9 Photoshop techniques to improve your photographs
Epic Edits Weblogs is another blog that I regularly read for great tips on photography. One of the great article is a list of 9 post processing techniques to improve your photographs. Even though Brian (the guy behind Epic Edits) titled the article “9 Photoshop techniques…”, I believe most of these techniques can be achieved by using many other alternatives (GIMP, Corel Paint Shop Pro etc.).
Reading through the list, I realise that I have been applying many of the techniques to make my photos more visually appealing!
Here’s a quick summary of the techniques:
- High Contrast Color
- High Contrast B&W
- High Color Saturation
- Vintage Look
- Lomo Look
- Oversharpen
- Texturize
- Add Vignette
- Add Noise & Grain
You can see at least 3 techniques used in my post box photograph above. The only technique that I’ve never thought of using is adding Noise & Grain. Most of the time, I’ll be too obsessed about reducing noise.
Have you used any of the above techniques? Why not share with us how it worked for you? Drop us a comment.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Great shot, and well processed! It’s bold, but not overdone, and the processing adds to the character of what was already there. Thanks for the mention too!
And you’re right — these techniques can be applied with just about any software of your choice. I typically focus on Photoshop because most of my readers are Photoshop users too… plus it’s a more popular keyword.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Thanks Brian, you have a great blog!
Tons of information for photographers of any level! Glad you didn’t mind the reference to your article too.