go to the 3D panel

(Window>3D) and locate Layer 1.
Clicking the arrow to the left will
reveal the materials and boundary
Step Three
constraints. With Layer 1 selected,

go to the Properties panel (Window>
Properties) and set the Extrusion
Depth to 75 px.
Step Five: Back in the 3D panel,

click on the Environment property
at the top of the list. Now jump over
to the Properties panel again, go to
the Ground Plane Shadow settings,
and change the default 60% Opacity shadow to 0% to get rid of the
ground plane shadow.
Step Four
Step Five
Step Six: Go back to the 3D panel and click on the main Layer 1
item again. Back in the Properties panel, click on the third tab
at the top to access the Cap settings. This is where you manage
any bevels or inflation effects you have on your 3D object. In this
case, were only interested in the Inflate section at the bottom.
bulge out the front face of the text, giving it a curved look. This
increases the surface area and angle, which will give a lot more
variation of the reflection were going to add later.
Step Six
Set the Angle to 75 and the Strength to about 10%. This will
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Step Seven: In the 3D panel,

click on the Layer 1 Front Inflation
Material to select it. In the Properties panel youll see settings for the
various surface materials. Go to
the middle section where you see
Shine and Reflection and set each
to 100%, then set the Roughness to
20%. This will soften the reflection
so its not fully mirrored.
Step Seven
Step Eight: Now we need to apply the texture that will be

reflected in the surface of the text. Were going to apply this as
an image based light (IBL) so it will affect all surfaces. In the 3D
panel, select the Environment property again, then return to the
Properties panel, click on the icon next to the IBL thumbnail, and
choose Replace Texture. Locate the abstract metal texture file
thats part of the download and click Open.
The text will appear to have a metallic reflection. Click-anddrag inside the document to reposition the reflection to get the
look you want. Feel free to try other images as reflective IBL. You
Rafal Olechowski/Fotolia
can use almost anything.
Step Eight
Step Nine: At the top of the 3D panel are the 3D object icons.
Click the light bulb icon on the right to access the lights. Youll
see the default Infinite Light 1 just below the Environment.
Click on it and jump over to the Properties panel. Now click on
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the Color swatch, choose a bright blue color in the Color Picker,
and click OK. Set the Intensity to 300% in the Properties panel.
To move the light around,
switch to the Move tool (V), click
the Rotate the 3D Object icon
in the Options Bar (the first icon
in the 3D Mode section), then
click-and-drag on the canvas to
change the angle of the light. We
positioned ours (the blue circle)
at the top over the center of the
letter L.
Step Nine
Step Ten: Now the text looks nice and polished, but we want
to rough it up a bit, as if it has sustained some wear with
little dents and such. Well achieve that through the use of a
Imaster/Fotolia
bump map. In the 3D panel, click the first icon at the top to
see the whole scene, then click Layer 1 Front Inflation Material to select it. Youll need a file that contains a mild texture.
I have a file of a simple concrete texture that I have increased
the contrast on so there are some random dark spots on a
mostly white background. Go to the Properties panel, click the
folder icon to the right of the Bump setting, and choose Load
Texture. Locate the bump texture and click Open. If the bumps
seem extreme, lower the default 10% Bump setting down to
around 3%.
Step Ten
Step Eleven: Reselect the main

Layer 1 item in the 3D panel, then
choose 3D>Split Extrusion. Click
OK in the warning dialog. This
will break up the individual letters
so you can manipulate each letter
individually. What we want to do
here is select the left side of the M
by clicking directly on it with the
Move tool (V). Then click on the
red arrowhead and drag it to the right until the objects intersect.
Now click on the blue arrow, which is pointing right at you, and
drag down slightly to bring the object forward a bit so that one
object appears to be in front of the other instead of intersecting.
Step Twelve: Choose 3D>Render and let the render finish, bar-
Step Eleven
ring any last-minute adjustments you want to make. When the

render is done, click the Add a Layer Style icon (x) at the bottom of the Layers panel, and
choose Gradient Overlay from
the list. Click on the Gradient
thumbnail and in the Gradient
Editor dialog, double-click the
white color stop below the
gradient ramp on the right. In

the Color Picker that appears,
choose a deep blue color like
the one shown here. Click OK
to close the Color Picker, and
click OK again to close the
Gradient Editor.
Step Twelve
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Step Thirteen: Back in the Layer Style dialog, change the Blend
Mode to Soft Light, drop the Scale to around 70%, and click OK.
This will add an enhanced color effect on the 3D object, which is
changeable at any time as long as it remains a layer style.
Step Fourteen: Of course, you simply cant have metallic text and
not have some flares. Double-click the custom brush thats part
of this exercises download to load it into Photoshop. Switch to
the Brush tool (B), go to the Brush Presets panel (Window>Brush
Presets), and locate the brush at the bottom of the list. Click
the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel,
and press D then X to set the Foreground color to white. Now
click in different areas to paint a few flares on the text. Use the
Step Thirteen
Bracket keys to quickly change the size of your brush. Next, well
enhance the overall coolness
of the flares. Click the Add a
Layer Style icon and choose
Outer Glow. Click the color
swatch, choose a blue color
similar to the one we used in
the previous step, and click
OK. Change the Blend Mode
to Hard Light, and drop the
Opacity to around 50%.
I finished the atmosphere of the scene with some colorized fire
elements to complete the overall look. While the finished design
is front facing with 3D metallic effects, we still have the option
of rotating the entire name in 3D space at pretty much any angle
we want; 3D is much more flexible than you might think. You
have to dig in and see whats possible.
Step Fourteen
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Final
HOW TO
Down
&Dirty
Tricks
steampunk-style type effect, part one

BY FELIX NELSON
Several years ago, a co-worker turned me onto the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk while discussing ideas for
a marketing campaign. The idea was never approved but the
steam-driven, Victorian-era imagery stuck with me. I immediately tried to incorporate retro-mechanical elements into other
design projects that also never got off the ground. But last
issues 100 Photoshop tips cover design finally gave me the
opportunity to release my inner Jules Verne (thanks, Nancy).
Images courtesy of Dollar Photo Club
In part one of this tutorial, we'll focus on how we created the base
and beveled edges on the number 1. Youll use the same techniques to produce the edges of the other numbers individually.
We used lots of screwheads, gears, bolts, antique dials, vacuum
tubes, brass piping, and metallic background images to create
the mechanical interior portions, but well cover that in part two.
[KelbyOne members may download the files used in this
tutorial at http://kelbyone.com/magazine/issue/november2014. All files are for personal use only.]
Step One: Create a new 3.5x5" document at 212 ppi. Choose

the Type tool (T) from the Toolbox, and press D to set your Foreground color to black. Using Fette Fraktur LT Std Regular for the
font at 412 points (any bold serif font will work), click in the
center of the document and enter the number 1. Click the Add
a Layer Style icon (x) at the bottom of the Layers panel, and
choose Outer Glow. Choose Multiply as the Blend Mode, click
on the yellow color swatch, select black as the color, and click
apply the layer style.
Step Two: Open a metallic background image (a brass plate with
Alx/Dollar Photo Club
OK to close the Color Picker. Enter 40 px for Size and click OK to
screws in our example). Using the

Move tool (V), click-and-drag the
texture into the document you
created in Step One and position
it over the number 1. This will
add a new layer (Layer 1). If necessary, press Command-T (PC:
Shown with Layer 1

Opacity set to 50%
Ctrl-T) for Free Transform, and

resize the texture to cover the number 1. Press Enter to commit
the transformation.
Step Three: With Layer 1 still highlighted as the active layer,

Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the layer thumbnail next to
your type layer in the Layers panel to create a selection. Go to
Select>Modify>Contract. Enter 15 pixels and click OK. Now, go
to the bottom of the Layers panel and click on the Add Layer
Mask icon (circle in a square).
Step Four: Click on the Add a Layer Style icon, choose Bevel &
25 px for Size, and 7 px for Soften. Select Multiply as the Highlight Mode, and lower the Highlight Mode Opacity to 50%. Click
on the white color swatch, choose a light-brown color (R:114,
G:79, B:19), and click OK. Now, click on the black color swatch,
choose the same light-brown color as you did for the Highlight
Mode, and click OK. Lower the Shadow Mode Opacity to 50%.
Dont click OK yet to apply the layer style.
Emboss, and select Inner Bevel for Style. Enter 100% for Depth,
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Step Five: Click on the words Inner Glow in the list of Styles
on the left side of the Layer Style dialog. Choose Multiply as the
Blend Mode, and enter 100% for Opacity. Click on the yellow
color swatch, choose a dark-brown color (R:64, G:36, B:10), and
click OK. Enter 10% for Choke and 20 px for Size. Click OK to
apply the layer styles.
Step Six: Go back to the metallic background image you used

in Step Two (the brass plate with screws in our example). Press
Command-U (PC: Ctrl-U) to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialog.
Enter 19 for Hue, 70 for Saturation, and 21 for Lightness, and
click OK. Click-and-drag it into the current document (Layer 2),
and use Free Transform to resize it to cover the number 1. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the type layers thumbnail to load
it as a selection. Click on the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom
of the Layers panel.
Step Seven: Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) directly on the layer

mask thumbnail on Layer 1 to load it as a selection. Then, press
Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace) to fill the selection with black,
knocking out the center portion of the layer mask on Layer 2.
Press Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D) to deselect.
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Step Eight: With Layer 2 highlighted as the active layer, click

on the Add a Layer Style icon at the bottom of the Layers panel,
and choose Bevel & Emboss. Enter 200% for Depth, click on the
down-facing arrow next to the Gloss Contour thumbnail, and
choose Ring. Choose Overlay as the Highlight Mode, click the
white color swatch, choose a gray color (R:220, G:220, B:220),
and click OK. Choose Overlay for the Shadow Mode, and lower
the Opacity to 50%. Dont click OK yet.
Step Nine: Choose Gradient Overlay from the Styles list on the
left side of the Layer Style dialog. Choose Overlay as the Blend
Mode, and change the Opacity to 80%. Click on the Gradient
thumbnail. When the Gradient Editor dialog appears, choose
the Foreground to Transparent preset (second from the left).
Double-click the black color stop below the gradient ramp,
choose an orange-yellow color (R:244, G:198, G:96), and click
OK to close the Color Picker. Click OK again to close the Gradient Editor. Enter 90 for Angle, 25% for Scale, and click OK to
apply the layer style.
Note: The orange gradient is meant to mimic a reflective color
from a fire or a glowing heat source in our example. You can
Step Ten: Open an image of screwheads or boltheads. Using the

Elliptical Marquee tool (nested under the Rectangular Marquee
Winai Tepsuttinun/Dollar Photo Club
edit the gradient color or eliminate it altogether.
tool [M] in the Toolbox), make a selection of a single screwhead.

Using the Move tool, click-and-drag your selection into your
original document (Layer 3). Press Command-Shift-U (PC: CtrlShift-U) to desaturate the color.
Step Eleven: Press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) to bring up the Free

Transform bounding box. While holding down the Shift key to
constrain the selection, click-and-drag one of the corner adjustment points toward the center to resize the screwhead. Once
youve resized the screw, click in the center of the Free Transform
Bounding box, and drag it over the beveled edge we created.
You may need to resize the screwhead slightly if it doesnt fit
within the edge. Press Enter to apply the transformation.
Inner Glow. Choose Multiply as the Blend Mode, and click the
yellow color swatch. Choose black as the color and click OK.
Dont click OK in the Layer Style dialog yet.
Step Twelve: Click on the Add a Layer Style icon and choose
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Step Thirteen: Now, choose Outer Glow from the Styles list.
Choose Multiply as the Blend Mode, and click on the yellow
color swatch. Choose black as the color and click OK. Enter 5%
for Spread and 5 px for Size. Click OK to apply the layer styles.
Step Fourteen: Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the Layer 3

thumbnail to load it as a selection. While pressing-and-holding
the Option (PC: Alt) key, click-and-drag the selection to duplicate
and move it to another area of the edge (see example). Repeat as
many times as necessary until the screwheads appear to secure
the gray edge to its brass base.
Note: You may want to slightly rotate each of the screwheads
so they dont appear to be exact duplicates.
Step Fifteen: To add the same

Gradient Overlay layer style thats
used on Layer 2 to the screwheads, press down the Option
(PC: Alt) key while you click-anddrag the words Gradient Overlay (under Layer 2) to just below
Layer 3.
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HOW TO
Down
&Dirty
Tricks
creating an otherworldly title screen

BY PETE COLLINS
They are among us, and they have the power to destroy us. Its
up to you to save mankind! Okay, that may be overstating it a
bit, but heres a technique to really make your text shine even
when faced with lots of negative space.
Step One: Youll want to use a thick font, preferably one

thats sans serif. The font used here is called Bebas and can be
found for free at dafont.com. For this example, the document is
7.5x7.5" at 150 ppi. Since its going to be a space theme, use
white text on a black background. Press Command-I (PC: Ctrl-I)
to invert your Background layer from white to black, and press
D then X to set your Foreground color to white. Once youve set
up your document, use the Type tool (T) to set some text in your
document. Our beginning font size is 140 pt, and we selected
the Center Text option in the Options Bar.
Step Two: Before we

start resizing the text,
lets first adjust how
the font looks. Make
sure the Type tool is
selected and the Character panel is open. To
access the panel, go to
Window>Character,
or simply click on the
panel icon just before
the 3D icon in the
Options Bar. Change
the tracking settings to 75 to tighten the spacing between letters. (Tracking is the third field on the right side of the panel.)
That looks pretty good, but you can tweak the lower letters a
touch more. With your Type tool, click between the W and the
A, and press Option-Left Arrow (PC: Alt-Left Arrow) to tighten
the space more. Do this between the A and R and the R and S,
as well.
Step Three: We want

the word WARS to
be larger, so use the
Type tool to select the
bottom text, and in
the Character panel,
increase both the font
210. (Leading is the
space between lines
of text.) Select both
words and bold the
letters to make them a
bit chunkier by toggling on the Faux Bold option, which is the first
letter T icon in the Character panel.
size and the leading to
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Step Four: After you bolded the letters, you may have noticed
that the crisp corners now have a slight bevel to them. Press
Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to make a copy of the text layer so that
you have a backup, and click the Eye icon next to the copied
layer in the Layers panel to turn off its visibility. Right-click to the
right of the original text layers thumbnail in the Layers panel
and choose Rasterize Type from the menu that appears. Use the
Rectangular Marquee tool (M) to select the top edge of one line
of text. Press Delete (PC: Backspace) to trim off the top of the
text to sharpen it. Repeat for the top and bottom of each line.
This will clip a little of the rounded edges of the O and S, but
that gives them character, which is always a bonus. You may
also want to trim the ends of the S to make them parallel, as
seen in this example.
Step Five: Its time to add the hero or heroine. This technique
works great with the letter A in our example, but you could try
different letters according to the words and the shape of the
hero that youre using. With the Rectangular Marquee tool,
select the black areas in the letter A, and press Option-Delete
(PC: Alt-Backspace) to fill them with white to make it a solid triangle. Using the Move tool, bring in your heroine image (weve
already extracted her in the download files that are available for
Free Transform, hold the Shift key, and drag a corner point to
resize her to match the letter. Having a hero with a wider stance
helps sell the idea of being part of the A. Drag her into position,
and press Enter to commit the transformation.
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All files are for personal use only.]
Step Six: Make a copy of the rasterized text layer by making it
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active in the Layers panel and pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J).

Turn off the visibility of the original rasterized text layer. Load the
shape selection of your heroine by Command-clicking (PC: Ctrlclicking) on her thumbnail in the Layers panel. You should see
the marching ants around the person. Click her Eye icon to hide
her. With the copied rasterized text layer selected, press Delete
(PC: Backspace) to cut out the persons shape from the A. Press
Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D) to deselect. That effect by itself looks
pretty cool, but well take it further.
Fisher Photostudio/Fotolia
KelbyOne members). Press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) to bring up
Step Seven: Select the word OMNI with the Rectangular

Marquee tool and press Delete (PC: Backspace) so that you
just have the word WARS with the silhouette. Well use this
to make the light shadow. Deselect. Turn back on the visibility of the original rasterized text layer and the heroine layer.
Press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) to Free Transform the WARS
layer, and pull the top-center transform handle down until
the top of the hole in the letter R extends beyond the bottom
of the page. While the handles are still showing, Right-click
inside the box and choose Perspective. Now you can grab the
bottom-right or -left handle and pull outward (you may need
to drag out the corner of your document to see the handles).
This will cause the text to spread out. Adjust until you like the
look, and then press Enter.
Step Eight: We need to blur the light shadow. The easiest way
to do this is to use Gaussian Blur, but the more effective way is
to use the Tilt-Shift blur. Go to Filter>Blur Gallery>Tilt-Shift. Pull
the top solid line off of the top of the page so theres no blurring
on the top portion of the image. Now drag the bottom solid line
to just above the bottom edge of the word WARS and drag the
dotted line just below it. This will keep the top edge of the light
shadow more in focus and let the rest of the word be blurry.
Crank up the Blur in the Blur Tools panel until it looks right to
you and then press Enter.
Step Nine: Find a background image that will fit with the
theme, drag it into the main document using the Move tool,
and move it just above the original rasterized text layer in the
Layers panel. Youll want to clip this image inside the text layer,
so place your cursor between to the two layers in the Layers
panel, press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key, and click. Now
thing about this technique is that you can Free Transform the
Workshop in this issue to learn more about clipping an image
into text and other shapes.
diversepixel/Fotolia
background image to visually fit it. Check out the Beginners
the image will only be seen through the lettering. The great
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Step Ten: The image is coming along nicely, but you may want
to drop the Opacity of the clipped background image in the Layers panel so it doesnt look too busy and has a feeling of lightness. Now lets give the background some stars by placing a star
image as a layer just above the black Background layer. Use Free
Transform to resize the star image to fill the document. Click on
the Add Layer Mask icon (circle in a square) at the bottom of the
Layers panel. Now select the Gradient tool (G), click on the gradiselect the Foreground to Transparent preset, and click OK. Select
the Linear Gradient icon in the Options Bar, and press D then X to
set your Foreground color to black. Start your gradient at a point
just above the head of your hero and, while holding the Shift key
to keep it straight, drag up to the middle of the word OMNI. This
should give you a nice fade from black to the stars.
Step Eleven: To add to the lightness of the image, press X to

change the Gradient tool to a white to transparent gradient, and
select the Reflected Gradient icon (the fourth icon in the Options
Bar). Create a new layer at the top of the layer stack. Start the
gradient at the very bottom of the word WARS and, while holding
Shift, drag down a very short distance to create a layer of light.
Double-click the cloud brush that we included in the download
files to load it into Photoshop. Set up the brush to have a light
Opacity and Flow in the Options Bar, and on a new layer, use it to
add some cloudy haze to the ground. You may need to use your
Bracket keys to adjust the size of the brush to get the size clouds
you want. Load Coreys Flare Brush (also in the downloads), reset
the Opacity and Flow to 100%, and create a new layer. Place the
cursor over the outstretched hand of the heroine, use the Bracket
keys to make the center of the brush a little larger than her hand,
and click once to add a flare.
Step Twelve: Everything is looking really good, but theres

always going to be a little tweaking at the end. Our heroine
needs to be a little cooler, so select her layer and then click on
the Hue/Saturation icon in the Adjustments panel (first icon in the
second row). To make sure that it only affects the layer immedi p h ot o s h o p u s e r n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 4
ately below, click on the first icon at the bottom of the Properties
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panel. Now check Colorize and move the Saturation, Hue, and
Lightness sliders until you get the look you want. Once that is
done, you may want to hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and dragand-drop a copy of that adjustment layer onto the text background image to match the coloring. Dont forget to clip it so it
only affects the text background image. Finally, make a copy of
the flare layer, place it strategically on another part of the text,
use Free Transform to resize and rotate it, and youre done.
The key points for this project are knowing how to tweak text,
transform text with perspective, and clip images into text. Theyre
not very complex techniques, but once you understand how to
work them, the skys the limit. Q
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COLUMN
DesignMakeover
JAKE WIDMAN
CLIENT
Dance Out Diabetes
www.danceoutdiabetes.org
design dance
before
Dance Out Diabetes is the brainstorm of Theresa Garnero, a registered nurse board certified in Advanced Diabetes Management.
Dance Out Diabetes, which launched in 2010, holds monthly dance
and exercise classes at which participants can get their blood glucose levels, A1C (3-month glucose average), blood pressure, weight,
and other metrics checked, plus pick up educational materials about
living with diabetes. Theres not much being done in the areas of
diabetes prevention and management, says Garnero. Were better
with diagnosing and treating. Its an innovative concept that has
attracted the interest of several national organizations. People are
imitating us left and right, says Garnero.
Garnero, who is a cartoonist and has won an international
design contest herself, worked closely with a designer on the current logo. The purple is part of a color palette used for their website
(www.danceoutdiabetes.org) and other materials. The d, taken
from what Garnero calls a friendly, funky font, stands for diabetes
and dance.
We also wanted a person in there, so you can tell a person is at
the center of all this, she continues. The organization makes a point
of being inclusive, so the dancing figure (drawn by Garnero) is neither
race- nor gender-specific.
Garnero likes the current logos colors and simplicity and its over-
The organization makes a
point of being inclusive, so

the dancing figure is neither
race- nor gender-specific.
all vibe. Shes not convinced the dancing figure works, But how can
you communicate that the person is dancing but isnt another skinny
white person? she asks. (Thats mostly what you get when you type
dancer into a stock photo search form.) Another concern is that
the font for the spelled-out name gets hard to read at small sizes.
In honor of Diabetes Month (November), we asked two designers
to give Dance Out Diabetes a logo as energetic and innovative as the
organization itself.
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makeover submissions
WERE LOOKING FOR PRODUCT PACKAGING OR LABELS, PRINT ADVERTISEMENTS, WEBSITES, AND MAGAZINE COVERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MARKETPLACE FOR FUTURE DESIGN MAKEOVERS. SO IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS A DESIGN THAT YOUD LIKE US TO CONSIDER MAKING OVER, OR
IF YOURE A DESIGNER AND YOUD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A FUTURE DESIGN MAKEOVER, SEND US AN EMAIL AT [email protected].
(NOTE: THIS IS PURELY A DESIGN EXERCISE AND THE DESIGNERS DO NOT WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE CLIENT, CREATE FUNCTIONING WEBSITES, ETC.)
DESIGN MAKEOVER
DESIGNER
Kevin Anderton
www.linkedin.com/prole/view?id=53611026
after
Im glad I had the chance to work on this project. I wanted to create

a logo thats fun and exciting and that shows the energy of dance.
I used bright colors, curvy shapes, and unique letterforms to add a
positive feel that reflects the attitude of the company and the people
that work for it. The Dance Out Diabetes brand should be about having fun and staying healthy, as well as staying in control of the disease.
The client likes the idea of including a dancer in the logo so long
as its gender- and race-neutral. To accomplish that, I created a stylized stick figure. Then I placed the figure on top of the letter d in
a boisterous dance pose. The figure is meant to symbolize someone
thats healthy and in control of his or her body.
The letter d includes a flag at the top to make it look like a
musical note, and all the letters in Dance were hand-drawn to look
as if theyre dancing along with the figure. The combination of all
these treatments brings a lot of fun to the logo, and thats what
I want people to think when they look at it: This company looks
like fun!
On the bottom of the logo I added the rest of the company
name, Out Diabetes, set in Monotype Corsiva, in a swooping flag
that moves from left to right. Showing this movement symbolizes
the idea that diabetes is being danced out of the equation.
The logo can be used in the full-color version or as plain white or
The logo can be used in
the full-color version or as

plain white or plain black.
plain black. In my opinion, the logo looks best in plain white on top
of the company brand colors, as in the letterhead treatment. The
figure and the letter d can also be used on their own as a smaller
version of the logo, which would still read clearly at small sizes.
about the designer

Kevin Anderton is a freelance designer living in the Kansas City area. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond,
Virginia, in 2003 with a bachelor of fine arts degree and has since been working in design. After getting his start in the Washington, D.C.
area, he relocated to Kansas City in 2004 to be part of a growing arts community. I have met some of the most amazing people out here,
he says. I feel living in KC has taken my abilities to the next level.
After working for various companies and gaining nearly a decade of experience, he decided to start his own design business in August
2013 (Kander10 Designs). Its been just over a year and I continue to break all of the goals that I have set for myself. I cant wait to see what
I can do in my second year.
His work ranges from designing magazines, catalogs, brochures, posters, T-shirts, and postcards to painting and drawing commissioned
artwork. It feels like I have worked on projects of all shapes and sizes, he says.
APPLICATION USED: Adobe Illustrator CS6
KEVIN ANDERTON
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DESIGN MAKEOVER
DESIGNER
Daniel Arpaia
http://darpaia.wordpress.com
after
I wanted to make the Dance Out Diabetes logo something more

streamlined and modern than what they currently have. I updated
the logo in an effort to incorporate the idea of music and dancing
together, while providing a more gender-neutral color scheme along
with a font update. I wanted to create a logo that would pull in an
audience from all ages, while still looking fun and inviting.
I took out the contour of the person because I didnt want to
define the image of the person dancing. Rather, I wanted to create
an expression of dancing through the letterface as a way to bring
viewers into the experience without defining it for them.
I used ITC Avant Garde Gothic as the copy text. I feel that it
provides a nice, simple, round typeface that complements the sharp
lines from the logo.
I created the logo in Adobe Illustrator, but only after reaching
the final design through a process of ideation and mind mapping.
Conceptual creation is the most important part of the design process, and most of my time goes into the thought behind the design.
I like to construct word clouds around important ideas in which
I frame the concept of the design. After writing down any and every
word that I can relate to the key idea, I start the iteration process.
During this process, I designed 100 different ideas for the project in
order to fully push the limits of the design. Exploring such a wide
I wanted to create an
expression of dancing through

the letterface as a way to bring
viewers into the experience
without defining it for them.
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variety of conceptual ideas allows you to find the meaning in the

small nuances that feed into the strength of the overall design. A
good design isnt the first idea thrown onto paper, but the one that
has been given life through the creative process.
about the designer

DANIEL ARPAIA
Daniel Arpaia is a 23-year-old designer in Austin, Texas. He received his bachelor of arts in graphic design from St. Edwards University in Austin
in 2013. From there, he moved on to an internship and eventually a production artist position at Austins Houndstooth Studio. Daniels disciplines
and expertise range from computer-based programs to physical construction and sculpture to event production and experience.
Daniel has an appreciation for clean typefaces, while he tries to instill a sense of fun and abstract design, as well. He enjoys both interactive and print work and is always looking to expand his fields of interest. I am someone who loves to experience life in all its forms, and
am always open to new experiences and whatever life brings my way, he says. I look forward to the journey, and cant wait to see what
opportunities will come. Q
APPLICATION USED: Adobe Illustrator CC
COLUMN
by
Paul Hebron
CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER ZOMBIE

It all began with a grumble. I didnt notice it at first, but looking back, I can see the warning signs as
clear as day. I dont know when exactly this zombie thing bit me, but the most important part is
I found a cure.
The Club House Logo: A nonprofit preschool
everal years ago, my work life gradually began to
moaned and groaned in agreement. It was done; I was now an
decay. My job had lost the fun, the zing, and the chal-
official member of this zombie hoard.
lenge it had when I first started. I also noticed a similar
You might be able relate to my situation. Youre sitting
change with my co-workers. I spent my lunch and break times
at your desk right now reading this article and realizing that
listening to grumbles about what was wrong with management,
youre a zombie, too. Well, dear reader, let me share my story.
the brands they worked on, and how unhappy they were. The
Maybe you can walk away from this article with something of
more I listened, the more I found myself agreeing with some of
value, which could be your cure.
their complaints.
Then one day, my nodding agreement turned into a growl-
JOB VS. CAREER
ing rant about me going nowhere in my job no matter how
I was the art director for an iconic brand. I worked long hours at my
hard I worked. I continued on about how unreasonable dead-
job, regularly going beyond expectations and creating really remark-
lines were and how tired I was of working weekends, taking
able work. Work that Im still proud of to this day. Yet, anytime a pro-
work home at night and still not getting recognized for my
motion was available, I was never in the running. After about six years,
extra efforts. All of this made me not want to go to work, but
I began to feel overlooked and my desire to go to work had dimin-
I came in anyway because I had deadlines. My co-workers
ished. My emotions bounced around between frustration, anger,
BY DESIGN
and resignation. Sometimes,

the grumble sessions made me
bitter for days and eventually
I started grumbling about my
job outside of work.
It was during a self-reflective drive to work that something clicked. I began to ask
myself, Why did I expect a company to manage my
happiness and career expectations? As I continued
to reflect upon this question, I realized I was looking
at my job as my career, thus seeking too much from
my employer.
Let me explain how I see the difference between
career and job by using the metaphor of a map and a
vehicle. A career is your map and journey; a job is the

vehicle that allows you to move along the map and
have a journey. Like any journey, you might choose
to sightsee along the way or even adjust your course
or destination. When your job ceases to function as a
vehicle and youre only working for a paycheck, you
might find yourself stuck and going nowhere in your
career. Its at that point a lot of people start looking
for another job. I was happy with my career, but not
happy with my job. I was stuck, not moving forward
and no longer satisfied.
I loved the brand that I was in charge of, but after a
few years, I realized I wasnt moving forward. I wasnt
growing and gaining new experience. To complicate
matters, some of my previous experience wasnt being
used in my current position. If I really wanted to move
forward in my career, then I needed to freelance on the
side, look for another job, or do both.
A NEW JOB ISNT

ALWAYS THE ANSWER
I began searching for another job. I wanted to work
for a place that would make me feel excited about
waking up in the morningsan employer that would
appreciate my contributions and allow me to do
great work. It was during one of my interviews I beThe Magic Hat Campaign:
Event posters, T-shirts, and
other items promoting a
themed yearly nonprofit
community festival
gan to notice a pattern. Every employer had its share

of zombies. These were people with vacant eyes who
passed me in the hallways as I was being lead to the
interview room. They were drinking from giant jugs
of coffee at 10 a.m. to help them function. These
people, with resigned expressions, looked just like
some of the ones I might be leaving at my current
job. They looked just like me, another 9 to 5 zombie
wanting to live again.
I loved the brand

that I was in
charge of, but
after a few years,
I realized I wasnt
moving forward.
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BY DESIGN
I began to see that if I only switched jobs, I might become a
The first thing I did, as a way of breathing new life into my
repeat offender, going from one job to another thinking a new
career, was to write a blog about some of my thoughts on
job would become the Holy Grail of eternal career happiness.
creativity and design. I reached out on LinkedIn, connecting
Thats when I resolved to take some responsibility for my career
with other creatives to have conversations about design think-
and the happiness that came along with it. This led me down
ing, marketing, branding, and creativity. I also started seeking
the path to giving away my time and talent. Why not? I had a
opportunities to work with nonprofits that might need creative
full-time job with a decent salary that allowed me to pay the
help. I wanted to find an organization where I could practice
bills. I could at least spend a few hours a week working for free.
design strategy and manage entire marketing campaigns.
VOLUNTEERING: A PRESCRIPTION
FOR A ZOMBIE-FREE LIFE
Then, a funny thing happened; I wasnt angry about my job anymore. The more I connected outside of work, the happier I was at
work. I was starting to grow my career and myself. It was a very
liberating time. It was during this period that a couple of nonprofit
organizations gave me the volunteer opportunities that I was seeking. About a year after I started managing my own career, I was
laid off. This was one of the most exciting transitions of my life.
I was free to move on to the next destination on my career map.
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Digital Media Design Club Logo and Event Posters: A student organization created to encourage interaction between industry professionals
and students by regular speaker events, networking, and professional workshops on a college campus
BY DESIGN
It was during this period that a couple of

nonprot organizations gave me the volunteer
opportunities that I was seeking.
Discover Wow Campaign: Utility bill inserts promoting a themed yearly nonprofit community festival
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BY DESIGN
Six years later, Im still volunteering, and now I have more
I really enjoy practicing. Ive found new friends and mentors along
than one vehicle to get me places. Im excited about what each
the way and have been able to mentor others by sharing my
day might bring. Im freelancing for a few awesome organiza-
experience. The exciting thing is I have nothing to grumble about.
tions and my volunteer projects keep me busy and satisfied. Im

on the board of two nonprofit groups and I also volunteer for
FINAL DIAGNOSIS
the arts commission in my city. Ive even managed to find time
My advice to zombies is this: enhance your career path by
to take classes online and in the classroom.
looking at volunteer opportunities in your community. Do
Most of my volunteer responsibilities have little to do with
something you can be passionate about outside of your job
creating graphics. Instead, I find myself working on outreach
title and pick a cause to support. Use volunteering as a way
strategies to connect people in the community. Ive been able
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Processing Trends
WAYS TO STYLIZE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS

By Brian Matiash and Nicole S. Young
Browse through any of the popular photo websites or social media networks and youll see something evident: photographers love stylizing their photos. And why shouldnt they? The software that we have at our disposal lets us do such
wonderful and amazing things as we try to infuse our own individual sense of creativity into our images. In this feature, the
immensely talented photographer and author (and my wife!), Nicole S. Young, and I will take a look at four of the most
popular and trending postprocessing techniques and walk you through how to apply them to your own photos. Give each of
them a try and, as with any delicious culinary dish, keep experimenting and adjusting to taste.
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THE
HAND-TINTED
YOU TO RESTORE VERY SUBTLE AMOUNTS OF COLOR BACK INTO

THE IMAGE.
THIS ISNT QUITE LIKE SELECTIVE COLORIZATION OF A B&W
BLACK-AND-WHITE LOOK
PHOTO, WHERE YOU CONVERT YOUR IMAGE TO PURE B&W
THERE ARENT MANY POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES THAT CAN
OF THE FRAME. SOME COMMON EXAMPLES OF SELECTIVE
EVOKE A SENSE OF TIMELESSNESS OR NOSTALGIA QUITE LIKE A
COLORIZATION WOULD BE PAINTING BACK THE COLORS OF A
BLACK-AND-WHITE (B&W) PHOTO. BY RELYING ON TONALITY AS
BOUQUET OF FLOWERS IN A WEDDING PHOTO, OR RESTORING
A PRIMARY VEHICLE TO CONVEY THE MOOD AND STORY OF A
THE COLOR OF THE EYES IN A PORTRAIT PHOTO. THIS TECH-
B&W PHOTO, YOU CAN ACHIEVE ALL SORTS OF CREATIVE RESULTS.
NIQUE COULD BE CLASSIFIED IN THE SAME FAMILY, BUT AS A
HOWEVER, THERE IS A TECHNIQUE THAT I ENJOY EXPERIMENTING
MUCH MORE DISTANT COUSIN AS THE RESULTS ARE INTENDED
WITH THAT I REFER TO AS HAND-TINTED B&W, WHICH ALLOWS
TO BE WAY MORE SUBTLE AND APPLIED GLOBALLY.
AND MASK BACK IN THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF A SPECIFIC AREA
Step One: To illustrate this technique, Im using a photo

I took of my nephew, Hunter, during a 4th of July celebration. For reference, Im using Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
but this should also be applicable to all Photoshop CC users.
Open one of your own images to follow along.
Step Two: The first thing youll want to do is duplicate

your Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J).
Now that we have our duplicate layer, its time to start
the B&W conversion process. My favorite way to do this
in Photoshop is to use the powerful adjustment layers. At
the bottom of the Layers panel, click on the Create New
Adjustment Layer icon (it looks sort of like the contrast
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symbol) and select Black & White from the pop-up menu.
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Step Three: The next step is to adjust the tone of the
different colors that are in your image. It may sound
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odd to talk about adjusting colors like reds and greens

on your B&W image, but it will make much more sense
once you start experimenting. When you select the newly
created B&W adjustment layer, youll see six color sliders
in the Properties panel. Dragging a slider to the left or
right will affect the base colors in your image; however,
I prefer using the Targeted Adjustment tool (hand with
two arrows). With the Targeted Adjustment tool active,
all you have to do is hover over your image, click-andhold the dropper on a region that you want to adjust,
and drag left or right. Dragging left will decreaseor
darkenthat color, and dragging right will increase
or brightenthat color. For the purpose of this photo,
I want Hunter to really pop and stand apart from the
Step Three
grass. To start, I position the dropper on the grass and

drag to the left, which darkens it quite nicely. Additionally, Im going to click the dropper on Hunters face and
drag to the right a bit, which will bring out the reds and
Step Four: While were making good progress with the

photo, it looks like it needs a bit of a Levels adjustment.
Click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers
panel again and select Levels. From here, you can adjust the
white and black points of the image to make it pop.
Step Four
yellows of his skin, as well as his shirt.
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CONTINUED
Step Five: This step is optional depending on whether you

want to apply a global tint to your photo. This is useful if you
want to replicate a sepia or cyanotype look. In this case, lets
add a slightly burnt-orange tint to give it that vintage feel. To
start, select the Black & White adjustment layer in the Layers
panel and duplicate it by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J).
Double-click the layers name and rename it with something
Step Five
identifiable like Tint to make it easier to find in the future.
Step Six: Click the Tint checkbox in the Properties panel to

apply a tinted color overlay on top of your image. To get that
aged, vintage look, click on the color swatch next to Tint to
open the Color Picker and select a color in the darker orange
region. To make it easier to see the color, select a darker version of the color in the Color Picker and then decrease the Tint
layer Opacity in the Layers panel until you reach the desired
subtle result.
Step Seven:
Now youre ready to begin hand-tinting the
Step Six
image. For this photo, there are five primary areas that we can
hand-tint: the hair, skin, clothing, sneakers, and grass. Well start
with the largest area, which is the grass. Create a new layer by
pressing Shift-Command-N (PC: Shift-Ctrl-N), name the new
layer something identifiable like
Grass, and click OK. With the
new Grass layer selected, choose
the Brush tool by pressing B and
select your Foreground color. In
this case, we wanted to go with
a normal-to-dark green.
Step Eight: Begin painting the color on the appropriate area
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of your image. In its current state, you may be alarmed because

youre essentially just spilling color onto your image but it will
make sense in a minute. If you accidentally spill color onto part of
your image that you didnt intend to, just select that color layer in
the Layers panel, click the Add Layer Mask icon (circle in a square)
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at the bottom of the panel, and paint on the mask with black as
your Foreground color.
Step Nine: Now its time to properly blend the painted color.
Select the color layer and change the blend mode to Multiply in
the Layers panel. Decrease the Opacity so that only a tiny bit of
color is visible. In most cases, I find great results happen between
515% Opacity. To continue, simply repeat this process on each
part of the image. Youll want to use a separate layer for each
color that you hand-tint, allowing you to go back and modify as
you see fit.
Step Nine

THE
Split-Toned
RETRO LOOK
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR LOOKS BEING APPLIED TO

IMAGES LATELY IS THE SPLIT-TONED RETRO LOOK, AND
ITS NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY. SPLIT TONING
ALLOWS YOU TO TINT THE BRIGHT (HIGHLIGHTS) AND
DARK (SHADOWS) AREAS OF YOUR IMAGE BY SELECTING
THEIR RESPECTIVE COLORS. EXPERIMENTATION IS KEY,
AND AS YOU BECOME MORE COMFORTABLE WITH HOW
SPLIT TONING AFFECTS THE LOOK OF YOUR IMAGES, THE
FASTER YOULL DEVELOP YOUR OWN SIGNATURE LOOK.
IN THIS EXAMPLE, WERE GOING TO USE A PHOTO I TOOK
OF MY ADORABLE NIECE, ASHLYN.
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Step One: Start by opening a photo in Photoshop. Duplicate

the Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J).
Step Three: The Split Toning panel is straightforward once
Convert the duplicate layer into a smart object by going to
you get used to it. Think of it as two identical tinting tools: one
Layer>Smart Objects>Convert to Smart Object. Doing this will
for the Highlights and one for the Shadows. With the Camera
allow you to always go back and change the split-tone effect
Raw implementation of Split Toning, there are two ways for
with ease.
you to choose the hues for your tints. The first way is sort of
like guessing by dragging on the Hue and Saturation sliders.
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highlights or the shadows, depending on which section youre

working on. Dont worry if you start dragging the Hue slider
up and down without seeing any changes to your image. This
has to do with the default state of the Saturation slider, which
is 0 (zero), whereby no color will be shown. HOWEVER, AS
Split toning is easy in Photoshop CC. Go to
YOU BRING THE SATURATION SLIDER TO ITS MAXIMUM
Filter>Camera Raw Filter. This will bring up Camera Raw,
STATE OF 100, YOULL QUICKLY SEE THE HUE COLOR
which contains a ton of really
YOUVE SELECTED COME THROUGH.
cool tools and utilities to edit
The other way to choose the hue is to hold down the
your images. If youre familiar
Option (PC: Alt) key while dragging on the Hue sliders. This
with Adobe Lightroom, then
will display the hue at 100% saturation, even if you have a
you should find yourself very
lower Saturation level selected. This makes it easy to know
comfortable with Camera Raw.
exactly which hue youre selecting. Once you have your high-
To start, click on the Split Ton-
light and shadow hue and saturation selected, you can bias it
ing tab below the histogram,
toward one or the other using the Balance slider. Dragging to
which will bring up the Split
the left biases toward the Shadows color and dragging to the
Toning panel.
right biases toward the Highlights color.
Step Two:
The Hue slider is used to choose a particular hue in either the
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CONTINUED
Step Four: A popular highlight and shadow hue

combination is orange and blue, respectively. Use
both sets of Hue and Saturation to dial those in and
bias toward the Highlights using the Balance slider.
You can immediately see the results on the image.
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you just created. Because that first split-toned layer
was converted to a smart object, you can easily access those settings on the duplicate layer by doubleclicking on the Camera Raw Filter adjustment. Now
that youre back in Camera Raw, navigate to the Split
Toning panel and invert the Hue values of the High-
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lights and Shadows. In this case, I opted to go more

extreme with the blues of the highlights. Clicking
OK will return you back to Photoshop.
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Color Burn from the blend mode drop-down menu.

This will result in a harsh-looking image but the key
is to adjust the layer Opacity to taste. Drop the layer
Opacity until you start to see some color and detail
appear in the darker shadow areas of the image.
Additionally, you can add a layer mask to the top
split-toned layer and use the Brush tool at a low
Opacity in the Options Bar to tone down some of
that blending effect.
Step Six
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ADDING Texture
TEXTURE CAN ADD MYSTERY, DEPTH, REFINEMENT, AND INTRIGUE TO ANY PHOTOGRAPH. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT
WAYS TO ADD AND BLEND TEXTURE, AND FOR THIS EXAMPLE, ILL SHOW YOU HOW TO GO A LITTLE MORE ADVANCED
USING THE LAYER STYLE DIALOG.
Step One: Start out with two photos opened in Photoshop CC:
The main image (a photo of my niece in this example), as well as
the texture that you want to apply to it.
Step Two: First, we need to get the texture image over
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to the main photo. Make sure that the texture image

is active, and go to Select>All in the menu. Youll see
the marching ants around the edges of the window.
Then, go to Edit>Copy to
copy the contents of the
document. Now, activate
the other image, and go
to Edit>Paste. The texture
will appear over top of
the main image and on
its own layer.
Step Three: The texture image is a little too small, so

it will need to be resized. With the texture layer still active, press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) for Free Transform, and
resize the texture so that it covers the entire layer. When
youre finished, press Enter to commit the transformation.
Step Four: Next, we need to access the Blending Opto Layer>Layer Style>Blending Options, and the Layer Style
dialog will pop up. NOW COMES THE FUN PART. In the
Blending Options section, move your attention down to
the Blend If section. Then, in the This Layer section, pressand-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click the right slider
to split it. Drag the left half of the right slider to the left
until you start to see the original image below reveal itself.
Step Four
tions in the Layer Style dialog for the texture layer, so go
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ADDING TEXTURE
CONTINUED
Step Five: Now turn your attention to the Underlying Layer section. Press-and-hold the Option (PC:
Alt) key again, and drag the right half of the left
Step Five
slider toward the right to reveal some of the darker

sections of the original image.
Step Six:
Because the texture image had some
color in it, Im going to desaturate it using the Layer Style dialog. Click on the Color Overlay section
to bring up the options for this section. (TIP: BE
SURE TO CLICK ON THE ACTUAL TEXT OF THE
SECTION TO BRING UP THE OPTIONS; IF YOU
JUST CHECK THE BOX THEN YOU WONT BE
ABLE TO MAKE ANY CHANGES.) Click on the
color swatch, change the color to black, and click
OK. Set the Blend Mode to Color, and reduce the
Opacity (I set mine to 33%). When youre finished,
click OK.
Step Seven: Some of the texture is showing up on

her face and skin, so lets use some basic masking
to remove it. Add a new layer mask (Layer>Layer
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Mask>Reveal All), select the Brush tool (B) with a

soft-edged brush, and press D then X to set the brush
color to black. Then, in the Options Bar at the top, set
the Brush Opacity to 30% and start painting over the
face and skin (or whichever area in your image you
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would like to reveal). Lets soften the overall texture

in the image. Go to the Layers panel and reduce the
Opacity of the texture layer. For this image, I set it
to 70%.
Step Seven
LENS Flare
MOST OF THE TIME, PHOTOGRAPHERS WANT

TO PREVENT LENS FLARE. IT CAN OFTEN ADD AN
UNWANTED ARTIFACT TO AN OTHERWISE GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAPH. WHEN USED PROPERLY,
HOWEVER, IT CAN ADD STYLE AND DRAMA TO
AN IMAGE, TOO. FOR THIS SECTION, IM GOING
TO SHOW YOU HOW TO ADD A BEAUTIFUL
AND STRIKING LENS FLARE IN PHOTOSHOP CC.
Step One: Ill begin with a photo of Ashlyn, my

youngest niece. This photo was shot with the sunlight coming from behind, adding a nice, bright
glow around her hair; however, I would like to add
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a bit hazier sun-flare effect to it.
Step Two: To add the flare effect,

start by adding a new blank layer to
your image. To do this, click on the
Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. Next, press D
to set the Foreground color to black,
then press Option-Delete (PC: AltBackspace) to fill the layer with black.
Step Three: Go to Filter>Render>

Lens Flare to bring up the Lens Flare
dialog. THIS IS WHERE YOU GET
TO START HAVING SOME FUN
WITH FLARE! For the first flare,
I located it toward the left side of
the frame (click-and-drag inside the
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preview to move the flare), set the

Brightness to 163%, and selected
the 35mm Prime Lens Type option.
Click OK.
Step Four:
The top layer is still
fully covering the main photo, so to

reveal the layer below, change the
blend mode of the lens flare layer

to Screen in the Layers panel. This
will hide the black in the layer and
only reveal the bright parts (in other
words, it will hide everything but the
lens flare).
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an image, too.
LENS FLARE
CONTINUED
Step Five: Now add another lens flare to the image

by again going to Filter>Render>Lens Flare. This time,
place the flare in the top-left corner, select the 105mm
Prime in the Lens Type, and set the Brightness to 210%.
Click OK. The flare effect is too powerful and needs to
Step Five
be reduced. To do this, go to Edit>Fade Lens Flare and

set the Opacity to 50%.
Step Six:
Now lets add one last lens flare to this
image to soften and brighten the lower-right portion of the photo. With the top layer still active, go to
Filter>Render>Lens Flare to bring the Lens Flare options
up once again. This time, position the lens flare in the
lower-right portion of the frame, set the Brightness to
147%, and select 105mm Prime for the Lens Type.
Click OK. Then, reduce the Opacity of the lens flare
layer to 80% to soften the overall effect.
Step Seven:
For the last step, lets add some basic
processing to this photo to finish it and bring back

a little bit of contrast. Add a Levels adjustment layer
Step Six
(Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Levels) and set the left

slider to the right to darken the photo. Add a default
Black & White adjustment layer, and then change this
layers blend mode to Soft Light. Reduce the Opacity of
the layer to 60% to complete the effect.
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BEGINNERS' WORKSHOP
Step Five: Activate the second type layer and repeat Steps Three
Step Six: Activate the first type layer and click the Add a Layer
Style icon (x) at the bottom of the Layers panel. Choose Stroke
and, in the resulting dialog, enter 5 px for Size, Inside for Position
(for straight corners), and click the Color swatch. In the resulting
Color Picker, mouse over to the document and click to snatch
BlueOrange Studio/Fotolia
and Four until youve clipped a different image to each type layer.
Text: Step Five
a color from one of the images; keep clicking until you find a
stroke color you like. Click OK to close the Color Picker, but dont
close the Layer Style dialog.
Step Seven: In the Layer Style dialog, click Drop Shadow under
the Styles list on the left. Set Size to 13 px and reposition the
shadow by clicking-and-dragging atop your document. Click OK.
Text: Step Six
Step Eight: Choose Layer>Layer Style>

Copy Layer Style. Command-click (PC:
Ctrl-click) to activate the other type layers and choose Layer>Layer Style>Paste
Layer Style. Tip: You can also Right-click
on a layer name to access the Copy/
Paste Layer Style commands.
Step Nine: Choose File>Save As and

choose Photoshop from the Format
menu. Heres the finished product after
adding promotional copy.
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BEGINNERS' WORKSHOP
Photo Through Shape or Illustration

Masking with a shape layer, or a vector illustration that youve
placed as a smart object, works the same way. They key is to
position the shape layer or smart object below the layer youre
clipping it to.
Shape: Step One
Step One: Open a photo by choosing File>Open As Smart

Object. Activate the Custom Shape tool (nested under the Rectangle tool [U]). In the Options Bar, make sure the drop-down
menu on the left is set to Shape, click the Fill menu and pick
any color, and set the Stroke menu to No Color. Click the Shape
drop-down menu, click the gear icon in the resulting menu, and
choose All. In the resulting dialog, click Append.
Step Two: Click to activate a shape, then mouse over to your

document and Shift-click-and-drag to draw it. (Tip: Press the
Spacebar to reposition as you draw.) To rotate it, press Com-
Shape: Step Two
mand-T (PC: Ctrl-T), move your cursor outside of the bounding

box until you see a curved double arrow, then click-and-drag to
rotate. Reposition the shape by dragging inside the bounding
Step Three: In the Layers panel, drag the shape layer beneath
the smart object. Activate the smart object layer and choose
Layer>Create Clipping Mask. To reposition the photo and shape,
activate both layers and use the Move tool. Heres the final result,
after placing another image for texture at the bottom of the layer
stack, and adding a drop shadow to the shape layer.
Girl: millaf/Fotolia;
Background: javarman/Fotolia
box. Press Enter to accept.
Shape: Step Three
Photo Through Brushstroke

Step One: Open an image as a smart object and then add a new
layer below the currently active one by Command-clicking (PC: Ctrlclicking) the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers
panel. Activate the smart object and choose Layer>Create Clipping
Mask. Your document turns transparent, but youll fix that next.
Step Two: Press B to grab the Brush tool. In the Options Bar,
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Brushstroke: Step One
gear icon. Choose Faux Finish Brushes and click Append in the
Brushstroke: Step Two
resulting dialog. Scroll until you find the Stencil Sponge Twirl
brush and click it.
Step Three: Activate the empty layer and make the brush big
by tapping the Right Bracket key (]). Click or click-and-drag to
add paint to the layer, which the photo shows through. Heres
the final result after adding a solid white fill layer. To add a new
fill layer, choose Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color, and click OK.
In the Color Picker, set the color to white (R:255, G:255, B:255),
click OK, and drag the fill layer to the bottom of the Layers panel.
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By Michael Corsentino
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When I first decided to write about adopting a mediumformat system into my workflow, I chose the title on
the previous page. It sounded dramatic and definitive!
The more I thought about it, however, the more
I realized it wasnt entirely accurate. Heres why: as with
all the classic and polarizing photography arguments,
such as JPEG vs. RAW, Nikon vs. Canon, small flashes
vs. studio strobes, medium format vs. DSLR, etc., the
important thing to remember is that each of these do
what they do extremely well in the right circumstances.
People seem to get so attached to one camp or
another that they lose sight of the fact that none of
these technologies are mutually exclusive. Theyre all
different tools meant for different purposes and they
can all peacefully coexist in one big happy photography
universe. I promise its true. It would be more accurate
to say that I added medium-format digital to my bag of
tricks. Did I kick my DSLR to the curb? Of course not.
I just use it less and for tasks medium format isnt well
suited for, and vice versa. In fact, every photographer
I know whos made the switch still uses both DSLR and
medium format because of their very different and
distinct feature sets and capabilities.
First and foremost, let me

state unequivocally that Im
not here to convince anyone
to run out and buy a mediumformat digital camera system.
Thats a decision youll need
to make on your own based
on the type of shooting youre
doing and whats right for your
business. What I am here to
do is walk you through my own
unique and personal decisionmaking process, one that
eventually led me to invest in
a medium-format system. Ill
share my experiences working
with medium format and look
at how it differs from DSLR.
If youre considering medium
format, you probably have
some of the same questions
and concerns I did.
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After more conversations than I can count, it

became clear that what I was looking for was
someone, anyone, to tell me that medium format
really wasnt everything its cracked up to be.
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Considering a new camera system of any kind is

a weighty affair that involves investing not only in
a new body, but new lenses, batteries, chargers,
accessories, and more. For me, it was important
to look past all the hype and play a hard game
of devils advocate as I pondered stepping into
medium format. Its so easy to get caught up in
all the drool-worthy, must-have technology that
marketing executives are so good at making us
desire. But at the end of the day youre better
off taking a hard, sober look at what the realities
are. I asked myself and anyone whod listen a
series of important questions, such as what is
the return on investment; will this tool make me
better at what I do; will it increase my bottom
line; do clients know the difference; do they ask
for it; will it permit me to accept work I currently
cant; are the differences in quality extreme
enough to justify the expense; will it work with
my current computer and software; is it suited
to my style of shooting; and how much does
the luxury brand/cool kid, I-wanna-be-a-badass
factor play into it?
I reached out to as many people as
I could, those with real-world mediumformat experience, from manufacturers to
photographers, some with years of mediumformat digital under their belts and
others who recently made the transition.
I targeted my outreach to those experienced
and knowledgeable about the systems I was
considering. At the time, it was a toss-up
between two Phase One digital backs: the
IQ260, which uses the venerable CCD, and
their new CMOS-based IQ250. Both attach
to medium-format bodies, in this case a
Phase One 645DF+. After more conversations than I can count, it became clear that
what I was looking for was someone, anyone, to tell me that medium format really
wasnt everything its cracked up to be.
I was hoping someone would tell me the
investment wasnt worth it, that the quality
gap between medium format and DSLR isnt
that vast, that the 14-bit files and 14 stops of dynamic range
dont make a difference, that a sensor almost twice the size of the
one in my full-frame DSLR doesnt matter, that all the claims were
wrong. No such luck.
Everyone raved about the quality, the unparalleled detail, and the
amazing tonal range. They advised that I needed to test drive the
systems being considered, and that once I did Id see for myself why
they were such ardent supporters of medium format. I knew this was
the only way to separate the wheat from the chaff, but I was hesitant
to take the step. Once I had a medium-format system in my hands,
I was sure I was going to be a goner. It would be a tall order to get
it away from me.
The more I weighed the options and capabilities of Phase Ones
60-megapixel IQ260 compared to the 50-megapixel IQ250, the
more obvious it became that for my shooting style the IQ250 was
a better fit. As someone migrating from DSLR, I appreciated the
flexibility of the IQ250s 1006400 ISO range, something unavailable with the CCD-based IQ260. The IQ250 was definitely the
stronger contender based on the type of work I do: fashion, portrait, editorial, and weddings where ISO flexibility is essential. The
one mental hurdle I had to overcome was that due to current size
limitations in the CMOS production process, the IQ250 is based
on a 1.3x crop sensor. It took some time to get over that but in the
end ISO flexibility was the deciding factor and 50 megapixels was
more than enough for my purposes. For architectural, interior, or
landscape shooters requiring the widest possible field of view, the
full-frame, CCD-based IQ260 is probably a better fit.
Basically, the IQ250 and other CMOS-based,
medium-format systems are now freed from their
traditional studio and strobe-reliant constraints.
Until CMOS entered the picture, natural and lowlight shooting werent practical with medium
format. Even in situations where a mixture of
ambient and artificial light is being used, the
flexibility to capture clean files at ISO settings
above 400 is a big plus. This is made possible
by the IQ250s Sony-manufactured 33x44mm
CMOS sensor, technology I was already comfortable with, only now in a larger format and
with a whopping 50 megapixels. Its important
to remember that its not all about bit depth and
pixels. Many DSLRs are 14 bit, with some reaching into the 30-megapixel range.
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There are
preowned
options starting well under
$5,000. The
other piece of good news is that when it comes to lifespan and
holding value, digital backs far outpace DSLRs, which need to be
replaced every few years and typically have little or no value left.
I know people producing beautiful images with 15-year-old digital backs. When theyre ready, they can trade them in and put the
thousands of dollars in remaining value into a new digital back.
Try that with a DSLR.
Im not going to lie and say that medium formats curb appeal isnt
a plus; of course it is. Perception is reality and theres definitely juice
to be had from showing up in a Ferrari; however, when its all said
and done the deciding factor for me was quality. Like you, I take my
business and art seriously. The ability to consistently deliver the best
images possible created with the best tools available is what medium
format is all about. By its very nature, the slower, more deliberate
pace of medium format helps me be more thoughtful, and produce
better images requiring less work in post. The medium itself inspires
me to live up to its possibilities and continuously push myself to
create new and exciting work and be the best I can be. When it
comes to medium format, Im sold!
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Apart from the staggering level of detail, theres something about

the files from a medium-format digital camera that has to be seen to
be believed. Youll often hear it referred to as the medium-format
look, best described as a painterly rendering of tones made possible
by 14 stops of dynamic range and other factors, such as sensor size
and best-in-class lens optics. Im here to tell you its not a bunch of
hype. Furthermore, the proprietary software each manufacturer uses
to interact with the sensor and process RAW conversions later in post
also plays a key role in details, color gradation, and edge definition.
This is why digital backs with exactly the same Sony CMOS mediumformat sensor have different capabilities and produce files with
different looks and qualities.
I scheduled several test shoots where I could put a loaner
IQ250, 645DF+ body, and a Schneider Kreuznach 80mm f/2.8
leaf shutter lens through their paces in a low-stress, no-pressure
environment. As I feared, and much to my chagrin, once I made
my first exposure I was instantly hooked by the quality, micro
detail, skin tones, ease and speed of shooting tethered, beautiful
LCD previews, the digital backs touch-screen interface, wireless
iPad proofing with synced star ratings, and the 1/1600 leaf shutter flash sync speedall ridiculously cool.
There simply was no comparison to my DSLR; it left those
files in the dust. The quality I was getting made me look at my
once-fancy DSLR like it was a lonely stepchild and left me wishing
I could go back and reshoot my favorite images with medium
format. Seriously, game over! Then it became a question of what
was the best way to make owning a system a reality. With the
attractive financing available, qualified borrowers are looking at
somewhere around $500 a month to own a system like the Phase
One IQ250, which seems like a reasonable business expense.
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EXPOSURE
TACTICS
THE STRATEGY, THE GOAL THAT EVERY
By Kevin
Ames
PHOTOGRAPHER HAS IS TO CREATE

A COMPELLING, MEMORABLE IMAGE. THE TACTICS
FOR MAKING THIS STRATEGY A REALITY INCLUDE
CONCEPT, COMPOSITION, AND EXPOSURETHE LATTER ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT FOUNDATION
OF ANY PHOTOGRAPH.
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WHAT IS EXPOSURE?
Exposure is the amount of light that reveals the true tone of the
subject in a photograph. The amount of light making up an exposure is controlled by a combination of ISO, aperture, and shutter
speed: ISO is the sensitivity of the sensor, aperture is the amount of
light passing through the lens, and shutter speed is the length of
time the light strikes the sensor.
These are the camera controls that set the exposure. When
camera automation is involved, the exposure compensation
settings allow the auto setting to be refined. Additionally, a
proper exposure wants to have reproducible detail in both the
highlights and the shadow. Achieving that exposure requires an
understanding of how light is measured. There are two kinds of
light metersreflected and incident.
MEASURING LIGHT
Ill say it right here. Exposure can be really confusing, particularly
with modern digital cameras. Why? First, theres that screen on the
back of the camera that seduces us into believing we nailed it.

Second is the type of light meters built into the cameras.
REFLECTED METERING
Those in-camera meters are reflected meters. They measure the
amount of light bouncing off of a subject. A reflected meters
exposure makes whatever amount of light bouncing off a subject
12.5% gray. Always.
Heres an easy experiment that shows what a reflected
meter does. Take a white card and a black card outside on
a sunny day. Put your camera on P (for Professionaler, no,
thats actually Program or Auto mode). Set the camera on the
spot metering. Put the white balance on Daylight or Sunny.
Zoom in to fill the viewfinder with the white card then take a
picture. Dont look at the LCD screen on the camera just yet.
Put the black card over the white card so its in the same light.
Again, fill the frame with the black card then make the photo.
When you look at the monitor on the back of the camera,
you know that youll have one photo of a white card and
one of a black card, right? Well, check your cameras monitor.
What do you see? Thats right, two almost identical gray cards.
Whats happening here?
This composite of three images shows what reflected
meters do. On the left is a white fabric panel. On the right is
the black side of the same panel. Each of the two sides were
exposed at the setting given by the cameras built-in spot
meter reading the area inside the red circles. They are both
almost the same gray as the ColorChecker Grayscale balance
card in the middle. The exposure for it was made with the spot
meter setting on the camera centered on the gray patch. The
card shows actual white and black on either side of the gray,
so you can easily see how far off a reflected reading can be.
great photograph is built on a great exposure. Ansel

Adams knew this. The great landscape photographer
and master of the negative and print said, The negative is comparable to the composers score and the print to its
performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
A photographic RAW file is the undeveloped negative. The
interpretation of that digital negative in Camera Raw is the performance Adams cites. The proper exposure of his film negatives
formed the foundation for his amazing prints. Today, shooting
onto digital sensors, that proper exposure is just as critical for a
RAW or JPEG capture even though it seems that mistakes can
be corrected in postproduction. Proper exposure provides the
headroom for creative expression in post.
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WHITE SHIRTS & BRIDAL GOWNS
When shooting someone in a white shirt or a bridal gown, this is

a problem. Huge. The photo will be underexposed by more than
two stops. Not a good thing.
Heres an example (below). The red circle in this image
is the spot-reading point. The models blouse is gray as predicted. For the image on the right, I added 2 2/3 f-stops of
light to get that blouse white with detail. Everything looks
much better with the right amount of light.
How does that right amount of light become the right
amount? Guesswork? Nope. Its really quite simple. Sort of.
Start with the reflected meter. We know it gives an exposure that makes whatever it sees 12.5% gray. The correct
exposure for white wants to be a little less than 100% reflectance; 100% is white after all. The reflectance chart shows
the difference between what the meter says and what the
exposure wants to be. Shifting the 12.5% reading to almost
white now makes sense. Add one stop of light and the reflectance becomes twice as bright at 25%. (Adding one stop is
two times more light, which doubles the reflectance.) Add
another stop of light and the reflectance is now 50% because
the amount of light has doubled again. Another full stop of
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light would be 100%, or pure white. There would be no detail

in Catherines blouse. An increase of 2/3 of a stop is just right,
pushing the reflectance to a little more than 80%. Perfect.
ONE SUBJECT, THREE EXPOSURES

A reflected reading overexposes the black card. Its reflectance wants
to be somewhere between 1.5% and 3%, or two to three stops less
exposure than the reflective reading. Heres how reflective readings
render a subject when reading a white card, a gray (12.5%) card,
and a black card. The results (next page) are, from left, underexposed, correctly exposed, and overexposed. Note: The areas in the
red circle that were read with the spot meter are all 12.5% gray.
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INCIDENT METERING
Its difficult to get the exposure right with the reflected meters in
our cameras. They measure the light without being able to differentiate whether a subject is bright, dark, or in-between. To get
accurate exposures every time, measure light before it hits the subject. Thats what incident meters do. These meters have the little
white dome. Best of all, most modern incident meters measure
flash and ambient light separately or at the same time (bonus!).
Measuring the light that illuminates a subject eliminates the
variables of reflectance. It seems obvious. When the amount of
light to make an exposure is known, dark subjects are rendered
dark and light ones appear light. Perfect.
There are two major players in the light meters for photography field: Gossen and Sekonic, made in Germany and Japan,
respectively. I have used both brands over the years, along
with the venerable and, sadly, no-longer-available Minolta
Flash Meters.
Fortunately, light meter
science has progressed a lot.
Since digital capture came
on the scene, Ive been using
Sekonics L-758DR. I was an
early adopter (serial number
21). It can be calibrated to the
sensor in the camera and it
has a built-in PocketWizard
transmitter for triggering electronic flashes wirelessly. This
isnt an endorsement of either brand; its an enthusiastic endorsement of using incident metering to determine exposure.
USING INCIDENT METERS

Walk up to the subject of the photograph. Point the dome of the
incident meter at the source of illumination then take the reading.
Thats it. Simple, right? I know youre thinking, It cant be that
easy. Nothing in photography is that simple. For the most part,
it really is that easy. Why? No matter how complex the lighting
setup is, theres always a primary source of light for the most
important part of the photo. Measure that one light, then set
that exposure reading on the camera. Every other light, and that
includes reflectors, in the image functions in support of the expo-
The reflectance chart can help unravel exposure issues. It

interprets what the meter sees to what you actually want the
photograph to be. Its a good guide although not completely
accurate. Theres another way.
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sure for the primary source thats set on the camera. The quality,
color, and intensity of the other lights is a matter of the photographers vision, aesthetic, or simply taste.
SOURCE OF LIGHT
Jessicas face is lit with a gridded Dynalite studio head in a 22"
beauty dish (below). This is my source of illumination. This light
is the one that I metered with the incident meter to get the
exposure to set on the camera: 1/125 at f/11, ISO 100. With the
exception of her face, Jessica is a silhouette. The photo on the left
shows the high contrast between her body and the background.
FILL LIGHT LOWERS CONTRAST
In the next issue, the Dynamic Range column covers the postproduction tactics for refining color and perfecting exposure. Q
RESOURCES:
Gossen Light Meters
Sekonic Light Meters
Dynalite Electronic Flash Systems
Chimera Light Modifiers
www.gossen-photo.us
www.sekonic.com
www.dynalite.com
www.chimeralighting.com
The only way to lower contrast is to add light to the shadows. The
photo of Jessica on the right has much lower contrast thanks to a
6' square Chimera light panel with a single Dynalite head behind
it. This light is about a stop darker than the light from the gridded
beauty dish. Its the primary source of lowering the contrast. Its
brightness is entirely my choice. It can even be brighter than the
dish if I want it to be. How these lights are set and so forth is the
exclusive decision of the photographer. The exposure still remains
the same. My intention for this image was to have Jessicas face
be the brightest part of my photograph. The viewer will see her
face first then look at her red St. Johns gown. The slightly darker
background makes her stand

out in its frame.
The lighting is simple, as
shown in the lighting diagram for this shot. The exposure is set for the amount of
light from the beauty dish.
Fill comes from the panel lit
by the flash head behind it.
One more thing: Whenever possible, I shoot tethered to my computer so exposure,
color, composition, and focus can be monitored during the
shoot. Nothings worse than returning from location only to
find a problem that would have been easy to fix on the set.
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BY MATT KLOSKOWSKI
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The writing was on the wall long before Apple confirmed
If youre thinking of switching, we have two ways to help
it was stopping future development of Aperture. Aperture
you with the transition. First, Scott Kelby and I recorded
actually came out right around the same time as Lightroom
a webcast (http://kelbyone.com/aperture-to-lightroom)
(even a little before), but it was stagnant on version 3 for
on making the switch from Aperture to Lightroom. Its totally
a long time, allowing Lightroom to continually pull ahead.
free, and all you need to do is sign up.
Anyway, the debates over which is better dont matter much
Second is this article. If youre an Aperture user, once
now. If youre an Aperture user, its time to find something
you launch Lightroom youll notice there are many simi-
else to manage and edit your photos. So if youve been waiting
larities between the two applications, so rather than start
to make the jump to Lightroom, nows your chance, especially
from scratch and teach you every feature in Lightroom,
with the $9.99/month Adobe Creative Cloud Photography
I wanted to cover the top 10 things that you need to know if
plan becoming permanent.
you decide to make the switch. Here goes!
1. WHERE TO STORE
YOUR PHOTOS
This is one of the biggest differences between Aperture and
Lightroom. In Aperture, you
have two choices for storing
images: Referenced or Managed.
The Referenced option leaves
your photos where they are on
your hard drives, and simply
references them at that location.
The Managed option sucks your
images into the Aperture Library.
It wasnt a bad thing. In some
ways it was a good thing, but
Lightroom wont move them or do anything with them.
to their original files, even though they could always get
It wont lock them in some database that you cant access.
to them if they needed to.
Lightroom simply makes its Library aware that your pho-
Lightroom doesnt have the Managed option. It only
tos are there, and references them in the same place that
references your images where they are on your hard
you put them on your drive. Whenever you want access
drive. When you import, youll see an Add option, which
to your original image files, theyre exactly where you
tells Lightroom to leave your photos where they are
put them.
2. LIGHTROOM DOESNT HAVE

PROJECTS LIKE APERTURE
3. APERTURE ALBUMS=
LIGHTROOM COLLECTIONS
In Aperture, the primary place you put your
If you use Apertures Albums feature, then youll
photos is called a Project. In Lightroom, its called
be happy to know that Lightroom has something
a Folder. Youll find the folders with all of your
similar. Theyre called Collections. Theyre essen-
photos in the Folders panel on the left side in the
tially the same thing as an Album. As for where
Library module. Keep in mind, though, a Folder
to find Collections, thats the cool parttheyre
in Lightroom is very different from a Folder in
everywhere. No matter what module youre
Aperture (covered in #5 on the next page).
in, youll see the same Collections panel on the

left side of the screen. (Not that it means anything, but now that Aperture is gone, I really
hope Lightroom changes the word collection
to album. Album is actually the word I use to
new users when trying to explain collections.)
a lot of photographers didnt like not having direct access
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4. APERTURE SMART ALBUMS=

LIGHTROOM SMART COLLECTIONS
Just like Aperture had Smart Albums that automatically managed
5. AN APERTURE FOLDER
IS SIMILAR TO A
COLLECTION SET
themselves based on certain criteria you define, Lightroom has
Aperture has something called Folders
Smart Collections. Theyre in the Collections panel, and you just
that let you organize your Projects and
choose Create Smart Collection when you click on the New Collec-
Albums. For example, maybe you shot a
tion icon (+) in the header of the Collections panel.
wedding. In Aperture, you could create

a Folder called Smith Family Wedding,
and then include Projects or Albums
under that to help you organize the
photos from the wedding.
Lightroom has something similar.
Its called a Collection Set. Remember,
a Collection is like an Album. Well, a
Collection Set is a group (or folder) of
Collections. So in Lightroom, youd create a Collection Set called Smith Family Wedding, and inside that Collection
Set, youd put Collections (a.k.a. Albums)
like Formals, Church, Reception, etc.
6. WHERES THE LOUPE TOOL?

Okay, Im not gonna lie on this oneIve always liked Apertures Loupe tool. It looked cool and made it easy to
zoom in on the details in a photo. While Lightroom doesnt have an exact replica of the Loupe tool, it does have
the Navigator panel in the top left of the Library and Develop modules. If you click on the Navigator preview,
the image zooms in and you can drag the little box around to see the details or zoomed-in view of your photo.
I know its not the same, but its about as close as youll get (dont shoot the messenger).
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7. LIGHTROOM HAS PRESETS, TOO!
8. BASIC ADJUSTMENTS 101
If youre coming from Aperture and you loved your
Aperture and Lightroom share a lot of adjustment
presets, this is probably one of the biggest upsides.
and slider names. For example, Exposure in Aperture
While Aperture had a minor preset presence out there,
does the same as Exposure in Lightroom, but there are
youll find there are tons of Lightroom presets. The preset market in Lightroom is much larger than Apertures.
If youre a preset junkie, head over to the Develop
module and youll see the Presets panel on the left.
Sadly, you cant import your Aperture presets, but
I happen to know a guy (who knows a guy) who has
some differences. In Aperture, the Exposure adjustment

actually has a few settings. Youve probably used the
Enhance adjustment a lot, as well as the Highlights and
Shadows adjustment. Each of those adjustments in
Aperture has several sliders. In Lightroom, those adjustments are known as panels. If you go to the Develop
module, youll see the Basic panel, the Tone Curve panel,
free presets on his site (http://lightroomkillertips
the Detail panel, etc. Once you go into a panel, youll
.com/category/presets).
see various sliders.

The main thing you need to know about the Basic
panel (and most-used) adjustments is this: in Lightroom,
the Basic panel is one of the most powerful panels. It
contains a combination of controls that are comparable
to the Exposure, Enhance, and Highlights/Shadows
sections in Aperture. Heres a quick list to help out:
Aperture Name
Lightroom Name
Exposure
Exposure
Recovery
Highlights (kinda)
Black Point
Blacks
Brightness
Exposure (we used to have

Brightness but thankfully,
9. Aperture Versions=
Lightroom Virtual Copies
Contrast
Contrast
If youre used to using Versions in Aperture, then youll
Definition
Clarity
Saturation/Vibrance
Saturation/Vibrance
the Develop module, go to the Photo>Create Virtual
Highlights/Shadows
Highlights/Shadows
Copy menu option and now youll have a separate ver-
Levels
Blacks and Whites sliders
be using the Virtual Copies feature in Lightroom. It lets

you create a virtual version or copy of your photo. In
its gone)
sion thats totally independent of the original image file.
10. APERTURE TABS=

LIGHTROOM MODULES
Getting around Aperture and Lightroom is a little
Thats it for my top 10 things that Aperture users need to
different. Aperture favored what they call a modeless
know about Lightroom. I hope these resources help make
interface remained pretty much the same throughout.

In Lightroom, we use modules. Theyre up top and you
the switch easier. If you want to learn even more about

Lightroom and youre a KelbyOne member, we have lots
click on a module to go from one task to another (orga-
of Lightroom classes at http://kelbyone.com. Adobe,
nizing, editing, creating books, etc.). When you switch
of course, has resources to help you make the transition,
modes (modules) in Lightroom, youll notice the set-
too. You can find those at http://kel.by/1rfkpjB. Q
tings, panels, and sliders change based on what each

module specializes in.
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interface. You moved around more with tabs, but the
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Finding the
Processing
Path
BY SEN DUGGAN
Whether your aim is to correct a less-than-ideal exposure or use the original image as the point of departure for creative explorations, the Develop module in
Lightroom offers a wide range of very effective tools.
But for photographers just starting out, or those who
are new to Lightroom, all of those choices and options
can sometimes be a bit confusing.
Where do you begin? What adjustments make the most

sense for an image? Is there a particular order in which
they should be applied? How do you find a processing path
through the image that will both improve the file and fulfill
your creative vision for the photograph? The answer to those
questions can often be found in the image itself, as well as in
where you want to take it.
two stages of processing

In my mind I think of image processing in two distinct stages.
First are those adjustments that make improvements to the
overall tonal, contrast, and color issues in the image. These
are the type of modifications that are made to nearly every
file, regardless of how I may choose to finally interpret it. Next
come those modifications that are applied for more creative
or interpretive results, and that are guided by how I want to
present the image and the story it tells.
lightroom
through the different processing options that are available.

The sliders in a software program are secondary. The image
comes first. Evaluating it lets you name the problems it may
have, and then make corrective adjustments with a purpose.
start with the fundamentals

When distilled to its core ingredients, a photograph is a collection of tonal and color values that work together to create the scene you photographed. Those basic ingredients
are the brightness values (luminance), the contrast, and the
color balance.
In your evaluation, begin with those fundamental components. How are the overall luminance levels? Is the photo too
bright or too dark? Are tones that are supposed to be very
dark or very light appearing that way, or do they need a little
help to get them to where they need to be?
Next, consider the contrast. Contrast is the difference
between the brighter and darker tones. Is there too much
contrast that results in highlights and shadows where detail is
compromised? Is the contrast lacking, resulting in a dull and
flat image?
Finally, what about the overall color balance? Is it too
warm, too cool, or just right? Is there a noticeable color cast
in areas that should be more neutral?
Before
The basic image and an interpretation influenced by the

volcanic nature of the landscape
evaluate the image

Before you make any adjustments to an image, no matter
what software youre using, the first thing to do is evaluate
it. By identifying how it looks in its present state, and what
aspects need attention, you can more easily chart a course
After
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the basic panel, for the basics

In terms of where to start in the Develop module, the Basic
panel is the best place. Its the first panel for a good reason:
nearly all of the controls there affect the basic image ingredients of luminance, contrast, and color balance. For many
images, you can accomplish most of the overall processing
objectives there.
darkest tones dont seem dark enough, move the Blacks sider
to the left and you can see the left side of the histogram
shape move that way. If the darkest tones are too dark, move
the Blacks slider to the right.
Adjusting the Whites slider to the right will have a similar
effect on the brightest tones in the image, moving the right
side of the histogram to the right and making those tones
brighter. Moving it to the left will darken the brightest tones.
The important thing is to let the image be your guide. Setting the endpoints can be a bit formulaic and, while it does
improve many images, these adjustments may not be suitable
exposure, whites & blacks

First, adjust the Exposure slider to set the overall brightness
level where you want it (see images below). Next, see how
the endpoints (the very darkest and brightest tones) look. To
adjust these, work with the Blacks and Whites sliders. If the
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for all photos. If the image doesnt have very dark or bright
tones (a scene photographed in heavy fog, for instance), then
dont force the adjustment; not all photos will have a total
black or white tone in them.

Histogram tip: Move your mouse over different areas of
the histogram and youll see distinct regions highlighted, as
well as the settings for various sliders. You can also apply
adjustments by clicking-and-dragging on different parts of
the histogram.
shadows and highlights

If the shadow tones, those tones that are slightly lighter than
the very darkest areas, seem too dark, open them up a bit
with the Shadows slider. Be careful about going too far with
this adjustment because shadow values that get too light will
reduce contrast, an important part of any photograph, as
well as potentially reveal noise lurking in the shadows.
The Highlights slider allows for a similar modification to
tones in the lighter regions of the scene. If the highlights
seem a bit too bright and glaring, tone them down with
this slider.
lightroom
to fix everything. Consider it as an opening move just to get

you started in the right direction.
white balance
At the very top of the Basic panel are the white balance Temp
and Tint sliders and preset menu, but that doesnt mean
I always adjust them first. Typically, I like to get the images
overall tonal balance worked out first, so Im more likely to
adjust the Exposure and the endpoints before I fine-tune
the white balance. This is especially true for images that are
darker. I can be a much better judge if there are color balance
issues in a photo once I have the overall brightness adjusted.
Keep in mind that while some color casts are undesirable
and should be corrected, not all color casts are bad. The presence of a strong color cast may play a vital roll in establishing
the mood or feeling associated with a particular image.
contrast
the auto
adjustment
The Auto button at
the top of the Tone
section in the Basic
panel is designed to
optimize the histogram. Give it a try to
see how it improves
the image and pay
attention to how it
changes the histogram, but dont rely on it as a one-click adjustment intended
what about vibrance & saturation?

Image processing is subjective. We all have our personal tastes
for how our images should look. For some photographs and
some photographers, color saturation may be a vital ingredient in that look. As important as these controls are for finetuning the flavor and character in an image, I view them as
more interpretive adjustments to be made once Ive established the overall tonal and color balance in the scene.
first things first

Adjusting the basics of overall brightness, contrast, and color
balance are essential modifications for any image. The exact
nature of how you apply these adjustments will be determined by the individual image and its needs, as well as your
own personal tastes. Once youve taken care of these, its
time to focus more on the story of the image and how you
want to tell it.
working with the story of the image

Do all photographs tell stories? Perhaps not in the sense of
a distinct narrative, but photographs do have something to
tell and share. A photograph can portray a scene, show an
If there seems to be a lack of contrast in an image, the nice

thing about adjusting the Whites and Blacks sliders is that
this may do a lot to improve the contrast. If you feel that
more is needed, you can use the Contrast slider, or if greater
precision is required, use the Tone Curve panel. If youd
rather target tones in the actual image as opposed to moving the curve sliders, click the Target Adjustment tool icon
in the upper left of the panel, and then drag up or down on
a specific tonal region of the image to adjust those tones.
When youve finished, be sure to click the icon again to turn
off this feature.
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aspect of someones personality, capture a significant instant

in a story, or simply reveal a quiet and otherwise overlooked
moment in time. The story of the image, what you want the
viewer to see and how you want the viewer to experience it,
should be your guide for the second stage of more creative
and interpretive enhancements.
finding the path

By first evaluating an image to identify how it looks, it
becomes easier to determine what fundamental adjustments
it may require to bring the photo into a basic state of tonal,
contrast, and color balance. Once these essential components
have been improved, you can use the story of the image to
guide you in establishing an overall mood and feeling for the
focus the viewers attention

with light & shadow
scene. Local adjustments are the final step, allowing you to

use light and shadow to help guide the viewers eye through
the image. Q
There are many ways that we can influence the visual experience a person has as he or she looks at a photograph. First
and foremost are how the image is composed, what it shows
us, and the lighting in the scene. Beyond that, how you
choose to process the file can be equally as effective in guiding the viewers eye through the photo.
Use light and shadow to create a path for the eye to follow
in the image. Darkening unimportant areas can make them
less prominent and move them more into the background.
Lightening significant areas in the photo creates paths for the
eye to wander along. The most obvious way this has been
done for many years is the practice of burning in the edges of
an image. Darkening the outer areas casts a virtual spotlight
on the center (see below).
The local adjustment tools such as the Graduated Filter (M)
and Radial Filter (Shift-M), as well as the Adjustment Brush (K),
are the primary ways to use light sculpting to emphasize some
areas while diminishing the importance of others.
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Under
the
Loupe
workflow template mastery

B Y R O B S Y LVA N
One of the main reasons we use Lightroom is that it makes our

entire digital workflow so much more efcient than using a combination of other tools. A key to getting the most out of Lightroom
is to gain mastery over all of the various types of templates that
you can employ at different points in your workflow.
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A template (or preset) is essentially a glorified text file that allows
step two: Clear the existing tokens from the entry field to
you to save some set of information that you can call into use
start fresh, and then create your own template using any com-
over and over again, which is much faster than re-creating or
bination of tokens that suits your needs. You can also type text
entering that information each time you perform a given task.
right into that field, which is handy for separating tokens with
(Note: Lightroom uses the words template and preset
hyphens or underscores.
somewhat interchangeably, but I try to use the term shown in

the interface where applicable.) The types of templates Im talking about appear all over in Lightroom, and some in more than
one place. Specifically, Im referring to filename templates, metadata templates, import templates, and text templates, which
I like to think of as workflow templates. There are also layout
type templates, such as those found in the Web, Print, and Slideshow modules, but Ill save those for another time. I want to
focus on helping you understand the ins and outs of creating and
managing these workflow-type templates.
Well start with the first place in your workflow: the Import
dialog. The Import dialog is a multitaskers dream, as its main
purpose is to add photos to the catalog and then frontload the
entire process by facilitating such jobs as renaming the photos
(using a filename template), adding core metadata (from a metadata template), applying keywords, and even applying a Develop
preset. You can then save all those settings in an Import preset to
easily reconfigure the settings in the future with a click.
filename templates
One of the most commonly used templates are filename templates. There comes a time in every Lightroom users workflow
when photos need to be renamed, whether during import, after
import, or during export. The filename templates you create can
be accessed and used no matter when youre doing the renam-
step three: Once youve assembled the tokens in the de-
ing. On the Import dialog, you can find them in the aptly named
sired format, click the Preset drop-down menu and choose Save
File Renaming panel. (Note: You wont see the File Renaming
Current Settings as New Preset, enter a meaningful name, click
panel if you choose to Add files to the catalog instead of copying
Create in the New Preset dialog, and then click Done in the File-
or moving them.) Lightroom comes with a few filename tem-
name Template Editor to finish the process.
plates installed, and thats fine, but you can easily create your
own with the Filename Template Editor. Heres how:
You might have different file naming requirements for different

plates as you wish. The least intuitive part of the process is delet-
Rename Files box, then
ing unwanted presets, but its easy once you know how (and
click the Template drop-
it works the same way with all other templates were going to
down menu and choose
cover). To delete a filename template, click the Preset drop-down
Edit. This opens the edi-
menu in the Editor and choose the one you want to delete. Then,
tor with the tokens used
click the Preset drop-down menu a second time and choose
in the active template be-
Delete Preset [preset name] to remove it for good. Theres also
ing displayed.
the option to rename the template, too.
jobs, so you can take the time to create as many filename tem-
step one: Check the
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At a bare minimum, I recommend filling out the IPTC Copyright

section and as many of the IPTC Creator fields as you feel comfortable with to assist people with contacting you should they find
one of your images in the wild. I like to fill out the phone (using
a Google Voice number), email, and website fields. Keep in mind
that any field that has a checkmark will be included in the preset.
If the checked field is empty it will simply wipe that field on every
incoming photo and leave it blank (I have a template I sometimes
use to wipe any existing keywords from photos during import). To
save your metadata template, click that Preset drop-down menu
and choose Save Current Settings as New Preset. Like the filename
templates mentioned earlier, you can delete, rename, and update
templates the same exact way with that drop-down menu.
import preset
Now most of the settings on the Import dialog are sticky, meaning that once youve had a successful import, those settings will
remain configured the same way the next time you do an import.
When importing files, select the appropriate template in the
However, if youre in the habit of changing certain settings based
File Renaming panel. If there are any custom fields that need to
on your workflow needs, you would benefit from preserving
be filled in, they will appear in the panel.
your core settings in an Import preset. The Import Preset menu

can be hard to spot. Its located on the bottom of the Import
metadata template
dialog in the center of the screen. Once youve configured the
Another template you should be taking advantage of right from
Import dialog the way you want it, click the Import Preset drop-
the start is the metadata template. At the most basic level, the
down menu and choose Save Current Settings as New Preset (are
metadata template allows you to apply important copyright and
you detecting a pattern yet?), and give it a meaningful name.
contact information into the metadata of every photo as part
Deleting these presets involves the same process of selecting
of the import process. In the Import dialog, expand the Apply
the desired preset from the drop-down menu, then clicking the
During Import panel, click the Metadata drop-down menu, and
menu a second time to access the delete option.
choose Edit Presets to open the Edit Metadata Presets editor.
Keep in mind that once youre through the import process, you
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can always batch rename photos by selecting the photos while in

Grid view (G) of the Library module, and going to Library>Rename
Photos menu. Youll have access to the same set of filename templates, as well as the Filename Template editor. Likewise, if you
need to go back and batch apply your new metadata template to
previously imported photos, you can also do that from Grid view by
selecting all photos and choosing your metadata preset from the
Preset drop-down menu located at the top of the Metadata panel.
text templates
You may not have call to use these as often as the other templates mentioned, but file it away for when it will come in handy.
In each of the output modulesBook, Slideshow, Print, and
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Webtheres a way to leverage the power of the Lightroom
To open the editor to create your own custom text templates,
database to automate the insertion of text into your project.
choose Edit from the bottom of the drop-down menu. Youll
For example, lets say you go through the trouble of applying
notice that the Text Template Editor looks and works in a very
a caption to each photo via the Caption field of the Metadata
similar fashion to the Filename Template Editor we saw earlier.
panel. You have that data in the catalog, so now you can use a
You can mix and match tokens, and even type directly into the
text template to pull that data from each photos metadata and
editor to create all manner of templates.
display it in a slide show, on a print, in your Web gallery, or in
Beyond the Slideshow module, text templates (and the edi-
a book. Lets look at the most common example I come across,
tor) can be accessed in the Page panel of the Print module when
which is displaying a unique caption in a slide show.
using the Single Image/Contact Sheet layout style, the Image Info
panel of the Web module, and the Text panel of the Book mod-
step one: Start by entering descriptive captions in the Cap-
ule. The ability to format text is quite limited in some modules,
tion field of the Metadata panel for each photo in the slide show.
so keep that in mind.
step two:
Switch to the Slideshow module, then click
To find where all of your templates and presets are stored so
the ABC button on the Toolbar to add a Text Overlay to the
you can ensure they are included in your regular backup, go
slide show.
to Lightroom (PC: Edit)>Preferences, click on the Presets tab,

and click the Show Lightroom Presets Folder button. This will
step three: Click the drop-down menu next to Custom Text
open Finder (PC: Windows Explorer) with the Lightroom folder
(below) and choose the Caption template that comes with Light-
selected. Inside the Lightroom folder is where youll find all of
room. This tells Lightroom to pull the caption from each photo
the template files organized in clearly named folders. You can
and display it within that text overlay.
delete templates right from their respective folders to remove

unused ones quickly, or even place new templates youve
downloaded from other sources to add them (restart Lightroom
to fit your needs.
to see the changes). Q
step four: Reposition and resize the text overlay as desired
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Maximum
Workflow
tonality pro
BY COLIN SMITH
Tonality Pro is a new application by Macphun for

creating stunning monochrome photographs. It
works as a standalone application, as well as a
plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom. It also supports 16-bit RAW les so theres no loss of delity. As the name of the company implies, this is
Mac-only software. This article will focus on the
Lightroom plug-in, which is part of the Pro version
of Tonality available from the Macphun website.
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The layers can easily be controlled by the use of masks. When

you create a layer and make adjustments to it, you can alter the
mask in one of two ways: gradual changes across the image
using the Gradient tool, and targeted adjustments using either
the Brush Mode tool or Erase Mask tool. Begin painting with
the Erase Mask tool to hide adjustments. The other option is the
Brush Mode tool. In a stroke (excuse the pun) of genius, you
dont have to mask out the layer before you begin painting with
the Brush Mode tool; it automatically hides the adjustment from
the entire layer except where you paint.
I often break up different types of adjustments onto their own
layers. I like to do tone adjustments on one layer, special effects
install and access the application
on another layer, and any color effects on the top layer. Im a big
To install the Lightroom plug-in, first download and install the
fan of layers and masks for things such as skies and faces, which
15-day free trial of Tonality Pro from www.macphun.com.
generally look better with their own adjustments.
Launch Tonality Pro and open an image. Youll get a message

dialog stating, To install Tonality Pro as plug-in the system needs
presets
to locate supported software. Click OK. In the resulting dialog,
Another strength of Tonality
click the Install button next to Lightroom, and then click Done.
Pro is the abundance of pre-
If you ever need to get back to the install dialog, choose Tonal-
sets. Out of the box it comes
ity Pro (PC: Edit)>Install Plug-ins. Tonality Pro will be installed as
with more than 150 different
a Lightroom plug-in with all the functionality that it brings. The
styles, divided into 10 catego-
Tonality Pro plug-in can be found where all plug-ins live in Light-
ries. These categories include
room: Photo>Edit In>Tonality Pro. Click the Edit button to launch
Dramatic, Vintage, Film Emu-
the Tonality Pro interface.
lation, Portrait, HDR, and more to provide plenty of options.
tonality pro interface
tweaks to suit your individual photograph and tastes. Its also
The interface is easy to figure out. At the top middle, youll find
easy to tweak presets because Tonality comes with a brilliant fea-
all the viewing options, then on the top right, youll see four tools:
ture. If a panel has an adjustment that was used for a particular
Move Mode, Brush Mode, Erase Mask, and Gradient tool (for
preset, that panels name appears in yellow, and every slider that
masks). Youll also notice an icon thats used to toggle the histo-
has been changed has a yellow strip on it that leads back to its
gram on and off. I want to mention the histogram here because
default position.
Its a good idea to start with a preset and then make some
it has a very unique feature. When you roll over the histogram,
When a preset is applied, theres
youll see a bar across the bottom thats actually the 10-zone sys-
a slider in the preset thumbnail that
tem. If you roll over any of the numbered zones, an overlay will
appears when you hover your cur-
appear in the photograph. Different zones can be turned on and
sor over the thumbnail. The slider
off by clicking on the numbered squares in the histogram.
allows you to adjust the amount

image. If you want to add other
Before we look at the different
effects to the image, I suggest doing
effects and adjustments that
it on a different layer so you can
are available, its worth men-
adjust the opacity of those adjust-
tioning one of the strengths
ments independently of the preset.
of Tonality Pro. You can effec-
Of course, you can also make
tively target different parts of
your own presets and share them
an image with different effects
with others. Just click the Create
using layers and masks. You
button in the Presets panel.
can add up to eight layers, including the original layer. These layers have different blend modes available (Right-click on a layer,
the tone panel
go to Blend, and select the desired blend mode). Each layer also
Typically speaking, the Tone panel
has an opacity slider for fine control.
is the place where you should
of the effect thats applied to the
layers and masks
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begin, and the real power of Tonality Pro is in this panel and the
Clarity & Structure panel. The Tone panel should look familiar to
you; its similar to the Lightroom adjustments in the Basic panel.
But look closely; youll see two options that wont be so familiar:
Adaptive Exposure and Smart Contrast. If these two sliders were
the only features in Tonality Pro, I would be satisfied.
Unlike the Standard Exposure and Contrast, these two
options allow you to change the tonality of your image without losing detail by blowing out the highlights or plugging up
shadows. Adaptive Exposure allows you to brighten or darken
the pixels in the image while maintaining highlight and shadow
detail. Its really quite impressive. Smart Contrast allows you
to bring out the hidden detail in the shadows and highlights
(recover dynamic range).
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the clarity & structure panel

The Clarity & Structure panel is where you bring out the details
in a photograph. Use the Clarity slider to boost the midtone
contrast. It works very similar to the much-loved Clarity slider
in Lightroom. Use the Structure and Micro Structure sliders to
boost the detail and bring out textures in an image. These work
exceptionally well to bring back the cloud detail in skies. Use the
Protection sliders to reduce the amount of noise that can also
be unwittingly brought out. The Structure tools are a favorite
of mine to bring out the details that would be otherwise lost in
aerial photography.
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A word of caution here: These sliders are powerful and its

easy to make your images look overprocessed. So, remember
a little bit goes a long way. Avoid the trap of making too many
adjustments just because you can.
the color filter panel
the tone curve panel
When youre converting a color photo to black and white, its fla-
The Tone Curve works like the curves in Lightroom, allowing you
vor can be dramatically changed by the way you map the colors
to target precise tones to be adjusted.
to different grayscale tones. Have you ever used a Black & White
adjustment layer in Photoshop to convert to black and white?
special effects
You can drag a certain color slider to make all those regions
The next section of tools is more what I would call special effects.
brighter or darker. For example, the Blues slider can make the
Because of space, I cant get into as much detail as I would like
sky very light or dark in the black-and-white version. This allows
for each panel; however, Ill tell you what each one does.
you to add emphasis to any part of the photograph that you like.
The Color Filter panel is where you do this in Tonality Pro.
Split Toning: Split Toning works just like the split toning in
Choose the Luminance option and drag the different color sliders
Lightroom. This allows you to add a colored tint to the shad-
to see how each color influences the final black-and-white ver-
ows and highlights independently, creating a duotone style
sion. The rectangles at the top of the panel are presets that push
of color.
until you see the option that you like best, then move the individ-
Glow: The Glow panel is a
ual sliders to tweak it for your image. You might have to go back
good option for adding a
and fine-tune the Tone panel sliders after youve set this option.
glamorous look to a portrait.
The Saturation sliders are unique and can produce some
You choose the Amount of
interesting results. If you drag any of the sliders to the right, the
glow, and then fine-tune
underlying colors will be restored in the image. This is fun if you
it with the Smooth and
want to have a photograph where certain colors are showing
Threshold sliders. Move the
and everything else is black and white. You can restore all the
Smooth slider to the right to
color in the photograph by moving all the sliders to the right,
increase the amount of blur,
which means you can now use Tonality Pro on your color images,
and move the Threshold
or drop out only one or two colors. Hint: If youre going to do
slider to the right to allow
this, you can save time by turning on the color only and saving it
the glow to be applied to
as a starting point preset.
more of the image.
the image toward specific colors. Click on the different rectangles
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Lens Blur: With all the detail that you can pull, its easy to make a
photograph look too busy. The Lens Blur is really useful for adding
depth-of-field effects that simulate shooting with a large aperture.
This is especially useful for blurring out distractions and focusing
the viewers eye on a portion of the photograph.
Texture Overlay (right): You can add texture overlays from three
different categories: Paper, Metal, and Film. There are a number
of blend modes that you can select to make the textures blend
in different ways. You can also apply your own textures via the
Load Custom Texture option.
Vignette: The ever-popular vignette is here to either darken or
lighten the edges of a photo. You can also place it wherever you
like in the image, so it doesnt have to be in the center.
Grain: Add filmlike grainno more explanation is needed here.
Photo Frames (below): The frames are a lot of fun. There are a
number of different frame styles that you can apply to finish your
images. They can also be adjusted by moving the Width slider.
As you can see, Tonality Pro is a unique plug-in that extends the
functionality of Lightroom and allows you to easily do things that
you couldnt before. Happy creative explorations! Q
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Lightroom Section
&
TipsTricks
Lightroom provides a number of ways to manage files that you
export from the catalog, either as completely new files, or as
files that are published to online photo sharing services. In this
column, well take a look at ways you can streamline this process and keep track of exported images.
There are two main ways you can export images: the Export
dialog, which will create a new file with all Lightroom adjustments applied to it, and the Publish Services, which will export
a file directly to an online destination, such as Facebook, Flickr,
Behance, SmugMug, or other sites.
save export presets

If you need to export files for a specific purpose on a regular
basis, then save an export preset. After configuring the settings
in the Export dialog, click the Add button in the lower left to
save a preset of those settings. This preset can be accessed in
the Export dialog, but also, and more conveniently, by Rightclicking on a group of selected images in the Library module.
From the contextual menu that appears, choose Export, and
then find the correct preset.
use consistent folder locations
SEN DUGGAN
there are publish modules

for Behance, Facebook, and
Flickr, and publish plug-ins can
be installed for other services.
Some are free, while others by
independent developers are
available for purchase at creative.adobe.com/addons.
Click Set Up on a Publish Service to configure it. Many of the
options in the Lightroom Publishing Manager, such as Image
Sizing, Output Sharpening, and Watermarking, are the same as
those you find in the Export dialog. Essentially, the Publish Services are just another way to export your images.
The convenience of using the Publish Services is that it creates a collection that is specific to that online account. You can
add images to the publish collection by dragging them onto the
collection name, and can then publish to the online site when
youre ready. If you modify an image, you can choose to republish it and it will update the version that is hosted on the photo
sharing site. You can even monitor and reply to comments on
the image in the Comments panel in the Library module.
If youre exporting for specific purposes, like images for your

website, blog, or self-promotion, create folders for each of these
on your hard drive and make sure the correct folder is chosen in
the Export dialog before you create an export preset.
add exported files to the catalog
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In the top section of the Export dialog, theres an option to add

the exported files back into the current catalog. I typically do
not use this because I already have the original images (usually improved with Develop module edits) in the catalog. But
for some workflows it may be handy to add the exported files
back to the catalog if you want to keep track of them this way.
If you do this, be certain that you do so using a folder structure
for the exported files that makes sense for your catalog. And,
most importantly, dont change the folder names or move them
using the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer. Any folder name or
location changes should be handled in Lightroom.
using publish services

If your aim to is upload photos to an online destination, consider
using the Publish Services panel. In the default configuration,
publish to a hard drive

At the top of the list of Publish Services, youll find Hard Drive
listed. This is an incredibly useful way to target a location on
your local hard drive and export images to this folder. Lightroom will keep track of the images you publish there. If you
update any of them in Lightroomeither by making changes
in the Develop module, or by changing metadata such as keywordsyou can republish them to the same location. This
provides an easy way to make sure that the images in a given
location are always up to date. Using the Publish Services for
images that are published online is certainly a big plus, and if
you havent yet tried it, I encourage you to take it for a spin.
I also find the ability to publish to a hard drive location, and keep
those exported images up to date with any changes to the master file, very handy. Q
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The end result Im aiming for is a fun portrait of a girl whose music
is so loud that it bounced her right out of her chair. At least thats
the look I want to end up with, by taking a bunch of photos and
combining them to create this image. Lets walk through the process, including what worked well and what I learned for next time.
Before
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PLAN
NING AHEAD
Here was the thought process for setting up the shots: If
theres one shot with an element suspended on fishing line,
there should be a shot without that fishing line. START WITH
EVERYTHING IN THE SHOT WITHOUT THE MODEL, add the
model, and then gradually remove elements.
I used a fairly simple setup in my studio with all the
ELEMENTS THAT WILL BE FLOATING EITHER SUSPENDED ON
FISHING LINE, or placed on top of something that will
eventually be removed. For example, shots were taken
with the small table on the right sitting on top of an
apple crate. The apple crate was later removed, leaving a
shot of only the wall behind and carpet underneath. This
will make things easier later on.
THE SHO
OT
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Before putting the model into the set, set up your camera
on a tripod, FIND THE BEST ANGLE FOR YOUR LIGHTS, AND
LOCK DOWN THE TRIPOD so theres as little movement as
possible between shots. Then, take a few shots with everything (except the model).
Heres the first example of what Id do differently
next time: Several elements were hung to appear as if
they were floating around and behind the model, but
I DIDNT THINK ABOUT THEIR POSITION RELATIVE TO HER
BEING IN THE SHOT. For example, you can see objects
on the bench, a suspended book, and a teddy bear
in the shot above. But when the model was brought
in, they were effectively covered up, so next time
I would have her sit in while adjusting the height of the
other elements.
Next, the model was brought in, after having
described to her the desired final effect. I took quite a
few shots with her balancing on the steps, and then realized it would look even better if her hair was blowing
from the sound coming from the speakers. ALTHOUGH
IT DID ADD A NICE EFFECT TO HER HAIR, EVERYTHING THAT
WAS SUSPENDED ALSO STARTED MOVING AROUNDTHAT
WAS BOTH GOOD AND NOT SO GOOD. The shutters on the
window moved a bit and that looked very cool, but the
skateboard helmet and one of the toys kept spinning in
the breeze and it was hard to get those elements positioned just right.
After a few minutes and a good selection of model
shots from which to choose, the model stepped out.
ANOTHER SERIES OF SHOTS WAS TAKEN AS THE HANGING
ELEMENTS WERE MOVED OUT OF THE FRAME.
You may also want to have shots of the tilted furniture without the things that are holding them up, so use
the self-timer on your camera, remove the supports, and
hold each piece in (roughly) the same position. THIS WILL
GIVE YOU AN IMAGE THAT DOESNT CONTAIN THE SUPPORT
BUT WILL INCLUDE ANY NATURAL SHADOWS.
Heres another thing I would add next time: TAKE
SHOTS WITH EVERYTHING REMOVED, RIGHT DOWN TO
THE CARPET AND WALLS. During the editing process,
there were a couple of times when an image of only
the carpet would have helped to eliminate fishing
line, etc.
POSTPRO
DUCTION
PREPARATION
After you have all of your captures, review your images in
Bridge to identify the ones you want to use. In many cases,
especially for the images that included the model, I initially
made a few choices and then narrowed it down. USE STAR
RATINGS TO START AND THEN LABELS TO NARROW IT DOWN
TO YOUR FINAL CHOICES.
To ensure that the settings are the same on all
images, open one of the images with your main subject
in Camera Raw (press Command-R [PC: Ctrl-R] while
in Bridge) and make some adjustments. Rather than
opening the image in Photoshop when finished, click
Done to return to Bridge. That way, you can SELECT
ALL THE REMAINING IMAGES IN BRIDGE, RIGHT-CLICK ON
ONE OF THE SELECTED IMAGES, AND CHOOSE DEVELOP
SETTINGS>PREVIOUS CONVERSION to apply the same
settings to all the images. (Needless to say, you could
use Lightroom for this part of the process.)
To get all the chosen images into one document,
select them in Bridge, and from the Tools menu, chose
Photoshop>Load Files into Photoshop Layers. That creates a new document with each of the selected images
on its own layer.
Even though you used a tripod, youll still want to
make sure that all the photos perfectly line up. To do
this, select all the layers in the Layers panel, and from
the Edit menu, CHOSE AUTO-ALIGN LAYERS, PICK THE
AUTO OPTION in the resulting dialog, and click OK.
The layer with your model or main subject is the key layer
that youll want to work on, so position the other layers
(the ones without fishing wire, blocks of wood, etc.) underneath that layer in the Layers panel. With the model layer
active, click the Add Layer Mask icon (circle in a square) at
the bottom of the Layers panel and START MASKING THE
LAYER SO THAT THE CLEAN LAYERS BELOW START TO SHOW
THROUGH. To do this, use a combination of painting on the
mask with the Brush tool (B) set to black (press D then X)
with a hard-edged brush and using your favorite selection
tools to make selections on the mask and filling them with
black (Option-Delete [PC: Alt-Backspace]).
Your goal here is to remove all the larger support elements using this masking to reveal the layers below. IN A
FEW CASES, I NEEDED TO ADD A SMALL AMOUNT OF CLONING with the Clone Stamp tool (S) to clean up edges and
add to the realism.
Heres an example of why it was so important to HAVE
AN IMAGE WITHOUT ANY WIRES: there were several wires
going across the poster of the five good-looking men
she has in her room.
Imagine how hard it would be to CLONE/HEAL/PATCH
OVER THESE WIRES WHILE PRESERVING ALL THE GRAPHICS
in the poster. Instead, on the layer without wires, I made
a selection of the poster and some of the surrounding
wall and duplicated that selection onto a new layer
by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J).
EDITING TH
E LAYERS
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After positioning the copied layer higher in the layer

stack than the main image layer, I added a layer mask
to blend it in a little better. That simple process saved a
ton of time, and very clearly ILLUSTRATES THE CONCEPT
OF HAVING CLEAN LAYERS with which to work.
In some cases, it was just as easy to add a blank layer
and use the Spot Healing Brush tool (J) or Patch tool
(nested under the Spot Healing Brush) to cover areas up.
This was particularly the case in areas where certain elements werent in exactly the same position in each layer
because of the blowing fan. To do this, add a blank layer
at the top of the stack, switch to either the Spot Healing
Brush or Patch tool, and make sure that Sample All Layers is checked in the Options Bar. This puts the results of
the retouching tools onto a blank layer, making it easier
to tweak the results if needed. Also, make sure to choose
the Content-Aware option for both tools, as that dramatically improves the results.
To cover up some of the obvious fishing wire that was
in front of the wall, I EMPLOYED THIS USEFUL TECHNIQUE
WITH THE SPOT HEALING BRUSH: after choosing a brush size
thats slightly larger than the wire, paint a straight line. This
is done by clicking once where you want the line to start,
then holding down Shift and clicking a second time at the
end of the line. This will paint a straight line with the Spot
Healing Brush and will often heal over everything in one
shot. Remember to use that Sample All Layers option so its
easier to edit the healing layer, if necessary.
As I masked out of the steps from under the model,
I realized that her behind looked a little flat from sitting.
I made a selection of that area, duplicated it onto its
own layer, and used Filter>Liquify to round it out a bit.
Two important notes here: BEFORE APPLYING THE LIQUIFY
FILTER, CONVERT THE LAYER TO A SMART OBJECT (FILTER>
CONVERT FOR SMART FILTERS) SO YOU HAVE AN EDITABLE
SMART FILTER; and in Liquify, check the Show Backdrop
option to edit the layer in the context of the background.
After clicking OK in the Liquify filter I expected to have
to do a little masking to make the two layers blend
together, but happily, that wasnt necessary.
There was also AN UNEXPECTED ISSUE WITH THE BEANBAG CHAIR. The beanbag chair was included in the original setup before the model was in the shot; however,
I didnt look at the height of the beanbag chair relative to the steps the model was going to be sitting on.
If I had, I would have realized that the beanbag chair
should have been a little lower to create air between the
model and the chair. As a result, I had to select and copy
the beanbag chair onto its own layer, and then use Free
Transform (Command-T [PC: Ctrl-T]) to lower the height
of the chair. Luckily, I had taken a couple of shots without the model or the beanbag chair, so it was relatively
easy to do this (although not a step I had planned on).
Im pretty happy with the end result, considering this was
the first time I had tried this kind of levitation project. As
with most photography projects, I MADE NOTES FOR NEXT
TIME TO IMPROVE THE PROCESS, the most important of
which would be to have the model sit in while you position
your props, and to gradually remove every element on the
photo as you take your photos so that you have lots of clean
layers from which to choose as you start editing. It was definitely a fun project and I cant wait to try something like
this again.
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blank layer make a single paint stroke where you want her eye
to appear. Now go up to the Options Bar and select the Aligned
checkbox. This locks the starting point and aligns everything so you
can continue painting as if you were revealing from a maskvery
important if you paint with lower opacity to build up the image. At
this point, you can continue painting and building up.
If you hadnt checked the Aligned box, you would be starting
over with her eye every time you released the mouse button (or
picked up your pen if youre using a tablet). That would result in
eyeballs stamped all over. Creepy!
Step Three: Now that were warmed up, lets get fancy. In the
target document, turn off the layer you just painted by clicking
on its Eye icon in the Layers panel and create a new, blank layer
above that. In the Clone Source panel, note that the name of
your source document and the layer appear near the top, just
under the source icons or as you hover over the iconsa good
reason to name your layers all the time.
You can load up to five sources from up to five open documents (they all have to stay open while youre using them), load
multiple sources from the same document, or any combination.
You also can load samples from different layers of the same
document. Each sample can have different attributes from the
Offset section of the panelrotation, reflected, or offset. And in
Step Two
the Options Bar at the top of your workspace, the layer selections
of Current Layer, Current & Below, and All Layers is persistent for
each sample. How very cool is that? All of this means you have
tons of flexibility in choosing and painting with your sources.
Step Four: In my source document, Ive added a text layer and

named it Words. Ive also applied a Drop Shadow layer style to
the text to give it some glow (Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow).
In the Options Bar for the Clone Stamp tool, enable Aligned
because this time we want the image placement in the target
document to match the source image.
Step Five: In the Clone Source panel, click the second Clone
Source icon at the top. Ensure the top Words layer with text is
active, then hold Option (PC: Alt) and click on a starting point
that makes sense to youI chose the upper-left corner of the
first letter. Notice the X and Y coordinates under Offset in the
Clone Source panel show 0, 0 when you first click. Well come
Step Six: Click back to the target document and make sure the
top blank layer you created earlier is active. Choose the Words
sample in the Clone Source panel, choose Current Layer in the
Options Bar, and make a random paint stroke anywhere. The
point you sampled shows up right where you paint. Now undo
the stroke with Command-Z (PC: Ctrl-Z). Notice the X and Y
Step Four
back to that soon.
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coordinates arent 0, 0? Go ahead and enter zeroes into both of

those boxes manually. This forces your painting sample to show
up in the same place as your source document so long as the
source and target are the same size. This is a bit of a cheat, but
its fast and easy to remember. Continue painting a little to make
the words show up here and there, but not completely. The
Drop Shadow layer style doesnt show up when Current Layer
is selected because the layer effect is considered live unless you
rasterize the layer and make the layer style permanent.
Step Seven: Now choose Current & Below in the Options Bar and
paint a little more. Youll see not only the Portrait layer where you
paint, but the text complete with Drop Shadow shows up, too.
Step Eight: Lets try out the Portrait sample next by clicking on its
Step Eight
Clone Source icon in the Clone Source panel, and setting its option
to Current Layer. Youll have to do the same trick with making a
single paint stroke, deleting it, and setting X and Y to zero to align
the samples. Fortunately, you only have to do this once for each
sample you want aligned, but every time you create a new sample.
Step Nine: As you paint this time, youll only be using the Portrait
layer, which means you could potentially paint over your text.
This looks a little like masking, but is destructive. The advantage,
however, is that you can easily go back and choose the Words
sample in the Clone Source panel to fill in some of the text; just
be sure to change its option back to Current Layer. Keep in mind
that when youre cloning the Portrait layer you havent turned off
the Words layer in the source documentyoure just ignoring it
by sampling from beneath it in the layers stack.
Step Nine
Step Ten: Theres really no limit to how you can use this technique, especially when you combine it with other tricks you probably already know. As always, I want to leave you with some
things to experiment with on your own. In the finished image,
I changed the Words layer blend mode in the source document
to Divide, changed the option to Current & Below for the Word
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Clone Source, and painted over selected words in the target

document to highlight them in a different color.
While this same look can be achieved using masks, the method
of creation is much different. When I started this example, I had
no idea what I wanted the final image to look like, so I just played
with it. Using this setup was much more organic and let me
explore different looks quickly without having to deal with confusing elements and blending several layers. Besides, its always
good to have more than one technique to work with! In a future
article, Ill show you how to use this same technique with portrait
retouching to speed up your work and put that much more polish on your art. Q
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planted in. Press Command-[ (PC: Ctrl-[) to move the Ellipse layer
below Tree layer so that the tree trunk shows on top.
Step Six: Select layer Tree and press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to
duplicate it. Click the Hue/Saturation icon in the Adjustments
panel (first icon in the second row). Drag the Lightness slider all
the way to the left in the Properties panel to make this a shadow.
Click the leftmost icon on the bottom of the Properties panel so
that the adjustment clips to the layer below.
Step Seven: Shift-click the Tree copy layer so that the top two layers are selected and press Command-E (PC: Ctrl-E) to merge them.
Step Six
Double-click this layers name, and rename it Shadow. Press

Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) to transform, hold Shift, and drag outside
the object to rotate the trees shadow 90 clockwise. Right-click
and choose Distort from the shortcut menu. Drag the top-center
handle down so that the shadow compresses vertically. Move the
shadow over to the right so that its trunk matches up with the tree
trunk, and press Enter to commit the transformation.
Step Eight: Decrease the Opacity of the Shadow layer to match

the trees shadow to the other shadows in the scenea value of
60% suits our purpose. In the real world, shadows blur the farther theyre away from the objects casting them. Well simulate
Step Seven
this by adding a gradient mask to the Shadow layer so that the

shadow fades along the height of the tree as its projected on
the sidewalk.
Step Nine: Click the Add a Layer Mask icon (circle in a square)
at the bottom of the Layers panel. Select the Gradient tool (G)
and choose the Foreground to Transparent preset in the Gradient Picker in the Options Bar. Press D to set the default colors and
X to swap them so that black is in the Foreground color. Drag a
gradient from the right end of the shadow to the left where it
meets the real tree trunk. The shadow fades away as the tree
gets farther away from the ellipse.
Step Nine
Step Ten: Lets add another tree, but this time well only add its
shadow to suggest that theres another tree just out of the frame
on the left. Repeat Steps One through Nine but this time drag
the Arrangement slider to another value so that this tree looks
different than the first tree. Drag the shadow of the new tree to
the left edge of the frame to add the visual cue that there are
other trees in the image, which makes this mini-mall that much
more attractive.
Its amazing how easy it is to add trees and shrubs to photos
with the scripted Tree pattern fill. Manually projecting shadows of scripted trees is well worth the effort to give them some
added realism. Q
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Product Reviews
Tonality Pro
Erik Vlietinck
Black-and-White Photo Editor for Mac

Review by Erik Vlietinck
Tonality Pro is a black-and-white photo editor that can be used as

a standalone application or a plug-in to Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or Apple Aperture. Tonality has a histogram with a 10-zone
system strip, the familiar Macphun tools for selective editing, and
a large selection of presets.
Tonality pro features the usual tools, such as tone adjustments,
color filters, a tone curve, and vignette, as well as structure, glow,
lens blur, texture overlay, grain, and photo frames effects. I first
tested Tonality to see if the presets were any good. I found the Film
Emulation category the least attractive, with only some 20 films
from which to choose, but overall the presets offer a balanced set
of creative starting points.
The real fun comes from experimenting with the parameters.
Without ever looking at the online user guides, I could create
black-and-white images that were tuned exactly to my liking.
Whats more, I discovered you can selectively bring back a color.
For example, in a photo of a housing block with a bright red traffic
plate, I wanted to get the plates red back. All I needed to do was
crank up the red saturation, add a separate layer to block out the
red brickwork from the houses, and I was done.
There were a couple filters that I had my doubts about. The glow
effect could do with a few more configuration options, and the
grain option isnt realistic enough, as it has no relation to film. With
some slider settings, it looked more like I was adding dirt than grain.
With the opacity of each layer adjustable from not to fully
effectivealong with the presets, masking tools, and effects
available in Tonality Proyour creative options are virtually endless. [For a tutorial on using Tonality Pro, see Maximum Workflow on page 104.Ed.] Q
Company: Macphun Software
Price: $69.99
Web: www.macphun.com
Rating: X X X X
Hot: Selective color; layers; nice selection of presets

Not: Too few film presets; grain not realistic
PhotoSweeper
Clean out Your Duplicate Images
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PhotoSweeper works with Aperture, iPhoto, and Adobe Lightroom libraries and image folders to find duplicates and look-alikes
based on time interval or by comparing histograms or pixels.
You start the process by having the app create a catalog of
your imagesI used my collection of more than 6,500. (Note
that you can save the catalog for later use.) After cataloging,
decide which algorithm you want to use. Duplicates will find
only exact duplicates on a byte-per-byte basis. Other methods,
which resemble more or less the way youd compare your photos, introduce some form of fuzziness.
I decided to go with the default setting, which is Time + Bitmap, where the interval between photos is taken into account,
in addition to a visual similarity. If you want, you can change the
bitmap size, the interval, RGB sensitivity, and other parameters to
fine-tune the process, but the default settings gave me excellent
results. When youre finished with the settings, click the Compare button. It took less than 10 minutes to compare my 6,500+
photos (using an iMac mid-2011 i5/16 GB).
After comparing the photos, PhotoSweeper marks the
images it has identified as duplicates or look-alikes. You can then
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look at those images (grouped together in what the app thinks

are a series of look-alikes) in the large thumbnail view, where
you can uncheck any, if necessary. In my test, PhotoSweeper
interpreted what look-alike means correctly about 95% of
the time.
When youre finished going through all the marked and
unmarked images, and making any changes, you can still restore
them (in case you removed any accidentally) by clicking on the
Trash icon to see which photos will be thrown out the window. Q
Company: Gwinno Software Inc.
Price: $9.99
Web: http://photosweeper.com
Rating: X X X X X
Hot: Simplicity; accurate pattern-recognition algorithm; fine-tuning

Not:
Look Converter
Create Your Own 3D LUTs in Photoshop
Picture Instruments recently released Look Converter to convert

presets and looks from any image editor into 3D LUTs (lookup
tables) so that you can use these looks in any application that supports 3D LUTs. You can use photos and footage to create your LUTs
using a simple workflow that exports to the two file formats that
Adobe Photoshop and most nonlinear editing systems can use.
Look Converter generates a JPEG, a neatly organized image
of color patches that Look Converter calls the Neutral Filter. You
use this intermediary file to create your adjustments. Say you
want to use a particular look in Photoshop CS6 that you created
from adjusting overall contrast, saturation, brightness, etc. in DxO
Optics Pro, heres what you do:
Open an image in DxO Optics Pro and apply your adjustments,
then save the adjustments to a new preset.
Open the Neutral Filter in DxO Optics Pro and apply the new preset, then save the Neutral Filter to new-filter.jpg (for example).
Load the new-filter.jpg file in Look Converter, and click the
3D LUT button.
Now, all you do is create a Color Lookup adjustment layer
in Photoshop and load the 3D LUT youve just created.
Everything works as long as you can load the Neutral Filter JPEG
into the program from where you want to grab your settings.
Look Converter also supports batch processing and exports to
two 3D LUT formats, either of which is used by Adobe Final Cut
Pro X, Apple Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc. Its algorithm generates the smallest allowable cube size for accurate results, as the
maximum 256x256x256 size would require too much GPU power
and memory to work well. Q
Company: Picture Instruments UG
Price: $25
Web: www.picture-instruments.com
Rating: X X X X X
Hot: Ease of use; creates two formats; inexpensive

Not:
Philips Brilliance 272P4 Monitor

Professional LCD Display with Webcam and MultiView
Finding that perfect balance of quality, size, and price for a display
can require jumping over a few hurdles, and although pricing has
come down for some brands, its still an all-or-nothing pursuit.
The Philips Brilliance 272P4 LCD Monitor enters the race dressed
up with a lot of impressive features that add value to the product,
but the question of quality remains.
The 272P4 offers a lot of ports, and you can connect to the
monitor with most video-connector cables, but not all are included
in the box. For example, while there are two HDMI inputs and
outputs, youd need to add an HDMI-to-Thunderbolt cable for use
with a more recent laptop. The 272P4 has MultiView capability
for dual-computer connections simultaneously, and it also offers
Multi Stream Transport (MST) Display Port technology if you have
a DP1.2 graphics card with MST option. Like many newer displays,
the 272P4 operates in landscape and portrait modes but, unfortunately, the display barely clears the base of the stand (even at its
highest point), which makes it easy to scrape the base.
Although Philips includes quite a few extra features on the Brilliance 272P4, the quality suffers for it. The built-in stereo speakers
distort and offer very poor sound qualityeven for voice reproductionand the webcam image quality is poor, regardless of
how much light is at your desk. As for actual image quality in
video, the response seems a bit sluggish with some visible artifacts, and text tends to have some ghosting on both a MacBook
Pro and a Mac Pro with an NVIDIA GTX 680 graphics card. In spite
of all of its features, the Philips Brilliance 272P4 doesnt quite get
over the hurdles in the race for display superiority. Q
Company: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Price: $899.99
Web: www.usa.philips.com
Rating: X X
Hot: Features; multiple ports for USB and video; ease of use
Not: Sluggish performance; poor text clarity; speaker sound; webcam
Review by Daniel M. East
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REVIEWS
G-RAID with Removable Drives

High-Performance Enterprise RAID Storage Solution
Review by Daniel M. East
There are a lot of external storage solutions with many different

configurations available today. Depending on your specific needs,
its no longer just about size and speed, but about connections
and compatibility. For most photo and design pros, the combination of all of these elements is important, but reliability is the musthave for todays digital world. As G-Technology has long been
known for their excellent products and the most current connectivity, their new G-RAID with Removable Drives high-performance
line with Enterprise-grade drives may be the balance you need of
both space and speed for a wide range of systems.
While this version of the G-RAID doesnt offer a Thunderbolt 2
connection, G-Technology does have models that offer it. In this
case, the model tested had just about everything else, making
it more compatible for more end users. In other words, if your
computer meets the system requirements, but isnt the latest
model, you can enjoy the fast transfer speeds with larger video
and graphics files. The G-RAID includes eSATA, USB 3 (USB 2
compatible), and FireWire 800 connectivity, but your operating
system must be Mac OS X 10.7 or later. Windows users must
be using Windows 8.1, or 8 and 7, which requires reformatting
before use.
The 8-TB (model tested) drive has minimal fan noise, reading just under 35 decibels at approximately 4' away. The cables
are long enough for placement on the floor or at enough of a
distance to make the drive nearly silent. Given its competition,
the G-RAID has a higher price than some similar drives, but its
Enterprise drives, up to 300 MB/s access times, and the additional connection ports set it apart from the rest. If you need
big storage with serious speed, but without Thunderbolt, the
G-RAID with Removable Drives storage solution is an outstanding choice. Q
Company: G-Technology
Price: 4 TB: $449.95; 8 TB: $749.95;

12 TB: $1,199.95
Web: www.g-technology.com
Rating: X X X X
Hot: Quiet; fast; connection options; removable storage

Not: Price; no support for Windows XP or older systems
Portraiture Video Plug-in

Skin Retouching for Video
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Photographers often retouch portraits for skin blemishes, and you

can do the same when editing a video. The algorithm to make skin
smoother and improve its looks is the same, but to accommodate
a moving subject, you must have the means to follow the subjects
face as it moves across the frames.
I tested the Portraiture Video Plug-in for Apple Final Cut Pro X,
although its also available for many other nonlinear editors (NLEs),
including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Sony Vegas Pro, and
Da Vinci Resolve (now in beta).
Portraiture offers two basic enhancements: smoothing and tint/
warmth adjustments. To create a mask that applies only to a face,
you allow the plug-in to first calculate the mask automatically. During testing, the calculation was blazingly fast, but it consistently created a mask that was either too big or too small for the purpose.
Although you can adjust the mask yourself, youll have a hard time
making it work perfectly if skinlike colors appear in the background.
I was only able to obtain a clean mask against a uniform background that lacked skinlike colors. If the mask isnt perfect, youll
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end up with a glamour glow that bleeds through in the background when the subjects head moves even slightly.
Because you cant block the mask with a secondary key, or create a tracking path that firmly defines facial contours, you cant
achieve a perfect result against backgrounds with skinlike tints.
Some award-winning plug-ins have already demonstrated that
this can be done. As it is now, the Portraiture Video Plug-in looks
to me like a photo plug-in that was ported too quickly to make it
work in NLEs. Q
Company: Imagenomic, LLC
Price: $99/year
Web: http://imagenomic.com
Rating: X X X X X
Hot: Easy to use

Not: No tracking capabilities; expensive
Elinchrom ELC Pro HD

High-End Compact Flash Unit
Review by Michael Corsentino
Look out mono strobe lovers, theres a new sheriff in town and
its name is ELC, short for Elinchrom Compact. Elinchroms ELC
Pro HD 500 and 1000 Ws mono heads are the new product
to beat. Elinchrom President Chris Whittle put it best when
he explained, We set out to make a unit that would not only
change the way a photographer works but also the way they
think. We believe the ELC combines everything a photographer
needs with everything a photographer wants, plus the consistency and reliability that you expect from Elinchrom.
What is it exactly that makes the new ELC Pro HD heads so
compelling? Begin with three exciting new shooting modes that
will change the way you work: Sequence Mode allows sequential triggering of up to 20 ELCs in bursts or continuous cycle to
keep pace with current high-frame-rate cameras; Delayed Mode
makes possible first or second curtain sync and everything inbetween; and Strobo Mode enables images with stroboscopic
effects in a single frame. This last one is supercool!
The ELCs new charge circuit delivers lightning-fast recycle
times to full power (0.6 sec for the ELC 500, and 1.2 sec for
the ELC 1000), and easy use on location with battery-powered
inverters and generators. New capacitor power control makes

possible not only accurate color across the entire power range,
but also superfast, action-stopping flash durations up to 1/5000
for the ELC 500, and 1/5260 for the ELC 1000.
At the end of the day what matters most is being able to
be creative without being technically overwhelmed. Elinchroms
ELC Pro HD heads deliver the goods with a feature-rich, easy-touse OLED driven contextual menu system that opens the door
to new creative possibilities for photographers everywhere. Q
Company: Elinchrom
Price: ELC 500: $1,049.99; ELC 1000: $1,449.99
Web: www.elinchrom.com
Rating: X X X X X
Hot: Feature rich; easy to use; tons of options

Not: No battery power
kumu STUDIO
Organize Your Photography Business
Review by Michael Corsentino
In-house development and user-encouraged feedback mean

fast-paced updates delivered right to your desktop. Easily generate financial reports, export files to accounting applications, create
client lists based on user-defined search criteria for use with email
programs and email blast services, and link directly to your Lightroom catalogs via kumu STUDIO. Its time to get down to business.
Let kumu STUDIO management software show you the way. Q
Company: Kubota Image Tools
Price: $15/Month; $10/Month with

an annual subscription
Web: www.kubotaimagetools.com
Rating: X X X X
Hot: Simple to use; features you need; 15-day free trial

Not: Not cloud based; no built-in calendar
Fledgling professional photographers quickly realize that running

a successful photography business is about a lot more than just
making great pictures. Managing relationships, having a firm grasp
of financials, and keeping track of workflow are all equally important. Even seasoned pros can find the current crop of feature-laden
studio-management packages are not only pricey and more than
they need, but also require a considerable investment of time to
learn. In fact, many end up overwhelmed and use nothing at all
to stay on top of their businesses. This is far from ideal.
Enter kumu STUDIO, veteran wedding photographer and educator Kevin Kubotas new, easy-to-use, and affordable studiomanagement software. Designed by a photographer for photographers, kumu STUDIO is based on the workflow solutions and
best practices developed and fine-tuned over Kevins many years
running a highly successful photography business. Ideal for studios from one to four people, kumu STUDIO focuses on getting
your business organized, managing workflow and relationships,
helping you market, generating invoices, and developing a clear
understanding of the cost of goods and retail pricing.
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Filter Forge 4 Professional

Create Realistic and Abstract Filters and Effects
Review by Bruce Bicknell
The long-awaited fourth version of Filter Forge is now available

and loaded with new features that make it better than ever. For
those who arent familiar with the product, Filter Forge is a plug-in
for Photoshop that allows you to create your own filters without
programming them. Theres also a free online library of more than
10,000 user-created filters. On top of that, Filter Forge is more
robust with the flexible filter manager, support for component
grouping and loop operations, fantastic filters, and much more.
The new filter manager helps organize, manage, and back up
user-created filters. The single My Filters location for user-made
filters has evolved into multiple filter storages that are mapped to
physical folders on disk. It also adds multiple user-defined Favorites folders, and a revamped filter search list.
With the new Groups component, the user is able to easily create complex filters by packaging the reusable parts of the filter tree
into custom components with definable inputs and parameters.
For those of you who are not into writing code (like me), Filter
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programming) into the visual environment and lets you render the
results into a single image.
With the new features and endless possibilities, Filter Forge 4
is well worth the investment if youre looking for more creativity
in your work. With more than 10,000 filters in the online library,
youre sure to find what you need but, if you cant, then create
your own and share it with the world. Theres a 30-day trial, and
its also available in Basic and Standard editions, as well as a subscription with quarterly payments for the Professional edition. Q
Company: Filter Forge
Price: $399
Web: www.filterforge.com
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Printing on Large-Format Printers Made Easy
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Aimed at professional photographers and graphic designers,

PrinTao 8 from LaserSoft Imaging is a new, Mac-only tool thats
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and it can also save you paper and ink. The software exploits all the
capabilities of the native printer driver, so when you use PrinTao 8,
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and other tasks that typically belong to PostScript/PDF printing.
To start, select your printer model, supported media, desired
print quality, roll or cut sheet, and media size. When finished
making your selections, youre taken to the work area with its
media browser, main window, and tools sidebar. Heres where
youll select your images from the media browser or drag them
from the Finder.
Templates come in multiple flavors. The Freeform template
allows you to position the images the way you want. Other templates optimize media usage by calculating optimum size, placement, and rotation to fit all the images into as small a space as
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an interactive cutter allows you to decide where to cut a roll. Cutting can be at predefined locations, too.
You can edit images in various ways, which means you

always have visual feedback for print quality and image position
on the paper.
PrinTao 8 supports only a limited number of large-format
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media size, prices range from $99 for the Home Edition to $699
for the 64" Edition.
PrinTao 8 is continuously being updated and its rather poor
metadata support should be improved by the time youre reading this. Q
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thinking, and not just from an existential perspectivethere
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are lots of little tips that you can use to help refine your own
cover to best view the photosand perhaps leave on the cof-
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author. Embossed into the back cover is this quote: I now
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D E PA R T M E N T
Photoshop Tips
boost your productivity and creativity
COLIN SMITH
Welcome to the latest installment of Photoshop Tips. Once
or All Layers from the Sample drop-down menu. Now when
again, this column is loaded with tips that will save you time and
youre healing and repairing blemishes, the healing will appear
relieve frustration. Huh? Frustration? Yes, youre going to kick
on this blank layer. Because its nondestructive, you now have
yourself for doing some things the hard way for so long. So, in
two advantages. First, if you change your mind, you can erase or
the spirit of breaking bad habits, here are some new habits for
mask out the adjustments. Second, and this is great for wrinkle
you to incorporate into your Photoshop life.
work, you can reduce the Opacity in the Layers panel and make
the retouching more subtle and realistic looking. Remember,
Drag the Histogram
a photo that doesnt look retouched is the perfect retouch. As
When youre editing images in Camera Raw, Im sure youve
soon as its noticeable, its bad, kind of like plastic surgery.
seen the histogram in the top-right corner. While its pretty to

look at, it also has some functionality. You can actually click on
Making a Better Bevel
the histogram and drag to adjust your image. Its broken up into
When creating a Bevel & Emboss layer style, I have a tip for you
five zones: Blacks, Shadows, Exposure, Highlights, and Whites.
that will make your bevels look a lot better. Choose the Contour
As you drag a zone, the tones in that region will be adjusted
option (not to be mistaken for Gloss Contour) that appears just
while leaving the rest alone. Its like all the Basic panel tone slid-
below Bevel & Emboss in the list of Styles on the left of the Layer
ers in one!
Style dialog. When you choose this option, it will add a touch
of professionalism to all your bevels. Dont forget to turn on the
Files to Layers
anti-aliasing in both the Contour and in the Bevel & Emboss styles.
Have you ever wanted to take a whole lot of files and load
them into a single document with a new layer for each file? If
Stealing Style Sheets
youve been using Photoshop for any amount of time, Im sure
Did you know that you could share your paragraph and character
youve come across this need more than once. You could open
style sheets by sharing a PSD file? All you need to do is create a
all the images and then drag them into a single document win-
PSD, define and save some styles, and then save the PSD. In this
dow. Yes, that will get the job done; however, theres a much
example, well do the paragraph styles (its the same for char-
faster way to do it. Choose File>Scripts>Load

Files into Stack. Select the images or folder
of images and Photoshop will now do all the
heavy lifting for you.
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Nondestructive Healing
When doing retouching, there are few tools
more useful than the Healing Brush tool. This is
ideal for getting rid of blemishes and wrinkles.
Heres a better way of using it: Option-click
the Create a New Layer icon, name the new
layer something like healing, and click OK.
Make that layer active and choose the Healing Brush tool (nested under the Spot Healing
Brush tool [J] in the Toolbox). In the Options
Bar at the top, choose either Current & Below
PHOTOSHOP TIPS
acter styles). In an open document, go to the Paragraph Styles
the other work you may have done to an image. Heres a tip for
panel (Window>Paragraph Styles), and click the Create New
using Color Overlay: Change its Blend Mode to Color in the Layer
Paragraph Style icon at the bottom of the panel. Double-click the
Style dialog. When you do this, it will now only change the color,
new style that appears, make some changes in the Paragraph
leaving the other details (luminosity) intact. You could also click
Style Options dialog, and click OK. Save and close the document.
the button that says Make Default for it to remember this setting.
To get the styles out of the PSD, open another document, go to

the Paragraph Styles panel again, click on the top-right corner,
and choose Load Paragraph Styles. Find your
PSD and then click Open. Rather than open the
PSD, it will load the styles into the Paragraph
Styles panel. This is useful when you have a
document in progress and you want to use the
same styles that were used for another PSD. It
also works great when youre in a collaborative
workflow with someone else.
Lasso Tool, 2 in 1
The Lasso tool (L) is great for making quick
selections around different areas. It comes in
two flavors: the regular freehand Lasso tool and
the Polygonal Lasso tool. The Polygonal Lasso is
used for making straight line selections. How
many times have you started in one tool and then wanted to
Double-Screen Workspace
finish the job in the other one? You can actually toggle between
Im sure that youre aware that you can create custom work-
the two while drawing. How so? While using the Lasso tool, hold
spaces that remember your panel setups. For the three of you
down the Option (PC: Alt) key, release the mouse button, and
who didnt know that, this is a double tip. Something you might
click around your document to add straight selections with the
not be aware of is that the panel layouts are remembered, even
Polygonal Lasso tool. When youre ready to switch back to the
on two monitors. So you can set up all your panels on the sec-
Lasso tool, click-and-hold the mouse button, release the Option
ond monitor and position them exactly as you like, then click the
(PC: Alt) key, and begin dragging again.
top-right drop-down menu in the Options Bar that has all the
workspaces, and choose New Workspace. Now whenever you
Free Add-Ons and Templates
toggle to that saved workspace, youll have your panels spread
There was a not-so-well publicized update to Creative Cloud that
out across two monitors all ready for you.
choose Assets in the navigation near the top. Then, on the next
Doing the Math, or not Doing the Math
line down, choose Market. Now you can find tons of things like
You know something thats really frustrating sometimes? When
book and poster templates, mock-ups, icons, brushes, and more.
you want to divide a document evenly for a determined number
These are super useful to get a jumpstart on a design, or base an
of objects. You know, like into thirds or quarters. You figure out
entire new design around them. Its definitely worth a browse to
the size, then you do the math, which can get really confusing
see whats there.
when dealing with multiples of inches (and you thought metric

was hard). Heres a little trick that will make life so much easier.
Better Color in Blend Modes
Press Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R) to open the rulers. Okay, that
There are a number of different layer styles that can be used
didnt help much; you still have hard math to do. Heres the tip:
for various things. One interesting style is Color Overlay. Typi-
Right-click on one of the rulers and choose Percent. Yep, you
cally when you apply this style, it just fills the pixels with a solid
can now divide things based on percentage and not all the weird
color. That doesnt seem very useful because it negates a lot of
inches and fractions thereof. Q

ALL IMAGES BY COLIN SMITH
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In several of the panels of the Layer Style dialog theres an option named Contour. What is it and
how do I use it?Tommy
To: Tommy
From: KelbyOne Help Desk
Contours are available for Inner Shadow, Inner Glow,
In the Options Bar, make sure that the tool is set to
Satin, Outer Glow, Drop Shadow, and Bevel & Emboss
create a Shape rather than a Path or Pixels. Hold down
layer styles. The triangle to the right of the default Con-
the Shift key and drag a square about 200 pixels per
tour thumbnail in the Layer Style dialog opens a menu of
side. Select the Ellipse tool from the Shape tools, hold
preset contours from which to choose. Each changes the
down the Shift key, and drag to add a circle approxi-
way a specific effect is shaped as it moves away from the
mately 200 pixels in diameter. Switch to the Custom
edge of the visible pixels on the selected layer.
Shape tool, click the downward-pointing triangle to the
You can also apply a layer style to a layer group. The
right of the Shape thumbnail in the Options Bar to open
style is added to the group as a whole, not to the content
the Custom Shape Picker, select the Circle Thin Frame
of the individual layers within the group. If, for example,
shape (hollow circle), and Shift-drag to create a circle
the content of two layers overlap and you apply a Drop
about 200 pixels in diameter. Add several additional
Shadow effect, the shadow will not overlay the content
shapes of your choice.
of layers below the top layer.

For all of the styles that offer Contour except the
Layers panel, click on the top layer, hold down the Shift
Satin effect, the default is Linear. The effect gradually
key, and click on the bottom shape layer (not the Back-
and evenly fades from 100% visible to 0% visible. Each
ground layer), then use the Layers panel flyout menu
of the options in the Contour Picker changes how the
command New Group from Layers. In the Layers panel,
effect is applied as it moves from the edge of the visible
make sure the group is selected rather than a layer.
pixels. If the pixels on the layer or shape include empty
Starting with the Bevel & Emboss layer effect,
areas (such as a hollow circle), the effects are applied
increase the Size significantly to make the changes to
within as well as outside the shape. The best way to see
the contour more visible (20 pixels is a good choice for
how contours work is to play with them.
shapes of these dimensions). Click the triangle to the
[KelbyOne members may download a practice file
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If you want to create your own sample file for testing,
138
If any of your shapes are on a separate layer in the
and in combination.
follow these steps: Create a new document, perhaps
You can also click directly on the Contour thumbnail
1000x800 pixels (resolution is insignificant). Set the Fore-
in the Layer Style dialog to open the Contour Editor and
ground color to bright yellow (R:255, G:255, B:0). Select
create your own custom contours. (Dont forget to save
the Rectangle tool from among the Shape tools (U).
the ones you think youll use in the future.) Q
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